The Saskatoon Harmony Centre softball team was formed with a goal of playing more games and facing stronger competition. They achieved those goals early, winning a national title in Regina in 1978. However, two years later, there had been significant Read more →
The Saskatoon Harmony Centre softball team started with a meeting in a donut shop and finished with two national championships and a pair of trips representing Canada to their credit. A trio of young players approached coach Bob Stayner looking Read more →
The 1998 Regina Rams Football Club entered their final season as a junior football team as the reigning champions. After a dramatic run to the title in 1997, the Rams repeated as champions with significantly less drama to close the Read more →
The 1997 Regina Rams junior football club won the Canadian Bowl – the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) national championship – as part of a run of five titles in six seasons, as the Rams concluded their time as a Read more →
When Noah Miller was starting out in water polo, having a player from the prairies crack the national team was a rarity. Miller spent nine years on the Canadian men’s national water polo team, serving as captain for five of Read more →
Jon Ryan first began kicking a football alone in a school yard near his house and he would eventually do so on the biggest stage of the sport. Ryan’s journey to playing 282 professional games as a punter began in Read more →
Julie Foster came to rugby later in life but adapted to the sport quickly to become a trailblazer for Saskatchewan rugby players. Foster represented Canada at three International Rugby Board (IRB) Women’s Rugby World Cups, reaching the semifinals each time. She Read more →
Brad Hornung’s dream of following in his father’s footsteps and playing the National Hockey League was paused when he was paralyzed from the neck down at 18 years old after being injured in a Western Hockey League game in 1987. Read more →
An interest in coaching was piqued in Klara Kesmarky Miller at the YWCA when she was 11. That sparked a lifelong career in sport and more than 60 years of involvement in gymnastics. Miller was born in Budapest, Hungary and Read more →
Ray Mitsuing grew up working with horses on the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation in Loon Lake. His skill with horses led to a great 37-year career as a chuckwagon driver. Mitsuing got his start in Saskatoon racing chariots in the Read more →
Carl Olson was born in a sod shack on a farm just outside of Fir Mountain and went on to conquer the rodeo world. Olson is the first Canadian-born cowboy to win a World Rodeo Championship in saddle bronc in Read more →
Chelsea (Stone) Mazzei is one of the most successful taekwondo competitors the province has ever seen. She won 19 consecutive national championships in her weight class in sparring and was a member of the national team from 2000-17. She maintained Read more →
The senior women’s curling foursome of Sherry Anderson, Patty Hersikorn, Brenda Goertzen, and Anita Silvernagle re-wrote the provincial, national and world championship record books over seven short years. The Anderson rink won six consecutive Saskatchewan senior provincial titles, five national senior Read more →
The 2003-04 University of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s volleyball team knew how fine the margins are between joy and heartbreak in pursuing a championship. The Huskies won the 2004 Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) men’s national volleyball title by the slimmest of margins – a 16-14 Read more →
Karen Howard found a great foundation in both figure skating and volunteerism in her hometown of Melville. Her passion and dedication to both would take her to the largest stages of the sport. Howard started figure skating when she was Read more →