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Welcoming our New Curator: Brock Gerrard
The SSHF is pleased to announce the arrival of our new Curator, Brock Gerrard. Brock joins us from Wallaceburg, ON where he has been the Curator/Manager of the Wallaceburg & District Museum for the past three years. Brock graduated from Trent University with a BA Honours in Classical History (2005) and then completed a post-graduate certificate for Museum Management and [...]
More InfoIce & Fire Festival
The Ice & Fire Festival is a five-day celebration of winter art, culture and recreational experiences. A constellation of activities will take place throughout the city over the course of the five days with the Festival culminating in Victoria Park on Family Day (February 17). Full Festival details can be found at this link http://www.newdancehorizons.ca/performance/fire-ice-festival/ [...]
More InfoSaskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame Receives Support From Rider Alumni
The Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame (SSHF) has received some welcomed financial support thanks to the Saskatchewan Roughriders Alumni Association. The Rider Alumni Association has provided the SSHF with $10,000 as part of the proceeds raised from the alumni association’s first annual Autumn Golf Classic held September 23, 2013, at the Saskatoon Golf and Country Club. The Autumn [...]
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Keith Roney
Keith Roney participated in many familiar Saskatchewan sports, such as hockey, curling, and baseball as a young man growing up in Bulyea. It wasn’t until Roney was in his thirties, however, that he would discover the sport of Lawn Bowling. Roney first began playing at the Regina Lawn Bowling Club in 1979. He won his [...]
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Allan Semeniuk
Allan Semeniuk was left in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident. He was advised to spend some time getting to know the chair, getting comfortable with using it, and that he should also try to get some physical activity. When he heard of the relatively new sport of wheelchair rugby, known at the time as [...]
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Garth Boesch
Garth Boesch began attending Notre Dame College in Wilcox in 1937.Playing as a right winger, he spent three years at Notre Dame. In that time, he scored seventeen goals in twenty-nine games. He finished his schooling at Notre Dame determined to take his hockey playing to the next level. In the 1940/41 hockey season, Boesch [...]
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Vern Pachal
Vern Pachal first displayed his impressive skills as a hockey player while still a young boy in his hometown of Yorkton. He led three Yorkton teams to provincial championships—at the Pee Wee level in 1943, the Bantam level in 1945, and the Midget level in 1947. From 1948 to 1951, Pachal played in the Western [...]
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Gwen (Wall) Ridout
Gwen (Wall) Ridout showed an interest in running from an early age. By the third grade, she was already part of a city championship 4x100m relay team in her hometown of Saskatoon. By high school, Ridout had become a dominant athlete at track and field meets. Running for Mount Royal Collegiate, she finished in first [...]
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Evelyn (Gorin) Nesdole
Evelyn (Gorin) Nesdole participated in many different sports during her student years. At Mount Royal High School in Saskatoon, she was part of the 1964 Provincial Champion volleyball team. At the University of Saskatchewan, she was a member of the Huskies Women’s Track and Field team for five years—including 1970, when the team won the [...]
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Donald "Don" Gallo
Donald Gallo first encountered the triathlon while watching “The Wide World of Sports” on TV in the early 1980’s. Having recently moved to Saskatoon, he began to seek out and compete in triathlon events around Saskatchewan. He soon realized there was a need for leadership and organization for the sport within the province, and quickly [...]
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Chuck Armstrong
Chuck Armstrong completed his Bachelor of Education in Physiotherapy from the University of Saskatchewan in 1975. At that time, the field of sports medicine was in its infancy. As his career progressed, Armstrong would become a leading figure in advancing the role of sports medicine throughout Saskatchewan and Western Canada. Early in his career, Armstrong [...]
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1998 University of Saskatchewan Huskies Football Club
The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) Huskies Football Team was Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) National Champion in 1998. It was the school’s third Vanier Cup victory in its history, and its second in three years. The Huskies finished the regular season with a record of six wins and two losses, going undefeated at [...]
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