- Stu Hart
Stewart Edward "Stu" Hart, CM was a Canadian amateur wrestler, professional wrestler, promoter and trainer. Stu also founded Stampede Wrestling, a promotion based in Calgary, Alberta, and is the father of famous wrestlers Bret and Owen Hart. - Roddy Piper
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper (born Roderick George Toombs on April 17 1954) is a Canadian professional wrestler, and film actor. Raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he is billed from Glasgow, Scotland and is known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He earned the nickname "Rowdy" by displaying his trademark "Scottish" rage, spontaneity, and quick wit, and is also nicknamed "Hot Rod". - Sandra Schmirler
Sandra Schmirler, SOM (July 11, 1963-March 3, 2000) was a Canadian curler, an Olympic and triple World Champion. Born in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Schmirler learned curling at high school. Her first major successes in the sport came in 1991, when she won the provincial championships as the "skip" (captain) of her team. Only two years later, in 1993, Schmirler's Regina-based team also won the Canadian Championships, and were sent out to the World Championships, … - Jan Betker
Jan Betker is a Canadian curler. Betker, who played the third position on the team of Sandra Schmirler, has taken over the position of skip created by Schmirler’s death. As part of the Schmirler team Betker won 3 Canadian curling championships in 1993, 1994, and 1997. As well the team also won 3 world championships in 1993, 1994, and 1997. In 1998 the team won the Gold Medal for curling at the Olympic Games. - Jon Ryan
Jon Ryan (born November 26, 1981 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is an American football punter. He is currently the punter for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. He also played for the University of Regina Rams and for the Sheldon-Williams Spartans, a high school located in his hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. In high school he played as running back, kicker, … - Rueben Mayes
Rueben Mayes (born June 6, 1963 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian who played in the NFL from 1986 to 1993. He first gained notoriety as a running back at North Battleford Comprehensive High School in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. Mayes played for the Washington State University Cougars, where he became All-American and finished among the top 10 in Heisman Trophy balloting. - Marcia Gudereit
Marcia Gudereit (born September 8, 1965) is a Canadian curler. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she was part of Team Schmirler, the women's curling team that won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. This team is the only 3-time winner of the World Curling Championship (1993, 1994, 1997). After Sandra died, she remained in the team, now skipped by Jan Betker for whom she plays for currently. She curls out of the Caledonia Curling Club in Regina, … - Arnie Weinmeister
Arnold George Weinmeister (March 23 1923 - June 29 2000) was an American football player. He went to 4 Pro Bowls, but with only a six-year tenure in the AAFC and NFL, his career is one of the shortest of any Pro Football Hall of Fame member. Despite being 6-4 tall and weighing 235 pounds, he had a reputation for being a fast lineman and pass rusher. - Bill Hunter
William Dickenson ("Wild Bill") Hunter CM (May 5, 1920 - December 16, 2002) was a Canadian hockey owner, general manager and coach. Hunter was involved in hockey, football, baseball, softball and curling but he is best known for founding the Western Hockey League, being a key player in the upstart World Hockey Association and for his efforts to bring professional hockey to previously overlooked Western Canadian cities, … - Wendel Clark
Wendel L. Clark (born October 25, 1966 in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a former professional ice hockey player best known as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Clark served as the team's captain in the early 1990s. During this time, he was often referred to as "Captain Crunch" as he played a very physical and intense style of hockey. - Blair Morgan
Blair Morgan (born October 9, 1975 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) is a multi-time CMRC Canadian National championship-winning motocross racer. He is also a multi-time World Snocross snowmobile champion and a 5-times X-Games gold medalist. Blair is a fan-favorite in the sport for his sheer speed and determination. He has made several comebacks from devastating injuries, and is crediting with pioneering the modern snocross riding style, … - Catriona Le May Doan
Catriona Ann Le May Doan, O.C. (born December 23, 1970) is a Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic champion in the 500 m. The proper pronunciation of her first name is "Kah-TREE-nah". Born In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, of Scottish ancestry, Le May Doan won the Olympic 500 m title at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and she repeated this feat at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, giving rise to the title "the fastest woman on ice". - Colby Armstrong
Colby Armstrong is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was drafted by the Penguins in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft as the 21st pick overall. In the 2005–06 season, he made his NHL debut, and had a superb rookie campaign, in which he played 47 games tallying 40 points (16G, 24A) and was a team-high plus-15. Armstrong grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he continues to live in the off-season. - Barry Melrose
Barry Melrose (born July 15, 1956 in Kelvington, Saskatchewan) is a former hockey player, coach, and general manager, and is currently a commentator for ESPN. - Max Bentley
Maxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley (born on March 1, 1920 in Delisle, Saskatchewan - January 19, 1984) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966. Max won the 1946 Hart Memorial Trophy. In 1947, he was traded to the Maple Leafs along with Cy Thomas for Gus Bodnar, Bud Poile, … - Dorothy Walton
Dorothy Louise Walton, née McKenzie (7 August 1909 - 17 October 1981) was a Canadian badminton player who is the only Canadian ever to win the All England Open Badminton Championships, winning the Women Singles in 1939. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she was a founding member of the Consumers' Association of Canada and was its President from 1950 to 1953. In 1973, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. - Jarret Stoll
Jarret Stoll (b. 24 June, 1982 in Melville, Saskatchewan) is a centerman for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League. Stoll grew up and played hockey in Yorkton, Saskatchewan throughout his minor hockey, excelling in the AA and AAA systems. He played for the Saskatoon Contacts in the SMAAAHL. He was taken first overall in the WHL Bantam draft by the Edmonton Ice. When the franchise was moved to Kootenay, Stoll's rights were moved as well. - Doug Bentley
Douglas Wagner Bentley (Born - September 3, 1916 in Delisle, Saskatchewan Died - November 24 1972 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers. From 1940 to 1947, his brother Max Bentley was his teammate and linemate in Chicago. Both brothers have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame, and in 1998, … - Roger Aldag
Roger Aldag (born 1953 in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan) was a Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1976 through 1992. He was part of the Grey Cup championship-winning Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1989. Aldag currently holds the Roughrider record for games played with 271 regular season games and 5 play-off games. Aldag played for the Regina Rams from 1972-1975, … - Mike Mintenko
Michael ("Mike") Mintenko (born November 7, 1975 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Canada, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 2000 (Sydney, Australia) and in 2004 (Athens, Greece). Since 2005 he has been married to Lindsay Benko, an US Olympic swimmer. A specialist in the 100m Butterfly, Mintenko has been one of Canada's top and most consistent international performers since 1999. - Shannon Kleibrink
Shannon Kleibrink (born October 7, 1968 in Norquay, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. They won a bronze medal. Kleibrink made her debut at the 1993 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national curling championship where her team of Sandra Jenkins, … - Amy Nixon
Amy Nixon (born on September 29, 1977 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler. At the age of four she moved with her family to Regina, Saskatchewan, where she grew up. She moved to Calgary in 1995, where she now resides. Nixon is an alumnus of the University of Calgary with three degrees in kinesiology, women's studies and law. She was admitted to the Alberta bar in November 2006. Nixon began curling competitively at fourteen. - Meaghan Simister
Meaghan Simister (born on November 10, 1986 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian Olympic luger. In the 2005/2006 season, Simister placed second in the Canadian championship competition. In international competition, she came in 14th at the Koenigssee, Germany World Cup. Her first Olympics was the 2006 Winter games in Torino, Italy.. During the Olympics on February 14, she sustained minor injuries from a crash on the luge track, in the third of four runs, … - Johnny Bower
John William Bower ("The China Wall") (b. November 8, 1924 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Hockey Hall of Fame goalie. Born in Prince Albert, Bower served with the Canadian Army during World War II in England from 1940 to 1944 and was discharged due to rheumatoid arthritis. - Brian Johns
Brian Johns (born August 5, 1982 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is an Olympic swimmer from Canada. He grew up in Richmond, British Columbia and trained with the Aquanauts and Racers (later Rapids) swim clubs. He started swimming at age five. He is currently attending the University of British Columbia and is on the varsity swimming team. He held the world record in the 400 m Individual Medley (short-course), with a time of 4:02.72. - Allan Moffat
Allan George Moffat, OBE, (born November 10, 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is an Australian racing driver known for his success in the Australian Touring Car Championship and his four wins at Bathurst. Born in Canada, Moffat first came to Australia as a college student with his parents in the early 1960s and lived permanently in the country since the latter part of that decade, when he embarked on his record-setting racing career. - Johnny Esaw
Johnny Esaw (born 1925) is a retired Canadian sports broadcaster and television network executive. He was a pioneer of sports broadcasting in Canada, best known for his involvement with figure skating, football, and international hockey. - Lynn Williams
Lynn Williams (born July 11, 1960 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 3,000 metres. She competed for Canada in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, USA in the 3,000 metres where she won the bronze medal. Four years later in Seoul, South Korea she finished fourth in the 1.500 metres. - Terry Puhl
Terry Stephen Puhl (born July 8, 1956 in Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a former professional baseball player. - Ethel Catherwood
Ethel Mary Catherwood (April 28, 1908 - September 26, 1987) was a Canadian track and field athlete. Born in Haldimand County, Ontario, and raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she excelled at athletics, including baseball, basketball and track and field. In 1926 she equalled a Canadian record for high jump at the Saskatoon city track and field championships. On Labour Day of the same year, she broke the British held high jump world record. - Jeff Friesen
Jeff Friesen (born Jeff Daryl Friesen on August 5, 1976 in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a professional hockey player. - Wade Belak
Wade Belak (born July 3, 1976 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian professional hockey forward/defenceman. Belak attended North Battleford Comprehensive High School in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. Belak is best known as an enforcer. He currently plays for the National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs. He was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, First Round, 12th Overall. - Bernie Federko
Bernard Allan Federko (born May 12, 1956 in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey center who played 14 seasons in the NHL from 1976 to 1990. - Red Berenson
Gordon "Red" Berenson (born December 8, 1939 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey center and a current NCAA hockey head coach. - Deidra Dionne
Deidra Dionne (born on February 5, 1982 in Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She won bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics in freestyle aerial ski She also won the bronze medal at the 2001 and 2003 FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships. Her health and career appeared in jeopardy in September 1, 2005; when she had a training accident that injured her neck. She came close to being paralyzed. - Glenn Hall
Glenn Henry "Mr. Goalie" Hall (born October 3, 1931, in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a former professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, and St. Louis Blues, Hall seldom missed a game and was a consistent performer, winning the Vezina Trophy three times. Nicknamed "Mr. Goalie", he was one of the first goaltenders to develop and make effective use of the butterfly style of goalkeeping. - Jake Wetzel
Jacob Wetzel (born December 26, 1976 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is an American-Canadian rower. He has represented both countries at the World Championships and the Olympics. As a teenager, Wetzel was on the Canadian Junior Cycling team; he only began rowing in the fall of 1997 at the University of California, Berkeley. His success was immediate and extraordinary. - Norman Sheldon
Norman Sheldon is a former soccer player and hall of famer who played on Team Canada in the early half of 1900s. Norman Sheldon immigrated to Canada, more specifically Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1907 after an outstanding junior soccer career in Scotland. It was the community of Prince Albert where Norman Sheldon continued to play the game he loved until 1929. Throughout that time period, Norman was chosen three times to represent Canada. - Hayley Wickenheiser
Hayley Wickenheiser (born August 12, 1978, in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a player for the female Canadian ice hockey team. She is a cousin of the late National Hockey League player, Doug Wickenheiser. Wickenheiser has been a member of the Canadian National team since 1995, winning the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, and another gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games (in which, … - Reggie Cleveland
Reginald Leslie Cleveland (born on May 23, 1948 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan). was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers. He ended his career with 105 wins, with a 4.01 ERA and 930 strikeouts. Sportswriter Bill Simmons created the "Reggie Cleveland All-Stars" - a team of athletes whose names he believes to not be representative of their ethnicities.
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