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November 2019 SASKATOON to January 2020 Newsletter SPORTS (306) HALL664-6744 Saskatoonsportshalloffame.com OF FAME Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame on Facebook n behalf of the board of directors of the Saskatoon all of you to consider nominating someone. We are always OSports Hall of Fame I thank all those who attended our accepting nominations for the team, builder and athlete cat- 34th annual dinner and induction ceremony on Nov. 2. To all egories. Submission deadline for each year is the beginning of of our past inductees who attended, a very special thank you April. Nomination forms are available at the Saskatoon Sports for your continued support. Hall of Fame website: saskatoonsportshalloffame@com For 2019 we recognized five amazing builders: Lawrence Special thank you to Kevin Waugh and Simon Hiatt for being Dana Kidd Beatty, softball; Dale Clancy, wrestling; Dave King, hockey; the voices of the night and to Bob Florence and Mark Tennant Hall of Fame president Johnny Marciniuk, multi sports; and Allen Mitchell, football. for the great work they do for the Hall of Fame. Thank you The four impressive athletes representing a multitude of TCU Place for helping to make the evening a smooth time disciplines in the world of sports are Fiona Cribb, triathlon; for all. Thank you to all honoured guests for your encourag- Athlete inductee, golf, 2014 Terry Lehne, football; Donna Saworski, fencing, and Jake ing words. To our sponsors and supporters thank you for Wetzel, rowing. We were also pleased to induct the 2012 and assistance in making this a successful event. 2014 Merle Kopach Canadian masters curling teams and the 2005 Optimist Twirling Connection baton world team. The If you haven’t heard our Hall of Fame will be located in the sport organization of the year is the 1989 Jeux Canada Sum- new indoor training facility at the Gordie Howe Sports Com- mer Games Foundation, who do so much for sports. plex grounds on Avenue P. Our planning is headed into Phase I congratulate the 2019 inductees into the Saskatoon Sports Two and we will be reaching out for your involvement. Hall of Fame and once again thank them for their contribu- On behalf of the board of directors of the Saskatoon Sports tions to the sporting community of Saskatoon. It is impor- Hall of Fame I extend to you and your families, happy holidays tant that we recognize these contributions and I encourage and best wishes for 2020. Power moment 2019 induction AL MITCHELL LAWRENCE BEATTY Builder: Football official Builder: Softball coach DAVE KING Builder: Hockey coach FIONA CRIBB DONNA SAWORSKI Athlete: Triathlon Athlete: Fencing TERRY LEHNE Athlete: Football DALE CLANCY Builder: Wrestling official JAKE WETZEL JOHNNY MARCINIUK Athlete: Rowing Builder: Multiple sports “I think of all the people who helped us along the way. Those people made a lot of sacrifices to allow us to be successful.” — Dave King, inductees responder Power moment 2019 induction Johnny Marciniuk Jake Wetzel Lawrence Beatty Dale Clancy Dave King 2005 OPTIMIST TWIRLING CONNECTION Team: Once Upon a Time baton team Back: Sydney Condon representing Charnalle Skjeie, Kellie Towriss, Breanne Tennant, Stephanie (Hart) Hall Front: Haylee Olver, coach Brenda Bennett, Casey (Berry) Napper Not shown: Beth Kostur Al Mitchell Donna Saworski Terry Lehne MERLE KOPACH RINKS Team: Canadian masters champions, 2012 Audrey Crosson, Linda Delver, Merle Kopach, Rae Wilson Team: Canadian masters champions, 2014 Fiona Cribb Audrey Crosson, Linda Delver, Merle Kopach, Janet Rooks MERLE KOPACH 1989 JEUX CANADA GAMES FOUNDATION Sports organization of the year Thank you sponsors Hall directors l President Dana Kidd l l Past president Keith McLean Saskatoon Sports Al Anderson’s Source for Sports l Don Bates Hall of Fame family l Lisa Down l l Craig Mackay l Cherry Insurance Bob Fawcett Athlete inductee 1986, speed skating l Eugene Hritzuk l Henrietta Goplen Craig’s sister l Noreen Murphy Builder inductee 1988, speed skating l l Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express Jacki Nichol l Gary Goplen ............Henrietta’s son l Phyllis Wilson Athlete inductee 1999, speed skating l l Dale Yellowlees l Gord Goplen ............Henrietta’s son Hunter’s Bowling l Anna-beth Zulkoskey Athlete inductee 1999, speed skating Members at large l Ned Powers .........Henrietta’s partner l Mary Green Builder inductee 1997, journalist, author Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon Gerry Heskett Jerry Shoemaker l Realty Executives Saskatoon Mark Tennant Bob Florence Passings “(Keith Allen) referred to me Gerard ‘Rusty’ Chartier, 1933-2019, age 86 Touching base Team inductee, 1953 Hilltops football With Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame inductees as the Riverton Rifle Rusty Chartier, 19, is an alum of St. Mary’s School and Tech *Enshrined in Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame Collegiate who has never played organized football. He joins and the nickname stuck.” the Saskatoon Hilltops in 1952. The season ends on a Saturday im Wilson is vice-president of CurlSask, the provincial governing body of the in November when Syd Bercov punts a single on the last play sport. CurlSask received the Governors’ Cup from Curling Canada for 2018-19. —Reggie Leach of the game to lift the Edmonton Wildcats to an 8-7 win over *J Reggie Leach the Hilltops in the Western junior final. The Cup is awarded to the provincial association which has the best average improvement Chartier returns in ’53. Working in the Riversdale neighbour- in results from one year to another . Skip Kirk Muyres of the Saskatoon Nutana Curl- hood at R.J. Fyfe Equipment, selling parts and being a heavy- ing Club is featured in the Men of Curling calendar for the second consecutive year. The duty mechanic for the company that deals in farm and highway Rusty Chartier calendar has photos of curlers from Canada, Japan, Scotland and the United States . construction vehicles, he walks across the bridge to the Hilltops’ practice field on *Jamie Epp, *Sylvia Fedoruk, *Brent Schneider and the 1980-81 to ’82-83 4th Street every day. Chartier is 175 pounds; Ken McMurtry the only player on Jim Wilson men’s hockey teams led by head coach *Dave King are among the University of Sask- *Keith Allen the club who weighs more than 200. Chartier becomes a starter on the six-man atchewan Huskies being inducted into the Canada West conference Hall of Fame. Epp won four Canadian defensive line. university titles in distance running, two in cross-country and was on a Huskies team that won a U SPORTS The Hilltops go 7-1 in the regular season. They meet the Weston Wildcats of Manitoba in a two-game, total-point league final. Chartier, who has been hobbled championship. Fedoruk competed in basketball, golf, hockey, track and field and volleyball at the U of S in the since the start of the ’53 season, is taken off the field on a stretcher in the third 1940s and was president of the Women’s Athletic Board on campus. Schneider was quarterback of the Huskies quarter of the first game of the playoff in Winnipeg because of a knee injury. football team which was defeated in the Vanier Cup national final in 1994 and won the Canadian title in 1996. Although he can’t practise the next week, he plays in the second game of the The hockey teams won the conference title for three consecutive years, reached the Canadian final three times playoff against Winnipeg at Griffiths Stadium. He recovers a fumble that leads to a and won the national title in 1983 . Although this is the first year that the Canada West conference has had a single. Saskatoon wins the series 60-5. golf championship, golf was a university sport through the 1940s to 1960s before the Canada West conference Saskatoon beats the Vancouver Blue Bombers 50-6 in the West final at Vancou- started. Among the golfers for the University of Saskatchewan were Doug Mader, Murray Osborn, ver’s Empire Stadium. Chartier tackles fullback Ted Duncan in the end zone for a safety touch. Keith Rever, *Jim Scissons and *Geri (Evans) Street, who are all enshrined in the Saskatchewan The Canadian final is in Saskatoon. The Windsor AKO Fratmen take a 54-hour Golf Hall of Fame. The U of S didn’t enter the conference championship this year . Former Saskatonian train trip to get here. Because Windsor and Saskatoon both have dark team *Ziggy Szelagowicz coaches high jumper Django Lovett of Surrey, B.C., who competed in the world colours — Windsor black and gold, Saskatoon blue and gold — the Hilltops championships this fall in Doha, Qatar. Lovett did not qualify for the 12-man final.Lynn Kanuka is a native of wear green and white instead, with the jerseys on loan from the Saskatchewan Regina and an alumnus of the U of S track and field and cross-country teams. Kanuka coaches distance runner Roughriders. Natasha Wodak of North Vancouver, B.C. Wodak finished 17th in the 10,000 metres at worlds in Doha. Before a crowd of more than 7,000 people at Griffiths Stadium, the Hilltops She won gold in the 10,000 earlier this year at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. defeat Windsor 34-6 for their first Canadian title. Garth Hilderman, 1947-2019, age 71 Double honours for Bourgonje Team inductee, 1971 U of S track and field *Colette Bourgonje was enshrined this fall in Canada’s Sports Hall of Garth Hilderman’s firsts are lasting. Fame and the Canadian Paralympic Hall of Fame. Bourgonje has been a med- When he was a student in Aden Bowman Collegiate, allist internationally in wheelchair racing and sit-skiing. This is the 64th year he competed in the first Saskatchewan high school cross-country running championships in 1961, placing that Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame has held an induction.

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