Regina Sports Hall of Fame reveals inductees for 2019

The Regina Sports Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2019 on Tuesday.

Neal Hughes (football), Shannon McGeady (golf) and Georgette Reed (athletics) are to be inducted as athletes. Dave Boan (water polo), Liane McLean (curling) and James Hillis (basketball) are to be enshrined as builders.

The induction ceremony is set for Oct. 12 at Evraz Place, starting with a reception at 7:30 p.m. The ceremony is slated to begin at 8:15 p.m.

Hughes played high school football with the Thom Trojans, junior football with the Regina Rams and university football with the University of Regina Rams. He signed as an undrafted free agent with the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2004 and played 11 seasons with them.

A two-time Grey Cup winner with the Roughriders, Hughes was inducted into the team’s Plaza of Honour this year.

McGeady was a three-time city high school golf champion during her days at LeBoldus High School. She won four straight Regina women’s championships from 2004 through ’07 and a Saskatchewan’s women’s championship in 2007, and competed in one Canadian junior and six Canadian amateur championships.

Reed was a 17-time Canadian champion between 1991 and 2003, winning 15 shot put titles and two in discus. She competed in the 1991 Pan-Am Games and the 1992 Summer Olympics, as well as events including the Francophone Games, Commonwealth Games and world athletics championships. As of Tuesday, she held nine world masters records in throwing events.

Boan started playing water polo in the early 1970s. He has coached elementary school, high school, youth and men’s teams and helped the province’s under-19 boys team win Western Canadian and national championships this year. He also played in the world masters championships this year.

McLean has curled for more than 60 years and won the Saskatchewan masters women’s title in 2006. She served on the organizing committees for the 1982, 1988 and 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the 2000 TSN Skins Game, the 2001 Olympic Trials and the 2006 Tim Hortons Brier, and has served on the board of the Saskatchewan Curling Association.

After playing basketball at Campbell Collegiate and at the U of R, Hillis got into coaching, first at the high school level and then in university.

He was the U of R’s head coach from 1994 through 2013, helping the Cougars reach the conference playoffs in 18 straight seasons and earn spots in the nation’s Top 10 in 14 of those seasons. He was named the winner of the conference’s coach-of-the-year award four times.

Tickets are $40 each and $20 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available from RSHF directors, ceremonies chair Cathy Glasser (306-584-7230) or Security Key & Lock (306-525-5651) at 2512 Dewdney Ave.