
Longtime Red Deer sports journalist honoured with WHL’s Bob Ridley Award
The Western Hockey League honoured local sports journalist Greg Meachem, who was named the 2024-25 recipient of the league’s Bob Ridley Award for Media Excellence.
His wife Brenda, and many other family members were in attendance on Friday night prior to the Rebels game against the Prince Albert Raiders to accept the award.
Known as, “Meach” around the rink and in the community, he passed away in April last year following a brief illness.
He covered the Rebels and the WHL since the team joined the league in 1998. In 2016, he was hired as the writer for the Red Deer Rebels website after a 35-year career with the Red Deer Advocate.