Jeff Goldsworthy
Inducted In
1997
Jeff Goldsworthy was born in Kitchener in 1959. In 1965, he started playing badminton at the KW Granite Club. From 1975 to 1978, he was selected to the All Ontario Badminton Team and during this time he was twice Ontario High School Champion in singles and once mixed doubles champion.
Goldsworthy was a member for three years of the All Canadian High School Badminton Team and he was also the Ontario University Amateur Athletics Singles Champion twice. In 1978 he was the Canadian Junior Singles and Doubles Champion. In 1994 he was Canadian Masters Champion in the over thirty-five age category. In 1997 he won the Masters 35+ Singles and Doubles in the Yonex US Open.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo and he graduated as a Doctor of Chiropractic medicine in 1987. Goldsworthy and his wife and their three children live in Waterloo.
Photograph from the Forde Studio, Kitchener, Ontario