Hall of Fame
A member of the 1977-78 Varsity Blues OUAA championship team, Joe Grant came to the University of Toronto in 1977 after successful junior hockey careers with the Buffalo Tondas, St. Catharines Black Hawks and the Kitchener Rangers. Joe was named an OUAA first team all-star defenceman in his second year of intercollegiate competition.
Joe was selected to the national hockey team in 1979 and went on to represent Canada at the 1980 Olympic Games. Before returning to finish his degree at the University of Toronto, he played one year in the Swedish Elite League and was a player-coach for one year in Tokyo.
He arrived back in Toronto in 2982-83 and led the Blues to a first-place regular-season finish and OUAA silver medal. Joe then took to the national stage once again, where he was named the best defenceman at the Pravda Cup tournament in Leningrad, Russia.
Joe participated in the inaugural Canadian Olympic Academy (COA) in Calgary (1983) and was a member of the Canadian delegation to the International Olympic Academy in Archaia Olympia (1984). He served as a member of the COA athlete selection committee in 1986-1987.
