Ottawa Pacers Book of Achievement
Robbie Graham

Pacer Member

Category

Elected

1972    Robbie started as a Bantam and obtained 2nd overall in the Provincial Outdoor.
1973    he was the youngest skater to complete the 40 km Skate-A-Thon under the 3 hour time limit.
1975    Provincial Outdoor Champion and Provincial Indoor Silver medal, establishing Midget records in 300m, 400m 48.6.
1976    Provincial Outdoor Champion, Canadian Indoor (Saskatoon, SK) 3rd overall.
1977    Ontario Outdoor gold medal.
1978    Ontario Winter Games, (Kingston, ON) bronze in the 500m and 1000m.
1980    Oktoberfest Intermediate Champion achieving firsts in the 800m, 1:32.1 and 1500m, 3:05.6.  First ever Colonel By 10km challenge and Winterlude Cup Winner.
1981    Senior Ontario Outdoor Champion.
1982    Ontario Outdoor 3rd.
1983    First overall at the Ontario Canada Team trials (Lake Placid, NY) making the ISAO team for the Canada Winter Games (Chicoutimi, QC).

Rob suspended competition in 1984 to earn a Mechanical Engineering degree but continued to coach for the Pacers.  He moved to Calgary in 1986 and in 1989 was 5th overall in the Alberta Provincial Trials.  A year later he placed first overall, setting Alberta records for 1000m 1:17.46 and 1500m 1:59.07.

As a Builder he coached in 1984 and was Assistant Coach for the Junior Canadians, (Regina, SK).  He attained the CASSA Level 2 coaching certificate, was the Provincial Skaters Representative and an ISAO director.  In 1985 he coached in Edmonton and in 1986 coached KW Sertoma short track.  In 1987 he coached short track in Calgary.  He was invited to coach the Heilonliang Provincial short track team for two months (People's Republic of China).  In 1988 he worked coaches clinics in Sudbury and Calgary.

Rob's skating and coaching activities with so many Canadian speed skating clubs qualifies him as a builder as well as an athlete.