Athlete Archive

  • Dave Balon

    David “Dave” Balon

    Dave Balon was born in Wakaw and played his minor hockey and baseball for the local teams.  Junior hockey took him to Prince Albert where he played two years with the Junior Mintos.  He turned pro at the ripe old Read more →

  • Murray Balfour

    Murray Balfour

    Although Murray Balfour was born in Manitoba, it was in Regina where he first became involved in hockey.  Like so many other Regina residents, Balfour got his start with the Regina Pats organization playing with the Pat bantams in 1949.  Read more →

  • Bill Hicke

    William “Bill” Hicke

    William “Bill” Hicke excelled at many sports in his youth, but it was hockey that would consume the young man and steer his life to the big leagues. Bill’s talent allowed him to play for the Regina Pat midgets and Read more →

  • James “Jim” Trifunov, C.M.

    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 Read more →

  • 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 Read more →

  • Scott Reeves

    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 Read more →

  • 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 Read more →

  • Vern Pettigrew

    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 Read more →

  • Paice Terry.WR.P

    Terrence “Terry” Paice

    At 13 years of age, Terry Paice was a silver medal winner in the Provincial Men’s Open Wrestling Championships, the beginning of a long list of accomplishments. In 1972, he won the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) gold medal for Read more →

  • Ronald “Ron” Moncur

    Ron began wrestling as a high school student in Kitchener. In 1976, Ron became Ontario wrestling champion in his weight division. This was to be the first of 13 consecutive provincial championships in three different provinces (Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan). Read more →

  • Earl McCready

    While living in Saskatchewan, Earl established a standard of wrestling achievement that may never be equalled. McCready was the Canadian Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1930, the United States National AAU Heavyweight Champion in 1930, and British Read more →

  • Matheson Dan

    Dan Matheson

    Dan Matheson was Canadian Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1931. In 1919, Dan was instrumental in organizing the Regina YMCA Boxing and Wrestling Club. By 1922, he was club president and worked towards developing the sport in Read more →

  • Lougheed Ray

    Ray Lougheed

    Between 1954 and 1967, Ray Lougheed won Saskatchewan championships in the lightweight and welterweight categories ten times. Ray won six Canadian titles between 1956 and 1965 (four freestyle and two Greco Roman). Ray was also the Western Canada Lightweight Champion Read more →

  • Gordon Garvie

    Garvie was born into an athletic family, as the son of Violet and fellow Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Clarence Garvie. Early interests were hockey, baseball, football and track and field. Besides instruction from his dad, he benefited from Read more →

  • Donison Sebastion

    Sebastian “Butch” Donison

    Butch Donison, the youngest of the Donison brothers, was born near Avonlea, Saskatchewan. His career as a wrestler spanned fifteen years during which time he compiled an outstanding record. Donison was the first Canadian wrestler to have competed in every Read more →