With 2025 winding down, it's time to look at some of the biggest highlights in Saskatchewan sports.
To start, the list will begin with the Saskatchewan Roughriders winning the 112th Grey Cup against the Montreal Alouettes 25-17. It's the fifth time the Riders won the Grey Cup; the others: 1966, 1989, 2007 and 2013. The Roughriders even had some homegrown talent on the team's roster: Mitchell Picton, Noah Zerr, Logan Ferland, Jaxon Ford, Jorgen Hus, and D'Sean Mimbs.
After football, Saskatchewan loves hockey, and people were excited when the Regina Pats selected Maddox Schultz and Liam Pue in the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft. According to the WHL, that marked the third time Regina selected first since 1993, which has been dubbed the internet era. The last time the Pats got the first overall pick was in 2020 when Regina took Connor Bedard, who now plays for the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL.
The Pats took Schultz with the first pick, and he played for the Regina Pat Canadians. Schultz's 2024-2025 season with the Pat Canadians as an underage player: 44 games, 43 goals and 50 assists. He won the Telus Cup MVP and led the tournament in scoring with nine goals and 11 assists. The Saskatchewan Male AAA league acknowledged Schultz's season by giving him the league MVP and Rookie of the Year honours.
Meanwhile, the Pats managed to get Pue by trading the 26th pick in the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft, along with a first-round pick in the 2026 and 2027 drafts to the Kelowna Rockets. Before the draft, Pue spent the 2024-2025 season with the Langley Hockey Academy U18 team in the Junior Prospects Hockey League as an underager. In 29 games, Pue scored 30 goals and recorded 20 assists.
Since Pue and Schultz are 15-year-olds, they are only allowed to play up to 34 games with the Pats because of the Western Development Model.
Baseball is next on the list for two reasons: the Regina Red Sox winning the WCBL championship and the Toronto Blue Jays making it to the World Series. For the Red Sox, they haven't won the WCBL since 2011, when they won it back-to-back in 2012 as well.
The Blue Jays run in the MLB season got many in Canada rallying behind them when they took on the Los Angeles Dodgers and lost in seven games. SportsCage analyst Arash Madani compared the Blue Jays run to the World Series to another Toronto sports team going far in the playoffs.
"It's rocking. There's real Blue Jays fever, there's real Blue Jays mania. They got to the postseason in 2022, and they got to the postseason in 2023. This is the closest it's felt to what the Raptors run was like in 2019 — that came out of nowhere," Madani said on the SportsCage. "It's crazy how it all works out. Two weeks ago, the Jays felt like they were doomed; they were finished. Now, all of a sudden, you blink, and they can do no wrong."
There was football, hockey and baseball on this list. The next sport to be highlighted is the year Regina native Ben Hebert had in curling in 2025.
Hebert won his fifth Brier in his career, a bronze at the World Curling Championships, and a gold at the Pan Continental Curling Championship. Hebert is part of Brad Jacobs' team, and they won the Canadian Olympic Trials. It will be the third time in Hebert's career that he will be going to the Olympics. The other two times were in 2018 and 2010, both in which he won gold.
Circling back to football, the Roughriders were not the only Saskatchewan team that did well. The Saskatoon Hilltops won the Canadian Bowl on November 9, where they defeated the Okanagan Sun 21-18. That win marked the 24th time the Hilltops won the Canadian Bowl, the last time was in 2023.
On the university level, the Saskatchewan Huskies made it to the Vanier Cup but lost 30-16 on November 22. As for the Regina Rams, they reached the Hardy Cup but lost to the Huskies 25-24 on November 8.
Saskatchewan's luck in football continued because the CFL awarded the Green and White the Grey Cup in 2027, which was announced on October 27, 2025. This will be the fourth time the Riders host the Grey Cup; the first three times were in old Mosaic Stadium in 1995, 2003, and 2013. Most recently, Saskatchewan hosted the big game in 2022 in new Mosaic Stadium.
The people who live in Saskatchewan had many reasons to celebrate in 2025 and hope history can repeat itself in 2026.
