The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has released national kicker Lewis Ward.<\/p>\n
Ward saw action in 117 games over his seven seasons with the REDBLACKS (2018-25), converting 300 of 347 field goal attempts (86.5%) with a career long of 56 yards while also registering 140 of 151 convert attempts (92.7%).<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an organization we would like to thank Lewis for everything he brought to our football club both on and off the field\u201d said Vice President of Football Operations Shawn Burke. \u201cHe accomplished so many great achievements during his time here. The accolades and records speak for themselves. He will be forever known as a REBLACK great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The University of Ottawa product was named the league\u2019s Most Outstanding Special Teams Player and Most Outstanding Rookie in 2018. That same season, Ward earned All-CFL and East All-CFL honours after converting 51 of 52 field goal attempts (98.1%) with a long of 52 yards. Ward also set a professional football record when he converted 69 consecutive field goals across the 2018 and 2019 seasons.<\/p>\n
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Le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa a annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le club de football avait lib\u00e9r\u00e9 le botteur national Lewis Ward.<\/p>\n
Ward a disput\u00e9 117 matchs au cours de ses sept saisons avec le ROUGE et NOIR (2018-2025), r\u00e9ussissant 300 de ses 347 placements (86,5 %) incluant un record personnel de 56 verges.<\/p>\n
\u00ab En tant qu\u2019organisation, nous tenons \u00e0 remercier Lewis pour tout ce qu\u2019il a apport\u00e9 \u00e0 notre club de football, tant sur le terrain qu\u2019en dehors \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Shawn Burke, vice-pr\u00e9sident des op\u00e9rations football. \u00ab Il a accompli tant de grandes choses pendant son passage ici. Les distinctions et les records parlent d\u2019eux-m\u00eames. Il restera \u00e0 jamais dans les m\u00e9moires comme un grand des ROUGE et NOIR. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Ce joueur issu de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 joueur par excellence sur les unit\u00e9s sp\u00e9ciales de la ligue en 2018. Au cours de cette m\u00eame saison, Ward a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 dans les \u00e9quipes d\u2019\u00e9toiles de la LCF et de la division Est apr\u00e8s avoir r\u00e9ussi 51 de ses 52 placement (98,1 %), incluant un de 52 verges. Ward a \u00e9galement \u00e9tabli un record du football professionnel en r\u00e9ussissant 69 bott\u00e9s de placement cons\u00e9cutifs au cours des saisons 2018 et 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has released national kicker Lewis Ward. Ward saw action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-615074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615074","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=615074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}