Holland College Women, Summerside’s Alex Gallant (UNB Men) begin play today in Collegiate, University Ch’ships in Leduc AB

Posted on by March 24, 2018

There’s lots of curling action in Leduc Alberta, beginning today with the U SPORTS and CCAA championships, as, over a nine-day span, the Leduc Recreation Centre will play host to four Canadian championship events:

  • The 2018 U SPORTS/Curling Canada Curling Championships from March 24-28
  • The 2018 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA)/Curling Canada Championships from March 24-28
  • The 2018 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship from March 26-31
  • The 2018 Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship from March 29-April 1

CCAA/Curling Canada (Collegiate) Curling Championships

Website: http://www.curling.ca/2018college/

It will be the first time the CCAA national men’s and women’s championships, for colleges and institutes, will be staged in cooperation with Curling Canada. PEI’s Holland College has a women’s team in the event. The team members are Cynthia Pearson, from Fredericton New Brunswick, who is attending first year in the Culinary Program, Tegan Stride, from Summerside PEI, who is attending first year in the Practical Nursing program, MacKenzie Stewart, from Crapaud PEI, who is attending first year in the Practical Nursing program, and Taya-Ray Crossman, from Crapaud PEI, who is attending first year in the Human Services program. Ten-time PEI Women’s champion Shelly Bradley is their coach. The Holland College Hurricanes begin play at 4 pm Atlantic on Saturday against the Fleming Knights from Peterborough Ontario at 4 pm.

(L-R): Cynthia Pearson, Tegan Stride, MacKenzie Stewart, Taya-Ray Crossman, Shelly Bradley (coach)

It will be the 14th CCAA national championship event; the event started in 1984 and ran through to 1990. It was revived in 2012 and has been staged annually ever since.

It will be the second straight year the CCAA Championships have been held in Alberta; Red Deer College and Fanshawe College won the women’s and men’s gold medals respectively at the University of Alberta-Augustana in Camrose, which is also serving as the official host school for the 2018 event.

U SPORTS/Curling Canada (University) Curling Championships

Website: http://www.curling.ca/2018university/

It will be the 11th staging of the U SPORTS/Curling Canada Curling Championships, and the second time it’s been held in Alberta; the 2010 championships were staged at the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton and hosted by the University of Alberta.

The University of Alberta will be the official host school for the 2018 championships.

The UPEI Women’s Panthers team did not make it out of the Atlantics this year, and there is currently no UPEI men’s team, although Summerside’s Alex Gallant is competing on the UNB Varsity Reds team. UNB open against the Brock Badgers at noon PEI time.

UNB Reds (L-R):  
Skip: Jack Smeltzer,  Third: Trevor Crouse, Second: Evan MacKnight,
 Lead: Alex Gallant, Alternate: Andrew Burgess
Coach: Lindsey MacKnight 

The last U SPORTS/Curling Canada Curling Championships was in Thunder Bay, Ont., with Memorial University winning the men’s gold medal and Laurentian University taking women’s gold.

The men’s and women’s winners of the 2018 U SPORTS/Curling Canada Curling Championships will earn the right to represent Canada at the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

Both scholastic championships will feature eight men’s and eight women’s teams.

Live results are available from all four championships at Curling.ca

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