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Valerie (Greenwall) Weldon
Valerie started playing softball at age five, developed
into an exceptional pitcher and during her playing career achieved some
incredible accomplishments and garnered many deserved awards. Softball
is still part of her life, as a high school coach she instils the love
of her favourite sport in young people.
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Tom Dorchester
At the age
of eleven he rode a horse in a race in Wetaskiwin and won. He
credits this win for his lifelong desire to race horses. Tom last
competed as a driver at the Calgary Stampede in 1981, retiring at the
age of seventy. Tom’s passion for his sport was passed
on to his sons and grandsons and to his pleasure, he was able to compete
with and against his sons.
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Norma (Chiddy) MacEachern
Norma trained and competed
as a member of the Amateur Athletic Club of Wetaskiwin and became a track
phenomenon, dominating Women's' Track and Field in Alberta between 1928
and 1931. In 1929 she became Women's Dominion of Canada Track and Field
Aggregate Champion ‑ Olympic Association of Canada.
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Val Fonteyne
Val is the first hockey player
from Wetaskiwin
to play in the
National Hockey League when it only had six teams. In more
than 1,400 games played in the NHL between 1959 and 1974 he is one of
the least penalized players to have ever played pro‑hockey.
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Sandy (Kirstein)
Wright
Sandy's achievements have been in
several sports (basketball, golf, diving, curling) and on a variety of
levels, as an athlete and coach as well as serving in several executive
capacities. In 1964 she earned the U of A Bakewall Trophy as Most
Outstanding Female Athlete and was inducted into the University of
Alberta Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Glen Jevne
The
most dominant fast‑pitch softball pitcher in Western Canada during the
1980's, Glen Jevne's world class fastball career lasted twenty-three years within
which time he pitched two perfect games. His stellar
pitching performance in the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis
captured the hearts of North America.
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Randy Wyness
Randy
played with the powerhouse Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball Team for more than twenty years.
In that time he played in 14 NWBA Regional Championship Tournaments and
was named All‑star and MVP on 11
separate occasions.
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Dr. Rodney Schneck
Rod was the #1 goal tender on the Denver University
Pioneers Hockey Team. Among his "brilliant performances" he made
unbelievable plays in the "greatest‑ever game played in Denver
University history" on January 10, 1959 versus a Soviet touring team.
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