ATHLETES - SASK. FIRST

Athlete	Hometown	Athlete	Hometown
Desiree Ates	Regina	Alicia Eger	Regina
Robin Beck	Saskatoon	Kara Gimas	Regina
Courtney Bloski	Saskatoon	Adena Hagen	Birch Hills
Kristie Bosch	Regina	Ashton Hughes	Regina
Jaclyn Bourdon	Duck Lake	Lydia Niemegeers	Radville
Maria Buckingham	Shellbrook	Casey Simpson	Nokomis
Karleen Crone	Annaheim	Shelley Wickstrom	Saskatoon
Erin Dyok	Quill Lake

Let's Meet Our 2009 Canada Games TeamCoaches:
Head Coach: Russell Martin (Regina)
Russell played competitive ball in the Lashburn area and won a gold medal at Canadians with his Midget team.  He was also a 1993 Canada Games Team Member that won Gold.  Russell has been a Softball Saskatchewan’s Course Conductor and skills clinician for over 9 years.  As for coaching Russell coached Midget A & Junior A girl’s team in the Regina Ladies League off and on over the last 8 years.  He coached two of his teams to the Canadian Championships.  He was the Head Coach for the 2003 Western Canada Games Girls team & 2005 Canada Games Girls Team.  Russell was also an evaluator/instructor at the last 2 ID camps.

Assistant Coach: Jen Wood (Regina)
Jen Wood as a player has attended 8 Canadian Championships from Midget to Senior, winning a Gold Medal in 2000.  Jen was also a skills clinician for Softball Saskatchewan before making her big jump into assistant coaching for our 2003 Western Canada Games Girls team and 2005 Canada Summer Games team.

Assistant Coach: Marla Laskowski (Warman)
A new comer to the program Marla Laskowski is a wife and mother of 4 children, and in her spare time, she is a substitute teacher.  Her softball experience began with the 1989 Canada Games team.  She then went on to participate in 4 Junior Canadians - with the highlight being named all-star catcher in 1991- and 2 Senior Canadian Championships.  As for coaching experience she started off with squirt girls in Warman for 2 years and 1 year of peewee boys.  Marla has continued to be a part of softball throughout the years as a Softball Saskatchewan’s Course Conductor as well as provided countless Learn to Play Orientations and Basic and Advanced Skills camps.  Marla was also an evaluator/instructor for the past year's Western Canada Games team as well as for the current Canada games team tryouts. Her passion continues to be in coaching young girls/women, however this last summer she coached a very young squirt boys team and had a very successful year finishing with a silver medal at B provincials.