Soccer's Sinclair, curler Martin, skier Guay among Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 03, 2025 10:59 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago

Kevin Martin and Erik Guay accidental it's not truthful overmuch what they did successful sport, but however they did it.

Olympic champion curler Martin and satellite champion alpine skier Guay are among 5 athletes who volition beryllium inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame successful 2025.

Soccer subordinate Christine Sinclair, wheelchair racer Michelle Stilwell and softball subordinate Darren Zack articulation them successful the jock category, portion NHL manager Ted Nolan and athletics person Martha Billes volition participate arsenic builders.

"I've had immoderate item moments that are ever going to beryllium precise cherished successful my memory, but I deliberation what I'm astir arrogant of is astir apt the information that I've been done my full vocation without immoderate benignant of blemishes," Guay said. "I anticipation that I was an inspiration to a batch of the young athletes, not lone successful my hometown of Montreal, but besides crossed Canada."

The people of 2025 volition person the Order of Sport astatine an induction gala Oct. 29 astatine the Canadian Museum of History successful Gatineau, Que.

The Sports Hall of Fame has inducted implicit 750 Canadians, including 3 horses, since opening 70 years ago.

Sinclair, from Burnaby, B.C., is the all-time person for planetary goals scored by men oregon women with 190 successful 331 appearances with the Canadian women's team. She was an Olympic golden medallist successful 2021 and doubly a bronze medallist earlier retiring from the nationalist squad successful 2023. Sinclair is present a co-owner of the Northern Super League's Vancouver Rise FC.

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Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que., is simply a two-time satellite champion and the oldest to assertion astatine satellite rubric erstwhile helium took the super-G crown astatine property 35. He reached the podium 25 times connected the World Cup circuit, and won 5 golden earlier helium retired successful 2018. He's an Alpine Canada committee member.

Edmonton's Martin skipped men's teams to Olympic golden successful 2010 successful Vancouver, and metallic successful Turin, Italy successful 2006, arsenic good arsenic a satellite title successful 2008. He was a laminitis of curling's Grand Slam, which contributed to the sport's professionalization with ample prize purchases and much tv vulnerability for the sport.

A fewer years removed from the day-to-day quest to win, Martin, 58, and Guay, 43, present look astatine their careers done the lens of their legacies.

"I anticipation I tin proceed to beryllium an ambassador for skiing. I effort to springiness backmost arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin arsenic overmuch arsenic clip permits me," Guay said. "I'm inactive very, precise passionate astir my athletics and athletics successful general. It's to proceed to springiness backmost and making definite that the sport's steadfast for my kids and aboriginal generations."

Martin: Building a athletics 'important'

The Grand Slam curling spot and gathering inferior curling programs are what Martin says he's astir arrogant of successful his career.

"When you're playing, each you're doing is playing the champion you can, signifier hard, enactment hard, and effort to triumph each you can," Martin said.

"But gathering the sport, that's truly important. You privation it to beryllium stronger and amended for the adjacent generation.

"No question, it would beryllium surely disconnected the crystal increasing with the inferior bonspiel astir 17 [years] I think. And the Grand Slam is going terrific. We enactment it unneurotic 27 years agone for goodness sakes."

Stilwell of Parksville, B.C., is simply a five-time Paralympic champion successful wheelchair racing and besides helped the women's hoops squad assertion Paralympic golden successful 2000. She served arsenic an MLA successful the B.C. authorities from 2013 to 2020 and was elected vice-president of the Canadian Paralympic Committee this week.

Zack, of Garden River, Ont., is an Ojibwe softball pitcher who helped Canada triumph Pan American Games golden successful 1991, 1995 and 1999 arsenic good arsenic a satellite title successful 1992. He struck retired 150 batters successful 10 consecutive wins for the Toronto Gators astatine the 1995 International Softball Congress.

Nolan, besides from Garden River, won the NHL's coaching grant successful 1997 successful his 2nd play down the seat of the Buffalo Sabres.

He coached the Sabres for 4 seasons and the New York Islanders for two. Nolan and his sons established a First Nations hockey schoolhouse and the Ted Nolan Foundation provides scholarships to First Nations women.

Billes, controlling proprietor of Canadian Tire Corporation, founded the company's Jumpstart programme that assists financially disadvantaged families with the costs associated with sport. Jumpstart is successful its 20th year.

The Hall encourages Canadians to nominate radical for the Hall of Fame. A enactment committee reviews submissions and votes to urge inductees to the Hall's committee of governors.

The Hall's 100,000 objects and 60,000 archival records were acquired by the Canadian Museum of History aft the gathering successful Calgary closed during the COVID-19 pandemic successful 2020 and didn't reopen.

The main thrust of the Hall's enactment is integer storytelling done a nationalist schoolhouse programme and Indigenous Sport Heroes Education experience.