Oakville's under-16 Titans football players will learn from a former pro. Luther Hakunavanhu, a receiver who played for three Canadian Football League teams, is joining the club's U16-AAA team as a wide receivers coach.
The club says Hakunavanhu played for the Calgary Stampeders from 2021 to 2023, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2024 and the Ottawa Redblacks in 2025, recording more than 1,000 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns over that stretch.
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He played high school football at McNally High School in Edmonton, then for the York University Lions, before Calgary took him in the fifth round of the 2021 CFL Draft.
He'll share the receivers with Jordan Arruda, who returns as a U16-AAA wide receivers coach. Arruda started out with the Halton Cowboys and made Team Ontario and Team Canada, then played for Notre Dame High School before attending St. Francis High School in the U.S. and later playing for McMaster University.
Hakunavanhu is the only newcomer among the six offensive coaches the club has named for the team; the rest are coming back.
| Coach | Position group | New or returning |
|---|---|---|
| Luther Hakunavanhu | Wide receivers | New |
| Jordan Arruda | Wide receivers | Returning |
| Payton McWilliam | Offensive line | Returning |
| Ruben Sidhu | Offensive line | Returning |
| Ayrton Amestoy | Running backs | Returning |
| Jamie De Cicco | Quarterbacks | Returning |
Up front, offensive line coach Payton McWilliam won the 2019 Yates Cup, Ontario's university football championship, and played for the McMaster Marauders from 2019 to 2023. He has coached the Titans' U16 offensive line since 2022 and has also served as offensive coordinator for Team Ontario's U14 team.
Ruben Sidhu returns to coach the line with him. Sidhu played for the St. Joan of Arc Angels, the Mississauga Warriors and Team Ontario in 2011, then began his U Sports career, the national university level, with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.
Ayrton Amestoy is back to lead the running backs. Quarterbacks coach Jamie De Cicco enters his second year with the program after playing in Australia, where he was part of a championship-winning triple option offence, a run-first system in which the quarterback reads the defence to decide whether to hand off, keep the ball or pitch it.
