Brayden Rieger accepting his 2024 MacDonald Cup Tournament MVP Award, and Stryker Zablocki carrying the puck with her Regina Rebels, both in 2024. (Facebook/MacDonald Cup Jr B Invitational, and paNOW Staff/Logan Lehmann)

By Nick Nielsen

Kinsmen 2025 Sportsmen of the Year Award winners announced

Sep 24, 2025 | 2:54 PM

The Prince Albert Kinsmen have officially announced this year’s award winners they will be honouring at the Kinsmen Club of Prince Albert’s Sportsman Dinner.

Winners include a three time Western Canadian champion lacrosse player, one of Canada’s best young women’s hockey players, and someone who was pivotal in bringing the WBSC Men’s Softball World Cup to Prince Albert.

This year’s speaker is none other than legendary Toronto Maple Leafs forward Wendel Clark. Serving as captain of the Leafs from 1991-94, Clark is the last player from Saskatchewan to be selected first overall in the NHL Entry Draft when the Leafs took him in 1985.

Starting with the Sportsman of the Year, those honours go to Ian Litzenberger as the chair of the 2025 World Men’s Softball Finals tournament. The tournament helped bring in $200,000 in legacy funds to support the development of the field at Prime Minister’s Park.

Litzenberger also serves as the vice president for the Prince Albert Minor Softball Association, the District 8 Director for Softball Sask, and was the Co-Chair for the 2024 WBSC Men’s Softball World Cup Group Stage tournament that helped bring the finals to Prince Albert this past year. He also handled sponsorship and marketing for the 2018 Junior Men’s Softball World Cup.

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This year’s Male Athlete of the Year is Prince Albert Predators forward Brayden Reiger. On top of winning the MacDonald Cup Western Canadian Championship for the third straight year, Reiger was named the Prairie Gold Lacrosse League (PGLL) Playoff MVP award, MacDonald Cup and PGLL Most Outstanding Offensive Player awards, and the Sask Lacrosse Association’s Russell Slobodian Major Male Athlete Award.

During the regular PGLL season, Reiger put up 45G-30A-70P to finish second in league scoring, despite missing two games to start the season while he was away at college with the University of Mount Olive Trojans in NCAA Division II. During his college season, Reiger put up 22G-18A-40P in 14 games as a freshman.

Finally is this year’s Female Athlete of the Year, and that honour goes to 2025 IIHF U18 Women’s World Hockey Champion Stryker Zablocki. This year Zablocki lead the tournament in scoring with 12 points and was named a tournament all-star.

Away from international competition, Zablocki played last year with the Bishop Kearney Selects in Rochester, New York in U19 AAA women’s hockey. Last season, Zablocki helped Bishop Kearney to their first ever U.S. national championship, and she is now the only female hockey player to capture a Canadian U18 AAA Championship, an U.S. U19 AAA Championship, and World Championship all within 365 days.

This year Zablocki is moving up to NCAA hockey with Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

The 16th Annual Prince Albert Kinsmen Sportsman Dinner will take place on Oct. 25 at the Ches Leach Lounge in the Art Hauser Centre. Funds raised this year will be going towards the wave pool at the Lake Country Co-op Leisure Centre.

For tickets, email pakinsmenclub@gmail.com.

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Nick.Nielsen@pattisonmedia.com