The opportunity is the national stage and the official beginning of curling’s
Season of Champions. Hey, the whole family is ready so let the competition
begin.
The 2012 Canadian mixed championship, scheduled to start next week (Nov.
12-19) in Sudbury, Ont., certainly takes on a special meaning for one of Metro
Moncton’s headline curling families – the Robichauds.
Sylvie, 31, a New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion and
three-time provincial junior champ, will skip New Brunswick’s entry that will
also feature her brother, Marcel, 27, as mate, Marie Richard as second, and
André Boudreau as lead.
And, the coach of Sylvie’s team is her well-known dad, Ellery, who just
returned earlier this week from the Czech Republic where he coaches that
country’s national men’s team.
Truth is, Sylvie wishes the mixed was starting right now because she’s on a
hot roll. Two weeks back she won the Lady Monctonian Invitational and last week
was one of four rinks that got off to a solid 4-0 start in the Advanced
Motorsports Challenge that runs over two weekends.
This weekend she’s off to the Rodd Curling Classic in Charlottetown, but it
wouldn’t bother her a bit if it was the national mixed instead.
“We’re playing well so we’d like to get there,” Robichaud confessed this
week.
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