Lorne Holden

Lorne has been instrumental in the organizational of sports events for people from ages six to eighty – that for over 30 years his efforts have made life happier for a whole spectrum of Medicine Hatters.

Lorne helped organize minor hockey from 1950, putting together a six team pee-wee league, coaching, refereeing and flooding and cleaning ice where necessary. He put together the first little league baseball team in 1954, and then the first representative Pony League teams. He coached midget and juvenile hockey and was instrumental in making Medicine Hat minor sport competitive on a provincial level, travelling throughout western Canada.

In 1980, he played a central role in organizing a senior slow pitch softball team for men over sixty. That sport has grown to tournament levels throughout western Canada and has re-established the thrill of competition for men up to eighty years of age.