A Trip to the Wood Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame

The Wood Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame is a place perfect for honouring the history of sports in the Wood Buffalo area. It's full of teams and individuals that have achieve some incredible things in the area. The hall of fame was announced in 2006, as the Keyano College and the Wood Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame Society decided it needed to be opened.

The Hall of Fame is found near the Syncrude Sports and Wellness Centre and provides plenty of history of the area. Inductees are dedicated at a dinner once a year. Inductees include:

• Nick DeHoog - 2007
• Chris Phillips - 2007
• Mark Versfeld - 2007
• Fort McMurray Oil Barons RBC 2000 - 2007
• Dan Hodgeon - 2008
• Mike Klippenstien - 2008
• Colin Solbak - 2008
• Randy Olson Lee & Sinclair Rinks - 2008
• Liam de Silva - 2009
• Tarsands Machine and Welding - 2009
• Phil Meagher - 2009
• Al Hancock - 2009
• Gerry Breneman - 2010
• Jennifer Button - 2010
• Frank Lacroix - 2010
• L. Roberts Enterprises Pee Wee AA Barons - 2010
• Stuart Anderson - 2011
• Brian Shantz - 2011
• Joe Young - 2011
• Jon Walsh - 2011
• Wayne Borque - 2012
• Darren Gibbs - 2012
• Bob Campbell - 2012
• Sandy Bowman - 2012
• And More!

All of these athletes are well deserving. You can find out more information about all of them inside the Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame features athletes form a massive variety of sports from Mountaineering to Hockey to Golf and everything in between. Teams and athletes from the following are found here:

• Archery
• Badminton
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Boxing
• Broomball
• Bowling
• Darts
• Fitness
• Golf
• Karate
• Luge
• Mountain Biking
• Racquetball
• And More!

Just about every sport you can think of has someone or a team representing it in the Hall of Fame.