Gavin, Jordan

BORN 22 SEPTEMBER 1982 in Canberra, Jordan Gavin is a veteran athlete who has played twelve seasons with the Canberra Knights and five seasons with the CBR Brave, a team he helped establish after the Knights' final season in 2013. In addition to his success in inline hockey, Gavin played 230 national league ice hockey games, recording 66 goals and 63 assists.

In 1994, Gavin began playing inline hockey at 12, when the sport was experiencing significant popularity in Australia. Ten years later, he competed in the 2004-05 season of the Finnish SM Inline League, Finland's highest level of competition. He also played a season with the Potomac Mavericks in Washington, D.C., in 2009. By the time of the 2012 IIHF Inline Championship, Gavin was the captain of the Australian team and the top point scorer, earning thirteen points in six games. In 2014, he achieved a historic milestone when the team won a silver medal for the first time.

Throughout his career, Gavin has participated in the Sydney inline competition and the national inline team, including at least nine international tournaments while playing ice hockey for the Canberra Knights starting in 2002. The Knights were founded in 1981, the same year as the Canberra Raiders and fifteen years before the ACT Brumbies joined the Super Rugby competition. Gavin has been the highest local scorer multiple times and continued to excel despite his club often finishing last or second-last in national league campaigns.

Gavin represented Australia in ice hockey, winning the 2011 Division 2A Gold Medal in Melbourne. He returned in 2012 to compete with the Division 1B squad in Krynica, Poland.

A former captain of the Knights, Gavin played their last season in 2013 and then a key role in successfully launching the new CBR Brave in 2014 alongside long-time teammates Mark Rummukainen and Dave Lewis. He helped raise over $27,000 in a community campaign to establish the new team.

He served as team captain in 2016 and as alternate captain in 2017 and 2018. By the end of the 2018 season, the CBR Brave had reached the finals each year but had not yet won the championship. After dressing for the last time in seventeen seasons, Gavin lifted the Goodall Cup for the first time.

The Canberran retired shortly after his Goodall Cup triumph. From 2020 to 2023, he was the CBR Brave's General Manager of Hockey Operations. In 2021, he played in an exhibition game with the Canberra Knights against the CBR Brave to celebrate the Knights' 40th anniversary. In 2022, the CBR Brave honoured Gavin with the John Lewis Memorial Award for his outstanding dedication to the club. In 2024, he was appointed Assistant Coach under Stuart Philps, a former national inline teammate, and became General Manager in 2025.