Dedication to Sport: Our 2026 Inductees

The Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame inducted seven new inductees on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The Hall of Fame will celebrate the achievements of this year’s great class with our new Dedication to Sport exhibit. The stories of each of these seven outstanding inductees will be told through this exhibit, which will be on display for a year.

The 2026 Induction Class features four athletes: Cameron Baerg (Saskatoon – Rowing), Chris Getzlaf (Regina – Football), Otto Huber (Lipton – Golf), Brianne Theisen-Eaton (Humboldt – Athletics); builders Dr. Marlys Misfeldt (Saskatoon – Sport Science & Medicine) and Ross Wilson (Saskatoon – Basketball); plus the 2011-2014 Saskatoon Valkyries women’s football teams.

Baerg won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in the men’s 2,000-metre coxless four, earning Canada’s only rowing medal at those Olympics in an incredible photo-finish. He also won a world championship with the Canadian coxless four in 2003 in Milan. That crew won two World Rowing Cup events and won the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta Steward’s Challenge Cup in 2003.

Chris Getzlaf with his Dedication to Sport display.

Getzlaf played 11 seasons in the Canadian Football League – 10 of those with his hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders. He sits fifth on the Roughriders all-time list in catches and receiving yards. He was named the Most Valuable Canadian of the 101^st Grey Cup, as he caught three passes for 78 yards in the Riders’ 45-23 victory. He was also a two-time CFL West All-Star.

Huber took up golf after he lost his vision in a hunting accident when he was 28 and went on to be a world-class blind golfer. He won the 1995 British Open Blind Golf Championship and finished second at the 1977 United States Blind Golf Association National Championship. Closer to home he was an advocate for blind golf and won the provincial blind golf championship seven times and the Western Canadian championship five times.

Theisen-Eaton is a two-time Olympian, winning a bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2016 Rio Games. She also won a pair of silver medals at the 2013 and 2015 IAAF World Championships and a gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She won a gold medal in the pentathlon at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships. At the University of Oregon, she won seven NCAA titles and set five school records.

Brianne Theisen-Eaton with her Dedication to Sport display.

Dr. Misfeldt worked for nearly 40 years to increase the safety and quality of care for athletes in Saskatchewan while improving the awareness of the need for safety policies and procedures in sport. She has worked at all levels from amateur to university to pro teams and events. She also served the International Traditional Karate Federation in numerous capacities and at events over the decades. She also played a vital role in the creation of the Sport Medicine and Science Council of Saskatchewan, where she served on the board for 22 years and served as president twice.

Wilson served as the president of Basketball Canada for seven years and another seven years as the president of Basketball Saskatchewan Inc. He made a notable impact in both of those roles and has also served as an executive member with FIBA and on the Canadian Olympic Association’s board of directors. Wilson also spent 15 years serving as the Athletics Director at the University of Saskatchewan.

The 2011-2014 Saskatoon Valkyries teams took the field for the first time in 2011 and set a standard of excellence for the rest of the Western Women’s Canadian Football League. The Valkyries won the first four WWCFL titles and only lost one game in their four-year title run. In only their third year as a team, nine players and two alternates were chosen to play for Canada at the IFAF Women’s World Championship.

With the addition of these inductees, there are now 568 inductees — 264 athletes, 175 builders, and 132 championship teams. There are 55 different sports represented in the Hall of Fame from 151 different Saskatchewan communities.