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 →
Wayne Hellquist’s journey to the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame was one he never could have imagined when he first took a volleyball class at the University of Saskatchewan with then-Huskies volleyball coach Mark Tennant. Hellquist had never played volleyball Read more →
Photo Credit: University of Saskatchewan Huskies Athletics Darcey Busse was raised in Moose Jaw and proved himself to be a natural athlete who competed in many different organized sports as a youth. It was as a volleyball player, though, that Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) Men’s Volleyball Champions, 1988. After bitter second and third place finishes at the Canadian university championships in the previous three seasons, the 1988 University of Saskatchewan Huskies Men’s Volleyball team was more than motivated Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) National Women’s Volleyball Champions, 1981. The 1980-81 University of Saskatchewan Huskiettes were one of the finest teams in the thirty-three year history of volleyball at the University of Saskatchewan. The Huskiettes were crowned Canadian Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) National Women’s Volleyball Champions, 1980. The 1979-80 season was something special as the University of Saskatchewan Huskiette Volleyball Team was able to capture the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) National Volleyball Championship for the Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) National Women’s Volleyball Champions, 1979. The Huskiette women’s volleyball team made history when they won the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) national volleyball championship in 1979. With this victory the volleyball Huskiettes became the Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian Men’s Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) National Volleyball Champions, 1979. In March of 1979, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies Volleyball team made history by capturing its first ever Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) Championship. The Huskies had previously won Read more →
Mark’s skills as a coach and innovator led to three consecutive Women’s Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) championships for the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) in 1979, 1980, and 1981. Tennant served as president of the Saskatchewan Volleyball Association Read more →
Hank Lorenzen played nearly every position in volleyball. Instead of a setter, outside hitter, middle hitter or libero, he was an athlete, coach, official and administrator. On and off the court, he has been helping build the sport in Saskatchewan Read more →
Volleyball took Joyce Gamborg (nee Senyk) from Melville to Saskatoon. Then, it took her around the world. After graduating from Melville Comprehensive High School in 1978, Gamborg joined the University of Saskatchewan Huskiettes women’s volleyball team later that fall. As Read more →