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SSHF memberships make a unique gift

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If you are looking for a unique gift for the sports lover or history buff on your Christmas list, we might have just what you’re looking for. A membership to the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame is a great way to stay informed about our exhibits and programming. Your support allows us to continue the work of celebrating and preserving Saskatchewan’s rich sport heritage.

Education Coordinator Vickie Krauss hosts a virtual field trip with three classrooms.

In the past year, our generous supporters, partners, and sponsors have allowed us to renovate our exhibit galleries. Our Hall of Fame gallery features new displays of our inductees, while our STEM Gallery sponsored by SaskTel brings the role of science, technology, engineering, and math to life for students and young visitors through interactive displays. These improvements would not be possible without the support of our members. We have also been able to offer our Creating Active Champions program, virtual field trips with schools, a virtual pen pal program connecting our inductees with schools and students, and our Women in Sport panel discussions.

With your continued support, we are excited to offer a new virtual tour experience of our latest exhibit, Prairie Pride: A History of Saskatchewan Football. In addition, in the coming year we are looking to digitize some of our collection of 35mm film prints of vintage Saskatchewan Roughrider and Canadian Football League footage so that it will be more accessible for us to share with the public. Your membership helps make these projects – and many more – a reality.

Local delivery in Regina of a membership certificate is available up until December 18 for Christmas gifting. Any membership purchased before December 31, 2020 is 100% tax-deductible on your 2020 tax return.

Women In Sport discussion series: Catriona Le May Doan & Daniella Ponticelli

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The Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame hosted its first Women in Sport Panel in 2019 to coincide with National Women’s History Month.

For 2020, the SSHF is proud to present a Women in Sport Series featuring conversations with SSHF inductees.

For our first Women in Sport Series discussion, we were pleased to have Daniella Ponticelli from Global Television in Regina sit down in conversation with speed skating great Catriona Le May Doan.

Le May Doan won consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 500-metre sprint in 1998 and 2002 and also won a bronze medal in the 1,000m in 1998.

The Saskatoon speed skater set world and Olympic records in the 500m and was the first woman to break the 38-second barrier. In addition, she has two world sprint titles and three world 500m titles to her credit.

Le May Doan was the Canadian flag-bearer at an Olympic opening and closing ceremony and she is one of two Saskatchewan athletes who have won the Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s top athlete.

She has been inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is currently the President and CEO of Sport Calgary.

Please follow us on our social media channels for the next edition of our Women in Sport video series.