- Who's here
- Athletes born in Langley, raised here, or who built their career here, with a source saying so
- Olympians born in Langley
- Olympedia lists seven people born in "Langley" and one born in Aldergrove (as of October 2026)
- Hall of Fame team
- 1998 Langley Little League All-Stars, BC Sports Hall of Fame, class of 2024
- Full bios
- 14 athletes, linked below and listed at the bottom of the page
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026
In February 2026 a defenceman who learned the game at the Aldergrove rink stood on an Olympic podium with a silver medal around his neck. Five years earlier, a rower who grew up in Murrayville won Olympic gold in Tokyo. In 1998, fourteen Langley kids came within one run of the final at the Little League World Series. Langley turns out a lot of athletes for a place its size, and this page is our attempt to gather them in one spot.
The rule we used: someone is on this list only if a published source says they were born in Langley, grew up here, or made their career here. We say which, because “from Langley” means different things. Several athletes on this page were born in a Surrey or Vancouver hospital and raised in Murrayville or Aldergrove; a few were born here and moved away young. Where official bios disagree on a birthplace (it happens more than you’d think), we say so on the person’s page.
Athletes with enough published material get their own page. Everyone else gets a line, so nobody we could source is left out.
Hockey
Aldergrove · Stanley Cup 2023Shea TheodoreAldergrove Minor Hockey alumnus, Vegas defenceman, 2026 Olympic silver medallist.
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Born in Langley · 1st round 2016Dennis CholowskiLangley bantam player turned 20th-overall NHL pick, now with the Rangers organisation.
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Langley Christian 2013Danton HeinenFourth-round pick who has played for Boston, Pittsburgh, Vancouver and Columbus.
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More NHL and pro players with a sourced Langley birthplace:
- Mark McNeill (born in Langley, 1993): taken 18th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2011.
- Brad Thiessen (born in Aldergrove, 1986): goaltender, Hockey East Player of the Year at Northeastern, later played for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
- Danny Lorenz (born in Murrayville, 1969): goaltender, eight NHL games with the New York Islanders between 1990 and 1993.
- Robb Gordon (born in Murrayville, raised in Surrey, 1976): four games with the Vancouver Canucks in 1998-99 and a 1996 world junior gold medal.
- Jordan Krestanovich (born in Langley, 1981): played for the Colorado Avalanche, later a player-coach with the Braehead Clan in Britain’s Elite Ice Hockey League.
- Kent Fearns (born in Langley, 1972): All-American defenceman at Colorado College.
- T. J. Mulock (born in Langley, 1985): played for Germany at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
- Sarah and Amy Potomak (Aldergrove): in December 2016 they became the first sisters to play together for Canada’s national women’s team, according to CBC Sports. Amy later played for the Trinity Western Spartans.
The local pipeline runs through Langley Minor Hockey, Aldergrove Minor Hockey, the BCHL’s Langley Rivermen and the WHL’s Vancouver Giants at the Langley Events Centre. A 2020 BCHL Network round-up counted four Rivermen drafted by NHL teams: Evan Campbell (Edmonton, 2013), Matt Ustaski (Winnipeg, 2014), Marcus Vela (San Jose, 2015) and Angus Crookshank (Ottawa, 2018). Those players came to Langley to play junior; the article doesn’t say they grew up here.
Baseball and softball
Brookswood 2008 · 2008 OlympianBrett LawrieLangley Blaze grad, first-round pick, Blue Jays third baseman.
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Olympic bronze, TokyoDanielle LawrieBrookswood pitcher, college champion at Washington, two-time Olympian.
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1998 LLWS · Pan Am gold 2015Jordan LennertonFrom the 1998 Little League team to Triple-A and two Pan Am medals for Canada.
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- Kellin Deglan (born in Langley, 1992): catcher from R.E. Mountain Secondary and the Langley Blaze, taken 22nd overall by the Texas Rangers in 2010; Pan Am Games gold with Canada in 2015.
Langley Baseball (the Little League club) and the Langley Blaze are on our baseball page.
The 1998 Langley Little League All-Stars
The only youth team in the BC Sports Hall of Fame, as their coach pointed out to the Aldergrove Star, went in as part of the class of 2024. The Hall’s write-up says the team was based at Langley’s City Park. They beat Whalley 11-1 for the district title and Prince George 11-1 for the province, then beat host Glace Bay 4-1 in Nova Scotia to win the Canadian championship.
At Williamsport they topped the International pool and arrived in the semifinal on a 19-game winning streak. Japan beat them 3-2 in extra innings, even though pitcher Jeff Duda struck out 17, a Little League World Series record the Hall says still stands. The team tied for third, one of the best Canadian finishes at the tournament, and an estimated 5,000 people turned out for a parade back home.
The roster: Andrew Bell, Faizan Choudhry, Clayton Deglan, Jeff Duda, Mike Erickson, Brad Fraser, Mark Henderson, Jared Krause, Jordan Lennerton, Brett Logan, Brad MacDonald, Tanner Mikesh, Karl Reddick and Sean Sargent. Coaches were George Duda, Dave Mihalech and Gary Mikesh; Brian Sargent managed. The 2024 Star story says most of the players still live in the Langley area and several coach.
Track and field
- 3 Olympics · BC Sports HOF 2015Leah Pells
Langley Secondary grad who finished fourth in the 1,500 m at Atlanta.
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Tokyo 2020 heptathlonGeorgia EllenwoodLangley Secondary 2013, NCAA heptathlon champion, Olympian.
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- Dylan Williamson (hometown and residence Langley, per the Canadian Paralympic Committee): ran as a guide in the 400 m and visually impaired 4x100 m relay at the 2012 Paralympic Games and won national T11 titles in 2015.
Where to run yourself: Langley’s public running tracks.
On the water, on skates and on the bike
Olympic gold, TokyoLisa RomanMurrayville and D.W. Poppy grad in Canada's gold-medal women's eight.
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Olympic silver, SochiJessica HewittBorn in Langley, lived in Fort Langley as a small child, relay silver in 2014.
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World silver 2008Svein TuftLangley's long-distance time-trial man, once leader of the Giro d'Italia.
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- Andrea Proske: the Langley Advance Times called her a Langley rower in its 2022 story on Lisa Roman; the two won gold together in Tokyo.
- Zachary Clay (born in Langley, 1995): pommel horse specialist, the first Canadian to win Pan Am Games gold on that apparatus (2023), and a member of Canada’s team at Paris 2024.
Soccer, football and basketball
Aldergrove · 2026 World CupJoel WatermanAldergrove Youth Soccer, Langley United, Trinity Western, then MLS and Canada.
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- Simon Colyn (born in Langley, 2002): came up through Langley United; midfielder for Lyngby in Denmark.
- Madison Guy (from Langley, Brookswood Secondary 2012): captained UBC, played for Northern Ireland’s women’s team from 2017, founded the student-funding company GrantMe.
- Graig Newman (born in Langley, 1989): CFL defensive back with Saskatchewan and Winnipeg, retired in 2017.
- Kelsey Adrian (born in Langley, 1989): basketball at Cal and UC Santa Barbara.
- Chris Pack (Brookswood Secondary): two caps for Canada in rugby union at the 2006 Churchill Cup, now president and CEO of Thunderbird Show Park.
Local clubs: Aldergrove Soccer, Langley United and the Trinity Western Spartans.
Lacrosse
The Langley Thunder won the Western Lacrosse Association title on August 27, 2011, the franchise’s first. The junior club’s history page counts twelve National Lacrosse League draft picks, starting with Brett Dobray in 2013 and including first-rounders Ryan Martel (Calgary, 2017), Caleb Khan (Las Vegas, 2025) and Marcus Khan (Vancouver, 2026). Those are Thunder players, not necessarily Langley-raised ones; the club doesn’t list hometowns, so we haven’t given anyone a page yet.
Horses
- Paralympic gold, BeijingLauren Barwick
Born in Langley, based in Aldergrove, five Paralympic Games in para dressage.
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Athens 2004 · London 2012Hawley Bennett-AwadMurrayville-born eventing rider with two Olympics and three team silvers.
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- Tiffany Foster: a North Vancouver rider who moved to tbird in Langley as a teenager to train, worked there until 21, rode for Canada at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, and told the Advance Times in 2023 she was building a stable to base here in summer.
- Mickey Walls (grew up in Langley): retired thoroughbred jockey, a champion in both Canada and the United States.
See horse country and Thunderbird Show Park.
Paralympians
Lauren Barwick (para dressage, gold and silver at Beijing 2008) and Dylan Williamson (para athletics guide, London 2012) are the two we could source. If you know of another Langley Paralympian, tell us.
Olympedia’s list
Olympedia, the Olympic results database, lists seven Olympians born in “Langley”: gymnast Zachary Clay, hockey player Jenn Gardiner, baseball player Jeff Guiel, speed skater Jessica Hewitt, volleyball player Daniel Jansen Van Doorn, Brett Lawrie and T. J. Mulock. It lists Shea Theodore separately under Aldergrove. Two of those birthplaces don’t match other records: Wikipedia gives North Vancouver for Guiel (a 2004 Olympian) and Surrey for Gardiner (a 2026 Olympian), so we’ve left them off the sport lists above until we find a source on where they grew up. Daniel Jansen Van Doorn, born in Langley, played his university volleyball at Trinity Western and was on Canada’s fifth-place team at Rio 2016.
Hall of fame corner
The BC Sports Hall of Fame has inducted Leah Pells (2015) and the 1998 Langley Little League All-Stars (2024). Its 2024 class also included two people with Langley ties who weren’t athletes here: ringette builder Beverley Felske, who the Hall says lived in Port Coquitlam and Langley, and Glen Ringdal, who managed the Langley Events Centre from 2008 to 2011.
A note on Taylor Kitsch
He shows up on “famous people from Langley” lists, but the actor isn’t from here. Wikipedia says he played junior hockey for the BCHL’s Langley Hornets until a knee injury ended that career in 2002. That’s his Langley connection, and it’s why he’s a footnote rather than a page.
Missing someone?
Lists like this are never finished. If you know a Langley-raised athlete we’ve left out, send us a link to a team bio, a hall of fame page or a news story that says where they grew up, and we’ll add them. Tell us here.
Last checked October 22, 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
