Jack Neumann

Jack Neumann’s dedication to amateur athletics has made a positive and valuable impact on thousands of Albertans for three decades. He was a volunteer statistician for the Calgary Canucks in the AJHL, and an accountant in the WHL in the 1970s. He has been the University of Calgary Dinos Sports Information Director since 1978. From 1990 through 1992, Jack was the first Canadian to serve on board of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). He received six CoSIDA publications awards. Jack was a founding member of the Association of Canadian University Sports Information Directors, and served as the group’s president in 1982-83.

George Stothart

George was born deaf and was a multi-sport athlete, coach, and leader in the growth of the deaf sports. He became Alberta’ longest serving basketball official (64 years). George played football at the High School, University and Junior levels, basketball at SAIT, and fastball with the deaf team ‘The Flying Fingers’. He competed at the World Deaf Games on Canada’s Basketball Team in 1965 and 1973, and in the 400m race in 1969. George helped found the Edmonton Tasmanian Devils deaf slo-pitch team, the Edmonton Deaf Basketball team, and served on the board of Federation of Silent Sports of Alberta (predecessor of Alberta Deaf Sports Association).

Sutter Brothers

Viking, Alberta, the home of Brian, Darryl, Duane, Brent, Rich, and Ron Sutter - the most famous brother act in the National Hockey League. All six Sutter's grew up and played their minor hockey in Viking, before playing Tier II Junior hockey with the AJHL Red Deer Rustlers. The "Sutter Six" all eventually made their mark in the NHL. Duane won four Stanley Cup Championships and Brent won two, all with the New York Islanders. After their playing days, the Sutter's continued to work in hockey – as coaches, scouts, general managers and as a team owner.

Edward 'Ted" Thomas

Edward "Ted" Thomas volunteered for more than twenty-five years and committed thousands of hours to the sport of swimming. He developed swimming at the club level with the Killarney Swim Club in Calgary and the Jasper Place Swim Club in Edmonton. Ted put Alberta Swimming on the map by competing and winning against teams with professional coaches. Ted was president of the Alberta Coaches Council and the Canadian Swim Coaches Association. He was part of the 1968 Mexico City and 1972 Munich Olympic coaching staff, was the Pan Am coach in 1971, and with the Canadian Tour Team that went to China in 1974.

David Williams

Dave Williams was an active board member with the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum for nine years. He was a founder of the Edmonton Gold Bar Lacrosse Club and the Edmonton St. Mikes Hockey School. He was instrumental in establishing the Edmonton Eskimo Green and Gold Club, which provided funding for the Edmonton Junior Huskies, Junior Wildcats, and the U of A Golden Bears. He played a key role in the successful bidding for and hosting of the 1984 Grey Cup. Dave provided support for the World Figure Skating Championship, and the 1995 NHL Hockey draft while with Economic Development Edmonton.

Sharon Wood

Sharon Wood was the first North American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a feat she accomplished on May 20, 1986 at 9:00 p.m. Sharon lived in the Canadian Rockies for over twenty years where she worked as a mountain climbing and helicopter ski guide. Sharon climbed Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and conquered numerous other summits exceeding 20,000 feet. She was the recipient of the inaugural Tenzing Norqay Award as "Professional Mountaineer of the Year" from the American Alpine Club and New York's Explorer's Club.

Jason Zuback

Jason Zuback earned international fame in the field of golf as the World Long Drive Champion in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, and a second place finish in 2000. In 1997, Jason dominated every round of competition with drives of 401 yards, 415 yards, 410 yards, and 412 yards-2 feet- 3.5 inches. Jason also finished first in the International Long Drive Competition in 2001. His longest drive in competition was 463 yards and non-competition drive was 520 yards. Jason's golf swing was recorded at 163 mph (PGA Tour average is 118 mph), and his golf ball speed was recorded at 213 mph.

Deidra Dionne

Deidra Dionne was a trailblazer for Canadian athletes competing in the sport of freestyle skiing today. Born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Deidra’s skiing career took off – literally – years after she moved to Red Deer, Alberta with her family in 1982. She started skiing at the age of three but did not join the Red Deer Freestyle Club, located at Canyon Ski Resort, until almost a decade later. Under the mentorship of Murray Cluff, it wasn’t long before Deidra began excelling on a provincial, national, and eventually, international stage. Her accomplishments are exceptional: silver at the 2008 Canadian Freestyle Championships, 2000 World Cup Freestyle Rookie of the Year, bronze medals at both the 2001 and 2003 World Championships, and a bronze medal in women’s aerials at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Despite breaking her neck in a training accident in September 2005, Deidra battled back to compete at one last Olympic game in 2006.

Chris Phillips

Calgary’s Chris Phillips was a rugged, stay-at-home defenseman who patrolled the blue line for the National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators from 1997 – 2015. Drafted first overall by the Senators at the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, Chris scored 71 goals to go along with 217 assists over the course of his career. On February 5, 2015, he played in his 1,179th career regular season game with the Sens – surpassing the team record previously set by former team captain Daniel Alfredsson. The Western Hockey League’s Rookie of the Year in 1995-96, Chris was also a member of two gold-medal winning Canadian World Junior Hockey Teams, in 1996 and 1997.

Dennis Kadatz

Few people can claim to have done more for building sport throughout Alberta than Dennis Kadatz. His legacy includes an impressive coaching career that began at the age of 22, when he guided the Edmonton Huskies Junior Football Team to back-to-back national titles. It includes his work at the University of Calgary, where he was the first coach of the University of Calgary Dinosaurs Football Team, and later the university’s first athletic director. And it includes his work with the Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA), one of the most successful post-Olympic organizations in the world.