Michael “Mike” Moser
Inducted In
1989
Michael Moser, a native of Kitchener, excelled in swimming, football, track and field events in his short life and became the top basketball player in the area, scoring a record fifty-seven points in one game.
At Queensmount Senior Public School he helped the basketball team win the Twin City Championship. He led the Forest Heights Collegiate junior basketball team to the CWOSSA title in 1967 and 1968 and the senior team to the same title twice, as well as the all-Ontario Championship in 1970.
Moser was a member of the Forest Heights senior basketball team which won the Twin City championship in 1968. He studied under scholarship at Brown University, Providence, RI, for one year but returned to help the University of Waterloo team win the Nasmith Tournament in 1973 and 1974. He was chosen for the Canadian National Basketball team for three years. Moser died suddenly in January 1975, while attending a basketball tournament in Florida.