Former Toronto Blue Jay headlines latest Guelph Sports Hall of Fame class

Former big league pitcher Scott Diamond has gotten the call to the local hall.

Scott Diamond headlines the latest class of five people going into the Guelph Sports Hall of Fame.

The latest inductees were announced this morning.

James Gillingham, David Leger, Angela Lichty-Crowther and Keith Mason make up the rest of the 2025 class, set to be inducted during the Kiwanis Sports Celebrity Dinner at the Italian Canadian Club on May 21.

Diamond spent three seasons with the Minnesota Twins between 2011 and 2013, and also made a brief stop with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2016. 

Between that, he also made stops in the Cincinnati and Tampa Bay organizations.

The undrafted lefty made his mark on the international stage too. He represented Canada at the 2009 World Baseball Classic and the first-ever Premier 12 tournament.

His pro career would also take him to Asia, playing in the Korean Baseball League.

The Guelph Minor Baseball product is a familiar name to many still going through the system, as the GMBA’s pitcher of the year award is named after him.

Gillingham is going in for a basketball career that has taken him around the world.

He was a standout in high school, helping St. James to CWOSSA championships in four of his five years, while also winning an OFSAA bronze and gold medal.

It would earn him an NCAA Division 1 scholarship to Bradley University, where his efforts were enough to have him inducted in the school’s sports hall of fame in 2018.

He also played for the men’s national team, and played out his career in Germany.

There, he was team captain for five of his six years at TBB Trier, before retiring in 2010 and returning to Guelph to be an assistant coach with the Gryphons men’s basketball team.

Former Olympian Lichty-Crowther is going in for her contributions to softball.

The Guelph Gators alum played collegiately at Simon Fraser University between 1998 and 2003, where she was a two-time All-American and won an NAIA national title in her freshman season.

A year after graduating, she represented Canada at the Olympic Games in Greece, one of many times she competed on the world stage. She also donned the maple leaf at two World Championships (2002, 2006) and a Pan Am Games (2003).

Now in Delta, BC, she serves as a volunteer with the North Delta Baseball Association Executive and is also British Columbia’s provincial director for KidSport.

Leger is one of two inductees going in as a builder.

Called a pioneer in the sport of rowing locally, he was a university athlete in the 1970s.

In 2004, he began a career as a rowing coach and built the high school program, recruiting coaches and high schools across the city and helping the program become sustainable and successful.

His time with the Guelph Rowing Club (2004-2024) was entirely as a volunteer.

Leger was the rowing coach at the University of Guelph, beginning as an assistant from 2009-2011 before moving up to the head coaching position between 2012 and 2022.

Mason’s 40 years in Canadian soccer has earned him his spot in the hall.

He began coaching Guelph Soccer in 1981, and became the club head coach in 1997.

While building up local youth, he also began coaching the Guelph Gryphons women’s soccer team in 1989 and helped them to two national championship appearances.

He moved to the men’s team in 2000 and won two OUA titles, a national bronze medal and won a number of coaching awards at both the OUA and U Sports level.

Mason also coached the Canadian contingent at three World University Games in 2003, 2011 and 2015.

Most recently, he co-founded Guelph United FC, and was the president, head coach and general manager of the inaugural team in 2021 that won a League1 Ontario championship.