Jay Sim played his minor softball career with the Junior Imperial 400’s of Saskatoon. His move to senior competition was marked with many successes on the Saskatoon All-O-Matic’s, Saskatoon Molson’s, and the Rempel Brothers softball teams. Jay played with the Read more →
Larry Pavloff of Saskatoon was on thirteen Senior “A” provincial championship softball teams between 1974 and 1989. These Saskatoon teams include the Merchants, Crown Tire Merchants, All-O-Matics, Molsons, Rempel Brothers, and Safeways. His trips to national Senior “A” softball championships Read more →
Audrey Turner first gained recognition by winning the Saskatchewan Junior Diving title in 1937 and retained the title in 1938. Turner went on to become the Saskatchewan Senior Champion nine times between 1939 to 1948. She also became a three-time Read more →
As an undergraduate at U.B.C., he was an outstanding athlete, competing in football, swimming, gymnastics, and wrestling. 1952 saw him return to Saskatoon and the University of Saskatchewan as wrestling and swimming coach. Dr. Nixon has given over 40 years Read more →
Photo Credit: Marie – Chantale Ledoux Karin Lofstrom competed nationally in both field hockey and ice hockey while she was a student at the University of Saskatchewan, but it was the example set by then-faculty member Pat Lawson that would Read more →
Pat Lawson won provincial open titles in tennis, track and field, speed skating, swimming, and basketball. Pat went on to win national championships in two sports, speed skating and basketball. In speed skating, she was Canadian intermediate and senior champions Read more →
Clarence Garvie was a teacher, administrator and coach in Saskatoon for over 30 years. He starred as an athlete during his years at the University of Saskatchewan and was a member of eight varsity teams to win a major athletic Read more →
Jim Hill was born August 12, 1919 in Saskatoon, the second youngest of seven children. While living in Goose Lake as a young man Hill boxed and later played hockey with the Laura Beavers, when the team became Intermediate “A” Read more →
Alison Lang played high school basketball at Walter Murray Collegiate and by grade 12 was on Canada’s senior basketball team. That year, in 1979, Alison and the Canadian national team won bronze medals at both the Pan American Games and Read more →
Steven Michaluk started playing lacrosse in Sturgis, but the sport would eventually take him far from home. Michaluk was a dominant force in the sport for years as he travelled the country and beyond playing in national championships and other Read more →
Saskatoon’s Allan Few has enjoyed an active judo career for over fifty years. He began his association with the sport in 1953 at the Saskatoon YMCA that served as the home of the first judo club in Saskatchewan. When the Read more →
Jack Adams started horseshoe pitching in 1933 at the Saskatoon Horseshoe Pitching Club. He won his first major championship in 1938 and 50 years later, in 1988, won a bronze medal in the Canadian Senior Men’s horseshoe championship. Jack Adams Read more →
Competing in local and regional events, James Rozon got his start in gymnastics in Saskatoon. Eventually, it would lead him on a journey around the world. From 1976 to 1980 Rozon was a provincial, western and national athlete with the Read more →
Saskatoon’s Glenna Fairbrother joined the St. Mary’s Gym Club as an active five year-old in 1957. By 1960, she had progressed to the point that she placed 8th all-around in the Canadian Junior National Championships. Glenna’s successes continued and by Read more →
At the time of her induction, the achievements of Saskatoon’s Gail (Daley) Bakker were unmatched by other Saskatchewan gymnasts. Bakker was Canada’s only female gymnast that participated in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, finishing 55th in the Games. She became the Read more →