​Rose Boretsky is a basketball lifer. She excelled locally and continued to make a mark on the world stage as a masters athlete. Boretsky serves as a shining example that competitive sport is for all ages.

Boretsky attended J.C. Patterson Collegiate Institute from 1964-1969, playing on the senior team in each of her five years at the school, before she graduated from teachers’ college at the University of Windsor in 1970. In 1971, while playing for the dominant Club 240 team, she was chosen to the Ontario team to compete in the Second Canadian Winter Games in Saskatoon where the team won gold. Boretsky in that game scored 20 points to pace Ontario to an impressive come-from-behind victory over British Columbia. It was the seventh straight victory for the Ontario team in that competition.

While playing for Club 240, Boretsky also continued playing across the border in Detroit for the Michigan Spirits for 10 years.

Generously giving back to the sport she loved, Boretsky coached young athletes at both the elementary and secondary level and lead two teams, Assumption Senior Girls (1976) and Holy Names Senior Girls (1996) to city WSSA titles.

Her basketball journey continued in Edmonton as a member of the gold medal team at the World Masters tournament in 2005. Four years later, at the age of 60, Boretsky was once again part of the gold medal team at the World Masters in Sydney, Australia.

Rose Boretsky has been relentless on the hardwood and her long and storied career have earned her a spot in the Windsor/Essex County Hall of Fame as an Athlete.