Knights of Columbus Indoor Games

The SaskTel 4G LTE Men’s 60m field is set for the 51st Annual Knights of Columbus Indoor Games at the Saskatoon Field House January 28th, 29th, & 30th. Two-time Canadian Champion Sam Effah is returning to the field after missing last year’s event due to injury. He will be joined by the USA’s Cordero Gray, who has won the event back in 2013 & 2014, and International athlete Antoine Adams from Saint Kitts and Nevis, who has competed at the World Outdoor Championships in 2011, 2...Continue reading

The 51st Annual Knights of Columbus Indoor Games are approaching the starting stripe! Join us January 28, 29 & 30 at the Saskatoon Field House for another year of elementary school relays and action with both local and world class athletes! High jumper Michael Mason and hurdler Michelle Young are among the Canadians who will bring impressive credentials to their invitational events . Mason, who was born in British Columbia, finished eighth among high jumpers at the 2012 Olymp...ics in London, with a height of 2.29 metres. He was a bronze medal winner at 2.25 metres at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014. He gained silver medal with a jump of 2.31 metres at the Pan-American Games at Toronto in 2015. Mason has also competed at the 2008 and 2014 World indoor championships, the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2013 and 2015 world outdoor championships. He carries the best personal best, 2.33 metres, among the five who have entered the high jump event in Saskatoon. Young, who is from Saskatoon, was a silver medallist at the K of C Games 2 years ago and carries a best personal time of 8.29 for the 60 metres hurdles. She also holds U of S Huskie records in the 60 m and 60 mH. In recent seasons, Young won the 100m hurdles at the 2013 Canada Games, was the CIS champion and a participant in the NACAC U23 Games in 2014, and competed at the World Universiade Games in 2015. Canadian sprinter T J Lawrence will be of those defending his championship in Saskatoon. He was a Canadian team member in the 4x100metre relay at Penn State in 2013 and competed at the world indoor championships in 2014. His personal best is 6.60 seconds and will face a strong field in Saskatoon. Also returning as a defending champion is Canada’s Crystal Emmanuel, who won the women’s 50 metres in both 2014 and 2015. This time, she will run the 60 metre distance. Her best time at 60 metres is 7.25 seconds. The K of C meet also creates opportunities for athletes at the University of Saskatchewan to step up into invitational events. Getting a chance during this meet will be Lenny Williams, Adam Paslawski and Graham Black in men’s 60 metres, Astrid Nyame in women’s 60 metre hurdles, Austin Edwards and Jared Olson in men’s 60 metre hurdles and Ope Adelugba, Mackenzie Kleiter, Hunter Pickering, Renee Kennedy and Ashley Promhouse in the women’s 60 metres. Starting times at the Games will be Thursday at 4 p.m., Friday at 4 p.m. and Saturday at 8 a.m. Tickets are $10/session or $15 for a weekend pass available at the Field House. Elementary school relays start on Thursday with the Invitational preliminaries /finals held on Friday and Saturday.

Make it a couples' affair!! Ashton Eaton wins gold alongside his wife in the 60m Hurdles!!

Brianne Thiessen-Eaton claims gold in the Invitational 60m Hurdles!

Crystal Emmanuel (6.34) & Woodrow Randall (5.83) win the 50 m races for the Women and Men respectively. Full results can be found at http://www.kofcgames.ca

1980 The Knights of Columbus meet found a new home at the Saskatoon Field House, a venue which they use to this day. Angella Taylor of Toronto took an immediate liking to the track, beating Merlen Ottey of Jamaica in the women’s 300 metre in world record indoor time. 1981 Games organizers took a surprising turn when they decided to eliminate the pole vault, long a fan favourite, because the vaulting area was too far away from the spectators in the stands. Fred Sowerby add...ed to his medal collection by winning the men’s 600 metres and Paul Cummings won the mile for a fourth time. 1981 Just five years before Rueben Maye made his debut as a running back in the National Football League, he was a medallist at the K of C indoor Games. He was nipped by Saskatoon’s Ben Daku in the Open 60 metre final. Mayes, originally from North Battleford, played seven years in the NFL, first with New Orleans Saints and then with Seattle Seahawks.

1977 Bob Reindl of Saskatoon’s Riversdale Club made a daring move on the bell lap to overcome America’s Alfred Nichols and won the invitational 1,000 metres with a clocking of 2:26.9. He also won the 600 metres. Paul Cummings won his third straight mile. 1978 Fred Sowerby’s winning streak in Saskatoon continued and he took the invitational men’s 400 in 49 seconds flat, the fifth straight time he’d won the event. 1978 - Caren Rathie, later to become Bob Reindl’s wife, wo...n the women’s 400 metres in 56.3 seconds , dethroning champion Freida Nichols of Barbados, and also picking up the Canadian a athlete of the meet award. 1979 In what would be the last meet in the Arena, noted for its four-lane track and the intimate setting, Bob Reindl out-duelled the field in the 800 metres and Fred Sowerby won another 400 metre race.

1974 Saskatoon’s Joanne McTaggart burned up the track, winning the 200 metres in 24.7 seconds and the 300 metres I 39.5 seconds. At the time, she became the second fastest Canadian at 300 metres and the best-ever on a 125-metre indoor surface. 1975 Paul Cummings of Beverly Hills Striders won the invitational mile in 4:02.5; Reynaldo Brown of Los Angeles won the high jump at seven feet, two inches; and Diane Jones won the women’s high jump at six feet, one inch. 1976 Th...e remarkable thing about the meet was that three pole vaulters, Dan Ripley, Earl Bell and Bob Pollard, all cleared 17 feet, six inches Ripley winning because of fewer misses and a fourth, Ken Wenman, also cleared 17 feet. 1976 Joanne McTaggart had another night to remember, winning the women’s 200 metres in 24.7 seconds, equaling her best time ever at the Saskatoon meet.

1973 The Prairie Golden Striders matched the stars from the Philadelphia Pioneers Club in the 4x400 metre relay, each timed in three minutes and 20 seconds, but Canada’s Randy Makolofsky nosed American Maurice Peoples at the wire for an unbelievable success story. 1973 Mary Decker was a 15-year-old from California who won the invitational women’s 800 metres. Saskatoon was watching a star in the making. Decker suffered an unfortunate fall at the 1984 Olympic Games but was ultimately hailed for winning two gold medals at the 1983 world championships, repeatedly setting world records in middle distance races at least 17 times and repeatedly setting American records 36 times at final count.

1972 Al Feuerbach gave a textbook performance in the men’s shot out, eclipsing 67 feet in five of his six throws and winning the event at 67 feet, eight inches.

1971 American Al Feuerbach won the shot put at 67 feet, seven inches and was voted top international athlete.

1970 Rocky Rochelle accepted the presidency of the Games on his way to becoming the longest to serve in that role at 11 years. 1970 Bob Seagren came out of retirement to win the pole vault at 16 feet, eight inches and Tom Von Ruden won the top international athlete award for his victory in the 800 metre race.