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Nominations now closed for 2025 induction

Nominations for induction into the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame in 2025 are now closed. 


The Nomination Committed will meet to assess the nominations and make its recommendations to the Board of Directors when it meets in early June. The 2025 inductees will be advised immediately after that, followed by a public announcement.


Nominations for the Yorkton Lions Support for Sports Award for this year remain open until mid-August.

A podcast about volleyball

In the 1980s, Yorkton boys high school and club teams dominated the provincial volleyball scene in Saskatchewan, under the leadership of Dennis Pomeroy and others. Girls teams also had their share of successes, but flew somewhat under the radar. Yorkton Stories talks to six players from that era who still, 40-pus years later, are involved in the sport.


The podcast can be heard below. For the podcast and additional information and photos, click the button.

The podcast and additional information

Looking back

During the 30th anniversary induction night in September of 2024, we talked with six inductees about their involvement in sports in Yorkton, and what that, and their induction, has meant to them. 


Included are short reminiscences by Len Bode (track and field), Lori-Ann Mundt (volleyball), Barry Marianchuk (hockey), Don Pfeifer (Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame), Lilian Britton (synchronized swimming) and Barry Bradshaw (snowmobiling). 


We hope to continue recording more personal recollections.

Four individuals, one team inducted

The Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame (YSHF) celebrated its 30th anniversary by inducting four individuals and one team on Saturday, September 7, 2024.


Class of 2024 inductees are:

  • Michael Forster, Athlete/Builder, Martial Arts
  • Nicole Nagy, Athlete, Figure Skating
  • Lori Pollock, Athlete/Builder, Synchronized Swimming
  • Ed Zawatsky, Athlete/Builder, Hockey
  • 1998 Yorkton (Midget) Expos, Team, Baseball


For more including full information about each of the inductees, visit the 2024 Inductees page. 


Information about the 2024 Yorkton Lions Support for Sports Award recipients

The 2024 Inductions videos

A production of AccessNowTV, broadcast on September 27, 2024

Audio of the introduction of past inductees and board members.

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Our 101 inductees on social media

Helping kids explore sports history

Our 101 inductees on social media

We have created social media posts recognizing all 101 inductees to date, which are featured on our Facebook and Instagram social media accounts.


This project is made possible through a grant from Sask Lotteries, administered by the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in Regina. It allowed us to hire a tech-savvy and creative Sacred Heart High School student to complete this project.


Keep an eye on our social media accounts -- click the links below to view and follow them -- and find out more about all those who have been inducted in our Sports Hall of Fame since 1994.


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A trip down memory lane

Helping kids explore sports history

Our 101 inductees on social media

Back in 1938 or 1939, Marguerite Smith wrote a poem about the Yorkton Terrier team that played that winter season in the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League.


The poem was preserved all these years by Joyce Anaka of Yorkton, a school friend of Marguerite, and herself a young hockey fan, who provided it to us.


The poem, and other stories and memorabilia from past years in local sports now have a home on this website, on a new page called Memory Lane.


If you have written stories and/or photos of bygone days in Yorkton sports, please get in touch.

Visit memory lane

Helping kids explore sports history

Helping kids explore sports history

Helping kids explore sports history

Yorkton's sports history goes back nearly a century, and inductees into the Sports Hall of Fame go back to the 1940s and 1950. 


To introduce some of our Home Town Heroes to the younger generation, we have produced six worksheets that explore the accomplishments of 24 of our inductees. The project was sponsored through a grant from Sask Lotteries.


If you know or have children interested in sports, and they know how to do basic research on this website, they will be able to complete the worksheets. PDF files of the worksheets can be viewed, downloaded or printed by clicking the button below which will take you to the page where they are available.

view and print the worksheets

 

Our Home Town Heroes

Yorkton has a rich sporting history, and the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame and Museum strives to preserve our Home Town Heroes.


The Hall of Fame organization was inactive for several years, but in 2020 elected a new board of directors which worked with many of the original founders to revive the organization, seek new facilities and create a strong online presence. 


In September of 2022, it held the first Hall of Fame induction in eight years. It was also  provided with display space on the second floor of the Gallagher Centre, where all inductees are now recognized, and a collection of artifacts and memorabilia is displayed. The display area is open whenever the doors of the Gallagher Centre are open.

The Sports Hall of Fame

The Sports Hall of Fame

The Sports Hall of Fame

The Sports Hall of Fame honours Yorkton's Home Town Heroes -- individuals and teams who have made us proud by their achievements and contributions. 


They are all on this website in our virtual Sports Hall of Fame, where you can read about the inductees, and see photos of them and their memorabilia where available.

Our inductees

The Sports Museum

The Sports Hall of Fame

The Sports Hall of Fame

The Sports Museum has collected and catalogued several hundred items related to sports in Yorkton dating back more than 125 years. Some of the items are on display at the Gallagher Centre, second floor. 


Photos of the items are on this website on our online museum page, providing an up-close look at artifacts, memorabilia and photos.

Online museum

Contact us

To contact us, click the round blue icon at bottom right of every page. When we receive your message, one of our volunteers will reply as quickly as possible.


The Sports Hall of Fame and Museum displays some of its artifacts at the Gallagher Centre in Yorkton, second floor (see map below).  

We thank our 2024-25 sponsors for their support


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