James “Jim” Trifunov
James Trifunov took part in the 1924 Paris, 1928 Amsterdam, and 1932 Los Angeles Olympic games. The 1928 games in Amsterdam saw Trifunov obtain his best results, a bronze medal. As both a featherweight and bantamweight, James accumulated a total of ten national championships between 1923 and 1932. He won the 1930 British Empire Games [...]
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Jeff Thue
Jeff Thue was sixteen years old when he joined Regina’s Underdog Wrestling Club in 1984. He won the 1985 provincial and national Midget Wrestling Championships. The following year he placed second at the National Junior Championships. He won gold at the Canada Games in 1987 and 1989, and placed fourth in Greco Roman wrestling at [...]
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Scott Reeves
Originally from Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Scott Reeves first moved to Saskatoon to complete his grade twelve year at Bedford Road Collegiate. It was there that he took up the sport of wrestling. While he had competed in other sports prior to that, wrestling proved to be a perfect fit. Beginning in the 1987 season, Reeves competed [...]
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Donald “Doc” Rawson
Rawson was an outstanding athlete, a successful coach and a founding father of wrestling in Saskatchewan. Donald was a member of the University of Toronto Wrestling Team from 1922 to 1928. During this period, he won the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union 147-lb Weight Class Championship three times. In 1928, Doc joined the staff of the [...]
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Dave Pyle
In 1950, Dave started out on a coaching career, which was to span three decades and see him become one of the most successful wrestling coaches in the country. Starting in 1952, Dave Pyle coached numerous provincial teams in national and international competition. Among his accomplishments were 115 provincial championships and 42 medals in Canadian [...]
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Vernon Pettigrew
A member of the Regina YMCA Wrestling Club and the Olympic Boxing and Wrestling Club, Vern Pettigrew wrestled his way to five Canadian Amateur Wrestling Championships in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939 and 1940. Vernon was a member of the Canadian team at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, and placed 4th. While still actively competing, Vernon [...]
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