Category: Inductees-

The inductees of the Prince Albert Sports Hall of Fame

  • Erica Gavel – Athlete

    One of Prince Albert’s elite female athletes, Erica Gavel has gone on to recognition worldwide for her incredible dedication to her sport of basketball through severe adversity. She turned what looked like a career ending injury into an opportunity to join a different sport and excel.

    Gavel was dominant in softball, volleyball and basketball while growing up in Prince Albert. As a member of the Allcann Development Softball Association (ADFO) she was a key contributor to strong Aces teams including the Squirt Provincial champions in 2003, Pee Wee Provincial silver and Western Canadian bronze medal winners in 2005 and Bantam Provincial gold medalists in 2007. She also was on Team Saskatchewan in softball in the 2007 Western Canada Summer Games.

    As a member of the Prince Albert Toppers Volleyball teams, Gavel was a Provincial Silver Medalist in U15 in 2007 and in U17 in both 2008 and 2009.

    High School sports brought much more notoriety for Gavel. As a member of the Carlton Comprehensive High School Crusaders, Gavel was captain of both volleyball and basketball teams. In volleyball, the Crusaders won Provincial bronze medals in 2007 and 2009 sandwiched between a fourth place finish in 2008. Basketball was the sport where Gavel would turn the most heads. She joined the Crusader senior team in her Grade 10 year of 2006 when they won Provincial Bronze. A Gavel-Captained Crusader team would then win Silver in 2008 and Bronze in 2009. Gavel was named Carlton’s top female athlete in both 2008 and 2009 and named Prince Albert’s Athlete of the Year in 2010.

    Gavel was highly recruited by University basketball programs on both sides of the border, but chose to stay close to home and joined the University of Saskatchewan Huskies under Head Coach Lisa Thomadis winning a CandaWest championship and bronze and silver medals at the USport National Championships. This is where a promising story took a terrible turn. Gavel suffered three serious injuries to the same knee. The third one left the knee with no cartilage between her tibia and femur prompting doctors to tell her she would never play competitive sports again.

    Gavel would take this as a challenge and remembered a school mate playing wheelchair basketball, so she would give it a try. And like most natural athletes Gavel excelled at wheelchair basketball as well. In 2014 she led Team Saskatchewan to their first ever Canadian Junior National Championship.

    She was recruited to the University of Alabama Crimson Tide on a five-year scholarship for wheelchair basketball. Her first year with the Crimson Tide saw Gavel named the most improved player leading them to a second place finish in the National Intercollegiate Championships. In 2015 she was named to her first national team, helping them to a silver medal at the Parapan Am Games in Toronto. Then in 2016 Gavel was a member of the National team that placed 5th at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Summer Games. Then the National team would win Gold at the America’s Cup in 2017, finish 5th at the World Championships in 2018 and win Gold once again at the Parapan AM Games in Lima, Peru in 2019.

    Gavel has parlayed this amazing career into giving back to the game and motivating thousands of young wheelchair athletes worldwide. She has volunteered for many significant world based organizations including the Sport Sciences Research and Working group for the International Paralympic Committee out of Bonn, Germany; Chair of the Athlete Commission for the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, also out of Germany; Vice-chair of the Athlete Commission of the Canadian Paralympic Association in Ottawa and Director of the Ontario Basketball Association in Toronto.

    She also has completed a number of research papers for sport including: “Mitigating Fatigue and improving performance in athletes with spinal cord injuries” and “The effects of menthol mouth rinse during 30 km time trial performance in female athletes”.

    Gavel also won two Own the Podium Fellowships, been nominated for the YWCA Woman of Distinction in Saskatoon, and was recently named as one of Canada’s Top 23 Most Influential Females in Sport.

    Erica Gavel – Athlete

  • Bill Yeaman – Builder

    A lengthy career in education offered Bill Yeaman the opportunity to be a coach and administrator in basketball, volleyball and football at schools in Kinistino, Birch Hills and Gladmar. Yeaman’s teaching career began in 1979 at Gladmar before transferring to Birch Hills for the next 23 years, primarily as a Physical Education and History teacher. He transferred to Kinistino in 2004 as Vice-Principal where he completed his teaching career as Principal and retired from teaching in 2014.

    As an administrator of sport within the Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association, Yeaman held every Executive position available in the North East School Athletic Conference- president, vice-president, secretary and even referee-in-chief. He was the Section 3 representative on the Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association (SHSAA) for 3 terms from 1992 to 1998. In 2006, the North East District nominated Bill for the Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association Merit Award which he received at the Annual General Mee0ng held in Estevan.

    Yeaman has a passion for all high school sports, but excelled in coaching basketball. His love for the game started in high school as a Weyburn Eagle where he played basketball and won his first Provincial gold medal in the 3A boys final, hosted by Prince Albert Carlton in 1975. Early in Yeaman‘s coaching career, his teams became noted for their strong skills, their intensity and competitiveness and sportsmanship. It became very important for Yeaman to be competitive and respected by the larger basketball programs in the Province.

    Over the years, he established a very strong rivalry with Carlton and St. Mary from Prince Albert. In the 1980’s and mid 1990’s, Yeaman’s teams could successfully compete with any and all of the top 5A basketball teams in the Province. In 1987 and 1988 the Birch Hills Marauders attended a tournament in the United States over the Christmas holidays. Yeaman had tremendous success with the Birch Hills Marauders Boys Basketball teams coaching them to four consecutive SHSAA 2A boys titles from 1984 to 1987 and adding two more championships in 1989 and 1997. One of the many highlights was in 1996 coaching the Marauders in the gold medal game at HOOPLA in the Prince Albert Comuniplex in front of 1000 fans. It was the first time that Carlton and the City of Prince Albert hosted the Provincial basketball finals known as HOOPLA.

    In 2004, Yeaman transferred to Kinistino and continued coaching basketball with the girls program. The Kinistino Senior Girls Basketball team enjoyed success as well, winning four Provincial titles from 2006 to 2009 and captured silver medals in 2010, 2011 and a fifth gold in 2012.

    Another highlight for Yeaman’s basketball career was working with two other outstanding coaches and great individuals, Darrin Rask, his former player from Birch Hills for 12 years and Tom Hazard in Kinistino for 6 years. To be successful as a coach one has to continually improve their skill set. There was hardly a summer where Yeaman did not instruct at a basketball camp or travel to the United States to attend coaching clinics.

    In 1987, Yeaman was an assistant coach with Team Saskatchewan at the Western Canada Summer Games hosted by Regina winning the men’s gold medal. Another two summers of coaching Saskatchewan’s U18 men’s team completed the Provincial basketball journey.

    In 35 years of teaching, Yeaman was able to take his teams to HOOPLA twenty one times. In his second season of coaching, he captured his first bronze medal with the Gladmar Senior Boys. Yeaman went on to win 11 gold medals, 4 silvers along with 4 bronze medals.

    Yeaman continues to be a leader in the strongest sense of the word as he continues to share his passion and knowledge of sport with athletes, parents, colleagues and officials. He is proud of the relationships that he developed with parents, players, and his fellow coaches who have become lifetime friends. Coaching his own kids, Ashley and Sarah, along with the support of his very knowledgeable wife Brenda, made this coaching journey memorable.

    Yeaman continues to be a strong community volunteer in Birch Hills as a coaching mentor at the school, as the Public Address voice for the Birch Hills Marauder’s football team, and the Birch Hills Brewer’s baseball team.

    Bill Yeaman – Builder

  • Rod Dallman – Athlete & Builder

    Dedication to the sport of hockey, first as a top-level player, then as a coach and administrator makes Rod Dallman an inductee in the Prince Albert Sports Hall of Fame as both an Athlete and Builder.

    Working his way up through Prince Albert Minor Hockey ranks, Rod Dallman first skated for the Midget Raiders in 1983. The following season he was picked up by the Prince Albert Raiders of the Western Hockey League where he would have three stellar seasons. His first was 1984-85 when the Raiders hoisted their first Memorial Cup.

    The long playoff run by the Raiders that year gave Dallman more exposure to NHL scouts, and in the 1985 NHL Draft he was selected in the 6th round, 118th overall, by the New York Islanders.

    After graduating from the Raiders, Dallman joined the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League in 1988. His 355 penalty minutes that season was third in the AHL, even though he spent some time with the Peoria Rivermen of the IHL. He also made his NHL debut that season with the Islanders, playing in three games and scoring his only NHL goal.

    The following season was spent almost exclusively in Springfield — Dallman played only a single game for the Islanders that year — where he had the second-most penalty minutes in the league. He was also part of an infamous incident where Ed Kastelic of the Binghampton Whalers was suspended for 20 games by the league for biting an official during an altercation with Dallman; Kastelic claimed that he thought he had been biting Dallman.

    He played only one more game for the Islanders, in the 1990 playoffs, but was once again a champion, as the 1989-90 Indians won their sixth Calder Cup championship. Dallman served as an assistant captain on that team and had a sparkling five goals and five assists in fifteen games in the playoffs to be one of the Indians’ inspirational leaders, although he had been battling injuries all season long. The Indians’ Cup-winning victory in Game Six of the Calder Cup playoffs came on a power play goal in overtime, the result of Rochester Amerks forward Donald Audette  receiving a match penalty for spearing Dallman in the face just before a faceoff.

    The following season, Dallman signed with the Philadelphia Flyers, but played only briefly with farm teams in San Diego and Hershey while spending most of the season recuperating from his injuries of the previous year. He was healthy once more the following year, playing two games with the Flyers — his last NHL action — and 31 with the Hershey Bears before suffering a career ending knee injury, ironically in Springfield against the Indians.

    After his career, home was calling and Dallman returned to Prince Albert. He became the Prince Albert Mintos Midget AAA Assistant Coach in 1992-93, then named Head Coach the following year, before joining the Raiders as an Assistant Coach from 1994-96, He would stay close to both organizations in the years following helping the Mintos as Assistant Coach in 1998-2000 and 2014-15 and Head Coach in 2000-01, and the Raiders as Scout from 2009-2012.

    Rod Dallman has had a huge impact on minor hockey in Prince Albert and throughout the Province, starting as a Minor Hockey Coach in 1998. He was the President of PA Minor Hockey from 2011-13 implementing the city-wide draft. He coached the Pee Wee AA Ice from 2015-19 then took on the Head Coaching role with the Bantam AA program which he continues to hold.

    Dallman is also highly involved in what is now called Hockey Saskatchewan. He took their development program in 2009 to become a top tier coach in the province. He then was an Assistant Coach for Team Sask at the 2018 Canada Winter Games in Men’s hockey. At the 2019 WHL Cup Dallman was again an Assistant Coach on Team Sask that won the Gold Medal at that event for the first time ever.

    Rod Dallman – Athlete & Builder

  • Rick Shultz – Athlete & Builder

    Rick Shultz was a staple as a player, coach and sponsor in both hockey and fastball for decades in Prince Albert and is inducted as both an Athlete and Builder into the Prince Albert Sports Hall of Fame. As an athlete Shultz held integral positions of goaltender in hockey and catcher in fastball. As a builder he was a successful coach, influential sponsor and administrator in a leading role.

    Shultz was born and raised in Prince Albert and played his minor sports with the Parkland Bruins in the West Flat. As a 16 year-old, Shultz played goal for the Junior B Knights in 1973-74. The following year he would debut for the Prince Albert Raiders of the SAJHL leading them to a Northern Division title. After playing the following season with the Swift Current Broncos he returned to his home town to finish a stellar SAJHL career with the Raiders. In 1977-78 Shultz was named the top goalie in the league All-Star game. The culmination of his career was the SAJHL championship for the Raiders where he was named top playoff goalie. The Raiders would eventually lose in the Centennial Cup Championship to the Guelph Platers.

    Other notable milestones for Shultz in hockey include suiting up against the Japanese National team (1975), stints with the Kelowna Buckaroos (BCJHL) and New Westminster Bruins (WHL) as well as receiving a scholarship to the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. However, Shultz only attended one year, to return to PA and marry the love of his life, Louise.

    In fastball, Shultz would team up with pitcher Felix Casavant to make a powerful and intimidating battery! They would compete at many different levels from house league to Provincial, National and International competitions. Shultz won Rookie of the Year in the Men’s Sportsman Fastball League in 1976 to begin an astonishing 41 year career in the league! He was known as the best drag bunter around and sometimes had the bruises to prove it. Shultz claims he was never put out by legend pitcher Gene McWillie.

    With a family of two boys and one girl, Rick Shultz knew the importance of having a knowledgeable, dedicated coach, so he became dedicated to coaching. Actually his first round of coaching was as a 19 year-old in 1976. Shultz would coach at least one of his boys each year as they came up through the ranks of the East End Rangers. Even after both outgrew minor hockey and moved elsewhere, Schultz remained involved in coaching including assisting the Canadian Tire Devils (2004-5) and Lite-Way Electric Thunder (Midget AA 2006-11) with good friend and fellow softball player Kim Dryka. Twice they won the Centre Four League title. Shultz also was highly involved coaching his sons (with Dryka again) in fastball.

    Shultz developed a successful business in the city, Lite-Way Electric. He knew the importance of having resources for minor teams, so he has been involved in sponsoring minor teams in PA since 1980. Some of his teams include: the Lite-Way Electric Thunder, Lightning, Storm, Cyclones and Tornadoes in hockey and the A’s and Blue Jay’s in Sportsman League Fastball.

    He would parlay his knowledge of hockey, skill as a businessman and community leader into being named the Chairman of the Board of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League which he continues to hold to this day. He was inducted into the SJHL Hall of Fame for his dedication in 2014. Shultz also received the “President’s Award of Merit” from Prince Albert Minor Hockey in 2017 for his years as a coach and sponsor.

    Rick Shultz – Athlete & Builder

  • Pete Friesen – Builder

    Pete Friesen grew up in Prince Albert attending Prince Albert Collegiate Institute (PACI) and graduated from Carlton Comprehensive High School in 1976. He took part in many school sports including football, basketball, wrestling, cross country skiing, track, and swimming. He was also the first graduate of Carlton Comprehensive School to come back and teach. When teaching he also coached track and field, football, and basketball.

    Dr. Peter Friesen is currently an adjunct professor at Duke, Elon, and Arcadia Universities in the Schools of Physical Therapy. He continues to present nationally and international on the topics of Sports Medicine. He also teaches post professional Physical Therapy and Athletic Training courses in Dry Needling and Exercise Progression.

    In 2018-19, Friesen was the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the United States Women’s National Hockey program, which won the World Championships. In 2017-18, Peter worked with the North Carolina State University’s track and field and cross-country teams. Prior to that, Peter spent 21 years with the Carolina Hurricanes as the Head Athletic Trainer/Strength and Conditioning Coach/Massage Therapist.  Friesen was responsible for training and dietary standards, preparation of rehabilitation programs, and acute injury treatment for players. While in the NHL he served on the Education Committee for the Athletic Trainers and assisted with protocols for the NHL Combine testing. During his tenure with the Hurricanes, the team made it to the Stanley Cup finals twice and won the Stanley Cup in 2006.

    With over 43 years as a professional trainer, Friesen is a dual board-certified Physical Therapist in Sports and Orthopedics and certified in the United States and Canada as an Athletic Trainer, Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Massage Therapist, and Dry Needler.  Friesen is a graduate from Bemidji State (Minnesota) with Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Science in Physical Education, from the University of Saskatchewan with a Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine, and from Arcadia University in Pennsylvania with a Doctor of Physical Therapy. He has done research with Nike in sports vision.

    Friesen has been associated with the Canadian Olympic and International programs for 30 seasons.  This includes serving for Team Canada at 5 Senior Hockey World Championships, winning the gold medal during the 2004 World Championship.  Friesen has also been to 10 IIHF Junior Hockey World Championships with 5 gold medals. He has advised 9 different Canadian programs including men’s and women’s ice hockey, field hockey, soccer, figure skating, softball, wrestling, gymnastics, and volleyball. Currently, Friesen is a member of the Canadian Athletic Therapist, High Performance Providers Committee.

    Before joining the Carolina Hurricanes, Friesen was the head trainer for the Prince Albert Raiders, University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta, and Assistant Director of the Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic in Edmonton.  During his time in Prince Albert, Saskatoon, and Edmonton, he was on several teams that won National titles, especially the University of Alberta Pandas Volleyball team which captured 5 consecutive National titles. 
    Currently Friesen resided in Raleigh North Carolina with his wife Shelley. They have three children Jack, Chad, and Daughter Taylor.

    Pete Friesen – Builder

  • Andy Kozun – Meritorious Service

    The Kozun brothers: Andy & Merle have been key behind-the-scenes contributors to many sports and events in Prince Albert for decades and are very deserving to be inducted for Meritorious Service. The Kozun boys grew up on the family farm near Nipawin where hard work and dedication was instilled in both at a young age.

    Both boys attended elementary school in Aylsham before going to Nipawin for junior and senior high school. Both learned trades in the automotive industry and eventually would move to Prince Albert to pursue their careers and start their families.

    Andy and Merle’s daughters both played ringette and both dad’s were highly involved, a trend that would continue over the years. Andy coached the Carton Park Bunnies ringette team from 1995-2000 while Merle coached and managed the East End Ringette and North East Mighty Ducks ringette teams through the late 1990’s to 2006, highlighted by the Mighty Ducks winning gold at Provincial B Belle championships in 2004 and silver in 2006.

    Andy also became very involved with his children in softball, soccer and skiing. He coached a mite girls’ team to the city finals in 2000. In soccer he coached both indoor and outdoor teams for Crescent Acres from 2000-2003, including going to the finals in 2002 and winning the city championship in 2003. In downhill skiing, Andy assisted coaching which involved organizing equipment and arranging bus trips to Wapiti with the Nancy Greene ski team.

    Merle became very involved with the East End curling rink and was part of the committee that worked to install artificial ice in the facility.

    As a tandem, the Kozun brothers are well known around the city for their volunteer and fund raising abilities for many organizations. Both have been very involved in the volunteer driven Prince Albert Raiders organization, not only at games, but also fund raising for Bring Back the Magic. Both also were part of the volunteer grounds crew of the highly successful 2018 Junior Men’s World Softball Championship making sure PA’s facilities were world class throughout the event.

    But aside from all this, both Kozun’s are best known for their involvement with the Prince Albert Mintos Midget AAA team. Both have been on the Board of Directors and helped establish the Mintos as one of the premier organizations in Canada. They were a big part of the first ever-Midget Outdoor game in 2013, the Western Regionals in 2014, building the Minto fitness centre in 2017 and their overall contribution to a successful organization. The Mintos have had success off the ice winning back to back nationals and provincial championships, and the Kozun boys were a key part of making sure everything off the ice was of a championship nature.

    In all of the areas mentioned, the Kozun brothers were the first to step up and volunteer for anything and everything from selling tickets, raising funds, collecting garbage, going door-to-door raising funds and many other duties.

    Andy Kozun – Meritorious Service

  • Barry Schrader – Meritorious Service

    Officiating is a passion for Barry Schrader. An integral part of any sports competition and one that comes under scrutiny more often than not, Schrader enjoys being part of the game, treating people respectfully and doing it with a smile, most times.

    A golfing accident when he was 12 cost Schrader the sight in his right eye, limiting advancement in officiating to a high level, so he has concentrated on the grassroots of developing minor officials in Prince Albert and area for the Saskatchewan Hockey Association (SHA).

    He started officiating hockey in 1970 at the age of 14 but soon quit due to the abuse of officials and swore at that time he would come back someday to help young officials. He returned to officiating in 1984 and through to 2020 worked approximately 3,500 games on the ice, while supervising a further 4,000.

    In 2013, Schrader became the Female Development Coordinator for SHA making him responsible for the development and recruitment of female officials in Saskatchewan. He has helped in the development and mentoring of female officials and watched them obtain National, International and Pre-Olympic recognition. Schrader has also been instrumental in the selection of female officials for National ESSO Cups Championships, Sask Winter Games, Sask First Programs, National Aboriginal Championships. In 2013 Schrader was named the Referee-In Chief for Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA League.

    From 2011 to 2017 Schrader was assigned as Zone 8 Coordinator and responsible for the mentoring supervising & development of all male and female officials for Zone 8. He developed a strong system of supervisors throughout the zone to assist him in this process.

    Barry Schrader has been the Referee In Chief for Prince Albert (Minor) Hockey for three terms: 1988 to 1995, 2000 to 2013 and again starting in 2019. He has officiated at all levels of the game from Minor Hockey to Midget AAA, Junior B and SJHL. He also has served as a Video Goal Judge for the Prince Albert Raiders of the Western Hockey League. In 2012 Schrader received the Most Deserving Officials award from the SHA.

    In 2000 Schrader became an umpire for softball, baseball and slo-pitch in the city and has worked numerous provincial championships.

    Barry Schrader – Meritorious Service

  • Bill Watson – Builder

    Bill Watson built a winning tradition in the sport of football in Prince Albert culminating with a strong Riverside Rams team that dominated the PA League.
    Watson was born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan where he attended a one-room school from Grade 1 through 8, then moved to Luther College in Regina for his high school education. While at Luther, Watson competed in football, basketball, volleyball and track & field. Upon graduation, he enrolled in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan and played both linebacker and offensive guard for the U of S Huskies.

    His first teaching job would be at Riverside Collegiate in Prince Albert, starting a 22-year coaching career in high school sports (football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, wrestling and track & field). Football was the sport in which Watson would bring the most success to Riverside. From 1965 until 1975 (when it ceased to exist as a Division 4 school, Watson-coached Rams teams, winning the city championship 7 times from 1967-1973. The league consisted of PACI, St. Mary, PA Tech, PA Composite, North Battleford and Melfort. During those 7 years the Rams reached the northern Saskatchewan 3A finals every year except one.

    The highlight was the 1970 Riverside Rams who won the provincial 3A title, Prince Albert’s first crown in 12-man football, resulting in that team being inducted into the PA Sports Hall of Fame in 2008, The Rams also reach the provincial 3A Finals in 1972 and 1973.

    With the opening of Carlton Comprehensive High School, Watson was transferred there where he would lead the football teams to the provincial finals in 1980 and 1984. He retired from coaching in 1986 and was the recipient of the Prince Albert Sportsman of the Year in 1987.

    However, it was not the success on the field that is the true measure of Bill Watson. It was his attitude as a person and the way he molded countless young men over the two decades which are a better representation as many players sustained personal relationships with Watson.

    Bill Watson brought success to his football teams, school and community through hard work and dedication. He taught players to work hard through commitment, to be a good teammate, to be dedicated and to pursue personal excellence in both athletics and education.

    Bill Watson passed away March 19, 2017.

    Bill Watson – Builder

  • Dalyce Emmerson – Athlete

    Dalyce Emmerson is one of the most prolific basketball players Prince Albert has produced. She was a multi-sport athlete who excelled in soccer, volleyball and basketball.

    She was a member of the Prince Albert Celtic Provincial Champion teams in 2005 and 2006 and competed at soccer club nationals both years. Emmerson also represented Saskatchewan as a member of provincial volleyball teams from 2007 until 2010 and competed at national and international competitions each of those years. This versatile athlete was recruited for volleyball by multiple Canadian and American universities, but ultimately chose to play basketball at the University of Saskatchewan.

    After competing for Prince Albert Collegiate when she was in grade 9, Emmerson moved to Carlton and played on the Senior Girls’ Basketball and Volleyball teams from 2008-11. Each year the Crusaders competed at SHSAA provincials in volleyball, winning silver in 2010. The Crusader basketball team also attended Hoopla in each of her years winning bronze in 2009 and gold in 2010. She was the Carlton Junior Athlete of the Year in 2009, a co-winner of the Senior Athlete of the Year in 2010 and the Senior Athlete of the Year in 2011.

    Under the coaching of Lisa Thomadis at the University of Saskatchewan, Emmerson would become one of the most dominant players in Huskies history. She would end her career in the top ten all-time in the Canada West Basketball conference in points scored, rebounds, rebounds per game, blocked shots and blocked shots per game. She set the Canada West record for most blocked shots per game in a season in 2013-14 and holds the conference single game record for most blocked shots in a game.

    Emmerson was recognized throughout her career with several Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), Canada West and University of Saskatchewan awards. She was a Rookie All-Canadian, the Canada West Rookie of the Year and the U of S Rookie of the Year (for all sports) in 2011-12. She earned the Defensive and Most Outstanding Player Award for Canada West and was a CIS All-Canadian and Defensive All-Canadian in 2013-14. In 2013-14 she was also recognized as the University of Saskatchewan Female Athlete of the Year. She was a First or Second Team Canada West All-Star in each of her five years. During her career she had 43 games scoring double digit points and double digit rebounds, 3rd all-time in Canada West history.

    The final year of Dalyce Emmerson’s career, 2015-16, ended with the Huskies winning the elusive Bronze Baby trophy as National Champions. At the Nationals in Fredericton, Emmerson was named a tournament All-Star and the Most Valuable Player. She finished her distinguished career named as the University of Saskatchewan’s All-Around Female Athlete of the Year in 2015-16.
    In 2013 Emmerson wore the Red and White of Team Canada as a member of the National Developmental Team at the Universiade Games in Kazan, Russia.

    After graduating from the U of S with her Kinesiology degree and from Saskatchewan Polytechnic as a dental hygienist, Emmerson returned to Prince Albert. She immediately started giving back as an assistant coach with the Carlton basketball team and with the Prince Albert Optimist Toppers Volleyball Club.

    Dalyce Emmerson – Athlete

  • Dwayne Gareau – Athlete

    A talented athlete in a variety of sports, Dwayne Gareau focused on soccer through University and eventually played professional soccer. However, Gareau was known for his prowess on more than just the soccer pitch in Prince Albert.

    As a youngster growing up in PA, Gareau played both hockey and soccer. On the ice, he led the Zone 3 Blackhawks to the 1992-93 Pee Wee Tier B Provincial Championship. He also played developmental hockey with the Bantam AA Venice House Pirates.

    Gareau started with the Prince Albert Youth Soccer Association at age six. At the age of 12, he started his career with the Celtic developmental program and played on the 1992 Zone 8 Summer Games gold medal team. He played on the provincial team from 1994-98 including the 1997 Canada Summer Games team in Brandon. In 1998, Gareau took part in the Western Elite All Star team program.

    His high school days at St. Mary were tremendously busy as Gareau would participate in soccer, volleyball, basketball and track & field. In 1997 he was named the MVP of the Marauder volleyball team that won the SHSAA championship. In basketball he was the captain of the semi-finalist St. Mary team at 5A provincials and also was the MVP on that squad. He also won bronze in the long jump at track and field provincials and was an obvious choice for the St. Mary male athlete of the year in 1997.

    Soccer would be the sport Gareau pursued at the post secondary level, playing for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. He was team captain and Canada west all-star in his last two years at the U of S. From there he went on to play with the Calgary Storm of the USLA League in 2003. He also was a member of the HUSA Soccer team that dominated Saskatchewan men’s play winning provincial titles from 2004-2018. In 2011, the HUSA team became the first Saskatchewan senior men’s team to win a Canadian title.

    Dwayne Gareau now gives back to the sports and high school where it all began as he has taught at St. Mary since 2004. He has coached senior boys soccer and senior girls basketball since 2006.

    Dwayne Gareau – Athlete