Podcasts about alberta sports hall

Guest: Mike Johnson, Former Montreal Expos pitcher and 2023 Inductee, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Dr. Randy Gregg, Former Edmonton Oilers Defenseman, Five-Time Stanley Cup Champion, Current Managing Director, Edmonton Riverhawks, and 2022 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Inductee. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whether we warrant it or not, feelings of anxiety can happen to anyone, at any given time andcan get in the way of us truly enjoying life the way we are meant to. Lend an ear as we chat with Alberta Sports Hall of Famer Cody Snyder of Cody Snyder Charity Bullbustin to discuss ways we can control our anxiety and welcome Communications Lead, David Gabert as we celebrate the launch of CMHA Recovery College Lethbridge. What does anxiety have in common with fear? Tune in to find out! #Turni2Wecmha.calgary.ab.ca/balance-blogrecoverycollegelethbridge.cacodysnyderbullbustin.comtypozzobon.comcalgarycac.cadiamondneedles.cafreesound.orgSupport the show (https://secure.cmha.calgary.ab.ca/donate)

In this episode, Debbi Wilkes chats with Mike Slipchuk, 1992 Olympian & Canadian Champion, Skate Canada's High Performance Director and Alberta Sports Hall of Fame & Museum member. Edmonton native Michael Slipchuk has been involved in the development of skating champions for the past 20 years. He brought his considerable experience as a competitor and coach to the role of High Performance Director when he joined Skate Canada in 2007. One of Slipchuk’s first priorities was to create a strong support network for Canadian skaters.  He has assembled a team of physical therapists, sport psychologists, nutritional specialists, and strength and conditioning experts to provide their individual expertise to the elite level skaters.  He has also re-ignited the strong Canadian team concept when groups of skaters assemble to represent the country at international events. Since he began in this position, Canadian athletes have won 25 world medals and nine Olympic medals, including 10 world titles and three Olympic gold medals. Slipchuk was Canadian men’s senior champion in 1992 and represented Canada at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games, where he placed ninth.  He retired from competitive skating after the 1992 Olympics to focus on coaching young skaters. Certified as an NCCP (National Coaching Certificate Program) Level Four coach he trained skaters who competed at national and international levels while also leading coaching seminars across the country. He was named head coach at the Glencoe Club in Calgary, Alberta in 1995, a position he held until he joined Skate Canada. An early proponent of figure skating’s revamped judging system, in 2004 Slipchuk began serving at Grand Prix events as an ISU (International Skating Union) Technical Specialist. In 2006 he was assigned to the first Olympic Winter Games where the system was used in Torino, Italy. That same year he was also on the technical panel for the women’s event at the ISU World Championships in Calgary.  His final event as a Technical Specialist before joining Skate Canada was the 2007 ISU Junior World Championships (Men’s) in Oberstdorf, Germany. The City of Edmonton honoured Slipchuk with the Salute to Excellence (1983), Award of Excellence (1992).  He was inducted into the city’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2012, he was recognized by the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, inducted as both an athlete and a builder.

Donna Hateley of the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame & Museum speaks about the class of 2018 which was inducted on Friday evening in Red Deer.

Synchronized swimmer Helen Vanderburg Shaw is born in Calgary, Alberta. Helen Vanderburg Shaw was born in Calgary, Alberta on January 12, 1959. From an early age, she showed amazing talent as a synchronized swimmer. In 1973, Vanderburg Shaw won the Canadian Junior Championships; in 1977 she took first place at the Pan Pacific Games and earned six gold medals at the Canadian Championships. But Calgary’s phenomenal teen swimmer was just warming up. In 1978 at the World Aquatic Games in Berlin, she became the first Canadian to win the World Championships, taking gold medals in both the solo and duet events. In fact, with partner Michelle Caulkins, she was the first non-American to win both events in the same competition. She repeated her win the next year at the 1979 Pan Am Games in Puerto Rico, and at the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Cup in Tokyo. Vanderburg Shaw was elected Canada’s Female Athlete of the Year in both 1978 and 1979. She was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1980, and into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1983. In 1979, at the tender age of 20, Vanderburg Shaw retired from professional sport and earned a degree in physical education. She’s now a businesswoman in the physical fitness industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ron Northcott was Alberta curling in the 1960s.  From 1963 to 1969, Ron (AKA "The Owl") won the Alberta Tankard six times, five as a skip.  He went on to win the Macdonald Brier in three of those appearances, ('66,'68 and '69) following each with a victory at the World Championship, including the first ever Air Canada Silver Broom in 1968.  Those Brier championship rinks each had a different third (George Fink, Jimmy Shields and Dave Gerlach), but the dominant front end of lead Fred Storey and second Bernie Sparkes were there to set up every end and sweep every last rock.  Ron will share his thoughts on some of those great final shots, along with his approach to strategy and early use of the corner guard.  We'll discuss Pee Wee Pickering, Hec Gervais, Ray Kingsmith, Warren Hansen, and Sam Richardson, in likely the greatest Curling Legends example of gamesmanship... in an elevator.   For more on Ron Northcott, check out  "The Brier" by Bob Weeks, "Curling: The History, The Players, The Game" by Warren Hansen, and "The Stone Age" by Vera Pezer.  Curling Canada has historical videos from the 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 Macdonald Briers available on YouTube.  Ron is joined on stage by the Richardsons during the World Mens Curling Championship in 2009 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4).  There's also a short interview with Ron as part of the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.