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Angela Ward figures she knows more than a bit about her son, Canadian Football League record-setting kicker Lewis Ward.

After all, she says with a laugh, she was there in the beginning, changing his diapers.

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So here’s what she has to say about her kid with the golden toe, the 5-7-listed — that may be a bit of a stretch — giant of a kicker who goes into Friday’s home game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with 43 consecutive made field goals.

“He started playing soccer when he was four or five,” said Angela. “He always wanted to be a goalkeeper, but, because he’s shorter, it was quite hard for him.”

Lewis’ great grandfather, Samuel Cookson, had Premiership tryouts as a boy, but the Second World War interrupted that.

The family moved from England to Switzerland, where Lewis became an excellent snowboarder. The next move was to Kingston, where Lewis’ father, John, a research chemist, accepted a job in 2005. Lewis played soccer for the Kingston Clippers. Later, he went to Bayridge Secondary School, where, after plenty of encouragement from friends, he began to play football. He was a kicker and a receiver.