JIM Mcclements Tary on Meliton Geronimo, Who Was His Mentor in the Phillipines in Sikaran, a WINS NATIONAL AWARD Martial Art
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September 2011 SASKATOON 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. Sport’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 Sports, 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 Basketball: 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 Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver l Ringette: Twice an all-star at national championships have been involved in l Lyle Sanderson, l track and field coach Huskies, Olympics Volleyball: Played for University of Saskatchewan 2011 BUILDERS sports besides the one l Jacki Nichol, Len Bell — Bell, inducted as a baseball 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 Canada in recognition of his work in long track speed skating. 2011 ATHLETES 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 Western Hockey League 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 Saskatoon Hilltops — 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 Brian Towriss 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. Calgary 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 athlete, 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.