Harry Preston (field hockey)

Harry Preston (1931 to 2004) was a Canadian goaltender who played both field hockey and lacrosse at a high level. He grew up in Surrey, British Columbia, attended Queen Elizabeth Secondary School and studied at the University of British Columbia. In field hockey he played in goal for Canada at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and at the 1967 and 1971 Pan-American Games. In lacrosse he was a goalkeeper in the Inter-City Lacrosse league from 1947 to 1958 with the New Westminster Salmonbellies, played for the Vancouver Carlings in 1959, and made a comeback with Coquitlam in 1968 and 1970, finishing with 220 regular season games and a save average of 70.0 percent. He kept playing and coaching lacrosse into 2003 and was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1993 as a builder.