Moose Jaw and District Sports Hall of Fame Honours Greatest Athletes and Builders

Moose Jaw and District Sports Hall of Fame Honours Greatest Atheletes and Builders In the short time the Moose Jaw and with many of his players and teams The Terry McGeary senior men’s District Sports Hall of Fame has putting together impressive results curling team, which included Clare existed, it has rapidly become one at the high school and provincial and Ramsay, Don Berglund and Hillis of the top honours any athlete and even national levels. Thompson, won the 1980 Canadian builder from the community can re Senior Men’s Curling Championship ceive. in dramatic fashion, rolling through New inductees always express their the round-robin with a 9-2 record, humility and honour to be included including wins in their final two among the ranks of the enshrined games, to edge Manitoba for the title. Wall of Fame, located on the secondUnfortunately due to the COVID-19 floor mezzanine of Mosaic Place pandemic, The Moose Jaw and Dis – and for good reason; NHL Hall trict Sports Hall of Fame have put of Famers. Canadian Olympians. Moose Jaw and District Sports Hall of Fame board member Ken Bradly their nomination evaluations, induc National and World Champions. And and Jana Garinger – accepting on tion announcement and banquet cera good number of the people who behalf of Bill Johnston – unveil the emony on hold meaning there will helped get them there. 2019 class. be no members added to the Hall of The 2019 class was officially inductBill Johnston is the legendary Fame for 2020. ed this past October and included builder behind the formation of the The 2020 class would have been a host of elite athletes and builders Highway Hockey League (mid-60s), the sixth in the history of the Hall from years past. Saskatchewan Junior ‘B’ Hockey of Fame, which currently holds 29 League (1992) and the man who members across athlete, builder and helped officially form the Western team categories, covering 14 differMajor Baseball League (2000), in ent sports. addition to working as a referee both The banquet itself is one of the most nationally and internationally. highly anticipated events on the fall Roy Thiessen was heavily involved in coaching from the late-50s right into the early 80s, working with vol leyball, track, golf, cross-country and softball programs. He was mostly known for his work with curling, calendar and annually draws the who’s who of the Moose Jaw sports Wayne Cormier played an integral of fun and memories. role in the development of Special The MDSHF had a solid slate of Olympics powerlifting in Moose potential candidates to consider, Jaw, creating a team that would dom and those names will remain in the inate meets and win titles every time pool for next year when the process they stepped on the platform. Over Larry Tollefson was one of the best is expected to follow much the same 100 athletes passed through his tu players to ever suit up for the legend pattern as in the past – a nomination telage, winning provincial, national ary Moose Jaw Regals teams of the call in January, announcement in and even international competitions. 1960s. Described as a tough, fiercely September and induction ceremony competitive athlete who commanded in October. the respect of his teammates and opInformation on the Moose Jaw and ponents alike, he played 13 years in District Sports Hall of Fame is avail the Southern Baseball League, leadable on their newly revamped webing the Regals to seven league titles site at mjdshf.com. You can also find while being named the top catcher bios of all the past inductees dating and a league all-star six times. back to the first class in 2015.

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