Here are upcoming entry deadlines for provincial curling championships:
Entries for all events must be made online at PEICurling.com.
Start and end dates for provincial championships may vary slightly, depending on the number of entries.
Seniors
The 2014 Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Senior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships, for curlers age 50 and over, will be held February 20-22 at the Cornwall Curling Club. Defending champions are the Rod MacDonald rink from the Charlottetown Curling Complex, and the Nola Murphy foursome from Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club. Entry deadline is January 23, and entry fee is $200 per team, plus a $35 per player per season Competitor Card fee. Delivery sticks are not permitted in this event, which moves from ten ends to eight ends this year.
The winning men’s and women’s teams will advance to the Canadian Seniors, to be held March 22-30, 2014 at the Yellowknife Curling Centre, the first time the Canadian Curling Association has ever held a national championship in the Northwest Territories.
Entries to-date may be viewed at the event webite: PEICurling.com/seniors
Under 18
The 2014 O’Connor Glass/Curl PEI Provincial Under 18 Curling Championships take place February 20-24 at the Charlottetown Curling Complex. The defending men’s and women’s champions, respectively, are the Tony Nabuurs rink, a combined team with members from the Charlottetown Curling Complex, and the Montague and Maple Leaf curling clubs, and the Jenny McLean foursome from Summerside’s Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club. Entries for this year’s championship are due on January 23. Entry fee is $140 per team.
Games in this event are 8 ends.
The winning men’s and women’s rinks will advance to the Atlantic Under 18 Curling Championships, April 4-6 at the Gage Curling Club in Oromocto NB.
Click to view current entries at the event website: PEICurling.com/under18
Under 16
The 2014 O’Connor Glass/Curl PEI Provincial Under 16 Curling Championships take place at the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton from Feb. 27 to March 3. Last year, the Rachel O’Connor rink from the Cornwall Curling Club went undefeated to win the girl’s section, while the Alex MacFadyen foursome from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside won the boy’s.
Entry fee is $120/team, and entry deadline is January 30. Games in this event are 8 ends.
Click to view current entries at the event website: PEICurling.com/under16
Under 13
The Cornwall Curling Club are this year’s hosts for the KFC Provincial Under 13 Curling Championships, with boys and girls divisions, which takes March 6-10. In last year’s event, the rink of Mitchell Schut, Parker MacFadyen, Nick Johnston, and Draven Kowalski, with coaches Mike Schut and Butch McGee from the Cornwall club went undefeated to win the boys’ title, while the team of Tegan Corkum, Elly Whitney-Coulter, Maddison Moore, and Gabrielle Gallant, with coach Robert Corkum, from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, also went undefeated to capture the girls’ division. Games in the U13 championships are 6 ends.
Entry fee is $120/team. Entry deadine is February 6.
Click to view current entries at the event website: PEICurling.com/under13