The 37th annual TCA Youth Championship will be held in Oshawa from December 27-29 and features an exciting prize purse. This year’s tournament will feature an opening ceremony on December 28, as well as the first ever gender-neutral TCA Youth Awards.
• December 27th – 29th, 2017
Oshawa Curling Club, Oshawa Golf & Curling Club
$320.07-442.30
For more info or to enter, visit https://www.torontocurling.com/events/37th-tca-youth-championship/
Twenty-eight teams are now set to pursue their Olympic gold-medal ambitions later this year in Summerside, P.E.I., it was announced today by Curling Canada.
Photo, Curling Canada/Andrew Klaver
The 2017 Home Hardware Road to the Roar Pre-Trials, set for Nov. 6-12 at Credit Union Place, will determine the final entries for the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials, Dec. 2-10 in Ottawa, where Canada’s men’s and women’s four-player teams for the 2018 Winter Olympics will be decided.
Fourteen teams in each gender will compete for two coveted berths in the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, and all have now confirmed their entry after a grace period during which teams had to declare lineups, and in one case, decline an invitation.
Stefanie Lawton of Saskatoon had qualified for the Home Hardware Road to the Roar based on her position on the Canadian Team Ranking System over two seasons (2015-16, 2016-17) ranking. But because the points she’d earned were entirely with her 2015-16 team, which was completely changed for 2016-17, she had to pass on the berth.
To accept Home Hardware Road to the Roar berths, teams must retain three of the original players who earned the qualifying points, and have them on the ice at all times.
Lawton’s berth will now be taken by Halifax’s Theresa Breen, the next-highest non-qualified team on the two-year rankings.
On the men’s side, meanwhile, three qualifying teams will have different skips than the ones with whom they qualified, after some off-season lineup changes.
Winnipeg’s Matt Dunstone left his team to join Steve Laycock’s Saskatoon squad, which has already qualified for the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings. Dunstone is being replaced by fellow Winnipegger Jason Gunnlaugson.
Meanwhile, Gunnlaugson had also qualified for the Home Hardware Road to the Roar with his own team, so he’s being replaced on that team by two-time Tim Hortons Brier champion Pat Simmons.
And since Saskatoon’s Bruce Korte retired from competitive curling after last season, his team needed a new skip for the Home Hardware Road to the Roar, and recruited Colton Flasch; ironically, it was Flasch who left Laycock’s team after last season to open the door for Dunstone’s move.
For the complete list of qualified teams, and their lineups, CLICK HERE.
The Pre-Trials teams will be seeded one through 14 based on their 2016-17 CTRS rankings, and then split into two pools of seven for the round-robin competition.
The top three teams from each pool will advance to the playoffs, with the first- and second-place teams crossing over to meet each other in the first round of the A-side. The winners will then meet for the first Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings berth.
The first-round losers, meanwhile, will drop to meet the third-place teams in each pool in the first round of the B-side. The winners of the two games will then meet, with the winner taking on the A-side final loser for the second Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings berth.
Tickets are available for the Road to the Roar Pre-Trials. CLICK HERE for more information.
One of the key events in deciding which Canadian teams will be chasing gold in 2018 will have a new title sponsor, it was announced today by Curling Canada.
Photo, Curling Canada/Michael Burns
Home Hardware, Canada’s largest dealer-owned hardware, lumber, building materials and furniture cooperative, will be the title sponsor for the Road to the Roar Pre-Trials.
The 2017 Home Hardware Road to the Roar Pre-Trials are scheduled for Nov. 6-12 at Credit Union Place in Summerside, P.E.I., and will determine the final two entries in each gender for the 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, Dec. 2-10 in Ottawa.
That’s the event that will decide Canada’s four-player teams for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
“Home Hardware has been a wonderful partner as the title sponsor of the Home Hardware Canada Cup, and we could not be happier that their partnership and commitment to our sport is expanding,” said Katherine Henderson, Chief Executive Officer of Curling Canada. “The Home Hardware Road to the Roar is a premier curling event that has produced gold-medallists in the past, and we’re very excited to see what will unfold next November in Summerside.”
There are close to 1,100 stores from coast to coast under the Home Hardware, Home Building Centre, Home Hardware Building Centre and Home Furniture banners, with annual retail sales of over $6 billion. Founded in 1964 in rural St. Jacobs, Ont., Home Hardware remains 100 per cent Canadian owned and operated.
“As a Canadian company, we are proud to partner with one of the nation’s most popular and distinctive sports, stated Terry Davis, CEO, Home Hardware Stores Limited. “We celebrate the tireless work of our Canadian teams and look forward to supporting the athletes at the Home Hardware Road to the Roar in November.”
Fourteen men’s and 14 women’s teams will be competing in Summerside, looking to make it to the final round of the Canadian qualifying process for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Tickets are available for the Home Hardware Road to the Roar Pre-Trials. CLICK HERE for more information.
CLICK HERE to read this story at Curling Canada
Curl PEI’s Performance Committee is excited to announce two upcoming workshops with Mental Performance Specialist – National Team Program (Curling Canada), Adam Kingsbury.
Adam Kingsbury is a clinical psychology resident at the University of Ottawa. Adam presently consults for Curling Canada, Golf Canada, and has previous experience consulting for a number of national sporting organizations in Canada. His doctoral research has focused on how social evaluation influences the golf putting stroke under pressure. Adam is also the co-founder of Marble Labs Inc. – a sport consulting firm focusing on performance under pressure, and curriculum development for high-performance adolescents. Adam played collegiate golf for 11 seasons, before realizing that he enjoyed helping others with their golf game significantly more than working on is own. Adam has taken up curling as his next passion pursuit, and plays 3 times a week as a Lead who sweeps hard, earns a lot of post-round beverages, and is always smiling – even when flashing guard attempts. He is also coach of Team Homan.
Curl PEI is excited to have Adam come to PEI and share his knowledge and expertise with local coaches and curlers.
The first workshop will be for coaches, and will be an introduction to Trainwave, a series of user friendly mental training workbooks for developing athletes. The program is designed to develop better people and better performers in line with Canada’s Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model.
Date: July 29
Time: 9am-4pm
Location: Charlottetown Curling Complex
Cost: $50 (registration will include a copy of the Trainwave workbook)
Register online: https://thelocker.coach.ca/event/public/5190130
Curl PEI’s Performance Committee is excited to announce two upcoming workshops with Mental Performance Specialist – National Team Program (Curling Canada), Adam Kingsbury.
Adam Kingsbury is a clinical psychology resident at the University of Ottawa. Adam presently consults for Curling Canada, Golf Canada, and has previous experience consulting for a number of national sporting organizations in Canada. His doctoral research has focused on how social evaluation influences the golf putting stroke under pressure. Adam is also the co-founder of Marble Labs Inc. – a sport consulting firm focusing on performance under pressure, and curriculum development for high-performance adolescents. Adam played collegiate golf for 11 seasons, before realizing that he enjoyed helping others with their golf game significantly more than working on is own. Adam has taken up curling as his next passion pursuit, and plays 3 times a week as a Lead who sweeps hard, earns a lot of post-round beverages, and is always smiling – even when flashing guard attempts. He is also coach of Team Homan.
Curl PEI is excited to have Adam come to PEI and share his knowledge and expertise with local coaches and curlers.
The “Identifying Barriers in Emerging Elite Curlers” workshop will be designed for curlers to attend as individuals or as a team with or without their coach. The Curl PEI Performance Committee and Adam will work together to determine the topics for the day; however they will be related to preparing to compete.
Date: July 30
Time: 9am-4pm
Location: TBD
Cost: $25/individual or $100/team
Register by emailing Amy Duncan @ aduncan@sportpei.pe.ca
Minimum numbers are required for Curl PEI to host a workshop, so please register early.
Check out this video about Self-expression and curling, make by PEI Junior and Under 18 champ Lauren Lenentine for her Leadership class:
KINGSTON, P.E.I. — As part of the celebrations for Canada’s 150th anniversary, nine projects in central P.E.I. will share more than $300,000 in federal government funding.
From left, president Alan Crane and Eric MacArthur with the Kingston Legion, join Cornwall MLA Heath MacDonald, Cornwall councillors Irene Larkin and Peter Meggs, and Malpeque MP Wayne Easter at an announcement in Kingston Thursday, July 6.
Canada’s top up-and-coming curlers will play for national championships for a second straight year in the province of New Brunswick.
The W.C. O’Neill Arena Complex, which features both a hockey arena and the three-sheet Heather Curling Club, will host the 2018 Canadian Under-18 Curling Championships. (Photo, Mary Craig)
The 2018 Canadian Under-18 Boys and Curling Championships will be staged in Saint Andrews, N.B., April 9-14, it was announced today by Curling Canada.
It will be the second edition of the U-18 national championships, following a successful debut this past April in Moncton.
The event, which will feature representatives of all 14 of Curling Canada’s Member Associations in both genders (aged 17 and under as of June 30, 2017), will be staged at the W.C. O’Neill Arena Complex, using both a hockey arena and the three-sheet Heather Curling Club, which is part of the complex.
“After such a successful debut in Moncton, the bar has been set high, but I know the Saint Andrews committee is ready to put on a first-class event,” said Peter Inch, Chair of Curling Canada’s Board of Governors. “The Canadian Under-18 Boys and Girls Championships are a vital component in developing young curlers into future world and Olympic championships, and it’s exciting to see them all under one roof.”
The teams will be seeded into two seven-team pools, and will play eight-end round-robin games. The top three teams will advance to the playoffs, with the pool winners advancing directly to the semifinals, and the second-and third-place teams meeting in crossover quarter-finals.
The Heather Curling Club in Saint Andrews, N.B. (Photo, Heather Curling Club)
“It’s exciting news that New Brunswick is being given another chance to host this event, and I know the people in Saint Andrews will respond with enthusiasm,” said Marg Maranda, Executive-Director of the New Brunswick Curling Association. “There’s a very passionate curling community there that will go out to make sure the curlers, their coaches and families, and all of the officials will have a wonderful experience.”
Athletes who meet the age requirements will be able to enter this event as well as the New Holland Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships, which are set for Jan. 13-21 in Shawinigan, Que.
Saint Andrews has a glowing reputation as a tourism mecca; in fact, USA Today recently named the town Canada’s No. 1 tourism destination.
“We’re already working hard to make sure this event is a success, on and off the ice,” said Susan Lister, Chair of the Saint Andrews Host Committee. “Our community is going to put out the welcome mat for the curlers and fans and send them home with some wonderful memories. We can’t wait for the first rock to be thrown!”
ALBERTON — His active involvement in the day-to-day operation of the Western Community Curling Club has earned Alberton resident Roger Gavin the town’s Myles Getson Volunteer of the Year Award. It was presented to him during the town’s Canada Day celebrations.
Norma Getson, left, and Alberton Town Councillor Kelly Williams present Roger Gavin with the Town of Alberton Myles Getson Volunteer of the Year Award.
©Eric McCarthy/Journal Pioneer
Gavin has been a member of the club for 36 years and has served many years on the board of directors including a term as president. He is the club’s drawmaster, he helps with installing and maintaining the ice and handles scheduling details for the club. He has coached several junior men’s teams in provincial competitions, earning several peer-generated coaching awards.