2nd annual Posthumus Family Hoopfest in Winnipeg
Posted March 15, 2026 4:24 pm.
The second annual Posthumus Family Hoopfest took place on Sunday in memory of Chad Posthumus, former Winnipeg Sea Bears captain. It’s a day full of games and challenges, prizes and giveaways, and so much more.
“As a kid who loved community, he loved playing love sports. Every sport he played. Hockey, volleyball, basketball. Basketball is his ultimate love that he played,” said Diana Posthumus, mother of Chad Posthumus.
The Posthumus family reminisced about Chad, who they say left his mark on the community and transformed the lives of everyone he touched.
“Chad’s done many of these and just called him, and he’ll come wherever, and he’ll be there signing autographs. He did this while he was playing in the NBA, anytime when he came home, any event he would come to. He just loves kids,“ said Charles Posthumus, father of Chad Posthumus.
Diana added, “He would’ve been in there, you know, he would pick up a kid, and he’d get him to go dunk, and he’d leave him hanging on the rim right, like he loved playing. They had a one time, a little I guess a hoop that they could go through that they had to crawl through and of course the kids are ‘like crawl through it’ and he crawled through the tunnel right with all the little kids who are five and six years old and I think he really represented the city of Winnipeg and really he loved it.”
The day is meant for every kid to have a chance to play and to bring families together, and with this being the second edition, it won’t stop here.
“Well, the board was talking about bringing back Hoopfest, and like, I said that the league has been around for a while, and Hoopfest has been around since the early 2000s, and when the tragedy struck with Chad, we thought we were planning on bringing back the event, and we thought to have it in his memory would be. Just made sense,” said Grant Richter, the executive director of Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association.
“This is the second annual, and we will keep going and keep going and keep going.”
