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The John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute is a grade 9–12 public secondary school in
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, Canada and is part of the
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.


History

Guelph's largest high school was originally named John F. Ross Vocational School, in honour of John Francis Ross, a highly respected Guelph educator and principal. The school opened its doors in 1956 to 460 students with 25 teachers and Lorne Fox as its principal, under the new name John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute. It celebrated its 50th anniversary with a reunion in May 2006.


Academic programs

It is the only high school in the
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that offers French Immersion and English as Second Language program (grades 9–12). In addition, Ross offers programs in business, technology, drama, music, art, science, social sciences and co-op. As part of its standard classes, the school also offers special education classes for exceptional students. Ross also has a co-operative learning program in which local employers are matched with students for on-the-job training. Students also have opportunities to learn outside of the school. For example, the Music and Geography departments offer an extended field trip to a major city or destination (i.e.,
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) each spring. Annual March Break trips are offered to students as well. Recent trips offered include
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in 2012, France in 2013, and Italy, Switzerland and Austria in March 2014. The school has the largest population of any school in the
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, with an estimated 2000 students (Fall 2014). This is due to its proximity to the downtown core as well as drawing in many students from the surrounding rural areas including nearby towns such as Rockwood.


Sports

The school always had a fierce athletic rivalry with the Centennial Spartans. In 2006, the women's rugby team competed at
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and clinched a 3rd place. In 2006 and 2008, the boys' baseball team was eliminated in the semi-finals in a game that needed extra innings against
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, and a loss to the eventual 2008
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champions Notre Dame Irish, respectively. In 2007, the boys' hockey team, won the
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Championship in Whitby, Ontario. In the fall of 2009 the Royals defeated the Guelph Collegiate Gaels in District 10 football action to win city championship 13–7, their first title, in 11 years. The Ross football team had gone 0–15 in the regular season of 2010 before losing to the Centennial Spartans at home in the D10 Quarter-Finals. In the 2011 season; the Royals beat the Lourdes Crusaders, 24–7 on November 11, 2011. They had their third straight losing season with a 33–7 loss to the Our Lady of Lourdes Crusader. Ross's Junior Boys' basketball team lost the 2011 District 10 City Championship to Orangeville Bears in a lopsided affair, before advanced to CWOSSA and losing in round Robin to St. Mary's of Kitchener. The Senior Boys' Basketball team lost in the District 10 quarter-final game to the Orangeville Bears. They advanced to CWOSSA and the Final before losing to St. Mary's of Kitchener. They did advance to
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with a second-place finish.


Track and Field

The Ross Royals track and field team has had an ongoing tradition of success rich with records and
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medals since the early 1970s. The school records held at John F. Ross contain many of the top performances in District 10 history.


1970's

Some of the earliest instances of major success still on record comes from athletes Barb Becker, Chris Laubach, Dave Rouleau, John Elkerton, Lori Mckay, and John Settle. Throughout their high school career the six of them alone amassed a staggering 17
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medals and 5
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titles between 1973 and 1978. These provincial champions were accompanied by many other talented athletes that made up the 1970s "powerhouse" team led by coaches Donald Ranson and Don Sykes. Over 40 years later the athletes of that era still hold 27 school records. Rouleau even managed to claim the
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record in the midget boys’
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in 1973 with a jump of 6' 2¼" (1.886m). Rouleau decided on a unique combination of events as he continued to train and excel at both the
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and the
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. He won four medals all together and continues to hold school records in both events. Settle finished his amazing career with a total of 4
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medals across the
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and
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as well as 6 school records, all of which are still unbeaten as of 2019. In his freshman year Settle achieved a double gold medal performance in the middle-distance events. Becker was a throws specialist who claimed the
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title in the junior girls'
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as well as winning three other medals in her career. In 1978, Laubach's
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gold medal in the
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became the school's last provincial title in a field event until 2018.


1980's

The John F. Ross track and field team continued to thrive off their momentum throughout the early 1980s. As the team saw the last of the 1970s champions graduate, new athletes were showing promising talent, especially in the sprints. In 1980 the team achieved its first ever
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gold medal in a relay event. The women's
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title was won in a time of 3:57.2, the school's third fastest time to this day. In the following year at the 1981
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championships the girls defended their title with the same four runners. Their finishing time of 3:56.04 became a school record that still stands as of 2019.


1990's

In the 1990s two distance runners took a shot at the record board. The first to come was D. Graham who twice won the
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bronze medal in the midget and junior
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. Graham currently owns the school record in the
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in all three age categories. In 1996 a newcomer to the team named C. Briante won John F. Ross' first
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title since the women's
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gold in 1981. Her
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winning
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time of 4:46.43 was held as the school record for 11 years until June 2017. Briante went on to take the junior records for the
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and
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which remain unbeaten.


2000's

At the turn of the new millennium the Ross Royals saw another resurgence of major success in the form of freshman sprinter, Emily Johnson. In 2002 Johnson proved to be the strongest sprinter in Ross' history setting midget girls' school records in the
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and
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. She then went on to win the
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title in and broke the
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record with a time of 24.42 which stood for 8 years. In Johnson's junior season she achieved the coveted
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/
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double
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gold. In 2004 Johnson won a bronze medal in the senior
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and newcomer Guyson Kuruneri sets school records in the senior men's
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,
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, and
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. Following his high school career, Kuruneri competed for the
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where he later became the head jumps coach for the university's 36 time
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winning team.


2010-present

The new decade began with an
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bronze medal in the senior women's
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relay. The team finished with a school record time of 48.57. In following two years (2011 and 2012),
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runner Alison Fraser attained an
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silver and bronze medal in the event. While 2013 saw no medals in the individual events, Fraser assisted the
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relay team to a silver medal at
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finishing in the school's second fastest ever time of 3:56.53. In 2014, freshman athlete Adam Lee joined the team and picked up a multitude of events spanning the sprints, jumps, throws, and hurdles. Throughout his career Lee amassed 10 school records, most notable of which being a 7.20m (23' 8")
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and a 2.00m (6' 6¾")
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. Lee achieved an
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bronze medal in the
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as a freshman and capped off his final high school season by becoming 2018's
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champion in the senior division of the
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. This win was the school's first
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title in a field event since Chris Laubach's
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title almost exactly 40 years prior in 1978. In 2016, Spanish exchange student Bruno Comín joined the team for the year. Similarly to Lee, he was also proficient in many events, however he decided to focus on the
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,
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and
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for the season. Comín and Lee are both winners of the
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overall champion award achieved by winning gold in all three of the athlete's individual events at the meet. Comín qualified to
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in all three events, won silver medal in the
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, and claimed the school record for both the
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and
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. In the fall of 2017, newcomer Haley Davis immediately caught the attention of coaches by winning an
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gold medal in the cross country season. As of February 2019 after only two seasons, she has won 5
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medals between cross country,
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, and
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. This makes Davis already one of the most decorated athletes in the Ross' history.


Records

Midget Girls Junior Girls Senior Women Midget Boys Junior Boys Senior Men OFSAA Swimming: 100 Metre Backstroke- open girls: 2013-Emma Ball: 1:02.10 R 2014-Emma Ball: 1:02.67 200 Metre Individual Medley- open girls: 2015-Sophia Papadedes: 2:22.85 Girl's SWAD 100 Metre Freestyle: 2012-Alicia Denoon: 1:15.09 2013-Alicia Denoon: 1:16.23 District 10: Swimming 2012-13 OFSAA Girl's Rugby 2016 District 10: Baseball 2016-17 2015-16 District 10: Basketball (Senior Girls) 2015-16 District 10: Field Hockey 2017-18 2016-17 District 10: Football 2019-20 2013-14 2012-13 District 10: Golf 2015-16 2013-14 District 10: Rugby Senior Girls: 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 Junior Boys: 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 Senior Boys: 2014-15 2013-14 District 10: Soccer Senior Girls: 2016-17 Junior Boys: 2014-15 2013-14 Senior Boys: 2016-17 2014-15 District 10: Volleyball Junior Girls: 2012-13 Senior Girls: 2013-14 Junior Boys: 2014-15


Extracurricular activities and clubs

* All Board Permitted Sports * Arts Council * Athletic Council *AP English Club *AP French * Band & Choir Jr and Sr * Battle of the Bands *Best Buddies *Book Club *Business Club *Canadian Open Math Challenge *Chemistry Club * Christians In Action * Concert Band * Concert Choir * Debating Club * Doctor Who Club * ECO Team * E.L. Fox Stage Crew * Equity Council * Fine Arts Club * Improv Club * Multicultural Festival *Robotics Club * RSB - DECA Chapter * Save The Future * Students' Council * Royal Jazz * Royal Rhythm * Sidekicks * Trivia Club * Youth Alpha


Volunteerism

Each spring, up to four families of
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fly to the school, where they have a safe environment to raise their young. Eventually, the school's Environment Club relocates the ducks and ducklings to nearby wildlife preserves. The school looks after the birds' surroundings. Over the years John F. Ross has donated tens of thousands of dollars to charity. During the 2008–2009 school year, the school took part in the Spread the Net challenge promoted by
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. By the end of the competition the school had raised more than $55,000 to help fight malaria, the highest total in Canada for any school. As a result, the famous comedian visited the school in March 2009 and John F. Ross was featured on Mercer's television show, the
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. The school took part in the campaign once again in 2015 raising over $41,000 for the Spread the Net Challenge. Rick Mercer once again visited the school and congratulated John F. Ross on raising over $100 000 total for the charity over the years. On a smaller scale, the students' council runs an annual fundraising event called F.R.O.S.T.Y. (Friendly Royals Offering Stuff To Yuletide) in December. For two weeks, classes set up events such as bake sales, video game parties, or a chance to slime a teacher, all to raise money for local
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and charities. There is also a weekly "Save the Future" collection that brings in a few hundred dollars every week toward a variety of good causes.


Notable alumni

* Actress
Neve Campbell Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973; ) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her work in the drama and horror genres. She has appeared on ''People'' magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful People" twice. Following a series of minor ...
(1973- * Actor
Noah Danby Noah Dalton Danby (born April 24, 1974) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Connor King in the series ''Painkiller Jane''. Early life Danby was born in Guelph, Ontario, the son of painter Ken Danby. Personal life Danby became e ...
(1974- * Actor
Shaun Benson Shaun Benson (born January 16, 1976) is a Canadian actor and director. Early life Benson was born in Guelph, Ontario. He is the son of Eugene Benson, an English professor and a prolific novelist, playwright and librettist."Just Cause for Benson: ...
(1974- * Journalist
David Akin David Akin is a Canadian reporter, currently the chief political correspondent for Global News. Akin's career began in 1993 with ''The Packet and Times'' in Orillia, Ontario, as the paper's city hall reporter. In 1995, he moved to ''The Chronic ...
* Olympian
Billy Bridges Billy Bridges (born 22 March 1984) is a Canadian ice sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball player. Born in Summerside, he has spina bifida. On July 1, 2011, Bridges married former Olympic women's ice hockey player Sami Jo Small. He competed at ...
* Athlete / Coach
Michael Faulds Michael Faulds (born November 11, 1983) is a former Canadian football quarterback and the current head coach for the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team. After serving three years as the offensive coordinator for the York Lions, he wa ...


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List of high schools in Ontario The following is a list of secondary schools in Ontario. Secondary education policy in the Canadian province of Ontario is governed by the Ministry of Education. Secondary education in Ontario includes Grades 9 to 12. The following list include ...
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Upper Grand District School Board The Upper Grand District School Board (known as English-language Public District School Board No. 18 prior to 1999) is a school board in Ontario, Canada. It spans an area of 4211 km² and serves approximately 35,000 students through 65 elemen ...
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External links


John F. Ross C.V.I. websiteJohn F. Ross 50th anniversary reunion websiteWellington Guelph Community Portal

Upper Grand District School Board Website
{{Authority control High schools in Guelph 1956 establishments in Ontario Educational institutions established in 1956