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Toews is a surname of Russian Mennonite origin, an abbreviation of Matthäus (Matthews). Notable people with this name include: * Brian Toews (1941-2019), Canadian curler, 1984 Brier champion * BT Toews (born 1966), Canadian basketball coach for the WJBL's Fujitsu Red Wave * David Toews (born 1990), Canadian hockey player * David Waltner-Toews (born 1948), Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer and veterinarian * Devon Toews (born 1994), Canadian hockey player for the NHL's Colorado Avalanche * Georgia Toews (born 1990), Canadian novelist * Gisela Toews (born 1940), German speed skater * Jeff Toews (born 1957), American former NFL offensive tackle and guard * John E. Toews, Canadian historian of 19th-century Germany at the University of Washington * Jonathan Toews (born 1988), Canadian hockey player for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks * Kai Toews (born 1998), Japanese basketball player for the B. League's Shiga Lakes * Loren Toews (born 1951), American former pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Toews
Jonathan Bryan Toews ( ; born April 29, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Captain Serious", Toews was selected by the Blackhawks with the third overall pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. He joined the team in 2007–08 and was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year. The following season he was named team captain, becoming the second-youngest captain in NHL history (after Sidney Crosby) at the time. Toews won the Stanley Cup in 2010, along with the Conn Smythe Trophy for the most valuable player in the playoffs. After winning the Cup, Toews passed Peter Forsberg as the youngest player to join the Triple Gold Club. He won the Stanley Cup again in 2013 and 2015. Toews competes internationally for Team Canada and has won gold medals at the 2005 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, 2006 and 2007 World Junior Championships, 2007 World Championships, the 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Toews
Ernest Brian Toews (December 16, 1941 – January 27, 2019) was a Canadian curler. He won the playing third on the Mike Riley rink, and won a silver medal at the 1998 Canadian Senior Curling Championships. After playing in the 1986 Labatt Brier, he retired from competitive curling due to a bad knee. Personal life Toews was born in Altona, Manitoba and grew up on a family farm. He played baseball in his youth, playing for the Plum Coulee Pirates in the Southeastern Manitoba League. In 1961 he moved to Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 .... At the time of the 1984 Brier, he was an accountant for James B Carter Ltd. He was married and had one son. Teams References External links * Brian Toews – Curling Canada Stats Archive"Riley Appreciates Rest, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BT Toews
Burke "BT" Toews (born February 8, 1966) is a Canadian basketball coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Fujitsu Red Wave in the Japanese Women's Japan Basketball League. Toews played professionally in Canada and Germany. His son Kai Toews is a professional basketball player, and his nephew Jonathan Toews is a professional hockey player as captain of the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL. Head coaching record , - , style="text-align:left;", Hyogo Storks , style="text-align:left;", 2011-12 , 27, , 17, , 10, , , , style="text-align:center;", 4th, , , 2, , 1, , 1, , , style="text-align:center;", 3rd , - , - style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", Hyogo Storks , style="text-align:left;", 2012-13 , 32, , 27, , 5, , , , style="text-align:center;", 1st in Western, , , 2, , 2, , 0, , , style="text-align:center;", JBL2 Champions , - , style="text-align:left;", Fujitsu Red Wave , style="text-align:left;", 2014-15 , 30, , 24, , 6, , , , style= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Toews
David Toews (born June 7, 1990) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted by the New York Islanders in the 3rd round, 66th overall, in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He is the younger brother of former Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews. Playing career Amateur At the 2005 WHL Bantam Draft, Toews was selected in the sixth round, 117th overall by the Brandon Wheat Kings. Toews began his career at Shattuck-Saint Mary's with its Tier I Bantam team. During his first season with the prep team at Shattuck-Saint Mary's, Toews was named to the Manitoba roster for the ice hockey tournament at the 2007 Canada Games. There, he helped the team to their best finish in the tournament's history, losing 6–4 to Ontario in the gold-medal game. In the off-season before his final year at Shattuck-Saint Mary's, Toews gave a verbal commitment to attend the University of North Dakota and play for the North Dakota Fighting Sioux men's ice hockey team beginning i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Waltner-Toews
David Waltner-Toews (born 1948 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health. He is best known for his work on animal and human infectious diseases in relation to complexity. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario. Early life Waltner-Toews was born in 1948 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He attended the University of Manitoba and finished his Bachelor of Arts degree at Goshen College in 1971. He received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in 1978 and a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Guelph in 1985. Career A University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, he is the founding president of Veterinarians without Borders/ Vétérinaires sans Frontières - Canada, founding president of the Network for Ecosystem S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devon Toews
Devon Toews ( ; born February 21, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Toews was drafted 108th overall by the New York Islanders in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. Toews won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022. Prior to turning professional, Toews attended Quinnipiac University, where he was named to the All-ECAC Hockey Second Team. Playing career Toews began playing youth hockey at Yale Hockey Academy at the age of six. He then played one season with the Abbotsford Hawks Bantam A1 Hawks, where he helped them win the B.C. bantam Tier 1 title and finish second at the Western Canadians. However, due to his short stature at the time, standing at 5’2”, Toews was initially overlooked by teams competing in the Western Hockey League (WHL) as he was emerging from bantam hockey. He joined the major-midget team the Fraser Valley Bruins with Mackenzie Skapski and they both suffered injuries as a result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Toews
Georgia Toews (, born April 20, 1990) is a Canadian novelist. Her debut novel ''Hey, Good Luck Out There'' was published in 2022. Toews is frequently depicted in novels by her mother Miriam Toews, including as the teenage character Nora Von Riesen who has "archly lacerating exchanges" with her mother in ''All My Puny Sorrows'' (2014, adapted for film in 2021).Lodge, G."''All My Puny Sorrows'' Review: Two Sisters Debate the Merits of Living in a Sincere But Stilted Grief Drama" ''Variety'', May 6, 2022. Education Toews was educated at Humber College. Bibliography * ''Hey, Good Luck Out There'' (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2022), References Further reading Toews, G."Alcohol doesn’t define me any more, but that doesn’t mean I don’t miss it" ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Toews
Gisela Toews (born 27 September 1940) is a retired German speed skater. She competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Vall ... in the 1500 m and 3000 m events and finished in 22nd and 17th place, respectively. Personal bests: *500 m – 52.2 (1960) * 1000 m – 1:48.6 (1960) * 1500 m – 2:44.0 (1960) * 3000 m – 5:48.3 (1960) References External links * 1940 births German female speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for the United Team of Germany Living people 20th-century German women {{Germany-speed-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Toews
Jeffrey Mark Toews (born November 4, 1957) is a former NFL offensive tackle and guard who played seven seasons with the Miami Dolphins. In college, Toews played for the University of Washington and was named to the 1977 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team, 1978 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team, and 1978 College Football All-America Team. He was selected by the Dolphins in the second round of the 1979 NFL Draft. He is the younger brother of former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Loren Toews Loren James Toews (born November 3, 1951) is a retired NFL football player. Toews graduated from Del Mar High School in San Jose, California and later University of California, Berkeley where he received his degree in biological sciences. In .... 1957 births Living people American football offensive tackles Washington Huskies football players Miami Dolphins players {{offensive-lineman-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John E
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Toews
Kai Toews (テーブス海, born September 17, 1998) is a Japanese professional basketball player who currently plays for the Shiga Lakes of the B. League. His cousin Jonathan Toews played for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League from 2007 to 2023. Early life Toews grew up playing soccer before starting to play basketball in fourth grade. His father, former professional player BT Toews, taught him the fundamentals of the game. Growing up, Toews cited Allen Iverson as his favorite basketball player. Toews attended Keihoku High School for his freshman and sophomore years and was recruited by Japanese universities but had higher ambitions. Toews moved to the United States and attended the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts for two years. In his senior season, Toews helped the team to a 31–4 record and the New England Prep Class AAA Championship, earned honorable mention All-NEPSAC honors. UNC Wilmington coach C.B. McGrath offered Toews a scholarship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
