Donald Hayes
Inducted In
1991
Don Hayes, a native of Ottawa, graduated from Springfield College, Massachusetts with bachelor degrees in science and physical education, and in 1971, his doctorate in physical education. He taught at University of Guelph before joining the University of Waterloo department of kinesiology, specializing in sports’ medicine.
Hayes coached the Waterloo Warriors hockey team from 1964-1969 when they were perennial championship contenders. One of his players, Bobby Murdock, went on to play and coach in the National Hockey League.
His research and publications centred on athletic injuries and rehabilitation, protective sports equipment and life saving water vests. He was a member of the university senate, chairman of the sports’ medicine section of the national coaching development program and a member of the American Medical Association sub-committee on the medical aspects of hockey. He developed the Don Hayes Hockey Schools in Canada and the United States.