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City of Melfort Recreation and Aquatics Manager Shannon Marshall wins 2025 Rec Rumble (Facebook/SARP)
Recreation Rumble

Melfort recreation manager wins 2025 Rec Rumble

Jun 30, 2025 | 4:45 PM

A northeast local has won the 2025 Saskatchewan Association of Recreation Professionals (SARP) Rec Rumble.

Melfort Recreation and Aquatics Manager, Shannon Marshall, has been crowned the winner and will soon receive her championship belt.

“It’s pretty cool, I was just excited to get nominated and definitely didn’t expect to win. We have some really awesome rec professionals across our province, and recreation is such a broad spectrum term… I’m proud of Melfort, we do a lot here that’s good for recreation and people enjoy it, so it’s something for everybody in the community to celebrate,” she told northeastNOW.

“I think recreation just means community connection, it makes people feel engaged and connected, and it gives them something in their community that they really enjoy that can be a bit of a break from everyday mundane things, that’s easy to participate in. We really try and reach all age demographics and make sure that there’s something in the community that everyone can participate in.”

Recreation Professionals Week was celebrated in Saskatchewan from June 23-29 this year, while the entire month of June is Parks and Recreation Month.

The Rec Rumble is a ‘friendly showdown to spotlight and celebrate the amazing Pros in our province’.

Marshall was nominated by one of her peers in May and then received enough votes to become this year’s winner.

“Each nominee had to be nominated by a different rec professional, so it’s kind of a peer-promoted thing, which is cool. When people think of recreation, they think it encompasses sport, but it’s much more than that. Any leisure and experiences that a community has that people can participate in fall into recreation,” Marshall added.

“Every recreation or leisure experience that happens in the community, somebody’s driving that. You can see feedback in the number of things that people participate in, but then when people need to actually take time out of their day and go and vote for you, and then you have enough to win out of this huge field of people, it’s pretty cool. It was awesome to see that support from the community.”

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