• As a Golden Bear, won the WCIAA championship in his weight class four years straight.
• Also played guard for the Golden Bears and the Eskimos football teams.
• Coached the U of A wrestling team and Canada's wrestling team for the 1966 Commonwealth Games.
• Chair of the Alberta Wrestling Association and the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association.
• Won numerous national and international awards for his contributions to wrestling and was inducted into the Edmonton and Alberta Sports Halls of Fame, the Edmonton Boxing and Wrestling Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Amateur Sports Hall of Fame.

An outstanding university athlete and a world-class builder of sport programs, Alex Romaniuk is widely heralded as a man of superior talent, vision, leadership and a dominant force in the sport of wrestling. He began his career as a wrestler in 1939 while still attending elementary school. Later, as a student at the University of Alberta, he won the WQAA championship for his weight class every year from 1948 to 1951. Despite his commitments as a student and as a wrestler, Alex found time to play guard for the Golden Bears Football team in 1948 and as an offensive guard for the Edmonton Eskimos in 1949. A highly competitive amateur wrestler, Alex reigned as weight class champion of Alberta in 1947 and again in 1958.

Great though he was as an athlete, Alex Romaniuk gained international recognition as a builder of the sport of wrestling. Following graduation, Alex coached the U of A wrestling team and was named to coach Canada's wrestling team for the 1966 Commonwealth Games that were held in Jamaica. He chaired the Alberta Wrestling Association for 15 years and the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association from 1968 to 1973. For his contributions to sport, the Government of Canada conferred upon him their Centennial Medal (1967). Alex Romaniuk's abiding concern that young athletes receive a sound education resulted in his appointment as an executive member of the Edmonton Oil Kings Hockey Club and to the chair of its Education Committee from 1962 to 1967.

In 1970, a significant event occurred in Edmonton. Alex Romaniuk brought the World Wrestling Championships to our city. In 1970 alone he received the US Amateur Athletic Association Medal of Honour, a Statue of Honour frorn the US Wrestling Officials Association, the US Athletic Union "World's Outstanding Man" in Amateur Wrestling Award, and the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association Award of Merit. At the Munich Olympics (1972) Alex received the Olympic Gold Star for his contributions to wrestling as well as the FILA (International Wrestling Federation) Diploma of Honour. The next year, in Tel Aviv, Alex received the Certificate of Honour from the Maccabiah Association.

In 1978 another significant international sport festival was held in Edmonton - the Commonwealth Games. Trace through the history of Edmonton's bid for these important Games and you will find the name of Alex Romaniuk at the head of the list. Just another part of the Romaniuk legacy. Alex had that rare ability to "walk the tight rope that linked athletes, to sport executives, to politicians' — through his magic he could bring people together to work on the common goal of building sport for the benefit of people. Not content to be a world leader in the organization of his sport. Alex was also an internationally renowned wrestling official and held the highest level of certification awarded by the international body. He officiated at the World Wrestling Championships in 1965, 1967, and 1969 as well as at the Pan American Games in 1967 and the Olympic Games in 1968.

For all that he was and all that he did for others, Alex was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame (1974), the Edmonton Boxing and Wrestling Hall of Fame (1976), the Canadian Amateur Sports Hall of Fame (1981), and the Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame (1985).

Alex Romaniuk was an educator par excellence. For 28 years he was a much loved and highly regarded supervisory principal for the Edmonton and Jasper Place Public School Boards. To recognize the many important contributions Alex made to the city of Edmonton, in 1980 the City Council created the designations of Romaniuk Road and Romaniuk Place in the Terwillegar Park Subdivision of Riverbend - a fitting tribute to a great civic leader, a superb sports program builder and an outstanding University of Alberta athlete.