Sport. It’s More Than A Game. is an advocacy campaign to encourage the long-term growth and development of amateur sport in the province. Using Saskatchewan stories and people, the campaign aims to promote the benefits of sport.
It is a fundamental belief of Sask Sport – that sport IS more than just a game.
Sport promotes healthy, active lifestyles and contributes to making vibrant Saskatchewan communities. Sport brings people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds together by building lifetime relationships and teaching lessons in goal setting, time management, teamwork, leadership and how to manage emotions.
Whether an athlete, coach, official, supporter or fan, sport can fuel passion.
Rylan Wiens is from Pike Lake, Sask., and started diving when he was six-years-old. He competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and is a hopeful for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. He has won medals at both World Championship and Commonwealth Games. Rylan is proud to have stayed in Saskatchewan to train for his Olympic dream.
Keely Shaw, from Midale, won Canada’s first medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics in the women’s C4 individual time trial. She has won multiple medals on the world stage and is currently obtaining her Ph.D. at the University of Saskatchewan in exercise psychology and sport nutrition.
Rosetta Cyr plays volleyball at the University of Saskatchewan. She has also represented the province at the 2022 Canada Summer Games and the 2023 North American Indigenous Games. Rosetta is proud to represent George Gordon First Nation and be a role model for youth.
After after a snowboarding accident changed his life, Aberdeen’s Kyrell Sopotyk, a former Western Hockey League player, has found sport again through wheelchair racing and wheelchair basketball. Kyrell has won bronze at the 2022 Canada Summer Games and three gold medals at the 2023 Canadian Track & Field Championship. He has also competed internationally for Canada in wheelchair basketball.
An accomplished athlete in basketball, handball and football, Regina’s Claire Dore has found a passion in coaching. A coach in both boys and girls football, Claire knows that sport can transcend what is learned in the classroom. Claire has coached with Canada at multiple international football events.
Mason Medynski, from Saskatoon, is the co-founder of both One Love Basketball and the Living Skies Basketball League. He has experience in co-ordinating sport at the grassroots level and promoting meaningful change in communities through sport.
Alexandra Clarke is a hockey official in both men’s and women’s. From Weyburn, Alexandra has officiated at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in the Western Hockey League, in the American Hockey League and for the university hockey. She believes that being involved in sport has helped her become a better person, employee and mom.
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