Serge Vaillancourt

He was one of the youngest fastball players to be named rookie of the year while playing for the Alexandria’s Men Fastball League. He was only 14 years old. Serge is fourth in a family of five, raised in Green Valley and Alexandria. At the age of 15 he was also playing for the Junior B Glens. After winning best rookie, he went on to win many awards as a pitcher and helped take the team to many championship wins. Ten years later, he joined the Cornwall Sportsman Fastball League, the same time he was offered to pitch exclusively in the Ottawa Metro Senior League. Instead of going to Ottawa, he decided to stay close to home and played in Cornwall. Serge pitched many perfect games throughout his career, including one on live TV for the Quebec Championships. In Thetford Mines one year, the team drew 10 thousand people. Serge graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in mathematics and a Bachelor of Education degree. After winning the Jim McCaffrey Trophy as Glengarry County’s outstanding athlete in 1980, he went on to coach high school football, volleyball, badminton, golf and alpine skiing where he took teams to EOSSAA (Eastern Ontario Secondary School Athletic Association) wins. Serge has not taught math, science, and Phys. Ed at Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute, he has taught pre-university calculus at Sunway University in Malaysia where he organized badminton, home at the tie to one of the highest ranked teams in the world.