For a lot of local athletes, 2025 was a year they will never forget, starting with Navan curler Dominique Vivier who skipped her team to the U20 junior provincial championship in February.

It was Vivier’s second provincial title in as many years. In 2024, she won the U18 championship.

In March, another curler, Orléans native Rachel Homan curled a perfect game on her way to winning her fifth Scotties Tournament of Hearts title, putting one behind Hall of Fame skip Jennifer Jones who won the title six times.

In April, the Ottawa-Gloucester Devils U19 team won the Ontario provincial ring-ette championship.

May signaled the start of the outdoor season in high school sports as well as the minor soccer and minor football seasons.

On June 4, The Béatrice-Desloges Bulldogs completed a marathon one-day playoff to win the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association varsity girls flag football championship.

On the same day, Cairine Wilson’s girls rugby team won its third city championship in the last four years.

The high school track and field season wrapped on June 6 and 7 with the OFSAA provincial championships in Toronto. Three athletes from Orléans would win gold at the meet including two athletes from École secondaire publique Louis-Riel.

Mallea McMullin, 16, won gold in the junior girls javelin, and Zachary Jeggo, 17, did the same in the senior boys 400-metre hurdles.

Orléans third gold medalist was Maxime Cazabon from École secondaire catholique Garneau who won the novice boys high jump.

Besides winning the gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles, Jeggo also won a silver medal in the senior boys 400 metres, and he combined with teammates Daniel Cova, Isaiah Wallace and Ayoub Shanghai to win the Open boys 4x400 metre relay.

As spring turned into summer, two teams from the Cumberland Panther football club rose to the top of their sport by winning the ultimate prize as part of the Ontario Summer Football League.

The Panthers U16 girls team won its first provincial championship with a 58-28 win over their namesakes from Peel, and the U14 boys team won its third straight provincial title in as many years with a 49-29 win over the London Jr. Mustangs, becoming the first team in league history to complete the three-peat.

While the U14 Panthers were making history Navan native Angélique Pagé was helping Team Canada win the women’s world ball hockey championship in Slovenia, completing a year in which she also won national U-Sport university championship with the Bishops Gaitors.

August was also the month in which the Ottawa-Gloucester Celtics men’s soccer team won it’s third provincial championship in the last four years.

In September, Samantha Couture, 15, was part of the national team that won a bronze medal in gymnastics at Jr. Pan Am Games in Paraguay.

In October, Marika Lemay, 13, and Ivory Cash Henderson, 11, teamed up to win the gold medal in AcroFitness at the IBFF Fit Kids World Championships in Croatia. Both girls are coached by former Olympian and four-time Ms. World Fitness, Vanda Hadarean who runs the IBV Fitness Studio in Orléans.

This fall, the Cumberland Panthers pulled off the rare three-peat repeat by winning three of the four division championships up for grabs on A-Cup Sunday as part of the National Capital Amateur Football Association.

The Panthers won the U10 tyke, U12 mosquito and U14 peewee trophies, solidifying their position as one of the most successful minor football programs in the city. Last year, they won the U12, U14 and U16 bantam titles.