{"id":56972,"date":"2019-03-21T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=56972"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:35:52","slug":"fahs-mourns-loss-of-indigenous-sport-management-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/03\/fahs-mourns-loss-of-indigenous-sport-management-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"FAHS mourns loss of Indigenous Sport Management alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences (FAHS) is mourning the passing of prominent alumnus and Dean\u2019s Alumni Council member Wray Maracle. The well-known leader at Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and in sport throughout Ontario died March 20 after a battle with cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FAHS Dean Peter Tiidus called Maracle, a Sport Management graduate in 2007, \u201ca valuable member of my Alumni Council whose presence and knowledge will sadly be missed.\u201d Tiidus said Maracle provided advice on making Brock a more accessible destination for First Nations students considering post-secondary education, and served as an advisor to more than 50 Brock students who volunteered in the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/07\/brock-students-support-north-american-indigenous-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017 North American Indigenous Games<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as part of the Major Games Field Course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming to Brock\u2019s Sport Management department as a mature student, he had an impact on faculty and colleagues, said Sport Management Associate Professor Laura Cousens, who taught Maracle. \u201cIn my mind, he was doing sport for development long before it became fashionable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well-known in the lacrosse world, he was the first Indigenous sportswriter to win the Ontario Lacrosse Association award for exceptional support to the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe worked hard and talked about making the world a better place,\u201d said Sport Management Associate Professor Cheryl Mallen, \u201cwhich I believe he did for those he served and worked with. He will be missed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An obituary and further arrangements will be posted at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhbanderson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RHB Anderson Funeral Homes Ltd.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences is mourning the passing of prominent alumnus and Dean\u2019s Alumni Council member Wray Maracle. The well-known leader at Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and in sport throughout Ontario died March 20 after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,36,6833,1,4],"tags":[5521,28,299,4226,614,57,7716],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67531,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972\/revisions\/67531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}