On November 20, from 2:00-3:00pm, Victus Academy hosted the Waterloo Region Police Service (WRPS) in a Charity Hockey game here at Sportsworld Arena to support the Special Olympics of Ontario. It was a thoroughly entertaining game between our high school students and the police, resulting in some creative moves, great (possibly lucky) goaltending, and ultimately […]
Victus Academy collected 888 pairs of socks this year for “Toasty Toes,” a fundraiser going towards helping the homeless during the cold winter months. Victus far exceeded their goal of 500 socks and over doubled last year’s collection of 383. We had previously raised 205 in 2017. We are very proud of our students, staff, […]
Victus Academy raised $2050 for the Terry Fox Foundation at their 3rd Annual “Terry Fox Skate,” our unique take on the traditional Terry Fox Run, exceeding our goal of $2000. This is the largest amount Victus has raised in the 3 years (now totalling over $5500). Starting at 8:30, our student-athletes watched a video on […]
For Immediate Release (Wednesday, September 18, 2019) On Thursday September 26, students from Grades 5-12 at Victus Academy, a private school / hockey academy located at Sportsworld Arena will honour Terry Fox in a unique way by lacing up their skates instead of shoes in their third annual “Terry Fox Skate.” After a small opening […]
Grade 9 student Ava Murphy was recently invited by Toronto Maple Leafs President Brendan Shanahan to participate in the “Fuelling the Future Invitational Camp,” sponsored by the Toronto Maple Leafs and Gatorade, as one of the top 16 boys and 16 girls in the 2005 age group in Ontario: It was really unbelievable. When I […]
Grade 11 student Ben McFarlane and the Guelph Storm are OHL Champions! Now they are off to the Memorial Cup in Halifax. It’s an incredible achievement for him as a 16 year old and even though he is only a reserve in case of injury, he’s relishing the moment. In a recent article in the […]
Grade 10 student Matthew Sop is in his 2nd year at Victus Academy and was recently drafted in the 7th Round (135th overall) to the OHL’s Kitchener Rangers. Matt is a Kitchener native and just completed his Minor Midget season with the Kitchener Jr. Rangers scoring 40 points in 33 regular season games. He was […]
Victus Academy was well-represented at the 2019 OHL Priority Selection Draft as 6 student-athletes were chosen! Justin Ertel, Braeden Bowman, Ryan Cook, and Matthew Sop are all current students at the school and Marko Sikic and Skate Skalde are former students. Justin Ertel, forward for the Toronto Red Wings, was drafted to the North Bay […]
Grade 11 student Ben McFarlane is in his 3rd year at Victus Academy and was drafted in 2018 in the 6th Round to the OHL’s Guelph Storm. Even though he was up and down with the veteran Guelph Storm team, he still registered 2 assists in 13 games played in the regular season. However, he […]
The Victus Academy U18 Prep Team recently completed their season with a record of 28-7-1 and were finalists in the Prep School Hockey Federation (PSHF). In the championship tournament, they finished the round robin with three wins and one loss beating Le Sommet in overtime in the semifinals, but eventually fell to A21 Academy in […]