TORONTO, Ontario – The Hockey Canada Foundation (HCF) has hired Sean Reczulski as its lead staff member, with the Toronto resident set to start his new role as vice-president of the foundation on Oct. 26.
Reczulski joins the HCF from Golf Canada Foundation, where he was the senior director of development for First Tee – Canada and managed all revenue generation for the program. From the time he joined the foundation in 2022, First Tee – Canada averaged 28 per cent revenue growth and 75 per cent participation growth and had more than 106,000 youth participants in 2025.
“We are excited to welcome Sean to the Hockey Canada Foundation and are eager to begin working with him to build on our efforts to make hockey more accessible to Canadians across the country,” said Ashif Mawji, chair of the Hockey Canada Foundation Board of Directors. “His experience driving revenue and increasing access to sport will be tremendously valuable to the foundation and we look forward to growing hockey with him in his new role.”
Before joining Golf Canada Foundation, Reczulski spent four years with the Canadian Olympic Foundation, where he secured major gifts to support the Canadian Olympic Committee’s highest priority needs, worked with various national sport organizations to implement giving strategies that engaged their fans and was a member of the mission team for Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022.
A graduate of Western University and four-year member of the Mustangs varsity football team, Reczulski has also worked for Movember Foundation and the Pinball Clemons Foundation and holds a sport and event marketing postgraduate certificate from George Brown College.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to join the Hockey Canada Foundation in this new role and build on the foundation’s work to welcome more Canadians to the game,” said Reczulski. “Sport philanthropy is a growing sector in Canada, and the Hockey Canada Foundation needs to be an impactful leader in this space to strengthen participation while creating stronger citizens and a healthier country.
“Working with Hockey Canada’s Members and communities, this is an incredible opportunity to rethink how we can improve accessibility for children and their families, and I cannot wait to get started.”
The Hockey Canada Foundation is a registered non-profit that works to provide secure, sustainable, long-term funding to support the future of the game and has raised over $14 million since 2009 thanks to generous donors.
This season, the Hockey Canada Foundation Assist Fund provided $1.3 million in registration subsidies to more than 2,200 Canadian children and youth to help them access hockey and play the game they love.
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