Inductee Catalogue

  • Allan Few

    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 →

  • Reginald “Reggie” Cleveland

    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 Bert Elmer

    Jack Adams

    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, C.M.

    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 →

  • Simes Lisa

    Lisa Simes

    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 →

  • Charles “Chuck” Sebestyen

    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 →

  • Keith Russell

    Keith Russell

    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 →

  • Claire (Ehman) Lovett

    Claire Lovett won the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club title a total of 16 times between 1945 and 1967. She won the Canadian Ladies’ Singles Badminton Championship in 1947 and 1948 and was the ladies’ doubles badminton champion in Read more →

  • Rozon, James Gymastics

    James Rozon

    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 →

  • Warren Long

    Warren Long

    Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Warren Long began gymnastics much to the chagrin of his grade school teachers, who caught him performing headstands on top of his desk. Having been placed in the school’s gymnastics program soon after, Warren began Read more →

  • Frank Longridge

    From 1937 to 1956, Frank Longridge was a Provincial Men’s Senior Badminton Champion eight times. He teamed up with various women to win mixed doubles championships nine times, and Frank also won men’s doubles honours twelve times. Administratively, Frank served Read more →

  • Lacy Irene

    Irene (Haworth) Lacy

    In 1961, Irene Lacy won two medals at the Canadian Gymnastic Championships, and was soon recognized as one of Canada’s top gymnasts. In 1962, Irene was a member of the Saskatchewan team that won senior gold at the Canadian Championships, Read more →

  • Leslie (Les) Anderson

    In 1963, Leslie Anderson began 17 years of setting archery records and collecting sporting honours with the Regina Frontier Bowmen and the Wascana Archers. At the local club level, he won 35 medals, provincially, he amassed 29 firsts and seconds, Read more →

  • Kroupa Marta

    Marta (Zelenkova) Kroupa

    Originally from Czechoslovakia, Marta Kroupa moved to Esterhazy in 1974 and immediately began incorporating rhythmic gymnastics into a fitness program at a local community college and in her physical education classes at her school. This led to the development of Read more →

  • Glenna Fairbrother

    Glenna (Sebestyen) Fairbrother

    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 →