Finishing the job
Sport has played a huge part in Harvie Hagerty’s life.
The long-time retried educator coached various teams in a number of sports over the years and still keeps busy as an athletic convenor for the Niagara Region High School Athletic Association.
“The value of sport, it teaches so much about life. Sport doesn’t build character, it reveals character,” Hagerty said. “It helps make a well-rounded individual to participate and follow the plan and work with other people to get better.
“The value of practice and perseverance. I think it’s just qualities we can transfer to life, that’s what sport brings.”
Hagerty has taken on another position in the world of sport as the chair of venues for the 2021 Canada Summer Games.
“I had an opportunity to join in this position and applied for it,” Hagerty said. “It’s a tremendous amount of work.”
Hagerty and his crew will be responsible for making sure everything runs smoothly at the venues.
“My job is to working with functional area leads,” he said. “On the field of play as venue lead, I’m looking at everything other than the field of play. I have to know where the press goes, where the TV people go, what entrance do the athletes come in, where are the medical people. My job is to help them, to oversee it.”
Hagerty was part of a Niagara bid in 2000 for the 2001 Games.
“I want to finish what we started. A lot of people did a ton of work in the early submission and we came so close. I have an opportunity now to be part of an organization that not only will create its own legacy, but it will also close the door on what those guys did.
“Part of my interest is to finish off what we started and the other part is to see the legacy completed. Part of what motivates me is just to give back.”
Hagerty feels the Games go beyond just the athletic competitions.
“When you think of the infrastructure and the opportunity this will bring to businesses and jobs and that sort of thing, the legacy that’s left is really the most important.”
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