November 2017 to January 2018 Newsletter

2020SPORTS College Drive Saskatoon, Sask. HALL S7N 2W4 (306) 664-6744 OF Saskatoonsportshalloffame.com FAME Photos of all inductees on touch screen at Field House Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame on Facebook t is my pleasure to bring greetings from the board of We are fortunate to have volunteers step forward to Idirectors of the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame. Our serve on our board. Thank you to past president Jerry 32nd induction dinner Nov.4, 2017 is in the books and Shoemaker, who is retiring from the board after seven was a great success with close to 400 people attending. years of service. Also thanks for many years of dedi- Keith McLean The board thanks all of you who came out to celebrate cated service to Mary Green and Ron Woodley, whose Hall of Fame president and also congratulate the new inductees. We inducted terms have expired. Thank you to returning board mem- five athletes, four builders and one team representing bers Don Cousins, Jacki Nichol, Ken Gunn, John Neufeld, Builder inductee, 2006 nine sports as well as recognizing Curl Saskatoon as our Bob Reindl, Ron Walsh and Dana Kidd. sport organization of the year. We will celebrate our 33rd induction ceremony and Thanks to Kevin Waugh, Simon Hiatt, Bob Florence dinner on Nov. 3, 2018. Submission deadline is April 1, and Mark Tennant for their work throughout the year. 2018 for nominations for team, builder and athlete cate- Special thanks to our major sponsors and the advertis- gories. Nomination forms are available at the Saskatoon ers that make it possible to put on an evening of this Sports Hall of Fame office at the Field House or on our magnitude, website: Saskatoonsportshalloffame.com “We came together as strangers. “We’ve become friends.” — Joanne Vause, on behalf of 2017 inductees Best into Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame of Michael Leier representing Curl Saskatoon Sports organization of the year times

2005 Hilltops football team Mark Feader (left), Mitch Friesen

Cam Baerg Athlete inductee, rowing

Joanne (Jones) Vause Barb (Drake) Wilson Athlete inductee, track and field Athlete inductee, golf

June Hughes representing her brother Ted Dushinski (left) Athlete inductee, football Erin Cumpstone Athlete inductee, ringette, softball Blake Allen representing his father Keith Allen (below) Builder inductee, hockey

Allen was coach, GM and executive VP of the Philadelphia Flyers. Three former Flyers players were at Bryan Kosteroski Chris Baraniuk his induction: Bill Barber, Builder inductee, softball Builder inductee, gymnastics Paul Holmgren and Huw Morris John Paddock. Builder inductee, soccer BRIT list

Saskatoon sports hall of fame, november 2017-january 2018 newsletter Passings Wayne Dyck, 1950-2017, age 67 Hall of Fame has new home Wayne Dyck was cut from the team when he tried out for the senior basketball team at Mount Royal Collegiate in Grade 9. He kept coming back for more. Dyck played for the Mustangs from Grade 10 to Grade 12, leading the Sakatoon High School League in scoring in his senior year. Starting university in 1968 to study education, he was one of two rookies on the Huskies basket- Wayne Dyck ball team. Dyck played for the Huskies for four years and became a school teacher. When he returned to university in 1978 to earn a masters’ degree in education, he played his fifth year for the Huskies and led the team in scoring. Dyck played in the Saskatoon Senior Men’s Basketball League for decades. He The Saskatoon Sports Hall of coached in the Saskatoon Minor Basketball League. He helped with basketball This is an architect’s rendering Fame is going places. camps and served as a clinician. of the future site of the Saska- Hall president Keith McLean In his 32 years as a teacher and principal in elementary schools, Dyck organized toon Sports Hall of Fame. said the new site in the Gordie a substance abuse program for youth as well as cycling and canoe trips. After Howe Sports Complex will open The Hall will be in the Gor- superannuating from the public school system, he became a lecturer in the Col- in 2019. die Howe Sports Complex at lege of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. “We will be able to have all pics He was named CTV’s Citizen of the Year in Saskatoon by CFQC TV in 2002. the south end of Avenue P. (of all inductees) on the walls and possibly have displays for each Jen (Levitzkie) Falk, 1921-2017, age 96 new inductee,” he said. Hall inductee, team/builder, The Saskatoon Sports Hall of Jen Falk joined Joyce McKee’s rink from the Hub City Fame started in 1984, with the Curling Club for the playdowns in 1969, winning the city first induction in 1987. The Hall final, northerns, provincials and the Canadian championship. is on public display in the Field Falk, 39, who played lead, second Lee Morrison, third Vera House. Pezer and skip McKee defeated Darlene Hill of Kindersley in the northern final at the Sutherland Club to advance to provincials. McKee defeated Doreen Dabrowski of Govan 2-0 in the best-of-three provincial final in Nipawin. Jen Falk All for one At nationals in Fort William, Ont., McKee defeated June Shaw of Kenora, Ont., 6-5 for the Canadian title. Among those greeting the McKee rink at the Saska- toon airport when it returned from the championship was Mayor Sid Buckwold. Falk, a native of Pennant, was a centre-fielder for six years in the 1940s in the Saskatoon Senior Ladies Softball League. Besides competing, she was active as an administrator in curling and golf, including at the Macdonald Lassies Canadian women’s curling championship in 1972, the Labatt Brier Canadian men’s curling championship in 1989 and the Tournament of Hearts Canadian women’s curling championship in 1991. Bruce Gordon, 1962-2017, age 54 cross-fit, cycling, hockey, marathon, triathlon Bruce Gordon, a native of Marsden, started playing in the WHL as a forward with the Medicine Hat Tigers in 1979 when he was 16. Early in his second season, he was traded to the Saskatoon Blades. By his third year in the WHL he was captain of the Blades and in a weekend series against Olympic high jumper the Tigers, scored a pair of goals for Saskatoon. Ethel Catherwood Scoring was not Gordon’s trademark. Grit and pep was. “You get what you give,” he might have said. Bruce Gordon circled above and right He went on to coach hockey. He competed in marathon tudents and staff at Bedford Road and cycling, in triathlon and cross-fit. Collegiate gathered outside the He worked as an officer for the Saskatoon City Police for 28 years. In 2017 he school on a Thursday in the fall of was called to the Bar as a licensed lawyer. S 1928 to honour Ethel Catherwood. A large Personally and professionally, Gordon had five core values: Honesty, integrity, print of the picture shown above is now on compassion, fairness and respect. the wall in the main entrance at Bedford. Catherwood, 20, won a gold medal in high Tom Hedemann, alpine skiing jump at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Tom Hedemann was head coach of the Saskatchewan She graduated from Bedford in 1926. alpine ski team that rose to No. 4 in . His skiers Besides high jump, she was the also the competed in North America and Europe. Canadian champion in javelin. Hedemann graduated with the Class of 1969 at Evan Catherwood was on Bedford Road basketball Hardy Collegiate. Tom Hedemann teams that won two city titles and a pro- vincial title. She also competed in baseball John Hutchinson, 1929-2017, age 88 and hockey. Hall inductee, Merchants senior men’s softball team The summer of ’69 is lasting for Saskatoon softball. John Hutchinson help to make it happen. Catherwood at a glance Hutchinson was president of the Saskatoon Merchants m Track and field: Started in men’s softball team. They competed in the first Canada the sport by running in the streets of Summer Games, placing ninth in the event in Halifax, then Scott, a village in west central Saskatch- returned home to play host to the Canadian softball cham- ewan where she grew up before the pionship at Gordie Howe Park. family moved to Saskatoon. m Pete Zacharias threw a six-hitter and Bob Bentley went John Hutchinson Music: Played ukulele, studied 3-for-4 at the plate as the Merchants defeated Hull, Que., piano. 7-0 before a crowd of 2,000 in the national final. The Canadian title was the first m Growth spurt: Grew six ever by a senior men’s team from Saskatchewan. inches in one year, reaching 5-foot-10. Hutchinson was co-founder of the Western Major Fastball League that started m 1986: Enshrined in Saskatoon in 1973 with the Winnipeg Colonels, Regina Carlings, Saskatoon Jacks, Calgary Sports Hall of Fame with inaugural Braves and Edmonton Monarchs. inductees. Hutchinson curled in the annual Bond bonspiel and later in the provincial m 2016: Catherwood was one of 461eligible nominees after the Bank of Canada senior men’s playdowns. He was a member of the Saskatoon Golf & Country received 26,300 suggestions for what woman should be featured on a new bank Club, then The Willows. note. A businessman, the effect he had on others was his best currency. The new $10 note will feature Viola Desmond, a Black in Nova Scotia who chal- lenged racial segregation in 1946. One of the five finalists for the Bank of Canada note was sprinter Fanny (Bobbie) Rosenfeld of Ontario, a teammate of Catherwood’s in the 1928 Olympics. Rosenfeld was named Canada’s female athlete of the first half century for 1900-50. Saskatoon sports hall of fame, november 2017-january 2018 newsletter

Bedford Road’s 50th annual high school boys basketball tournament ready to roll Jan. 11-13

Naming a special guest is an annual feature at BRIT. The list reads as a Who’s Who of Sask- atoon sport. Among the special guests are Irene Wallace and Teachers Carl Chiko,

Tom Sargeant, two Hall of Fam-

Don Cousins,

ers and BRIT organizers.

Dean Dickson, l

Merv Hougton, l Roger Hughes and Walt Mudge organize Renato Brudehl played for Bed- the first BRIT in 1968. ford in BRIT in 1975 and 1976. All nine schools in Sask- Renato’s wife, Marg Kerr, was in atoon competed in the the provincial high school girls inaugural tournament, basketball championship for three which expanded in 1969 consecutive years with Bedford. to include teams from Renato and Marg return to BRIT as outside the city. spectators every year. Their sons, Dan and Nolan, both played Sask- Ruben Peters is in a league of his atoon high school basketball and own. Peters played for the Mount for the University of Saskatchewan, Royal Mustangs in BRIT, coached Nolan winning a national title with Bedford in BRIT, worked as an the Huskies in 2010. official in BRIT and served on the BRIT organizing committee. The 1990 Walter Murray l BRIT was named sports Ken Morris was on Marauders, coached BRIT is the start of something organization of the year Walter Murray’s team by Mike Harrington, big for guard Martin Riley. by the Saskatoon Sports that won BRIT in 1990 are the first Saskatoon team in 19 years to win Riley is BRIT’s MVP in 1972 Hall of Fame in 2012 as Winnipeg SIsler wins the the title at BRIT. Kelly Bowers and championship. In university Murray’s starting lineup Don Steponchev are includes Scott Ferguson, he is named university player scheduled to be the of the year. He is on Canada’s who is currently Bed- officials in the third- ford’s vice-principal. national team that finishes place game in the 50th fourth in the 1976 Olympics BRIT in January. Since 1968, BRIT has showcased teams from 117 and competes in two world high schools and two New York youth organizations. Don “They have been Kelly Victoria Belmont Secondary becomes #118 in the championships. He returns to Steponchev around for all 50,” said Bowers BRIT as a high school coach. basketball official Brad 2018 tournament. Belmont is the alma mater of Smith. “Amazing.” Steve Nash, who was twice named the NBA’s MVP. Martin RIley

Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame inductees who’ve been in BRIT Person...... Role in BRIT Hall of Fame Person Role in BRIT Hall of Fame Jeff Balzer...... Athlete Walter Murray Team Hilltops football Scott Hundseth...... Athlete Holy Cross Team Hilltops football Coach Walter Murray Coach St. Joseph Bo Blackmon...... Athlete Aden Bowman Team Hilltops football Jason Johnston Basketball official Team U of S Huskies football Athlete Evan Hardy Spero Kokonas...... Athlete Aden Bowman Team Hilltops football Kelly Bowers...... Coach Bedford Road Builder multi sports Al Ledingham...... Coach Evan Hardy Team Hilltops football player, coach b-ball official, BRIT organizer & team Hilltops football coach Builder football Don Capon...... Athlete City Park Team Imperial 400s softball Jeff Lovegrove...... Athlete Holy Cross Team Hilltops football Team Rempel Bros. softball Mike Lukian...... Athlete Bedford Road Team Hilltops football ...... Coach City Park Builder basketball, track and field Brian Carduner...... Coach E.D. Feehan Team Hilltops football Ian Mirtle Coach Bishop Mahoney Barry Mooney...... Coach Walter Murray Team Hilltops football ...... Athlete Bedford Road Team Hilltops football Dr. Tony Chad...... Athlete Holy Cross Team U of S Huskies football Ron Morris Walt Mudge...... Coach Bedford Road Hall of Fame director, not inductee Brett Czarnota...... Athlete Holy Cross Team U of S Huskies football ...... Athlete Holy Cross Team U of S Huskies football Coach Holy Cross David Murza Mark Neil...... Athlete Aden Bowman Team Hilltops football Don Cousins...... BRIT organizer Builder baseball Garett Olver...... Athlete Evan Hardy Team Hilltops football Dan Dewar...... Coach Aden Bowman Team U of S Huskies football Coach E.D. Feehan Coach Marion Graham Dave Ostertag...... Athlete Holy Cross Athlete track and field Dean Dickson...... BRIT organizer Team Hilltops football coach & team U of S track and field Builder football Nick Patola...... Coach Mount Royal Builder basketball David Earl...... Coach Evan Hardy Team U of S Huskies football Mike Prebble...... Athlete Bedford Road Team Hilltops football Chris Eckert...... Athlete Evan Hardy Team Hilltops football Carey Prokop...... Athlete Holy Cross Team U of S Huskies football ....Athlete Bedford Road Athlete track & field Dr. Cyprian Enweani Steve Prokopchuk..... Athlete E.D. Feehan Team Hilltops football Team U of S Huskies Barry Radcliffe...... Basketball official Team Hilltops, U of S Huskies football ...... Athlete Regina Thom Athlete multi sports Dean Faris Rick Ruzesky...... Athlete Bedford Road Team Hilltops football Dan Farthing...... Athlete Holy Cross Athlete football Ralph Schoenfeld...... Coach Aden Bowman Builder basketball, football & team U of S Huskies football Coach Bedford Road Jon Farthing...... Athlete Holy Cross Team U of S Huskies football Jim Seaman...... Coach Evan Hardy Team Hilltops football Axel Fischer...... Athlete Bedford Road Team Hilltops football Reagan Simpson...... Athlete Aden Bowman Team Hilltops football Cory Flaman...... Athlete Holy Cross Team U of S Huskies football Don Smith...... Athlete Aden Bowman Team U of S women’s v-ball coach Jon Foster...... Athlete Evan Hardy Team Hilltops football Tyler Sotnikow...... Athlete Mount Royal Team Hilltops football Dr. Brian Gamborg...... Athlete City Park Team U of S Huskies men’s v-ball Don Steponchev...... Basketball official Builder basketball Dave Hardy...... Coach Holy Cross Team Hilltops football coach Terry Stopa...... Athlete Bedford Road Team Hilltops football Mike Harrington...... Athlete Walter Murray Team U of S Huskies football Kevin Tysowski...... Athlete Evan Hardy Team Hilltops football Coach Walter Murray, official Coach Hardy, Bishop Mahoney Carl Hoath...... Athlete Bedford Road Team Hilltops football Ross Wilson...... Coach Evan Hardy Builder basketball Les Howey...... Athlete Mount Royal Team Rempel Bros. softball Gil Wist...... BRIT staff Builder wrestling Doug Humbert...... Athlete Evan Hardy Team Hilltops football coach Matt Yausie...... Athlete Aden Bowman Team Hilltops football Saskatoon sports hall of fame, november 2017-january 2018 newsletter Look at them now Sask. athletes, coaches, officials make news

Kailey Ledoux Kirk Simonsen RossAnn Edwards Kole Lind Joanne Rothery Softball Football Track and field, triathlon Hockey Track and field Kailey Ledoux of the Saskatoon Kirk Simonsen of the Saskatoon Hilltops RossAnn Edwards has been a coach Right-winger Kole Lind, 19, of the Joanne Rothery was enshrined in Phantoms was named the top was named offensive lineman of the league with the Saskatoon Triathlon Club and Kelowna Rockets is in the top 10 the Windsor/Essex County Sports pitcher at the Softball Canada girls in the Prairie Football Conference and an the Riversdale Athletics Club since 2002, in points in the Western Hockey Hall of Fame in October. under-14 championship in August in All-Canadian in the Canadian Junior Foot- developing athletes who have competed League this season. Rothery, a member of the Brampton, ON. ball League. in the Canada Games, national champi- A native of Shaunavon, Lind is in Greater Windsor Legion Track and Ledoux went 3-0 in the prelimi- Simonsen is a fourth-year tackle. The onships, in an annual North American his third season with the Rockets. Field Club, was first in shot put, nary round. Hilltops led the league in yards rushing and track meet in Hershey, PA, and in the Lind played two years of midget second in discus and third in javelin Madison Glynn of the Phantoms allowed the fewest quarterback sacks. world university triathlon champion- hockey with the Saskatoon Con- at the Canadian championships in was named the MVP and Bryn Simonsen played six-man football for the ships. tacts under coach Marc Chartier, 1980. Bohmann of the Phantoms the all- Hanley Sabres in high school, coached by Edwards is a middle distance and who is enshrined in the Saskatoon While competing at nationals, star first baseman. Mark Anderson. cross-country coach with Riversdale Sports Hall of Fame. Rothery became friends with Shan- The Phantoms finished fith. The offensive line coach with the Hilltops Athletics. Lind led the Saskatchewan AAA non Kekula-Kristiansen of Saskatch- is Donnie Davidsen. Her daughter Rachael competed in Midget Hockey League in goals in ewan. They competed as teammates Other softball nationals: the Canada Games in cycling and triath- 2014-15. on the University of Saskatchewan Other Hilltops All-Canadians: U14 boys...... Saskatoon Selects, 8th lon, daughter Gabrielle in the Canada Huskies. Kekula-Kristiansen is Logan Fischer, RB, PFC outstanding back U16 boys...... Saskatoon Selects, 7th Games in triathlon and son Brammon in enshrined in the Saskatoon Sports Colton Holmes, DB U16 girls...... Saskatoon Lasers, 6th the Canada Games in rowing. Hall of Fame. Mason Ochs, OL Rothery has been an official in U18 girls...... Saskatoon Selects, 6th Riley Pickett, DL, PFC outstanding D lineman track and field for more than 20 Senior men....Saskatoon Angels, 4th years. Also honored: Cody Peters, PFC outstanding linebacker

“coaches have an in with people that no one else does. they instill the values that young people should come out with when they take their own place in the world.” — hall of fame inductee ralph schoenfeld With Saskatoon Sports Hall inductees Thank you sponsors Touching base A first for Phipps Royal Collegiate and the University of Saskatchewan, l Al Anderson’s Source for Sports *Joan Phipps was enshrined in the Saskatch- winning a national title with the Huskies men’s track ewan Sports Hall of Fame this year. Phipps is the only and field team in 1986-87. He was a teacher in Sask- atoon from 1997 to 2011 and has worked in Saska- l Cherry Insurance jockey in the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame . . . *Loren toon Public Schools’ head office for six years . . . Prentice is the coach of five athletes on Racquetball *Sherry Saxton-Richards, *Jerome Linnell and l Hunters Bowling Canada’s national team: Tim Landeryou of Cal- *Jack Nepjuk received service merit awards from gary, James Landeryou and Danielle Drury of the Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association l Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon Saskatoon and Tanner Prentice and Cassie this year. Linnell is a teacher and coach in Melfort, Prentice, both of Macrorie . . . *Keith Allen, Saxton-Richards in Assiniboia and Nepjuk in Saska- toon. Linnell and Saxton-Richards are enshrined in the l who was enshrined in the Hall this year, released Realty Executives Saskatoon stunt performer and Saskatoon Sports Hall entertainer Evil of Fame with Univer- Knievel from a hockey Canada’s soccer best sity of Saskatchewan team that Allen coached teams and in Seattle in the 1950s. coming to Saskatoon Nepjuk with the Hill- Saskatoon will be the site of the Toyota National cham- “Keith said he had no tops football team. Hall directors pionships in soccer in 2018 for senior men and senior l l Members at large guts,” said Gerry Mel- President Keith McLean John Neufeld women. l Past president Jerry Shoemaker l Jacki Nichol Gerry Heskett nyk, who worked with Boost for Bates l l Saskatoon HUSA Alumni has the Vice-president Dana Kidd Bob Reindl Walter Mudge Allen as a scout for the *Kelly Bates was l Ken Gunn, treasurer l Ron Walsh Mark Tennant best ever result for Saskatchewan NHL Philadelphia Flyers enshrined as an ath- l Don Cousins, secretary l Ron Woodley Bob Florence in the men’s division, winning the . . . There is a Saskatoon lete in the Humboldt l Mary Green l Anna-beth Zulkoskey Canadian title in 2011. That is the l connection to two and District Sports Eugene Hritzuk only time Saskatchewan has won the international awards Hall of Fame this championship since soccer nationals that Softball Canada year. Bates is in the began in 1913. received at the recent Saskatoon Hall with Saskatoon’s best result in women’s nationals was 2012 World Baseball Softball the Hilltops and U when Saskatoon Hollandia were third. Confederation (WBSC) of S Huskies football Distant replay: 1956 congress in Gaborone, teams. Also honored Guyle Fielder scores a goal for the Seattle 2017 Toyota National Soccer championships Botswana. In WBSC by the Humboldt Hall Americans in a 4-3 win over the Saskatoon Quak- Saskatoon HUSA Alumni, 4th Challenge Trophy, senior men: this year as an athlete ers in a Western Hockey League game at the Saska- awards for the 2014- Jubilee Trophy, senior women: Saskatoon Impact, 7th toon Arena in January 1956. 17 quadrennial, softball is Jerome Engele. U17 boys: Saskatoon North, 9th Fielder, a native of Idaho, had moved with his par- pitcher Sean Cleary Engele played pro Saskatoon Selects, 9th ents to Nipawin at an early age. He started playing of Harbour Main, NF., U17 girls: hockey as a defence- Saskatoon South, 10th senior hockey when he was 13. was named player of the U15 boys: man for eight years, Regina, 6th Playing at a time when there are only six teams year for 2015 and Softball U15 girls: including three sea- in the NHL, his NHL experience was limited to Canada was selected as sons with the NHL’s 15 games. But he made a lasting impression in the the national federation of the year in 2015. Saskatoon Minnesota North Stars. He has been an assistant minor pros. After being rookie of the year in the Guyle Fielder was the site of the men’s world softball championship coach with the WHL Saskatoon Blades for 28 years . . . Pacific Hockey League with New Westminster *Donnie Davidsen, *Dave Fisher, Andre Lalonde, Royals in 1951-52, Fielder was named the MVP in the Western Hockey in 2015. Cleary posted a record of 5-0 at the event as League six times from 1956-57 to 1966-67. Canada won gold. *Shane Reider, *Tom Sargeant, Barclay Schlosser, His nickname ,Tom Fool, was in reference’s to Fielder’s speed and was *Brent Turkington and *Jeff Yausie are coaches inspired by a thoroughbred with that name who was the American Horse Isbister celebrates culture of the Hilltops, who won the Canadian junior football of the Year in 1953. *Darryl Isbister is a leader in developing indig- championship this season. This is the Hilltops’ 20th national Fielder, a 5-foot-9 centre, holds the record for most career points in the enous programs in his work as the First Nations, Inuit title and fourth in a row . . . *Mike Hummenny is the minor leagues, 1,929, and is third all time for points in pro hockey, behind and Metis education co-ordinator with Saskatoon head coach of the North Battleford Comp Vikings, only Wayne Gretzky (2,967, WHA and NHL) and Gordie Howe (2,186, Public Schools. Included in his job jar is serving on the who won the provincial 3A high school football title NHL and WHA). planning committee with the Indigenous Language and . . . *Dwayne Andreen, who is enshrined in the In 2015, Nipawin named the lane in front of Centennial Arena Guyle Culture Celebration. The event held by the Saskatoon Saskatoon Sports Hall with the Liners baseball team, Fielder Way. is being inducted into the Ringette Canada Hall. Fielder is enshrined in the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and the Tribal Council is at a different school each year, draw- Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame. ing elementary school students from in and around Andreen has been involved in ringette as a coach and Saskatoon. Isbister competed as a sprinter at Mount organizer since 1992. *Enshrined in Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame Saskatoon sports hall of fame, november 2017-january 2018 newsletter CONCRETE results Despite spartan training facilities in Saskatoon, Hall of Fame athletes are world class

Le May Doan Dr. Cyprian Enweani Catriona Le May Doan Diane Jones Konihowski track and field Dr. Gary Goplen, Before Saskatoon has the Field House, Cyprian Dr. Gord Goplen Enweani’s winter training with the Saskatoon Track speed skating and Field Club and coach Louise (Atkinson) Hum- bert is in the underground parking lot at Midtown Wearing a toque, two pair of Plaza. Enweani goes on to compete as a sprinter in socks and a woolen green suit, the world championships and the 1988 Olympics. Catriona Le May rides in a car Enweani Diane Jones builds explosive muscle by doing reps pool to Clarence Downey Oval running up Pest Hill near the riverbank at the Univer- to train with coach Henrietta sity of Saskatchewan. Jones, coached by Lyle Sand- Goplen. erson, competes in pentathlon and long jump in the Goplen’s sons, Gary and 1972 and 1976 Olympics. Gord, also train at the Oval, where the wind and cold can make ice cubes shiver. James Rozon, Warren Long gymnastics Le May competes in four The gym where the Taiso Gym Club trains with Olympics, winning two gold coach Keith Russell is the size of a shoe box. To medals and one bronze, and practise vaulting, Warren Long and James Rozon breaks world records. have to make their approach run down a hallway. Gord Goplen competes n the Long becomes the first Canadian gymnast ever to 1988 Olympics; Gary in the reach an appartus final in the Olympics, placing sev- world championships. enth in vault in the 1984 Games. Rozon Rozon competes in the 1988 Olympics. His best apparatus in the Games is vault.

Because the South Saskatchewan River Cam Baerg rowing Cam Baerg is frozen, Cam Baerg and Tracy Duncan Tracy Duncan rowing can’t be on the water for months. They train indoors, doing stationary rowing in Corrina Kennedy kayaking the basement of the Albert Community Centre on Clarence Avenue for coach Walter Martindale. Also during the prairie winter, kayaker Corrina Kennedy puts on a parka and bikes in the snow to the Field House to do strength and aerobic workouts for coach Krzysztof Lepianka. Kennedy goes on to be world champion and finish fifth in the 1996 Olympics. Dun- can is ninth in the 2000 Olympics. Baerg is world champion and a silver medallist in the 2004 Olympics. —Photo by Greg Pender/The StarPhoenix