Cara Currie Hall

Cara is one of Canada’s premiere indigenous sports advocates, leaders, and builders who has dedicated her life to the recognition and advancement of indigenous sports provincially, nationally, and internationally. She was a founding board member of the Indigenous Sport Council of Alberta, World Indigenous National Sports international, Aboriginal Sport Circle and the Alberta Sports Recreation Park & Wildlife Board. She has sat on the board for the Canadian Association of the Advancement of Women in Sport. Cara was instrumental in the founding of the North American Ingenious Games and was the founder the National Aboriginal Coaching School. Her years of advocacy work on behalf of indigenous athletes has positively impacted the future of sports.

Allan Ferchuk

Allan Ferchuk has devoted over 50 years of his life to sport in Alberta, with a focus on its positive outcomes on community and post-secondary education development. Ferchuk has coached hockey, both men and women and multiple levels winning national men’s gold in 1977,79 and 80. He has served multiple voluntary leadership roles including President of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference and the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association and chair Hockey Development Canada. Allan was key to the introduction of women’s hockey and soccer into the Alberta Colleges. He has volunteered his time to many community efforts including director on the Board of 2019 Canada Winter Games and Chairperson of the prime Games legacy, Central Sport.

Greg Peterson

Greg Peterson truly embodies the sport of football. He was born and raised in Calgary and spent his entire minor football career playing in the Calgary minor football system. After his college football career at Brigham Young University, he was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders and spent his entire nine years as a player with the Stampeders. In 1990 he was a CFL All Canadian All Star and in 1992 he was a Grey Cup Championship. Upon his retirement he spent more than 30 years coaching and managing amateur football in Calgary. He was one of the initiators and a driving force in the multimillion-dollar construction of the three artificial turf fields, the stands, locker rooms, and amenities at Shouldice Athletic Park. He and Tony Spoletini were also the initiators and forces behind the construction of the indoor dome at Shouldice Athletic Park. Rounding out his sports career he has served as the color commentator and analyst on the Calgary Stampeder radio broadcast for the past 26 years.

Lauralyn (Lyn) Radford

Red Deer native, Lauralyn (Lyn) Radford, has made a name for herself in the sporting community. She has dedicated her life to bringing world class sporting events to her community and rallying those around her into action to make these events a success. Some of the events she is responsible for include the 2004 & 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, 2006 Alberta Summer Games, 2013 inaugural Tour of Alberta Cycling race, and the 2019 Canada Winter Games. She is past board member of Speed Skating Canada and currently sitting as a board member of the Canada Game’s Council.

Wilf Brooks

One of Wilf’s strongest assets in community has been to use sport as a means for helping others achieve their goals. Wilf has a passion for identifying community strengths and resources and leveraging these to benefit others. Often navigating from his position in the local business community, Wilf has invested his energy, knowledge, and enthusiasm into countless initiatives over the past 60 years. From one time pilot projects to enduring organizations, he is proud to have served in the following: collaborating in the founding of Sport Central, partnering in the creation of the Calling Lake Hockey program and development, and supporting countless initiatives with Hockey Alberta, sharing leadership of the ‘Rink of Dreams’ project. A great deal of his learning came from time spent, focused in Calling Lake and other remote communities.

Mark Stephen

Mark Stephen's voice is known to many as one of the voices of the Calgary Stampeders. Since 1996 Stephen has done play-by-play of Calgary Stampeder games with former Stampeder Greg Peterson to form the longest-serving broadcast tandem in CFL history. Mark has also been the national broadcaster for four Grey Cup games. He also broadcast Calgary Roughnecks for Shaw TV, did play-by-play for the Triple-A baseball Calgary Cannons and the Western Hockey League Calgary Wranglers as well as various Calgary City High School Athletic Association games.

Dr. Marcus Dunsworth

Marcus Dunsworth was an amazing multisport athlete. He was a 14-time city of Edmonton Champion in Tennis and Handball. 14-time Provincial champion in Tennis, Football, Basketball, and track. Dunsworth was a 2-time Western Canada Tennis Champion, a two-time Western Canada Basketball Champion, and two-time Grey Cup finalist. To have accomplished all of this between 1918 and 1938 when travel and financial assistance to sports with difficult was only goes to highlight his athletic abilities.

Olds Grizzlys 1991-1994 Hockey Team

The Taber Golden Suns moved to Olds and became the Grizzlys for the 1981-82 season and in their 10th season in Olds they won their first AJHL Championship. The first of 3 AJHL Championships in a row! The Olds Grizzlys remain as one of only 2 teams to win the AJHL Championship 3 years in a row, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94. Coached and managed by Bob Clark, Chris Stewart, and Cliff Murphy for all 3 championships.

Rod Phillips

Rod Phillips was the "Voice of the Edmonton Oilers" play-by-play action for 37 years from 1973 to 2011.  Rod had the best seat in the house while calling the record-setting play of the Oilers. His trademark Scooooore's was often heard over the airwaves in an era when TV coverage was very limited.  He WAS the eyes, ears, and voice for hockey fans. 

Shelley Vettese-Baert

Shelley is a trailblazer in Taekwondo achieving mastery in both sparring and Poomsae. She has earned accolades on the global stage, receiving a Bronze at the World Cup in Spain, 1990, Silver at the World Cup in Yugoslavia, 1991, and Bronze at the Olympic Games in Spain, 1992. She was the first Canadian medalist at the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Russia, 2011, and repeated her success in 2013 in Indonesia. With a 6th Degree Black Belt, Shelley’s dedication to her sport has earned her a place in the Canadian Taekwondo Hall of Fame. She also hold the distinction of being the first Taekwondo athlete inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.