Former Hamilton Tiger-Cats general manager Ted Goveia has been posthumously inducted into the Burlington Sports Hall of Fame as a builder.<\/p>\n
Goveia passed away on September 12 at the age of 55 after a battle with cancer<\/a>. The Burlington native was diagnosed with the disease in April 2025, less than five months after he was hired as the Ticats\u2019 GM<\/a>, and publicly announced it in June.<\/p>\n Prior to his time with Hamilton, Goveia spent eleven years as an assistant general manager with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, playing a fundamental role in shaping the team that won back-to-back Grey Cups<\/a> and reached five in a row. He also worked for four seasons as a coach and in player personnel with the Toronto Argonauts, winning his first Grey Cup in 2012.<\/p>\n At the amateur level, Goveia broke into coaching at his alma mater, Mount Allison University, before spending three seasons as head coach of the Burlington Braves of the Canadian Junior Football League. He returned to the U Sports ranks as an assistant at McMaster University in 2001, before moving to the University of British Columbia in 2005, where he took over as head coach for four seasons.<\/p>\n Later in life, Goveia spent time on Football Canada\u2019s Board of Directors, helping to shape the game at the amateur level. Since his passing, a CJFL rivalry trophy<\/a> and an award for excellence in CFL football operations<\/a> have been named in Ted\u2019s honour, while scholarships have been established at McMaster and Mount Allison as a tribute.<\/p>\n In addition to Goveia, former CFL offensive lineman Chris Gioskos was also enshrined. He won the J.P. Metras Trophy as Canada\u2019s top university lineman in 1989 with the Ottawa Gee-Gees, before playing 10 professional seasons with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Ottawa Rough Riders, and Toronto Argonauts. He won back-to-back Grey Cups with the Argos in 1996 and 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Hamilton Tiger-Cats general manager Ted Goveia has been posthumously inducted into the Burlington Sports Hall of Fame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,99796,49,48,7028,521,522,520,527,7412,3801,2002,82,171514,43334,167300],"class_list":{"0":"post-580232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-3down","9":"tag-3downnation","10":"tag-burlington","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-canadian","14":"tag-canadian-football-league","15":"tag-canadianfootballleague","16":"tag-cfl","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-hall-of-fame","19":"tag-hamilton","20":"tag-league","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-ted-goveia","23":"tag-ticats","24":"tag-tiger-cats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}