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Susan Nattrass

Susan Nattrass began her international trapshooting career with a silver medal at the 1971 Women's World Finals. She won the 1974 World Championships and set a new World record with 143 of 150 points. She shot 188 of 200 for the 1975 record. In 1977, she created a new record of 192 of 200, only to break it again in 1978 with 195 of 200. She won her fifth World Championship in 1979. From 1973 to 1978, she was captain of the Women's All-American Team. Susan was the first woman to compete in the trapshooting event at an Olympic Games (1976).


Helen Nicol

Helen Nicol began playing sports in the 1930's. For more than forty years, she competed in softball, baseball, hockey, speed skating, and golf. Helen, a pitcher, was an original member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1954. She played hockey with the Calgary Avenue Grill Chinooks, who captured both the Southern Alberta Ladies' and the Banff Winter Carnival Hockey Championships. At the 1940 Banff Winter Carnival she won the speed skating Senior Ladies' 880, setting a record of 1:39 1-5. Helen moved to Arizona in 1972 and won the Phoenix-Motorola Open golf tournament five times.


Christine Nordhagen

Christine Nordhagen, known as the Canadian pioneer of women’s wrestling, became involved in competitive wrestling while attending the University of Alberta. She competed in the 68 kg, 72 kg, and 75 kg weight classes and for twelve years was a dominating force in the wrestling world. She won ten Canadian Championships and was World Champion in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2001. She placed fifth at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Christine was the first woman inducted into the International Wrestling Federation Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association Hall of Fame.


George Normand

George Normand won six World Championship Chuckwagon Racing Titles: in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, and 1993. He began driving in 1977 and won four races that year. During his career, he set track records at Ponoka and Stettler. Most of his racing days were spent on the tracks in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. While racing at the Calgary Stampede from 1991 to 1993, he finished 2nd, 4th, and 5th in the money. George Normand died on July 2, 1994, while racing at the Ponoka Stampede. His hometown of Bonnyville erected a commemorative sign in recognition of "The Bonnyville Bullet".


Ron Northcott

Ron Northcott curled on the team from Vulcan that won the Alberta Schoolboy Championship in 1953. He then went on to capture the Alberta Men's Championship in 1963, 1964, 1966, and 1969. His team won the Canadian title at the Brier in 1966, 1968, and 1969. Each time they went on to win the World Championship as well. Ron Northcott is also a member of both the Canadian and Southern Alberta Curling Halls of Fame.


Ralf Olin

Ralf Olin was an outstanding speed skater from 1952 to 1965. He represented Canada at four Olympic Games in 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1964. Ralf Olin is a Canadian champion and held records in the 1500m, 5000m, and 10,000m during this fourteen-year period.


Scotty “Bulldog” Olson

Scotty “Bulldog” Olson boxed in the Light Flyweight division at the 1986 XIII Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, becoming the first Canadian to win a medal in the 48kg division. Scotty won six consecutive Canadian Amateur Championships. He reached the quarterfinals at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Scotty turned professional in 1990. With his knockout power in both hands and his aggressive style, he was nicknamed “Bulldog”. Scotty won the 1992 USBA/IBF Flyweight title. From 1994 to 1998, he won the International Boxing Organization World Flyweight Championship five times. He retired in 2002 with a 34-4-2 (25 KO’s) record.


Marilyn Palmer O'Connor

Marilyn Palmer O'Connor won the Alberta Ladies Championship eight times; in 1977, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1996. She won the Canadian Ladies' Amateur Open Championship in 1986. She was the Alberta Senior Ladies Champion five times and the Canadian Ladies Senior Amateur Champion in 2001, with runner-up finishes in 1997, 1999, and 2000. Marilyn was the Low Amateur at two 1972 LPGA events: the Titleholders Championship and the Bluegrass Invitational. She won the International 4-Ball Championship in 1972 and was on the winning Commonwealth match-play team in 1979.


Howard Palmer

Howard Palmer was a four-time member of the Alberta championship curling team and five times the Southern Alberta champion. He skipped the winning rink in the Centennial Championship at the Thistle Curling Club at Hamilton, Ontario in 1956. Howard Palmer skipped his Southern Alberta rink to the Dominion Curling Championship in 1941. He also played on four Alberta Brier teams.


Miles Franklin Palmer

Miles Franklin Palmer joined the Edmonton Eskimos Football Team in 1921 and was a member of the team when they played against the Toronto Argonauts in the first East-West Grey Cup game. He was selected as a Canadian All-Star. In 1924, he was the Middleweight and Lightweight Amateur Boxing Champion of Alberta and competed at the Olympic Boxing Trials in Toronto. In 1925, he won both the Alberta Light Heavyweight and the Canadian Middleweight Amateur Boxing Championships.