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The story of Jack McKenzie, who captained Canada's national hockey team at the 1956 Cortina Winter Olympics, and his best friend Don Rope, who also played on the team, is a story of two outstanding hockey players who, by choosing to teach rather than play professionally, influenced countless young lives. McKenzie, whom coach Bobby Bauer said could play on every NHL team and had the hardest shot he'd ever seen, taught at Preston High School, while Rope taught at Galt Collegiate. Yet between them, they won six Allan Cups, two Olympic bronze medals, an Olympic silver medal, and a world hockey championship, among other accolades. They were young and at the start of their teaching careers when they went to Cortina in 1956 and won bronze, which was deeply disappointing at the time. They felt they had let the KW community and all of Canada down. It took them the better part of a lifetime to fully internalize and accept the Olympic Creed: that the important thing in the Olympics, as in life, is not the triumph — it’s the fight, and the struggle.