page_title: Sport in Saskatchewan
section_title: Notable Saskatchewan sports personalities
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Saskatchewan / Notable Saskatchewan sports personalities
caption_attribution_description: English: World Women's Championship Trophy
context_page_description: Sport in Saskatchewan includes ice skating, speed skating, curling, curling bonspiels, snowboarding, snow golf, broomball, ice hockey, badminton, and curling. Summer sports abound: among these are school track and field days, community rodeos, golf tournaments, and sporting events such as baseball, softball, and snowmobile, snowmobile rallies. School teams usually feature baseball, basketball, field hockey, Association football or soccer, lacrosse, football, rugby, and wrestling. Popular individual sports include auto racing, boxing, cycling, golf, hiking, horse racing, ice skating, skateboarding, skiing, swimming, tennis, triathlon, track and field, and water sports. Other sports include tobogganing, sailing, rowing, trap shooting, lawn bowling, and horseshoe. Saskatchewan speed skaters have enjoyed recent success in the Olympics in Salt Lake City and Turin. The Saskatchewan Olympic medalists include Catriona Le May Doan, Jason Parker and Justin Warsylewicz.
context_section_description: Roger Aldag from Gull Lake, Saskatchewan was a Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1976 through 1992 and was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
  Mary Geraldine (Bonnie) Baker, née George all-star catcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  Ethel Mary Catherwood or "The Saskatoon Lily" from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was a Canadian track and field athlete.
  Rick Folk curling skip of the winning team in the 1980 Labatt Brier.
  Emile Francis (b. 1926)
  George Patrick Genereux was a Canadian Gold medal winning trap shooter and physician from Saskatoon.
  Gordon "Gordie" Howe OC from Floral, Saskatchewan, was a professional ice hockey player known as Mr. Hockey".
  William Dickenson ("Wild Bill") Hunter CM from Saskatoon was a Canadian hockey owner, general manager, coach and founder of the Western Hockey League.
  Diane Jones-Konihowski C.M., B.Ed. is an Olympic pentathlete.
  Catriona Le May Doan, O.C. from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is a Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic champion in the 500 m.
  Rueben Mayes from North Battleford, Saskatchewan is a former National Football League running back with the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks.
  Michael ("Mike") Mintenko from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan is a silver Olympic medalist and a freestyle and butterfly swimmer
  Blair Morgan from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is a multi-time CMRC Canadian National championship-winning motocross racer, World Snocross snowmobile champion and a 5-times X-Games gold medalist
  Jason Parker, from Yorkton, Saskatchewan is a Canadian speed skater and an Olympic Silver Medalist from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
  Terry Stephen Puhl of Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada is a former professional baseball player.
  Glenn "Chico" Resch from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan was a professional ice hockey goaltender
  Ernest M. Richardson C.M. from Stoughton, Saskatchewan is a Canadian and world curling champion.
  Jon Ryan from Regina, Saskatchewan is a punter in the NFL.
  Sandra Schmirler SOM was a Canadian curler, an Olympic and triple World Champion.
  Eddie Shore from Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan was a professional NHL ice hockey player.
  Meaghan Simister from Regina, Saskatchewan is a Canadian Olympic luger.
  Bryan Trottier is a forward with the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL.
caption: World Women's Championship Trophy