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Wilma Downing, a life-long basketball coach

Broadcast Date: Feb. 7, 2001

Wilma Downing may be nearly 75, but she continues to teach the game she loves to girls she cares about. Just don't get the impression Downing is a softie. "All girls don't get along, and sometimes one is yelling at the other and I just tell them if you're on a team ... you keep quiet about it. This is a team sport and if you don't, you'll be sitting on the bench," she says in this 2001 CBC-TV clip from Canada Now. The Grade 6 girls at Athabasca School in Regina seem to like her approach, saying she "helps you if you've done something wrong" and "makes even the hard stuff really fun."

Wilma Downing, a life-long basketball coach

Wilma Downing is an inductee in the Regina Sports Hall of Fame in the category of Builder: Multi-Sport. On its website, the Hall notes some of Downing's accomplishments:

• She taught English, health and physical education at Sheldon-Williams Collegiate in Regina from 1956-1990. During that time she coached the basketball and track and field teams. Her girls' basketball teams won nine city high school championships, and the track teams captured 25 city titles.

• From 1958-69, Downing served three terms as president of the Regina High School Athletics Association.

• In 1990, the school's gymnasium was named in her honour, as was the trophy given to the winner of the Regina Intercollegiate Basketball League girls' championship.

• Downing has also won several educational and volunteer awards, including the Saskatchewan Physical Education Award of Merit and the Regina Volunteer Award.

Wilma Downing, a life-long basketball coach

Medium: Television

Program: CBC Television News

Broadcast Date: Feb. 7, 2001

Guest(s): Wilma Downing, Porscha Fordham, Amanda MacCormack

Reporter: Marilyn Maki

Duration: 2:43

Last updated:
Oct. 26, 2009

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