Sports hall ready

INDUCTION CEREMONY MAY 6

The Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame is preparing to host its 32nd Banquet and Induction Ceremony May 6 at the Canadian Western Bank Lounge at Enmax Centre.

This year's theme is “Celebrating 60 Years of Athletics at Lethbridge College” and will feature guest speaker Todd Caughlin (Lethbridge College athletics manager) and master of ceremonies Paul Kingsmith.

This year's inductees are: the 1985 Lethbridge Senior Little League Baseball Team (team); Mike Mezei, golf; Stacy Roest, hockey (athletes); Morgan Munroe, multi-sport (builder); and Knud Petersen, multi-sport (special).

Receiving this year's Kinsmen Sports Persons of the year are: Ashley Steacy, 2016 Rio Olympic Bronze medallist in Rugby Sevens and Zack McAllister, 2016 Rio Paralympic Games Swimmer.

Ashley Patzer-Steacy

After helping Canada win gold in Women’s Rugby Sevens at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, PatzerSteacy went on to play for Canada at last year’s 2016 Rio Olympics despite missing all of the 2015-16 Women’s Rugby Sevens World Series season with a torn MCL.

At the Olympic tournament, Steacy and her Canadian team performed really well and managed to win the bronze final against Great Britain and taking home the medals.

Steacy is well-decorated when it comes to rugby accolades.

She began playing rugby in Grade 10 before graduating from Lethbridge Collegiate Institute.

At university, she was a three-time CIS champion from 2007-2009 with the University of Lethbridge Pronghorn women’s rugby team and was also a two-time CIS Player of the Year while earning her undergrad at U of L.

In 2007, Steacy received her first cap with both Canada’s Women’s Sevens and Fifteens Teams and since then has performed on some of the biggest stages in rugby.

In 2009, she was named to Canada’s team for the Women’s Rugby World Cup Sevens and in 2010 she was with the Fifteens team participating in the Women’s Rugby World Cup.

Steacy won a silver medal playing in her second Women’s Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2013.

After coming back from shoulder surgery in 2014, Steacy made the 2014-15 World Rugby Women’s Sevens World Series Dream Team and was named Rugby Canada’s Women’s Sevens Player of the Year for 2014.

Tickets for this year's sports hall of fame event are still available and cost $50.

A table of eight can be purchased at the discounted price of $350 at the Lethbridge Ticket Centre in the Enmax Centre or at the Yates 403-329-7328.