The UPEI Panthers women’s curling team, skipped by Cornwall’s Veronica Smith, are on their way to the CIS Curling Championships, March 20-24 in Kamloops BC. The team includes third Jane DiCarlo, second Emily Gray, and lead Aleya Quilty, and is coached by Paul Smith.
Atlantic Canada’s other women’s representatives at the CIS Championship will be the Sara Spafford team from Saint Mary’s, which includes Seven Mile Bay PEI’s Anita Casey. Other members of the Spafford rink are Amanda Colter and MacKenzie Proctor, with coach Marie Christianson.
The Atlantic men’s reps are the Lea Buott rink from Dalhousie, and the Robert Mayhew foursome from Acadia, coached by PEI native and 1977 World Junior champion Alan Mayhew.
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Here is the draw schedule
Defending champions are the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women and Alberta Golden Bears men.
Event website: www.curling.ca/championships/university