Canadian Polish Athletic Club
CJOB’s Kelly Moore was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Kelly, the long-time broadcaster began his broadcasting career in 1976 at CFVR in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He later moved to Kamloops and became the play-by-play man of the Western Hockey League Kamloops Blazers. In 1994 he moved to Winnipeg to become the play-by-play personality of the Winnipeg Jets 1.0. When the Jets left Winnipeg in 1996, he took on the play-by-play for the Manitoba Moose covering them for ten years. Kelly then returned to Kamloops to start-up a new radio station. With the return of the Jets in 2011, he made his return to Winnipeg to coordinate CJOB’s coverage of the Winnipeg Jets 2.0.
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​Kelly has always been a big supporter of the Canadian Polish Athletic Club. The consummate sports professional, poised interviewer, and former play-by-play personality CJOB’s Sports Director Kelly Moore is truly well deserving of his induction into Manitoba’s Hockey Hall of Fame.
Adrian Brown played on 3 Provincial winning teams before joining the Manitoba Alliance Jr. team in
1994. The Alliance went on to win a silver medal at the Canadian National Championships.
His contributions led him to be selected as the All-Star 3rd baseman for the championship. In
1995 he helped the Manitoba Red Dogs capture the Sr. B Provincial Championship and the
Western Canadian Sr. B Championship. Adrian also made his first of 14 appearances (8 as a
player, 6 as a coach) at the International Softball Congress World Tournament. In 2006, Adrian
began his coaching career with the Kegel Black Knights (Fargo, North Dakota) and guided
them to a World Series title. In 2017 he was a co-winner of Softball Manitoba’s Leo Bouchard
Memorial Trophy for the top coaching staff of the year. Adrian Brown is an inductee to the
Manitoba Softball Hall of Fame for 2023 in the All Around category.​​​
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Adrian was proudly inducted at the 2023 Manitoba Softball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre in Winnipeg on May 6, 2023.
Adrian Brown (back row, fourth from the right) with the 1986 CPAC Bantam A baseball team.
Keith Carriere played with our CPAC Bantam A baseball team winning our highest award the team’s Sportsmanship award in 1984 and the Most Outstanding Player award in 1985 for a combination of outstanding play and sportsmanship. Below is Keith’s bio of accomplishments from the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame. ​
Keith Carriere (left) winner of CPAC’s Most Outstanding Player Bantam A baseball team award in 1985.
Keith played through Bantam with Canadian Polish Athletic Club, where he was a pitcher and an infielder. Then he joined Legion 141 Midgets for two years and was Baseball Manitoba Minor Player of the Year in 1987. From 1988 to 1991 he was with Legion 141 in the Manitoba Junior League. He made three all-star teams, played in the 1989 Westerns as a pickup by Elmwood Giants, and also made the 1989 Canada Summer Game team. In 1989-90 he attended Victor Valley College in California on a baseball scholarship. From 1991 to 1999 he played Senior with Legion 141 in the Red Boine League, then from 1999-2004 he was with Elmwood Giants of the Winnipeg Senior League. He was part of the strong Elmwood teams that won two gold medals and one silver medal at Westerns. He was a perennial all-star in both the Red Boine League and the Winnipeg Senior League, and in 2000 he was MVP in the Winnipeg League. Since 2010 he has coached or helped to coach his two boys, both AAA players in the North Winnipeg Minor Baseball Association.
Keith Carriere was proudly inducted to the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame at the 25th Hall of Fame induction banquet in the Access Events Centre in Morden, Manitoba on June 3, 2023.
In reviewing the Memories of Sport in the Winnipeg Free Press from 2021 I came across the passing of Don Butt who was a co-coach along with Rick McGill of the 1965 CPAC National Championship Little League team. Don was inducted into both the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame and the Mustangs Football Hall of Fame during his sporting career. It was stated in his obituary that Don coached a "Rag Tag" group of boys to the Championship and 40 plus
year's later one of those boys who wrote for the Winnipeg Free Press wrote a documentary along with an article in the newspaper about the CPAC baseball team. The film documentary was Behind in the Count and the article “Winners - They won on the diamond and in life. Coincidence?” was co-written by Don Marks (and Lorelei Leona) when he was with the Winnipeg Free Press in 2011. Don Marks was Don Boreski when he was a member of the 1965 Championship team. DVD's of the documentary were provided by the 1965 team to the members attending the Club's 60th Anniversary Banquet.
William (Billy) Mosienko is famous for the fastest three goals in National Hockey League history and the record still stands today. He scored the three goals in 21 seconds on March 23, 1952, at Madison Square Gardens in New York. What most people do not realize he nearly managed a fourth goal 45 seconds later ringing it off the goal post in the Gardens. Mr. Mosienko – Billy spoke at a CPAC sports banquet in the mid 1980’s and received the largest ovation in the history of our club. Young kids the age of his grandchildren lined up for autographs at the conclusion of the banquet in one of the most memorable days in our sports history.
The three hockey pucks from the game were kept in his home near the corner of Cathedral Avenue and Airlies Street for many years. The pucks now reside in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto along with a photograph and the stick he used to score the goals. Billy as he is famously known was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965 after 14-year career with the Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL. He was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame 15 years later in 1980.
A beautiful mural honoring him is located on the south wall of the Billy Mosienko Lanes at 1136 Main Street in Winnipeg. The mural was painted by Jen Mosienko the wife of Bill’s grandson Ken. The Keewatin Arena in Northwest Winnipeg was renamed Billy Mosienko Arena on December 30, 1991. He finished his playing career in Winnipeg with the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey league. Bill passed away on July 9, 1994 at the age of 72. Billy Mosienko’s record and legend will always live on in hearts of many Winnipeggers and members of CPAC.
Ollie Schroeder spent 40 years in baseball with the Red River Valley Baseball league. In Red River she served as their president, treasurer, registrar, convenor, umpire assignor, scheduler, and coach coordinator. Ollie was truly a pleasure to know and work with. She was always incredibly supportive of our sportsmanship philosophy and baseball programs at CPAC.
Derrick Mudge is the son of the late Larry Mudge. Derrick played his minor baseball in North Winnipeg and junior ball with Legion 141. He has followed in his father’s footsteps and has also coached baseball for several age groups in North Winnipeg.
Both Ollie Schroeder and Derrick Mudge are were inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame on June 15, 2024.
Our sports - Manager of the Year Award was presented to Elaine Lower at our 70th Anniversary Banquet on Saturday, May 11, 2024. Elaine was a multisport manager who was a total pleasure to work with day in day out and definitely a credit to the community and our club. In hockey Elaine led and managed the CPAC Ladies teams to great success. She understood just how important it was to our programs to set a good example for younger youth to look up to and aspire to. Elaine Lower cannot be thanked more for all her contributions to our CPAC Ladies Hockey and Baseball teams.
Elaine Lower (center) with The Manager of the Year plaque.
Special thanks to CJOB’s Jim Toth. Jim was our guest speaker for the 70th Anniversary Banquet. Jim, the pride of Lethbridge, Alberta has a large presence on the sports scene in Winnipeg and currently is co-host of the Jets at Noon Show on CJOB as well as hosting his own radio show, The Jim Toth Show. He graciously accepted our invitation to speak and spoke about how impactful coaches were in his life and the life of all players. Jim’s love for sport, down to earth personality and humour were a big hit at the banquet.
Jim Toth (left) and Kent Cielen at the CPAC 70th Anniversary banquet on May 11, 2024.
