Cas Pielak was a player and coach before turning his attentions to the administration of sport. In 1972, Pielak became the president of the Saskatchewan Baseball Association, establishing a central office for the province. Cas was president of Baseball Canada, Read more →
Mike Renouf moved to Regina from Melfort at an early age and when he was 13 years old, began an association with the sport of judo by taking his first classes at the Regina Y.M.C.A. His interest and abilities in Read more →
Arleene Noga began playing softball in high school. In 1945, she was scouted from Regina and tried out for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. Starting with the Fort Wayne Daisies, Noga became a Muskegon Lassie in her second Read more →
Prince Albert’s Jim O’Sullivan began his judo career in Regina in 1963. He served as president of the Prince Albert Judo Club from 1966 to 1995 and acted as a competitor, instructor, referee, and tournament organizer during that time. His Read more →
Mel Kerr was a superb baseball player and an all-round athlete. In 1922 and 1923, Mel was the province’s individual track and field champion, and Saskatoon’s Singles Tennis Champion. Kerr was a member of the 1927 Western Canadian Champion Saskwanis Read more →
For nearly two decades, Swift Current born Nancy Jewitt-Filteau dominated Saskatchewan women’s judo. During her career, this black belt judoka took home a gold medal from the 1978, 1979 and 1980 Winnipeg Midwestern Championships and captured six consecutive golds at Read more →
Joseph Austman, one of Canada’s outstanding marksmen began his career at the age of 6. By the age of 16, in 1909, Austman had won the gold medal for the Manitoba Rifle Association Tournament Championships, the Governor General’s silver medal Read more →
In 1945, Daisy Junor was scouted by the All American Girls Professional Baseball League to play with the South Bend Blue Sox team in Indiana. Between 1946 and 1949, Daisy was an all-star fielder and power hitter for the team. 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 →
Reggie was born in Swift Current and began his baseball career in Moose Jaw playing Little League. He demonstrated his pitching skills by throwing his first no-hitter at age 13. By the time he was 15, Reggie was pitching in 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 →
Dorothy Walton was an all-round athlete who participated in 14 varsity athletic programs. Walton’s early success came in the sport of tennis, where she won provincial and national honours. Following these achievements, Walton adopted badminton as her main concentration and Read more →
Lisa began her gymnastics career in Regina with the Queen City Gymnastics Club and went on to become a provincial gymnastics champion in Saskatchewan from 1988 to 1992 and in Ontario from 1994 to 1995. She was the Western Canadian Read more →
Chuck Sebestyen, an Olympic coach, has spent many hours working with gymnasts. In 1958, Sebestyen began coaching gymnastics in Saskatoon. Chuck’s coaching exploits included the Pan American Games, the Tokyo Olympics in Japan, the Saskatchewan Men’s Gymnastic Team at the Read more →
Prince Albert born Keith Russell’s motto is simple “bite off more than you can chew, then chew like hell”. Using his experiences as an athlete to enforce and influence his practices as an educator and coach, Keith has been one Read more →