Don McCrae

A native of Guelph, but with a long and distinguished playing and coaching career in Kitchener- Waterloo, Don McCrae warrants the name of Mr. K-W Basketball.

After a university career at the University of Western Ontario where he was on two Ontario university championship teams, he was a member on Canada’s national teams in the 1960 Olympics in Rome and the 1959 Pan-Am Games in Chicago. He played on the Livingston’s, a Canadian Senior A Championship team; the Coronets, a Senior B team that won two championships in 1964 and 1966; and Kitchener Newtex, an Ontario Intermediate A team that won the championship in 1970.

As a high school coach, his Forest Heights Collegiate team won the All-Ontario title in 1970 and were finalists in 1971; he won five Twin City titles. Moving to the University scene in 1972, his University of Waterloo Warriors won the National title in 1975, had eight appearances in the final eight playdowns and won six Ontario titles. In his twenty-one-year university coaching career, he had 462 wins against 252 losses. During this time, he also coached Canada’s National Women’s team, where in eighteen international competitions, they earned eleven medals.