Audette and Kidd honoured by MASRC at banquet

A current and a now retired hockey player from the region who are Red River Métis were recognized for their acheivements last week.

St Adolphe’s Taylor Audette was named as one of the 2025 Maniotba Indigenious athletes of the year and Trevor Kidd was inducted into the Manitoba Indigenous Sports and Hall of Fame.

Audette, who is from St Adolphe, scored 42 points in 35 games for the Silvertips in the Manitoba Women’s Junior Hockey League in the 25/26 season. She also races dirt-track and plays softball.

Kidd, who was born in Dugald and played on one of the first Eastman Selects teams when the program was founded in the 1987/1988 season, would go on to play nearly 400 NHL games.

He won the Western Hockey League’s goaltender of the year award in 1990 and helped the Spokane Chiefs to the Memorial Cup the next season. Kidd also won a silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics, highlighting a strong national team stint.

Award winners and hall of fame inductees were honoured at a banquet April 24.

The male athlete of the year was Waywayseecappo’s Athens Shingoose. The 2010-born player posted an incredible season with Rink Hockey Academy last year, scoring at a point-per-game pace for the program’s U18 team despite his younger age. Swan Valley Manitoba Junior Hockey League head coach Josh Tripp (Liard First Nation) split the coach of the year award with Berens River First Nation’s Robyn Boulanger.

Wendy Creed (Keeseekoowenin First Nation) and Quinton Denechezhe (Northlands Denesuline First Nation) were recognized as the volunteers of the year.

Joining Kidd in the hall of fame class of 2026 are curler Kerri Einarson (Red River Métis), Chief Kevin Hart (Nisichwayasihk Cree Nation), who also served as AFN Regional Chief, Mike Sutherland (Peguis First Nation), who has founded and manages sports clubs in Peguis and Tréchelle Bunn, who played with the Manitoba Bisons hockey team and was elected the youngest Chief in Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation history in 2025.