Announcing the Recipients of the 2024 ACAAs
Meet the outstanding alumni being honoured at the 2024 Alumni Crowning Achievement Awards
Archive: Achievements
Advancing and shaping careers:
Uzezi Ekhator MHRM’23 and Jim Greenwood BAdmin’93 on the power of co-operative education
Directing from the Heart: Candy Fox BFA’15
Treaty 4 filmmaker Candy Fox has built an impressive career in the nine years since she graduated from Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina. Her latest project is as the director and co-producer of the groundbreaking APTN docuseries, Treaty Road, that delves into the significance of the Numbered Treaties across Canada and confronts the difficult truths of colonization.
Cultivating tech in Saskatchewan
Bring our young people back! That’s been a Saskatchewan mantra for years, as politicians and business leaders decry the out-migration of some of our best and brightest young people. It used to be that rising tech superstars who aspire to be the next Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos had to pack up their bags and […]
Roads less travelled
On the day Chris Lane was to receive his degree from the University of Regina – which, coincidentally, was also his 22nd birthday – he boarded a plane bound for London, England. Lane had received a prestigious scholarship that offered him international experience in journalism, and he was determined to make the most of the […]
Amanda Ruller, BKin’12
You might say that Amanda Ruller BKin’12 is a good sport. More accurately, you could say she’s good at sports. Ruller started competing in high-level sports at age six and never looked back. She was a record-breaking member of the U of R Cougars track and field team for five years. Her sprinting earned her spots in the Canadian Olympic trails in the 100- and 200-metre races and an invitation from the Canadian Olympic bobsled and skeleton teams to compete in the Canadian winter sports program. She also competed at a high level in soccer, basketball, softball and weightlifting. Ruller played for Los Angeles and Atlanta in the Legends Football League for five years and was a running back for the silver-medal winning Team Canada football team at the 2017 Women’s World Championships. After terms as a coach with the U of R Rams, she was hired by the McMaster University Marauders to serve as running back coach and strength and conditioning coach. She’s also a prominent social media influencer with nearly 100,000 Instagram followers (@amandaruller).
Latoya Reid BSW’18, MSW’21
Latoya, a registered social worker, is a community activist and leader who has focused her advocacy around one of today’s most important issues – anti-racism. During the Black Lives Matter movement, Latoya’s outspoken comments gained her media attention and provided a platform for her to speak on the issue to, among other groups, University of […]
Honourable Graeme Michell BA’75, BMus’75
Appointed by the Government of Canada as a judge of Her Majesty’s Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan in September 2018, Graeme previously served as Vice-Chairperson of the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board, and before that as, Director of the Constitutional Law Branch of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice. In addition to his Bachelor of Arts […]
Dr. Sarah Plosker BSc’08, MSc’10
When she graduated from the University of Regina, Sarah’s instructors were confident that the bright, industrious and articulate student was destined for greater achievements. Her instructors were not wrong. She graduated with more than a dozen awards, including the prestigious University Prize in Science. Beyond her academic success at the University of Regina, Sarah was […]
The Honourable Reverend Dr. Lorne Calvert BA’73
It’s fitting that Lorne should receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement award – after all, he’s devoted a lifetime to the service of others. Service is a huge part of his ethic – service to the province, Church, higher education, and, vulnerable people whose voices are seldom heard. Lorne was born and raised in Moose Jaw […]