Four individuals, one team inducted September 9

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• Served as President of the Yorkton Curling Club;
• Chair and co-chair of major provincial, national and international curling events held in
• Yorkton;
• District rep with Saskatchewan Curling Association;
• Assistant coach, trainer and volunteer with Yorkton United Football Club;
• Instructor and coach of numerous junior and women's Saskatchewan curling teams;
• Member of the Shymko 1999 Brier bronze medal team;
• Member of various teams in 2007, 2008, 2015 and 2016 Briers;
• Coach of 1991, 2006, 2021, 2022 and 2003 teams participating in national
• championships;
• Coach of Swiss women's team which won a Grand Slam event and the 2017 Swiss
• Olympic trials, leading to their participation in the 2018 Olympics.

• Winner of the Cambrian Cup as the top 16 and under curler in the Yorkton area at age 14;
• Winner of the 1998 Juvenile Provincial Curling Championship;
• Nine time winner of the Saskatchewan Tankard Men's Curling Championship between 2007 and 2020 with an additional four runner-up finishes;
• 2003 Canadian Junior Curling Champion;
• 2003 World Junior Curling Champion;
• 2006 Canadian University Curling Champion;
• Ten appearances in Canadian Men's Curling Championship including twice as a bronze medalist;
• Four time participant in the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship;
• Member of Team Canada at the 2007 World Universiade Games;
• Along with teammates, conducted more than 30 junior camps and learn-to-curl events to give
• back to the sport and increase future participation levels.

• In the 2012-2013 provincial championships, represented Yorkton Aquabatix and won gold medal in the 13 to 15 age group in the stream figure event, gold medal in solo event and gold medal in the duet event at the age of 13;
• Youngest member of the 2014-2015 Saskatchewan provincial team that competed at 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, BC;
• At the 2014-2015 provincial championships represented Saskatoon Aqualenes and won the gold medal in 13 to 15 age group national stream duet and gold medal in senior national stream team;
• At the 2015 Espoir Nationals, participated in the 13 to 15 national stream duet and placed ninth in Canada;
• Bronze medalist in senior team free at the 2015 Canadian Open Championships and participated in the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George;
• Coached provincial stream trio and solo with the Yorkton Aquabatix club.

• Numerous wins in local and regional tournaments as a junior golfer;
• Provincial High School Champion in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and was the only athlete in golf to win all four years;
• Provincial Junior Champion in 1989, 1990 and 1991;
• Provincial Amateur Champion in 1995 and 2019; member of the provincial team at national competitions in 1993 to 1995, 1999, 2004;
• Provincial Mixed Champion in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021;
• Golf Saskatchewan Order of Merit Champion in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022;
• Four time winner of the Regina Ladies Open and the Waskesiu Ladies Lobstick;
• Six time Saskatoon Ladies Open champion; 
• Eight time winner of the Ladies Northern Amateur;
• Member of the Saskatchewan silver medal team at the 2004 Canadian championship;
• Participated in the World Junior Golf Championships at Torrey Pines in 1989;
• Named as one of the top 50 collegiate golfers by Score Magazine in 1993.

• Claimed the title of SJHL champions by beating the Notre Dame Hounds, Humboldt Broncos Melville Millionaires in the SJHL playoffs with a combined record of 12 wins and two losses;
• Won the Western Canada Cup against the champions of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia by beating the host Dauphin Kings in the final game;
• At the Royal Bank Cup national championship in Vernon BC, the Terriers lost their first two games but rallied to win their next three straight games to win a berth in the championship game where they won 4-3 in overtime for the national title.

The Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame and Museum established a new award this year, the Support for Sports Award, sponsored by the Yorkton Lions Club. The award is presented annually to individuals, businesses, clubs and organizations who have displayed a longterm and significant commitment to supporting amateur sports in Yorkton.

The support can take many forms, including volunteerism, financial or in-kind support, organizational assistance, traditional or new media excellence or other ways that have benefitted sports organizations or athletes.

It also provides an opportunity to recognize those who otherwise do not qualify for induction into the Hall of Fame but are deserving of recognition by the community.

This year's recipients are:

• Ray Bailey
• Jason Gordon
• Kees Taikwondo
• KidSport Yorkton
• Don Kunkel
• Alan Kyle
• Jason Payne

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.

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 two worksheets that explore the accomplishments of eight 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. Printed copies are available to schools, youth organizations and parents by contacting us, and PDF files of the worksheets can be viewed, downloaded or printed by clicking the button below which will take you to the page where we store our documents.

The video of the 2022 induction evening is now available on our website.

The video was recorded and produced by AccessNow TV, the community programming department of Access Communications.

We thank AccessNow TV for allowing us to show this on our website.

View the video by licking the link below. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes in length.