“I remember one night the fans got so fired up they threw a chicken on the ice.’’
And with that story by Dianne Farquharson, daughter of new P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame member Sandy Frizzell and the excitement for fans his intermediate hockey team caused, the Hall installed five new Island sports figures under its roof in Summerside.
Joining Frizzell, who started up the Sandy’s Royals hockey team in the 1960s in Charlottetown, in the induction ceremonies in Charlottetown on Friday were volleyball icon Myron Weeks, women’s championship curler Cathy Dillon, former UPEI men’s basketball coach George Morrison and hockey player, coach and official Jamie Kennedy.
Cathy Dillon, who joins her husband Bob in the Hall (one of two husband/wife combos), still curls at the Charlottetown Curling Club where she played on four provincial championship winning teams in the early 1970s and played in four national championships as part of the Marie Toole rink, finishing second in 1974.
In the 1980s, she won two more ladies titles with skip Kim Dolan and with husband Bob won four provincial mixed titles and finished second at the 1975 national mixed.
Her induction Friday completes a triple crown of sorts. Dillon went into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1995 and the P.E.I. Curling Hall of Fame in 2007.
“It’s a great honour to be the second female curler (Elizabeth Macdonald was the first). It’s more special to be inducted with my husband. Because it’s a team sport, much of my success is due my teammates,’’ said Dillon, adding she wasn’t sure which Hall of Fame induction means more. “It’s hard to say. (I remember most) the companionship, the friends, the camaraderie that you got with the teams, the women, the men, the mixed.’’