FOR RELEASE: Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.
Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame
Announces the Class of 2021
The Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame (SSHF) is pleased to announce the eight (8) inductees who will
become the newest members of the SSHF. The Class of 2021 features five inductees in the athlete
category, one in the builder category and two teams. This class was selected in 2020, however their
induction was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will be officially enshrined at such a time
that is appropriate and allows for safe communal gathering while following all provincial health guidelines.
The SSHF Board has determined that there will not be an induction in 2021. We look forward to
announcing an induction date when the above parameters are met.
The 2021 inductees are:
IN THE ATHLETE CATEGORY:
Justin Abdou (Moose Jaw) – Wrestling
Rod Boll (Fillmore)–Trapshooting
Colette Bourgonje (Porcupine Plain) – Track and Cross-Country Skiing
Kaylyn Kyle (Saskatoon) –Soccer
Lyndon Rush (Humboldt) –Bobsleigh
IN THE BUILDER CATEGORY:
Shannon Miller (Tisdale) – Hockey
IN THE TEAM CATEGORY:
2000-01 University of Regina Cougars Women’s Basketball Team
2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders Football Club
For more information contact:
Matthew Gourlie, Communications Coordinator, (306) 780-9203; mgourlie@sshfm.com
Sheila Kelly, Executive Director, (306) 780-9233; skelly@sshfm.com or

Justin Abdou
Athlete: Wrestling
Moose Jaw
• Competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games where he finished 13th in the men’s
freestyle 85 kg competition.
• Won the gold medal in the Middleweight division at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in
Victoria, B.C.
• Finished fourth at the 1995 Pan-American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
• Won nine Canadian national championships between 1990 and 2001.
• Was a member of the Canadian national wrestling team for 13 years from 1988 to 2001.
• Won the World Cadet Championship in 1987.
• Finished first in 15 international competitions over his career.
• Won gold in the 163-pound weight class while representing Saskatchewan at the 1987
Canada Winter Games in Sydney, N.S. and repeated the feat by winning gold in the 180-
pound weight class at the 1989 Jeux du Canada Summer Games in Saskatoon.
• Four-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national champion in
the 177-pound class and four-time All-American from 1990-93.
o Named the NAIA’s Outstanding Wrestler at the 1993 NAIA national
championships as Simon Fraser University won the NAIA national championship
o Holds the Simon Fraser University all-time record for wins by a wrestler with
212.
• 1990 Sask Sport Athlete of the Year
• Won four consecutive Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association (SHSAA)
provincial championships from 1986-1989 representing Moose Jaw Central Collegiate.
• Won Saskatchewan Amateur Wrestling Association (SAWA) age group provincial
championship from 1984-1989 as a member of the Moose Jaw Wrestling Club
• Was a nine-time age-group national champion from 1984 to 1991. He won titles in the
School Boy, Cadet, Juvenile, and Junior age groups.
• Inducted into the:
o National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame (2000)
o Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association (CAWA) Hall of Fame (2007)
o Simon Fraser University Hall of Fame (2016)
o Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame (2005)
o Moose Jaw and District Sports Hall of Fame (2015)
• Since retiring in 2001, Abdou has been the head coach at Simon Fraser University.

Rod Boll
Athlete: Trapshooting
Fillmore
International Style Trap – International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)
• 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games
o Finished tied for 19th with a score of 130 (out of 150) in the men’s double trap
competition as the double trap made its Olympic debut
• Canadian National ‘A’ Team Member from 1993 to 2005.
• Pan-American Games: Team Gold; Individual bronze – Buenos Aires, Argentina 1995.
• ISSF Medals won – 4 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze.
• World Cup:
o Individual gold, team silver, Cuba 1994.
o Team bronze, Lima, Peru 1995.
o Individual bronze, Lima, Peru 1996.
• World Cup finals: bronze Monticatini, Italy 1996.
• Championships of the Americas: Bronze, Puerto Rico, 2005.
• Canadian International Trapshooting Championship
o Double trap: gold four times (1995, 2000, 2004, 2006)
o Silver four times (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998)
o Bronze four times (1993, 1999, 2001, 2002)
Canadian Trapshooting Association (CTA) National Championships
• Won 23 major championships and one of only two shooters to win the “big five” (singles,
doubles, handicap, high all around and high overall) at the CTA Championship since its
inception in 1956.
• High overall champion five times (1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1991) and high all-around
champion seven times (1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1991).
North American Style Trap – Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA)
• Won 1988 Champion of Champions with a record score. Won six titles, finished second
three times and third once.
Saskatchewan International Trap Championships
• Double Trap: gold (1993, 2005); Single Trap: silver (1990), bronze (1979, 1983, 1989)
Saskatchewan Amateur Trap Association
• Won 47 different championships, was 11-time high overall champion and seven-time
high all-around champion.
• Western Canada Summer Games: gold medal (1979), silver medal (1983), bronze medal
(1990) (also team captain).

Colette Bourgonje
Athlete: Track and Cross-Country Skiing
Porcupine Plain
• Competed nationally in cross-country running in high school before a serious car accident
left her paraplegic six weeks before her high school graduation in 1980.
• Attended seven Winter Paralympic Games and three Summer Paralympic Games
• Over those 10 Paralympic Games, Bourgonje won 10 medals – three silver medals and
seven bronze medals.
o Barcelona 1992: two bronze in 100-metre, 800m wheelchair race
o Atlanta 1996: two bronze in 100m and 200m wheelchair race
o Nagano 1998: two silver in 2.5-kilometre and 5km Para-Nordic sit ski.
o Torino 2006: two bronze in 5km freestyle and 10km classic Para-Nordic
ski
o Vancouver 2010: a silver in the 10km Para-Nordic sit ski and a bronze in
5km classic Para-Nordic sit ski
• Made her Winter Paralympic debut in 1994 in Lillehammer and finished fourth in all
three of her events.
• She carried the Canadian flag at the closing ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Paralympics in
Nagano and again at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Torino.
• Her silver at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics was the first by a Canadian
Paralympian on home soil.
• During the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympic closing ceremonies, Bourgonje received
the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award given to an individual at each Paralympics who
conquered adversities through the pursuit of excellence in sport.
• One of only 136 people worldwide to compete in both summer and winter Paralympic
Games, one of only five of those to win a medal in each.
• One of three Canadians to medal in a summer and winter Olympics.
• Won gold in the 800m wheelchair race at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland,
New Zealand where wheelchair racing was a demonstration sport.
• Won gold medals at World Cup competitions in 2010 and 2011.
• Inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (2019, athlete); the Canadian Disability Hall
of Fame (2010, athlete) and the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame (1998, athlete).
• Canadian Paraplegic Association Female Athlete of the Year (2002); Sask Sport Female
Athlete of the Year (2011).

Kaylyn Kyle
Athlete: Soccer
Saskatoon
• Won a bronze medal with the Canadian women’s soccer team at the 2012 London
Olympic Games appearing in all six of Canada’s matches.
• Competed at two Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s
World Cups
o She played in all five of Canada’s matches as they finished fifth at the 2015 FIFA
World Cup which Canada hosted.
o Made her World Cup debut at the 2011 FIFA World Cup in Germany where she
started all three of Canada’s matches in the midfield.
• Became the 14th player to break the 100-appearance mark with the Canadian women’s
national team during an international career that spanned from 2008-2017. She played
in 62 consecutive matches for Canada, at the time the second-longest streak in Canadian
women’s national team history.
• Won a gold medal with Canada at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
• Won the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
(CONCACAF) under-20 championship in 2008 in Puebla, Mexico.
• Competed in the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Championship in 2006 in Russia
(scoring Canada’s first goal of the tournament) and again in 2008 in Chile. She was also
part of the Canadian team that won the Cypress Cup in 2008 and 2011.
• Won the United Soccer League’s W-League with the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2006.
o She spent the 2009 season in the Swedish top-flight with Pitea IF.
o Spent six seasons in the W-League with the Whitecaps (2006-08, 2010-12)
o Kyle finished her professional career in the National Women’s Soccer League
(NWSL) from 2013-16:
o She spent 2013 with Seattle Reign FC where she scored three goals while playing
as a defender.
o She began 2014 with the Boston Breakers before moving to the Houston Dash.
o She spent 2015 with Portland Thorns FC and concluded her pro career in 2016
with the Orlando Pride.
• Spent one season with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in USports in 2006.
• Played for Saskatchewan at the 2005 Jeux du Canada Games in Regina.
• SaskSport Athlete of the Year in 2012.

Shannon Miller
Builder: Hockey
Tisdale
• Head coach of the Canadian women’s national hockey team from 1995-98.
o Won silver medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics as women’s hockey made its
Olympic debut. Was the only female head coach at the Games.
o Won 1997 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship.
o Won 3 Nations Cup in 1996.
o Won Pacific Rim Cup in 1995 & 1996.
• Assistant coach for Canadian women’s national team which won 1992 and 1994 IIHF
World Championship.
• University of Minnesota-Duluth women’s hockey head coach from 1998-2015.
o Won five National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles in 2001, 2002,
2003, 2008 and 2010 (the most among NCAA Division I head coaches for NCAA
titles).
o Won four Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) titles and made 10
NCAA playoff appearances.
o Coached 26 Olympians and 12 First-team All-Americans.
• Founded the Olympic Oval High-Performance Training Program in 1995.
o The first high-performance training program for female hockey players.
o Hired, trained and managed six personnel and directed all aspects of the program
which drew elite players from around the world.
o Was the first coach of the Calgary Oval X-Treme.
• Head coach of Calgary Inferno in Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) in 2018.
• Won gold with 1991 Canada Winter Games as women’s hockey made its debut.
• Worked with the Russian Ice Hockey Federation as a coaching mentor for their women’s
national team in all aspects of planning and preparing for the 2012 & 2013 IIHF World
Championships and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
• After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in 1985 joined the Calgary Police
Service and began the first girl’s hockey team in the city with two other women. It took
two-years to break down the barriers to get the team created and sanctioned to play in
Alberta.
• Represented Saskatchewan on the Canadian Hockey Female Council (1985-87) as a
volunteer administrator.
• Volunteer Chair of Women’s Hockey, Saskatchewan (1985-87).

Lyndon Rush
Athlete: Bobsleigh
Humboldt
• Competed at two Winter Olympic Games:
o In 2010 in Vancouver piloted Canada’s four-man bobsled team of himself, David
Bissett, Lascelles Brown and Chris le Bihan to a bronze medal.
o Was in medal contention in two-man bobsled with Lascelles Brown but they
crashed in a qualifying round.
o At 2014 Sochi Olympics piloted his teams to ninth place finishes in both the twoman and four-man bobsled events.
• Won the 2012-13 World Cup tour overall two-man bobsled title as pilot with Jesse
Lumsden.
• Silver medal finish at the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing
(FIBT) World Championships in the two-man bobsled with Jesse Lumsden in 2012.
• Won three medals at the FIBT World Championships’ mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team
event:
o Silver medal in 2008 (Altenberg, Germany), and bronze medals in 2011
(Königssee, Germany) and 2013 (St. Moritz, Switzerland).
• Won 21 medals on the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup
tour: eight gold, four silver and nine bronze.
• Sask Sport Male Athlete of the Year in 2013.
• Played football at the University of Saskatchewan from 2001-2005.
o Was named a Canada West all-star at defensive end in 2003.
o With the Huskies played in a pair of Vanier Cups in 2002 and 2005 but did not
win a national title.
• Has continued to give back to the sport as a coach following his retirement. He coached
Justin Kripps and Alex Kopacz to a gold medal in the two-man bobsled at the 2018
Pyeonchang Winter Olympics.

2000-01 University of Regina Cougars
Team: Women’s Basketball
• Won the University of Regina its first Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU,
now USports) basketball title.
• The Cougars beat the University of Alberta Pandas 94-85 in the final in Edmonton on
their home floor. Heather (Dedman) McMurray had 24 points in the final. The Cougars’
94 points is the most ever scored in a women’s national final, a record that still stands.
Seven Cougars scored 10 or more points in the final.
• The Cougars concluded the season having won 14 straight games.
• The Cougars won the national semifinal 71-67 over the University of Calgary Dinos and
beat the McMaster University Marauders 93-49 in the quarter-final at the CIAU Elite
Eight Tournament.
• The Cougars swept the University of Manitoba Bisons in two games to win the Great
Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) championship.
• Heather (Dedman) McMurray hit a buzzer-beating shot in the second game to give the
Cougars a 61-60 win over the Bisons and claim their third-straight GPAC title.
o The Cougars won the first game of the series 88-60 as Cymone (Bouchard)
Bernauer scored 22 points.
• The Cougars posted a 20-2 regular season record. Their overall record was 30-5 on the
season.
• The Cougars earned a number of individual honours
o Cymone (Bouchard) Bernauer was named the CIAU Championship Tournament’s
Most Valuable Player. She and Heather (Dedman) McMurray were also both
selected to the CIAU Championship Tournament All-Star Team.
o Corrin Wersta was a second-team CIAU All-Canadian.
o Christine Stapleton was named the GPAC Coach of the Year.
o Corrin Wersta and Bree Burgess were first-team All-GPAC all-stars. Cymone
(Bouchard) Bernauer was a second-team All-GPAC all-star.
• The Cougars were named the Sask Sport Team of the Year in 2001.
• Corrin Wersta (1998-99) and Cymone (Bouchard) Bernauer (2003-04) both received the
Nan Copp Award as the top women’s university basketball player in the country.
• Cymone (Bouchard) Bernauer is the Cougars women’s program’s all-time leading scorer
with 1,439 points in 96 games.

2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders
Team: Football
• Won the 2013 Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League championship game, by a 45-23
score over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field in Regina.
• The 101st Grey Cup was the final Grey Cup to be played at the historic stadium and it was
the first time the Roughriders played in a home Grey Cup.
o Running back Kory Sheets was named the Grey Cup’s Most Valuable Player after
setting a Grey Cup record with 197 rushing yards. He also had two touchdowns.
o Regina native Chris Getzlaf was named the Grey Cup’s Most Valuable Canadian
after he caught three passes for 78 yards.
o Geroy Simon caught two touchdown passes in the Grey Cup which proved to be
his final CFL game before retiring.
• During the playoffs, Roughriders quarterback Darian Durant completed 60 of 77 pass
attempts for 795 yards and he also threw eight touchdown passes and no interceptions
over the three games.
• The Roughriders finished the season with an 11-7 record, good for second place in the
CFL’s West Division.
• In the playoffs, they defeated the B.C. Lions 29-25 in the West Semifinal in Regina.
Durant rushed for 76 yards in the fourth quarter (part of a game-high 97 yards rushing)
to help spark the Riders’ comeback as they scored 13 unanswered points in the final
frame to advance to the West Final.
• The Roughriders beat the Calgary Stampeders 35-13 in the West Final in Calgary. Sheets
had 177 yards rushing and a touchdown, while Weston Dressler added 116 yards
receiving and a touchdown in the victory.
• It was an up-and-down regular season for the Roughriders who won their first five
games and had an 8-1 record at the midway point of the season. It was their best record
after nine games in franchise history. They lost four straight games before rallying to win
three in a row before dropping their final two games heading into the playoffs.
• Brendon LaBatte was named the CFL’s Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman. Corey
Chamblin won the Annis Stukus Trophy as the CFL’s Coach of the Year.
• Kory Sheets (RB), Weston Dressler (SB), Brendon LaBatte (G) and Alex Hall (DE) were
all named CFL first-team all-stars. That quartet plus Darian Durant (QB), Chris Getzlaf
(SB), Tearrius George (DT), Dwight Anderson (DB) and Tyron Brackenridge (S) were all
named to the West Division all-star team.

Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame (SSHF)
The Hall of Fame was established to honour outstanding Saskatchewan athletes, championship teams and
sport builders, as well as preserving the history of Saskatchewan sport.
History at a glance:
• 1966 – the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada-Saskatchewan Branch and the Molson Brewery partnered to
form the Molson Sports Hall of Fame. This was located in the Molson’s Hospitality House (on Dewdney
Avenue).
• 1974 – renamed the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame as they joined the Sask Sports groups on South
Railway Street (now Saskatchewan Drive)
• 1979 – the SSHF relocated to the current location at 2205 Victoria Avenue (the old Land Titles Building
which is designated as a Heritage property)
• 1981 & 1990 – incorporated under the Non-profit Corporations Act
• 2016 – celebrated our 50th anniversary
About Us:
• There are 535 inductees in the Hall of Fame (including the 2021 Induction Class)
o 244 athletes
o 164 builders
o 127 championship teams
• 52 sports are represented in the Hall of Fame
• Our collection contains more than 19,000 sport artifacts and archives
• There are more than 19,050 digitized scans of items within the permanent collection.