New Inductees
Delmer (Del) Rints
Builder – Hockey
Del Rints was born in the Township of Mulmur, Ontario in 1936, and he moved to Whitby with his family in 1942. Del has resided in Whitby since that time, and he graduated from Whitby High School in 1954. He is an avid sports fan, with his deepest passion reserved for hockey. This began at an early age and has endured for several decades. Del played minor hockey as a goaltender in Taylor’s Arena on Gilbert Street and was a devoted fan of the original Whitby Dunlops during that team’s tenure in our town.
Eric Perroni
Athlete – Lacrosse
Born and raised in Whitby, Eric Perroni began playing lacrosse at the age of seven, and over his career, he compiled an extensive resume of success at the minor, junior, and senior levels. This path to success began in 1975, playing for the Garrard Road Minor Lacrosse Association, when Eric’s team won the Canadian National Peewee B Championship in Vancouver, B.C.
2001 Anderson Collegiate Vocational Institute
Team – Volleyball
It took 40+ years for a Durham Region school to be crowned provincial volleyball champions (Dunbarton High School, 1993). Just eight years later, its smaller rival from Whitby, Anderson Collegiate Vocational Institute, became the first Lake Ontario Secondary School Association (LOSSA) team to win a Senior Boys AAA volleyball title; and they succeeded by doing what no other Whitby high school had ever accomplished in the championship’s history: dominating teams from much larger schools in Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Barrie, and London.