Posed indoor image of team members in uniform standing in a row and posing with a basketball with 'UofS 35-36" on it. Players: Mackay, J., Cox, G., Dundas, M., Helen Preston, Scrimgedour, I., Brown, J., Lois Haslam, Alexander, M., Trerice, C., Ethel Mary Cartwright, Ray Frey (coach).

Bio/Historical Note: Green and white were established as the official colours of U of S sports teams in 1909-1910 by Reginald Bateman, a native of Ireland and the first English professor at the University of Saskatchewan. But the Huskies name did not appear at that time. Teams were generally referred to as “varsity” or “the green and white” when they played or appeared in media. The name Huskies was included in an article in the 20 September 1932 Star-Phoenix: “The Varsity Stadium yesterday morning saw the advance guard of over twenty gridiron Huskies swing into action.” The origin of the Huskie name is unclear. One of the earliest images of players wearing sweaters with ‘Huskies’ on across the front was in the 1932-1933 Greystone yearbook, showing the men’s hockey team in uniforms with the new name. By 1937 women’s teams were generally referred to as Huskiettes.

Posed indoor image of team members in uniform. Players: Knox, A., Hinkley, H., Trumpour, S., Millar, Florence; Stice, A., Kennedy, M., Switzer, F., Cumming, Margaret, Wilson, K.

Bio/Historical Note: The colours green and white were chosen in 1910 by Reginald Bateman, a native of Ireland and the first English professor at the University of Saskatchewan. The name ‘Huskies’ was included in an article in the 20 September 1932 Star-Phoenix: “The Varsity Stadium yesterday morning saw the advance guard of over twenty gridiron Huskies swing into action.” One of the earliest pictures of players wearing sweaters with ‘Huskies’ on them was the 1932-1933 Greystone yearbook, showing the men’s hockey team in uniforms with the new name. Women's teams were using ‘Huskiettes’ by 1937.

Women's Intramural volleyball championship team pose on the court: Members, standing: Myrna Needham, Vi Kachman, Dianne Thompson, Lenore Kivell, Orma Longworth, Joanna Samson and Berle Aston. Two unidentified men and a woman in back row.

Head and shoulders image of Ethel Mary Cartwright, director, Physical Education for Women

Bio/Historical Note: A pioneer in women's athletics, Ethel Mary Cartwright was born on 1 October 1880 in Clapham, England. Appointed as an instructor at McGill's Royal Victoria College in 1906, she taught there until 1927, where she had been a coach, teacher and administrator. While at McGill Cartwright devised eligibility and playing rules for women's basketball, organized a women's intercollegiate league, coached the Royal Victoria College team and established the "Bronze Baby Trophy" in 1921-1922, still awarded today to the CIAU (now CIS) women's basketball champions. Cartwright arrived at the University of Saskatchewan in 1928, where she was a leader and innovator for women in physical education and sport. She organized the women's physical education department. By 1931 a School of Physical Education had been established and under Cartwright’s leadership, women's sports at the university flourished and received autonomous recognition with the establishment of the Women's Athletic Directorate. Cartwright served at the U of S for 15 years as coach, teacher and administrator. Cartwright was also influential in the fight to employ women coaches and officials. In 1942 she established the Spirit of the Youth award, presented annually to the woman who best demonstrated the qualities of leadership, sportsmanship, idealism and academic ability, character and athleticism. The Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education Recreation, and Dance (CAHPERD) presented Cartwright with the R. Tait McKenzie Honour Award, its highest distinction, in 1948. She was named Professor Emerita after retirement. Cartwright died on 18 September 1955 in Magog, Quebec. The Ethel Mary Cartwright Trophy is presented annually to the Huskie Athletics female athlete of the year. Cartwright was posthumously enshrined in both the U of S Athletic Hall of Fame (1984) and McGill University Athletics Hall of Fame (1996).

Elevated view of Huskiettes in action against the Royals of the City League; playing at Saskatoon Technical Institute gymnasium.

Lisa Thomaidis and Greg Jockims, coaches of the women's and men's Huskie basketball teams.

Bio/Historical Note: Lisa Thomaidis (born 1972) attended McMaster University and earned her degree in Kinesiology. She played five seasons (1990-1995) for the basketball Marauders, earning Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West All-Star Team honours in 1992-93, 1993-94 and 1994-95. In 2006, Thomaidis was inducted into the McMaster Athletics Hall of Fame. After graduation she played two seasons (1996-1997, 1997-1998) of professional basketball in Europe in the Greek 1st Division for Apollon Ptolemaidas, when an injury ended her basketball career and led her to coaching. Starting in 1998 Thomaidis began coaching women's basketball at the University of Saskatchewan. During her 23-year career as coach of the Huskies, she led the team to seven Canada West titles and was Canada West Coach of the Year in 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2008-2009, 2010-2011 and 2015-2016. The Huskies were Bronze Baby national championship winners in 2015-2016 and 2019-2020. Thomaidis was given the Peter Ennis Award for Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS) Coach of the Year) in 2008-2009 and 2010-2011. The 2021-2022 season will be Thomaidis’s 24th year as Huskie head coach. Outside the University of Saskatchewan, Thomaidis was an assistant coach for Canada women's national basketball team from 2002-2013, which included a quarterfinal performance at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2013 she replaced Allison McNeill as head coach and her team won silver at the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship. Thomaidis then led Canada's women's basketball team to a fifth place finish at the 2014 FIBA World Championship and a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. Thomaidis's team came in seventh at the 2016 Summer Olympics, won gold at the 2017 FIBA Women's AmeriCup, and finished seventh at the 2018 FIBA World Cup. Heading into the 2020 (2021) Tokyo Summer Olympics, she led the team to a FIBA world ranking of fourth, the highest in program history. The Canadian team suffered a first-round elimination at the Olympics (held in July-August 2021) and Thomaidis left the team. She compiled a 83-44 record at the helm.

Bio/Historical Note: Greg Jockims, a graduate of Mount Royal Collegiate in Saskatoon, played forward for the Huskies from 1983-1988. Jockims coached the Huskies basketball team between 1998 to 2011. He helped rebuild the team and earned seven straight playoff appearances which included Central Division Regular Season titles in 2005 and 2006, a Central Division championship in 2006 and a Canada West Championship in 2010.That same year Jockims led an underdog Huskie team to its first CIS National Championship. In 2019 he became the first coach of the Canadian Elite Basketball League's Saskatchewan Rattlers and led them to a championship in their inaugural season in 2019.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 18 Sept. 1998 issue of OCN.

Diane Jones, Huskiette pentathlete, running the 60 metres hurdles on an indoor track. Jones broke the indoor world pentathlon record on 8 March 1975 in Edmonton, raising it from 4490 to 4540 points.

Bio/Historical Note: Diane Helen Jones-Konihowski was born in 1951 in Vancouver and raised in Saskatoon. In 1967 she represented Canada internationally for the first time as a high jumper and javelin thrower. Jones won her first international medal, a high jump bronze, at the 1969 Pacific Conference Games. She represented Canada in the pentathlon at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Jones was a gold medalist in the pentathlon at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City; that same year she was named Canada’s Female Athlete of the Year. Jones graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1976 with a BEd. In 1978 she won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and was named Canada’s Female Athlete of the Year for the second time in her career. Jones married fellow athlete John Konihowski in 1977; the wedding ceremony was carried live on CFQC-TV. In 1979 she won her second Pan American Games gold medal. Forced to miss the Moscow Olympics of 1980 due to the boycott that Jones-Konihowski strenuously opposed, she seriously considered going to the Soviet Union to compete as an athlete without a flag or nation. Jones-Konihowski eventually decided it was safer to not attend and athletically made her statement two weeks later at a pentathlon in Germany, winning gold, and beating all the Moscow 1980 Olympic medalists. During her career Jones-Konihowski ranked first in the world twice. Jones-Konihowski was awarded the Order of Canada in 1979 and inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. She was the recipient of the YWCA Woman of Distinction Sport & Recreation Award in 1988. In 1996 she was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Sports Hall of Fame. Jones-Konihowski has remained active in Canadian sports, having worked as a coach and sports administrator for many national athletic boards including Fair Play Canada, the Coaching Association of Canada, the Canadian Olympic Association, as well as the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. In 2000 Jones-Konihowski led Canada’s Olympic Team to the Sydney Olympics as the Chef de Mission. She was presented with an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 2002. In 2005 Jones-Konihowski was elected to the board of directors of the Canadian Olympic Committee. Jones-Konihowski is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame (2020) and the Canada West Conference Hall of Fame (2021).