September 2011 to November 2011 Newsletter saskatoonsportshalloffame.com

SPORTSSaskatoon Field House 2020 College HALL Drive Saskatoon, Sask. OF S7N 2W4 FAME (306) 664-6744 I bring greetings from the board of directors and wel- regional, national, international and Olympic levels. ’s Hall of Fame come you to this edition of our newsletter. The induction proceedings are a special event for the Our induction ceremonies and dinner is on Saturday, inductees, their family members and friends. Please join president’s message Oct. 29 at TCU Place. us in making this an evening for them to remember as This is our 26th induction proceedings and we extend we honour their accomplishments and contributions to an invitation to all past inductees and board members to the Saskatoon sporting community. by Ed Bryant attend and honour the inductees for 2011. Tickets can be obtained at Al Anderson’s Source for These inductees have made significant contributions , Olympian Sports Excellence or the Saskatoon to their sports at many levels including local, provincial, Field House.

Something Inductees l Catriona Le May Doan, Pick the inductees’ other sport to know about Try this speed skating Olympian l Football: Evan Hardy Souls all-star defensive back l Diane Jones Konihowski, 2011 inductees track and field Olympian l : Provincial high school champ with Holy Cross l Dave Adolph, The 26th annual induction U of S Huskies hockey player, coach l Track and field: Champion sprinter at Holy Cross banquet is Oct. 29 at TCU Place. l Jay Sim, quiz catcher on national softball team l Football: Defensive lineman for Regina Luther College Phone the Hall of Fame at l Dan Farthing, 664-6744 for more information. Some inductees in the Hall Roughriders receiver l : Twice an all-star at national championships have been involved in l Lyle Sanderson, l 2011 builders sports besides the one track and field coach Huskies, Olympics : Played for University of Saskatchewan l Jacki Nichol, Len Bell — Bell, inducted as a they are honoured for. l Canadian shortstop in Olympic softball Hockey: Forward for Westleys in North Sask. Junior League builder for his work as an umpire, was a Can you match home run hitter playing softball. Answers: the inductee with their Catriona Le May Doan, Holy Cross sprinter Jay Sim, Westleys hockey forward Lyle Sanderson, Luther defensive lineman Kelly Bowers — Bowers won the other sport? Diane Jones Konihowski, U of S volleyball Dan Farthing, Holy Cross basketball team Jacki Nichol, ringette all-star Rusty MacDonald Cup, a major award in Dave Adolph, Evan Hardy defensive back Huskie Athletic at the U of S, for combin- ing athletics, academics, leadership and sportsmanship. Vic Ferrer — Ferrer made a documen- JIM McCLEMENTS tary on Meliton Geronimo, who was his mentor in the Phillipines in sikaran, a WINS NATIONAL AWARD martial art. Jim McClements, who is in the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Cedric Gillott — Gillott, a soccer Fame as a builder, receives a national award in September coach, wrote a science book on entomol- in Mississauga, Ont. ogy, or insects, that is more than 800 McClements is presented with the Allen G. Rae Builder pages long. Award by Sports Officials in recognition of his work in long track speed skating. 2011 McClements has been an official in speed skating for Tracy Kelly — For 19 years, Kelly was almost 40 years, including doing 18 world championships the only U of S Huskie to win a confer- and being appointed to officiate at the 2002 Winter Olym- ence title in cross-country running. She pics in Salt Lake City. He was the chief referee for years at was also the Canadian senior champion. the Canadian national championships. Heather Kuttai — Kuttai competed Besides being an official himself, McClements has given in shooting in the 1988 Paralympics in clinics around Canada to develop speed skating officials. Seoul, the first time the Paralympics and “While it is a great honour to be recognized as a builder, Olympics were held in the same city, now no one sets out to be a builder,” McClements said. “It just a tradition. happens because you are passionate about sport. My focus Rick Reelie —In addition to winning was never on officiating, but rather making sport a little bit medals as a competitor in the Paralym- better. pics, Reelie has gone on to coach and “While I have been engaged with people at the national develop international athletes, including and international levels, most of the opportunity to learn Paralympic medallist Ilana Duff. came right here in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. While Richard Van Impe — Van Impe won what I did was with the International Speed Skating Union a champion- and Speed Skating Canada, most of it was done in col- ship on the Portland Buckaroos pro team laboration with Saskatchewan Amateur Speed Skating, Saskatchewan Culture and Recreation staff, Sask Sport, that included players Pat Stapleton, Tom the Saskatoon Lions Speed Skating Club and folks in other McVie, who later coached in the NHL, Saskatchewan sports such as track and field. It is based and Doug Messier, who is Mark Messi- on friendship, brainstorming, listening, even arguing, but all er’s father. Portland was coached by Hal with the purpose of making sport better. Laycoe of Saskatoon. “Whatever I put into sport I got back many times over.” 2011 team McClements was head coach of the cross-country run- 2001 & 2002 — ning team at the University of Saskatchewan for five years. Four coaches with these Hilltops — Dave One of his athletes, Tracy Kelly, is being inducted into the Fisher, Marc Olson, Tom Sargeant and Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame this year. Brent Turkington — earlier won national football titles with the team as players. organization of the year Saskatoon Minor Hockey Association Making their mark Last season, the SMHA iced 356 teams Ed Bryant Anne Schulman for boys and girls age 5 to 18. Hall of Fame inductee, builder Hall of Fame inductee, builder Hall of Fame inductee, team baseball swimming U of S Huskies football Ed Bryant, who was a pitcher, Anne Schulman’s two Brian Towriss has become Thank you began playing senior baseball for daughters — Margot in the all-time leader in wins for a a team in Shellbrook at age 14. and Paula in Basel, coach in Canadian university Hall of Fame He learned how to pitch from Switzerland — arrived this football. Towriss is in his 28th his father and by practising on June at Hitchcock’s Hideaway, season as head coach of the sponsors his own. He could throw high a camp with cabins at Lake University of Saskatchewan heat. Even into his 40s Ed was Diefenbaker. Huskies. l Al Anderson’s Source for Sports hitting 83 m.p.h., timed on a Margot and Paula were Through five games this l Cherry Insurance speed gun while he was coaching kids. there as part of Camp Circle O’ Friends, an season, Towriss had 170 regular season and “One day I was watching a game on TV,” annual four-day event started by their mother l Great Western Brewery playoff wins with the Huskies, moving him past Bryant said, and this dates to the 1970s. 25 years ago for youth age 6 to 18 in Sask- former Western Ontario coach Larry Haylor in l Hunters Bowling “When I saw who was on the mound for the atchewan who have experienced cancer. London, Ont., for the career record. l Kinsmen Club Yankees, I went ‘Hey, I know that guy.’ ” There is a big sculpture of tiger lilies near the Before Haylor was head coach at Western, Pitching for the Yankees was Nipawin’s Dave main lodge of the camp dedicated to the late l Mallard & Associates he grew up in Prince Albert, was a quarterback Pagan, who Bryant used to compete against in Anne Schulman. A scholarship for campers and for the Saskatchewan Huskies in the 1960s l Realty Executives Saskatchewan. camp volunteers has been started in Anne’s and was an assistant coach at the U of S. l Saskatchewan Blue Cross Pagan told Bryant later he thought Bryant name. Towriss played line for the Huskies from had major league calibre. 1974 to 1977. l Travelodge Hotel Saskatoon sports hall of fame, september 2011-november 2011 newsletter

DR. CYPRIAN ENWEANI Dennis Beerling of Saskatoon has decades of experience as an Dennis Beerling says: official in track and field. In July this year he was one of the techni- “Although the 100 is not his cal officials assigned to the Central American and Caribbean athletics In the forte (the 200 is), picking him championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. The meet was a qualifying is not just about who he is as event for the world track and field championships later in the sum- an , but as a person.” mer in Daegu, South Korea. Beerling is inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame as a builder and was president of the Hall when it started in 1984. For fun, he picks his all-time 4x100 men’s relay team. GEORGE SHORT “Golly, there’s been so many good sprinters,” Beerling said. “I’ll above left fast RUEBEN MAYES make mine all from Saskatchewan. That way when people say ‘How Dennis Beerling says: Dennis Beerling says: “At the time he was one of “I remember one of the first come he didn’t choose (someone else in the world)?’ it’s because it’s times I saw Rueben. He came all Saskatchewan.” the best in Canada.” walking out to the start in Beerling’s dream team consists of Dr. Cyprian Enweani shorts twice as big as he was.” of Saskatoon, Rueben Mayes of North Battleford, George Short DALE WEST of Saskatoon and Dale West of Saskatoon. Beerling’s alternate is above right lane Ben Daku of Saskatoon, who Beerling said made blazing starts. Dennis Beerling says: Enweani, Short and West are all inducted into the Saskatoon Hall of “A natural athlete.” Fame.

Coming Touching base: With Hall of Famers attractions Lucas Oleniuk the football player has turned Swifter, higher, stronger with the Hilltops, are on the move. Sargeant goes from 2012 into a globetrotter. Lucas is in the Hall with the 1996 being the principal at Bedford Road to become principal The countdown begins to the 2012 Summer l Tim Hortons Brier at Centennial Collegiate. Newton, who was the principal University of Saskatchewan Olympics in London, July 27 to Aug. 12. Canadian men’s curling football team when he was a Although they don’t have a Saskatoon Sports Hall at Mount Royal, joins the human resource department March 3 to 11 linebacker. He is now a pho- of Fame angle, the Hegg family of the United States with the Saskatoon Board of Education downtown . . . Credit Union Centre tographer with the Toronto has a connection to both Saskatchewan and the , in the Hall as an athlete, is on the coach- l Olympics. ing staff of the . Friesen, a Saskatchewan First Nation Star and earlier this year Winter Games Sisters and competed on graduate of Bedford Road Collegiate, played linebacker was in Lebanon and Jordan, Heidi Cris Hegg April 8 to 13 Saskatchewan’s cycling team at the 1981 Canada with the Hilltops and Huskies, then in the CFL with taking pictures for the paper Jemini Arena, Henk Ruys Centre of developing news in the Summer Games in Thunder Bay, Ont., when the Montreal and Saskatchewan. He was head coach of the Hegg family lived in Lloydminster. The girls were 2013 Middle East. Lucas, who went University of Golden Bears the last 10 years. also accomplished skiers, as was their older l Canadian Interuniversity Sport to Holy Cross High School, brother . men’s hockey championship has twice won a Canadian Steve Hegg Hockey in North Carolina The family soon returned to the U.S., where l National Newspaper Award Hockey Huskies in the news Softball Canada they are from. Steve represented the U.S. in both Lucas Oleniuk are Richard Kortje and Under-21 International Cup for men for photography. His older downhill skiing and cycling. At age 20, he won Kevin MacNaught. They are July 10 to 15 brother, Marcus, also went to Holy Cross and played one gold medal and one silver in cycling at the linebacker for the Huskies in the late 1980s. Marcus in the Hall with the 1983 U of S 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He also competed in Huskies who won the Canadian 2014 runs a photo studio in Hong Kong and has lived in Asia cycling in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. l Canadian Interuniversity Sport for more than a decade. Marcus has been nominated university championship, Kortje as a , MacNaught men’s hockey championship for a World Press Photo by Newsweek and Time . . . in September and October. His club team is the as a forward. Kortje is now l Canadian summer nationals Gwen (Wall) Ridout was a world-class hurdler. Now Prairie Wolf Pack in Calgary . . . is Don Bjarnarson vice-president and invest- in swimming her daughter Paige is on the rise in pole vault. Gwen in the Hall as an offensive lineman and punter with ment advisor with Canaccord July 17 to 20 at Shaw Centre is in the Hall for her accomplishments in the 400-me- the 1968 Canadian champion Hilltops. He has been Wealth Management, a financial Richard Kortje tre hurdles, including being a four-time Canadian involved in horse racing for years and 2015 services company in Vancouver. l champion and holding the national record. Gwen, who this summer finished second on Canadian Interuniversity Sport Kortje serves on the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, went to Mount Royal Collegiate and the University the money list for trainers in the men’s volleyball championship which this summer raised almost $400,000 at a charity of Saskatchewan, is now a teacher at Western Canada thoroughbred meet at Marquis golf event to go toward a new psychiatric and educa- High School in Calgary, as well as a hurdles and sprints Downs, including 17 wins . . . tion centre at the hospital. MacNaught has been the coach with the University of Calgary Athletics Club, a and Hall of Fame Pat Barry Jack Nepjuk general manager of the Fayetville Fire Antz, a minor pro club she helped start. Paige, 19, an athlete on the club, are in the Hall with the Hilltops, team in North Carolina, since the club started in 2002. finished second in junior pole vault at the Canadian Barry as a defensive back on the directors Fayetville won the championship in the Southern l championships this summer. 1991 Toppers and Nepjuk as an President Ed Bryant Professional Hockey League in 2007 . . . Ian Mirtle, in l assistant coach in 2001, 2002 and the Hall as a builder, has launched a new website as ex- Past president Don Cousins Honours from U of S 2003. Barry and Nepjuk were l ecutive director of the Saskatoon Minor Basketball As- Vice-president Ralph Schoenfeld Lloyd Cenaiko, in the Hall with the 1978 honoured this year by the l HIlltops, is being added to the Wall of Honour by sociation. See www.SMBA.ca. The site is packed with Secretary Jacki Nichol Saskatoon Schools Athletic Directorate (SSSAD) at its information about the league. Mirtle played basketball l the University of Saskatchewan College of Educa- Treasurer Ken Gunn annual awards luncheon. Nepjuk, retiring from teaching, at Bedford Road, started coaching high school basket- tion. Cenaiko, who lives in Airdrie, Alta., runs HART, l Ian Mirtle was recognized for contributions to high school sports ball at Kinistino, where he won provincials in 1966 with a Humanitarian Aid Response Team. See www. in his career. The award for Barry salutes what he has l Noreen Murphy . Said Lloyd: “To hear the words ‘I love the girls team, and later coached boys teams at City HART.ca done as a teacher/coach with football and wrestling l Bob Reindl you daddy’ from one of my kids beats any award Park, Marion Graham and Mount Royal. He has been at Mount Royal . . . , inducted into the l this world could offer me, but I am quite pleased Brian Guebert with the SMBA for 25 years, including getting his son Bill Seymour Hall as a defensive lineman with the Hilltops, won a sil- and maybe through this I’ll get some opportunities Trevor and daughter Heather in the league, both as l Jerry Shoemaker ver medal as a member of Canada’s team at the inaugu- to share the impact HART is having on the lives of players and volunteers . . . Bruce and Bobbi Waldner, l Wes Smith ral world senior football championship this summer in husband and wife, are at home in the desert, working in thousands of underprivileged kids in Eastern Eu- l Phyllis Wilson rope.” Cenaiko spent this summer in the Ukraine, Austria. Huskies head coach Brian Towriss, who is in Saudi Arabia. Bruce is in the Hall as a wrestler and Bobbi Members at large helping youth in his work with HART . . . Hubert the Hall with two Huskies teams, was an assistant coach as a high jumper. Both competed for the U of S. In Buydens, an offensive lineman in the Hall with the at worlds . . . Nancy Jewitt Filteau, who competed his recreation time now, Bruce golfs, while Bobbi gets Bob Florence 2001 and 2002 Hilltops, has New Zealand on his in judo in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and is in the Hall, up at 4:45 a.m. to run and weight train with friends. Walter Mudge travel schedule. Buydens was picked to the Cana- has her son Justin playing linebacker for the Hilltops . . . “Start any later and it gets too hot in Saudi Arabia,” Mark Tennant dian team for the World Cup of rugby, which runs Tom Sargeant and Dean Newton, both in the Hall she said. The Waldners earlier worked in Chile. Plaques of Hall of Fame inductees are on display in the Field House. This family knows their stuff Volleyball runs in the family for Cindy (Shepherd) national men’s team. Garth played in the 1976 Passings Pischke. Montreal Olympics and the 1984 Olympics in Los Frank Longridge, 1918-2011 Angeles. He has been coach of the University of Cindy, a native of Saskatoon who went to City Athlete inductee, badminton Bisons for going on 31 years, leading the Park, is inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall team to nine Canadian championships. Longridge won of Fame as a player with the 1979, 1980 and 1981 Their son, Dane, is going into his fourth season the provincial men’s University of Saskatchewan Huskiettes. They won with the Bisons, while daughter Taylor is starting singles championship three straight Canadian university volleyball titles. her first year at the University of California Santa eight times, from 1937 She is married to Garth Pischke, one of the top Dane and Taylor Pischke Barbara. Taylor was given a full scholarship to play volleyball players in the history of the Canadian both indoor and for the Gauchos. to 1949. He also played for the Saskatoon Empire Jacks, who were Western Canadian Major league achievement champions in softball, and the Saska- Spero Leakos and his wife Georgia were in builder, mostly because of his contributions to base- toon Toilers in basketball. Cooperstown, N.Y., on a Sunday in July as special ball but also basketball. guests of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Gillick, whose mother was an Spero Leakos Pat Gillick was inducted into actress on the silent screen and his Larry Tyson, 1921-2011 the Baseball Hall this summer as a father was a minor league pitcher and Athlete inductee, bowling and his wife Georgia builder. He invited Spero and Georgia a sheriff, went on to play five seasons Larry Tyson was on of pro ball. When he moved into the of Calgary to attend the ceremony, men’s bowling teams front office in 1963, Gillick became that won Saskatch- were invited to reported the Saskatoon Express Spero Leakos a scout with the Houston Astros, ewan five-pin titles in newspaper. which included holding a tryout 1975 and 1976 and the Baseball Gillick, who is from California, has camp in Saskatoon with a hand from also competed at the known the Leakos family since the Leakos and the Commodores. national championship. Hall of Fame 1950s when he was a left-handed Gillick joined the Toronto Blue Tyson rolled a per- pitcher, playing for the Vulcan Elks Jays, a new team, in 1976 and within fect game of 450. induction this year and Granum White Sox in the Foothills-Wheattbelt two years became their general League in Alberta, as well as with the Edmonton Eski- manager. Gillick developed the Blue Jays into World in Cooperstown, N.Y. Series champions in 1992 and 1993. He added a third mos in the Western Baseball League. World Series ring as general manager of the Philadel- Spero was the owner and general manager of the phia Phillies in 2008. Saskatoon Commodores in the WBL. He has beeen Gillick has also been GM of the Baltimore Orioles inducted by the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame as a and Seattle Mariners. Pat Gillick