11 Albertans and one sports team, considered top athletes and builders of sport in our province will be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum this year.

One of the non-athletes being inducted is Dianne Finstad, a broadcaster and reporter who specialised in agriculture and rodeo coverage through local radio and her award winning TV show, "The Business of Farming".

She still loves her job, being able to interview farming families through the generations now.

“It’s a little tricky to keep current now, I’m actually interviewing kids of people that were there when I started, and that’s a little spooky, but I keep trying to look forward and I still get excited when I hear that performance starting, thinking what will the story be today?”

Others being honored this year include former Calgary Flame, Stanley Cup and Olympic Gold medal winner Theoren Fleury, six-time Winter Olympic medallist speed skater Cindy Klassen, and female basketball legend and University of Calgary Dinos Hall of Fame inductee Leighann Doan Reimer.

Reimer played almost every sport growing up in Halkirk except for hockey. She left that for her former NHL star brother Shane Doan.

Instead, she ended up dominating the female basketball world, being the all-time leading scorer for the University of Calgary Dino's from 97 -2001, being a four-time first team All Canadian, and playing professional basketball in France after leaving school.

Reimer, who coaches her daughters basketball team and has also put on summer basketball camps for the past two decades, knows the importance connection between sports and kids.

“I feel like it’s really important to get into those young lives and make a difference. I see my role as different now, I’m promoting basketball and wanting to make them better basketball players, but I also see that you need to get in and make a connection with those kids, they need to be loved, they need to be appreciated that day, they need to be encouraged, and if they come out a better basketball player, great, but I think it’s more important that you connect with them as a person.”

The induction ceremony and banquet takes place on June 1st in Red Deer.

You can check out the full list of inductees and their bios here, at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame & Museum website.