Yukon paralympian Jessica Frotten named to sports hall of fame in Saskatchewan [Video]

Yukon paralympian Jessica Frotten is being honoured with a hall-of-fame induction in her adopted home province of Saskatchewan.

The wheelchair racer was one of six people named this week to the Regina Sports Hall of Fame. She’ll be officially inducted at a ceremony in the city in October.

“It’s pretty cool,” Frotten said. “There’s some phenomenal athletes that have come out of Regina. So it’s an honour to be a part of that, for sure.”

Frotten got into para athletics a little more than a decade ago, after she borrowed a racing wheelchair from the Saskatchewan Wheelchair Sports Association. She had been diagnosed with a spinal cord injury following a car accident in 2009. 

Since then she’s won medals at the Parapan American Games, and competed at several world championships. In national competitions, she’s won 17 medals, six of them gold. In 2020, she was part of the Canadian Paralympics …