The
following highlights the Inductees
welcomed as members to the Wetaskiwin and County
Sports Hall of Fame for 2020. Due
to Covid restrictions the official induction
ceremony was not conducted until May 2023
Carson Duggan excelled in several sports,
but her true passion was hockey which garnered her a four-year
scholarship at St. Lawrence University, conference rookie of the year
honours, and several titles: all-time leading goal scorer, female
athlete of the year, and women's hockey MVP. During this time,
Carson achieved a place on the All Academic Team for ECAC, a consortium
of 300 schools. She went on to a multi-level career that would
take her to the professional women's hockey ranks, an outstanding
coaching career and two master's degrees.
From learning to skate at age two and his
experience in the Wetaskiwin hockey program Allen York decided he like
being a goalie. At age seventeen he had a 2.16 goals
against average and a .906 save percentage and won the AJHL Top Team
Goaltenders award. Allan was drafted by the Columbus Blue
Jackets of the NHL and played professionally for six years in the NHL,
AHL and ECHL. He helped his teams win several championships
and earned All-Star recognition and Best Goalie awards for himself.
One of the highlights of Allen's hockey career was playing in the 2013
Spengler cup for Team Canada.
Marilyn Snedden has been a volunteer in
sports for almost fifty years! She has volunteered as a Coach, Manager,
Zone Rep and Sports Rep in Softball, Ringette, Female Hockey, Male
Softball/Fastpitch and Hockey throughout Alberta. She has also served as
a Board Member or administrator for various sports organizations in our
community. Because of her volunteer efforts in Alberta, she has
already been inducted into two Sports Halls of Fame and received
numerous certificates, plaques and awards for her involvement. You can
expect to find Marilyn in the crowd at many sporting events, she is a
“super sports fan”.
1981 Wetaskiwin Avalanche
Juvenile Men's Volleyball Club
The Wetaskiwin
Avalanche Juvenile Men’s Volleyball Team, a
group of Wetaskiwin 16, 17 and 18 year olds,
was successful in winning the 1981 Juvenile
Provincial Volleyball Championships and the
Bronze Medal at the National Juvenile
Volleyball Championships. They became the
first team from Wetaskiwin in any sport to
win a medal at a National Championship and
remain the most decorated Volleyball Team in
Wetaskiwin’s history. In the
beginning the Avalanche had not competed
much, but played exhibition matches against
University, College and Senior Men’s A
teams. Their competitive play so
impressed a touring Senior Men’s 1st
Division club from Germany and thereby
brought international volleyball to
Wetaskiwin.
