Bluevale Collegiate Institute - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Todd Brooker - An Olympic skier, who was a member of Canada's national ski team from 1976-1987. He won three Alpine skiing World Cup titles.
  • Katerina Cizek, documentary filmmaker and web creator, winner of the inaugural IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
  • Victor Davis - Olympic gold medal winner in swimming.
  • Scott Moir - 2010 Olympic gold medal pairs ice dance team. Attended 2003-2004 while training at the KW skating club.
  • Steven Rice - National Hockey League
  • C. Ernst Harth - Character actor known for such films as Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed and Thir13en Ghosts.
  • Guillermo Verdecchia - Playwright has won the Governor General's Award for English language drama and a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
  • Tessa Virtue - 2010 Olympic gold medal pairs ice dance team. Attended in 2003-2004 while training at the KW skating club.
  • Mike West - As a member of the Canadian Swim Team, he won a Bronze Olympic medal in 1984.
  • Captain John Couch - a father of two young girls; was a 32 year old veteran of the Gulf War and was the pilot

of a Canadian Forces C-130 Hercules aircraft that was carrying 4 crew members and 13 passengers (three of whom were women) that crashed near Alert, Nunavut on October 30, 1991 while preparing to land on Ellesmere Island. Captain Couch worked endlessly to help the survivors of the crash. Endangering himself, he distributed the few available items of warm clothing to others. Tragically, Captain Couch, died of exposure just hours before rescuers arrived. In total four men and one woman had died, but 13 had survived because of the efforts of John Couch. A true KNIGHT!

  • Robin Cowan - with Sherri Baier won the first World Junior Pairs Figure Skating championship in 1976

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