By Nolan Kowal, Sport Performance Specialist
Class of 2018
This year’s individual recipients in the Athlete category include: a decorated blind Paralympic swimmer, the all-time WHA leader in goalie games played, wins and playoff wins, a seven-time national speed skating champion, a two-time world curling champion, and an international basketball phenom.
The Builder category is made up of a former president of the Canadian Handball Association and a boxing official who’s a judge, jury member, and technical delegate and official for the International Boxing Association.
The only Manitoba ladies golf team to win the Canadian Ladies Amateur Team title rounds out this year’s slate of inductees.
Don Brownell* Handball – Builder
Kirby Cote
Swimming – Athlete
Joe Daley
Hockey – Athlete
Nieva Embuldeniya
Boxing – Builder
Donna (McCannell) Keating
Speed Skating – Athlete
Jeff Stoughton
Curling – Athlete
Joey Vickery
Basketball – Athlete
1962 Manitoba Ladies Golf Team
Marg (Kiggins) Homenuik
Heather (Lawrence) Telfer
Anne Tachan
Merlene (Wach) Netterfield
* inducted posthumously
