Clow selected as games manager for 2020 Sask Summer Games

With “any games, the success depends on the city and the volunteers and the community in general, and how they get behind it,” she said. “The games are a big event that require a lot of volunteers, and some of them as early as two years out. Those are the board and all the subcommittees that give hours and hours and hours of planning and delivery of whatever the board needs to do to make these games awesome.”

Clow has her Bachelor of Kinesiology from the University of Regina, with a major in Recreation and Sport Administration. In April of 2018, she was recognized with the Kinesiology and Health Studies’ Distinguished Alumni Award. Having experience in the past, especially in the city of Lloydminster, she knows that the community involvement in the games is crucial to the success of the 2020 version of the Saskatchewan Summer Games.

“The community and the city itself needs to rally behind because it costs lots of money to have one of these games, and it leaves lots of legacy for the community, but to have that many athletes to come to town, and to make sure they’re taken care of and to have competition that can rival all the top provincial competitions they’ll have individually,” she said. “Once the community gets in on supportively, that’s the key for success of the games. It allows the experience to be whatever it can be.”

This will be the second time the border city will be hosting the games, although a lot has changed in the community since 2008. Now 12 years removed from their first games, Clow knows that there are still facilities in the area that will benefit the games. A large aspect is to get people to the city, and experience the high level of athletics that the province has.

“This is a great community that has a lot going for it with great facilities here and good people,” she said. “The goal here is to bring some new people out here that haven’t seen this far West into the province and to see these facilities already in existence. It’s unique in that it’s a border city, with Saskatchewan and Alberta people. It’s a good way to show that it’s one big community that comes together for major events like this. Hopefully in the long run, it will leave amazing legacies left behind.”

Clow said introducing rugby as a new sport for the games is a challenge she’s ready to take on, and see play out.

“This is the first time there’s a new sport,” she said, in speaking of her time as a games manager. “Rugby sevens for women, it’s not something that’s typically in the Saskatchewan games program, it’s going to be exciting to see how that works. The new athletes that brings to the table, that’s one of my personal excitements. And of course, the opening and closing ceremonies for the games are always special and to see what the people of Lloydminster have planned and the local talent that it’s going to bring out.”

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by Brady Lang

Clow selected as games manager for 2020 Sask Summer Games

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