Members of the 1998 Yorkton Expos midget baseball team. Back row from left, Coach Kash Andreychuk, Joanne Neal accepting plaques for her late husband Vern and late son Ryan, YSHF chair Dick DeRyk, Darcy Blommaert, Graham Lamb, Kristy Propp and Geoff Propp of Harvest Meats, Mayor Mitch Hippsley; front row, Grey Andreychuk, Travis Mentanko, Travis Fogg and Mike Chillog.
The Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame (YSHF) celebrated its 30th anniversary by inducting four individuals and one team on Saturday, September 7.
Class of 2024 inductees are:
For full information about each of the inductees, visit the 2024 Inductees page.
Yorkton Lions Support for Sports recipients for 24 were, from the left, Don Pfeifer, Warren Burrell, Garett Karcha and Chad McDowell. Not able to be present because of prior commitments were Jay Boyd and Dion and Michelle Pfeifer. Presentations were made by Yorkton Lion Anthony Sunny and Mayor Mitch Hippsley.
The Yorkton Lions Club and the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame (YSHF) presented six Yorkton Lions Support for Sports Awards at the 30th anniversary Class of 2024 inductions on Saturday, Sep. 7.
This is the second year for the Yorkton Lions Awards, which recognize individuals, businesses and organizations for their contributions to local amateur sports.
This year’s recipients are:
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.
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 four worksheets that explore the accomplishments of 16 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.
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 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.
The Sports Museum has collected and catalogued more than 500 items related to sports in Yorkton dating back almost 100 years. Some of the items are on display at the Gallagher Centre, second floor.
We have started the process of creating a virtual museum of all items and look forward to being able to give you an up-close look at the entire collection.
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).
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