The Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame induction will take place at the Algonquin Theatre on September 20 at 7 p.m.
This year’s inductees are:
Athletes:
Brad Rhiness – Pro Hockey
Barry Brear – Lacrosse
Builders:
Bob Litchfield – Sports Medicine
Mary Spring – Nordic Skiing
The Forester Press (1877 – 2005) – Community sports support & coverage
Bill Waterhouse and Ed Seagram
Development of Hidden Valley Ski venue
Team:
Cheryl McKenzie and Brenda Hoffman – Doubles Badminton
Awards Winners:
Jan Glenn Award, U11Huntsville Sting Girls Hockey Team (Good Deeds Cup finalists)
Mike Greaves Award, Tyler Geveart – Kayaker (Olympic hopeful)
Peter Jacob Award, Peter Haynes- Muskoka Hornets Baseball
President of the Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame Wendy McConnell said the public is invited to nominate local players, builders and teams they feel are deserving of being in the Hall.
After the community nominations are in, McConnell and her committee of nine people vet them.
“Each of us come up with five names that we feel are deserving of going in that year,” said McConnell. “And through sort of a process of elimination, we have to state our case for each one of our five people that’d we’d like to nominate and we scale it down.”
McConnell says they are hoping for a good turn out at this year’s ceremony.
“We really want these people [the inductees] to feel that they’ve accomplished greatness in this community and the community is behind them one hundred percent,” she said.
For more information on this year’s inductees, visit Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame – Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame
