DAVE STEWART – The Guardian

Kathie Gallant choked back tears as she recounted the faith she has always had in her son’s talent.
“Being a curler, myself, although he’s my son, I knew that he had a special talent and I knew that one day he would win,’’ Gallant told The Guardian in an interview Tuesday night just before the Charlottetown Curling Club hosted a big party to welcome home the Canadian junior champions.
Friends, family and curlers all packed into the second-floor reception area, some waving signs that read Canadian junior champions while others simply read Team Canada. The team entered the reception area behind a bagpiper, which was drowned out by the deafening cheers.

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Corrections:  in the list at the bottom of previous Junior champs, it should be Danbrook, not Dunbrook, and it should say Junior men’s champs, or add the fact that the Suzanne Gaudet rink won back-to-back junior women’s championships in 2001 and 2002.