Tuesday's With Dave

Lauryn Langley: A Generational Olympia Journey Lauryn Langley got her volleyball start in her early days on the courts of Olympia Sports Camp, where she learned her fundamental skills from coaches like Tanya Byers and Kathy Hall. She then played for the Durham Rebels from age 11 to 18 before taking her talents to Lakehead University on a COVID- interrupted career and is now playing professional with  ESC Grimma Volleys in Germany. But to understand Lauryn's journey we have to go back... A couple of generations back. The Langley's are an Olympia family. Bill and Eva Langley both coached basketball at Olympia for over 4 decades. Roughly from 1980 to 2002. Their original connection to getting on at Olympia was that Dave Grace knew Eva through her playing days at York and coaching at George Brown College during Dave's teaching years at North Toronto CI. Both Bill and Eva had distinguished careers coaching in Durham Region, Eva at Paul Dwyer Catholic HS and Bill at Oshawa Centr...

Olympia's Favourite Son Retires  Every copy of Can't Miss: The Kevin Pangos Story that I sold, from Spokane, Washington to Holland Landing, Ontario and everywhere in between I signed with the following:  "Kevin followed his passion. If you follow yours you Can't Miss." This is the lesson that captures the journey of Kevin Pangos best. He had a passion and a goal and did everything in his power to achieve it. And achieve it he did. It's a hero's journey..  As Kevin announces his retirement after a stellar career in Europe and the NBA its hard not to reflect on what he has meant to so many Olympians, myself included. The idea of Can't Miss came to me through a confluence of factors that made writing it a challenge I became excited to take on. At 16 Kevin had just been the youngest player to ever suit up for Canada's Senior Men's team on a tour of Italy while I was busy reading " Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. It hit me, that Kevin mig...