Basketball Manitoba Podcast

🏀 Basketball Manitoba is celebrating 50 years!As part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations, we’re counting down the Top 50 Impact Moments in Manitoba Basketball History, recognizing the people, teams, achievements, organizations, programs, events and milestones that have helped shape the game across our province.🎥 In this chapter, we reveal Impact Moments #10 through #1.The Top 50 was developed following public nominations and input from a committee representing decades of experience across the Manitoba basketball community. The goal was simple: impact over popularity — identifying moments that changed the game, created opportunities, inspired future generations or left a lasting mark on basketball in Manitoba.From grassroots basketball to the international stage, the countdown spans championships, legendary athletes and coaches, officials and builders, professional and university basketball, community organizations, facilities, major events, inclusive sport, rule changes and much more.🎙️ Produced and voiced by Joey Slattery💬 What do you think? What Manitoba basketball moments stand out to you? Join the conversation and help us celebrate the players, coaches, officials, volunteers, builders, organizations and communities that have made the game what it is today.🌐 basketballmanitoba.caHere’s to the first 50 years — and everything still ahead! 🏀🧡

The Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum welcomed the basketball community to the 2026 Induction Dinner on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg.This special evening celebrated the outstanding achievements and lasting contributions of the newest members of the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame:BUILDERS• Bryan Kornberger• Earl Barish• Ted FardoePLAYERS• Uzoma Asagwara• Chad Posthumus• Anne Schimnowski-BoykoTEAMS• Brandon University Bobcats Men• Glenboro School Panthers Varsity GirlsThe evening honoured individuals and teams whose accomplishments have helped shape basketball in Manitoba at the high school, university, provincial, national and professional levels.The Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame induction dinner takes place every second year and has become a special gathering for Manitoba’s extended basketball community.Learn more about the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum:https://www.mbhof.com/#ManitobaBasketball #MBHOF #BasketballManitoba #HallOfFame #ClassOf2026

Today on the Basketball Manitoba Podcast, we have Patrick Mart.He has been involved in basketball for over two decades as both a player and a coach. He is currently a teacher and coach at River Heights School, where he continues to play a key role in developing young athletes.As a coach, he has contributed extensively to the basketball community. He has served as the head coach of the junior varsity boys team and as an assistant with the varsity boys program at Sturgeon Heights Collegiate. He has also served as an assistant coach with the 17U Manitoba Provincial Team on multiple occasions and is involved with the Canada Basketball Junior Academy and various club programs across the province.As a player, he competed at Sturgeon Heights Collegiate before representing Manitoba at the provincial level. He continued his playing career at NAIT College, and he holds a degree in Education from the University of Winnipeg.This summer, he will lead the 15U boys Provincial Team for the second year in a row to the Canada Basketball National Championships in August.

Today on the Basketball Manitoba Podcast, we have Sharlene Harding.She is a native of Mississauga, Ontario, where she went to play at Queen's University and Royal Military College of Canada, becoming an OUA All-Star She then enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces, where she continued her athletics career and built a high-level athletic and coaching résumé. She competed in 3 World Military Games and over a dozen World Championships, captained the Canadian Armed Forces National Women’s Soccer Team, and coached at the international level with the CAF National Women’s Basketball program.Since moving to Winnipeg in 2021, she’s spent time coaching with provincial programs and spent the last two years as Head Coach of the Canadian Mennonite University Blazers women’s basketball team.She has completed a certificate in High Performance Coaching through the University of British Columbia.  She is currently the assistant coach of the Queen's University Women's basketball program. 

Today on the Basketball Manitoba Podcast, we have Duane Whyte.Duane dedicated over three decades to growing the game from the ground up in the Swan River region. At Swan Valley Regional Secondary School, his varsity boys teams captured Provincial AAA Championships in 1986, 1995, 1996, 2000, and 2001. He didn’t just coach a team; he built an entire basketball community. He organized coaching and referee clinics, hosted provincial championships, brought in high-level exhibition games, and helped develop generations of players, many of whom have gone on to become coaches themselves.He’s also contributed to the game as an official, working provincial championships at both the high school and senior men’s levels.Duane is an MHSAA Hall of Fame inductee and a Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.