Nationwide championships going down Sunday at Barrie Curling Membership will function a number of the nation’s prime club-level curlers
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This Sunday, the 2024 Everest Canadian Curling Membership Championships kick off on the Barrie Curling Membership in Barrie, welcoming prime club-level curlers from throughout the nation.
The nationwide championships proceed of their historical past of celebrating talent, sportsmanship, and neighborhood as groups vie for the titles of the perfect males’s and ladies’s membership curlers in Canada.
Within the ladies’s division, Workforce New Brunswick stands on the verge of historical past with a chance to win an unbelievable third-straight championship. Workforce Carol Webb, representing Thistle St. Andrew’s Curling Membership in Saint John, will look to carry dwelling the three-peat. Workforce Shaelyn Park started New Brunswick’s profitable streak in 2022, adopted by Workforce Abby Burgess in 2023.
Webb brings ample expertise to the ice. She was a part of the Canadian Below-20 Curling Championship-winning workforce in 2002, when she performed second for Suzanne Birt of Prince Edward Island. That workforce proudly earned a bronze medal for Canada on the World Junior Curling Championships.
Worldwide expertise additionally shines via on Prince Edward Island’s Workforce Amanda Energy of the Cornwall Curling Membership, the place lead Janique Leblanc achieved world junior and Canadian Below-20 gold with Nova Scotia’s Workforce Mary Fay in 2016.
Ontario’s Workforce Patricia Bandurka from the Dixie Curling Membership in Mississauga is the provincial host.
On the boys’s facet, Workforce Jordan Keon of the Richmond Hill (Ontario) Curling Membership returns with acquainted faces and new expertise. Keon, second Curtis Samoy, and lead Trevor Talbott claimed the boys’s title in 2022, enjoying below skip Greg Balsdon. This yr, they’re joined by Ryan Werenich, son of two-time World and Brier champion Ed Werenich.
That workforce will face a formidable area of opponents, together with expert skips who’ve made deep runs in previous membership championships. Manitoba’s Workforce Zachary Wasylik (Pembina Curling Membership, Winnipeg) final competed in 2022; three-time Montana’s Brier competitor Jeff Lacey from New Brunswick is again for his third membership championship with this workforce from the Thistle St. Andrew’s Curling Membership; and Nova Scotia skip Travis Stone, representing the Sydney Curling Membership, took silver in 2018 as second and brings expertise to this yr’s competitors.
As in previous years, the 2024 Everest Canadian Curling Membership Championships will embrace the For the Love of Curling fundraiser, supporting youth curling throughout Canada. Groups will elevate funds for junior curling, and prime fundraising groups can earn as much as a $2,100 grant for his or her dwelling golf equipment, immediately supporting the subsequent technology of curlers.
Established in 2009, the Everest Canadian Curling Membership Championships have celebrated curling expertise throughout Canada. Alberta and Ontario have every claimed the boys’s title 4 instances, with B.C. and Saskatchewan securing two wins every, and Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia every holding one title.
Within the ladies’s division, Manitoba leads with 4 championships, whereas Ontario and Alberta have every earned three, New Brunswick has two, and Prince Edward Island and northern Ontario every have one title.
The occasion format options two swimming pools of seven groups, with 14 males’s and 14 ladies’s groups competing in a round-robin. The highest 4 groups from every pool advance to a double-knockout playoff, starting Friday, Nov. 22, and concluding with the gold- and bronze-medal video games on Sunday, Nov. 24.
Followers can observe the motion stay with chosen video games accessible on Curling Canada’s YouTube channel and TSN+.
For stay scores and standings, go to the scoreboard web page.
For workforce lineups, draw instances, and different occasion particulars, go to the occasion web site.
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