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presents Then and Now:

Cornwall Colts Edition…Brock McBride

By Molly Kett

rock McBride grew up in
BCornwall playing hockey. In
2001 he was playing for the Seaway
Valley Rapids Bantam AA team, but
the next year he found himself playing
for the Cornwall Colts. He continued
to play for the Cornwall Colts in the
CJHL from 2002- 2005.
“I played there for three years and
Al Wagar was the coach,” recalls
McBride. “I’d always looked up to
the Colts growing up in Cornwall, so
getting to play for them in front of my
family and friends, it was kind of my

first taste of the excitement of playing
hockey.”
After his three years with the Colts,
McBride decided to take a scholarship
at St. Lawrence University in New
York and play division one hockey.
“I could have ended up coming back
for two more years (with the Colts) but
I decided to take the scholarship. At
that point schooling was my priority
instead of going to the NHL,” says
McBride. “The reason I chose that
school was it was only an hour away
so my parents could come to the games
and it was close to home, so it kind of
worked out like that. “
McBride has fond memories of Brock McBride currently plays for Villacher SV in Austria Photo Submitted
playing with the Colts and recalls
enjoying the feeling of playing big our outdoor rink, it was pretty special McBride. “I just decided that I would physical which helps me and there’s a
games in front of the local crowd as his when I was younger. As a kid you look like to come over to Europe and kind little more room for skating so that’s
favourite memory with the team. up to your father and we always used of have a more stable career. A little one of the positives of playing here.”
“I think, just in general, playing at to play on the outdoor rinks,” says more job security, you’re not changing In the summer, McBride comes
the old Si Miller arena in front of, I McBride. teams mid-season. It ended up being a back to his roots in Cornwall where
think we used to get 2000 fans, every After playing at St. Lawrence lot better for me.” he owns his own hockey development
Thursday night, was pretty high on University, McBride played for two Now, McBride is in his fifth year company, “Own the Ice Hockey.”

the list I would say. No one specific years professionally in North America, playing in Austria’s league. Currently, What’s next for McBride?

moment, but when you’re a local kid in the AHL and the East Coast League, he plays for Villacher SV. “I think maybe five more years
and playing in front of all those fans before heading to Europe to continue “I actually went over to Belfast professional and then I guess it’ll be
in your hometown, it’s pretty special,” his hockey career. first and Great Britain and then I left time to retire,” says McBride. “We’d

says McBride. “I was kind of up and down and all halfway through my fi rst season for like to stay here and then maybe for
His earliest hockey memory, though, over the country, I was everywhere this league and I’ve been here ever a year I’d go somewhere else to kind
before making it with the Colts goes form Alaska to South Carolina to since,” says McBride. “I really enjoy of see another part of the world, or
back to spending time with his father. Houston TX, Milwaukee, Syracuse, it. I like the country and the way of life Europe, or somewhere would be nice
“Probably just beating my dad on so I was kind of everywhere,” says here. I guess the game’s a little less in my last year of professional.”
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