{"id":941933,"date":"2026-10-22T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941933\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:04:22","slug":"kicker-lewis-ward-returns-to-the-alouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941933\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicker Lewis Ward Returns to the Alouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ward spent eight seasons with the Ottawa REDBLACKS (2018-2016).<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, he played two games with Ottawa and made two field goals. <\/p>\n<p>Ward (5&#8217;5&#8243;, 172 lbs) played 119 games over eight seasons in Ottawa from 2018 to 2026, making 302 of his 349 field-goal attempts for an 86.5% success rate.<\/p>\n<p>Related Content<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Leamington Spa native (England) played university football with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, he was named the CFL&#8217;s Most Outstanding Special Teams Player. That same season, Ward earned CFL All-Star and East Division All-Star honours after making 51 of his 52 field-goal attempts (98.1%), including a career-long 52-yarder. Ward also set a professional football record by making 69 consecutive field-goal attempts during the 2018 and 2019 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Alouettes also announced that they have released American wide receiver Arkell Smith (Central Missouri) and American running back Marcus Major Jr. (Minnesota).<\/p>\n<p>Photos and videos available<\/p>\n<p>Media can download and publish photos and videos by cliking <a href=\"https:\/\/e.montrealalouettes.com\/mail\/rls\/626845202\/70648270\/67yf1cbu019YvB9TaDg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-palette-text-highlight font-bold underline\">HERE<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Montreal Alouettes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ward spent eight seasons with the Ottawa REDBLACKS (2018-2016). In 2026, he played two games with Ottawa and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-941933","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\/941933","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=941933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}