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Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Volume 17, Issue 27, Week of July 9, 2018
Dave Elder: Inducted into Hall of Fame for building athletes
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ave Elder spent 32 of his 36 years as a teacher around Holy Cross athletic venues where he was virtually a man for all seasons. A typical year, in the school’s chronological order, would include service as a defensive backfield coach with the football team in the fall, building a wrestling team from scratch and producing champions during the winter and achieving a successful conclusion People every spring with the track and field team. “We, as teachers, insisted on excellence,” said Elder, “and we taught the athletes if they were going to do their jobs, do their jobs well. Success tends to breed success. That came with challenges. As soon as we began developing championship teams, there was always a target on our backs. Yet we continued to succeed. “What you saw from our young, wonderful athletes was special,” he added, “but the great joy was watching them become wonderful adults.” For his contributions as a teacher and community leader, Elder is being inducted into the builders’ category of the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame on Nov. 3 at TCU Place. Wrestling was a program which Elder built and he never missed a season. There were 35 wrestlers when he held his first camp, but victories came in time and when he retired, Holy Cross owned 10 provincial titles among boys, one among girls and there was the memorable time in 2012 when they won both. He coached Andrew Johnson, Josh Bod-
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Dave Elder spent 32 years teaching and coaching at Holy Cross High School. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) narchuk, Daniel Olver and Jeff Adamson, who won national championships at one level or another. Probably the most resounding story belonged to Viola Yanik, who finished fifth at the 2004 Olympic Games. “Viola came out in 1997 as a Grade 9 student. She was very strong, very athletic so I had her train with the boys. She won the city all four years and she finished fourth in her first year in provincials. She was incredibly focussed,” said Elder. “At the Olympics, the wrestlers were entered in pools. In her pool, she lost a match to a Chinese wrestler, but beat the American and finished second. When she lost her rematch to the American, the silver medal eventually went to the American and Viola was fifth. Over a strong career, she won silver at the World University Games, second in the Pan-American Games and third in the world championships.” In track and field, Elder lured former
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Saskatchewan Roughrider Dan Farthing and former National Hockey Leaguer Curtis Leschyshyn into pole vaulting and opened new competitive doors for Vanessa Monar Enweani and Catriona Lemay Doan. “I didn’t discover Vanessa until Grade 10 and she told me she’d previously done some dancing. I got her into the sprints and into the high jump. One day she told me she was never comfortable in the 200. I took her outside and we tried what was then called the hop, step and jump. On the first try she jumped farther than the provincial record. I told her she’d never have to run another 200,” said Elder. “With Catriona, she’d been training all those years in speed skating and she stepped right into sprinting so easily, competing in each of her four years. She skipped her high school graduation banquet to take part in the provincial track finals.” Monar Enweani competed internationally
for Canada in track and field; Lemay Doan became an Olympic speed skating gold medallist at 500 metres in both 1998 and 2002. Elder inherited the track and field coaching job from Ron Zerr, who later came back briefly, but the telling statistic is that he was part of the unbelievable run of 22 consecutive years of winning the city championship. Many of his pole vault products won provincial titles as well. In football, Elder joined Dave Hardy’s football staff and has worked with current coach Scott Hundseth in recent years. The Holy Cross numbers are amazing. While he was on staff, they won back-to-back provincial crowns in 1985 and 1986 and again in 1994 and 1995. Many advanced to the Saskatoon Hilltops and the University of Saskatchewan Huskies; Farthing and Quinn Magnuson played in the Canadian Football League. (Continued on page 5)
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