Judy Owen

​Owen’s first professional connection to the CFL came in 1991 when she was assistant city editor at the Winnipeg Sun. Her boss asked her to co-ordinate news coverage for Winnipeg’s first time hosting the Grey Cup, knowing she was a sports fan and a Winnipeg Blue Bombers season-ticket holder. One year later, she joined the paper’s sports department, bringing together her passions for feature writing and general sports reporting. In 1997, she became the beat writer for the Bombers – a rare position at the time for a female sports reporter in Canada. Owen found the perfect work-life balance as Winnipeg’s freelance sports stringer for The Canadian Press in 2002. Her coverage of Winnipeg’s fifth time hosting the Grey Cup in 2025 will be a full-circle moment, coinciding with her induction into the CFHOF.