Glenn Howard drew the eight-foot with his final stone of an extra end to nip John Morris and his Calgary-based Team Canada rink 7-6 in Wednesday’s opening draw of the 2014 Home Hardware Canada Cup, presented by Meridian Manufacturing.
|Jean-Michel Ménard
With the European Championships coming to an end on the weekend, there were dozens of points awarded on the World Curling Tour Order of Merit. Champion Binia Feltscher of Switzerland, silver-medallist Anna Sidorova of Russia and bronze-medallist Eve Muirhead of Scotland all earned big points, and moved up further in the Top 10, with Muirhead moving into the No.2 spot, passing Ottawa’s Rachel Homan.
The puck (rock?) drops Wednesday on the Home Hardware Canada Cup, presented by Merian Manufacturing, and as always it is going to be quite a week of curling.
|Classroom sessions are part of the OVCA’s Train the Trainer program held recently at the Ottawa Curling Club (Photo courtesy Ottawa Curling Club)|Earle Morris plays the part of a novice curler while instructor Michel St. Marseille adjusts his position in the hack during the Train the Trainer session (Photo courtesy Ottawa Curling Club)|Train the Trainer leader Anna Keller leads a session on the ice at the Ottawa Curling Club (Photo courtesy Ottawa Curling Club)|At the Pembroke Curling Centre
The Ottawa Valley Curling Association has found a way to improve its already successful Getting Started in Curling for Adults program: they’re not just training new curlers, they’re training the trainers, too.
The race to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, begins for Canada’s top curling teams when the 2014 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling, presented by Meridian Manufacturing, gets underway Wednesday at the Encana Arena in Camrose, Alta.
The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship is underway in North Bay, Ont.
|Clockwise from top left
Four coaches who guided Canadian curling teams to major international successes during the 2013-14 season were the recipients of the Coaching Association of Canada’s Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards.
|Skip Sherry Middaugh
Just because many of the top teams are taking the weekend off, it doesn’t mean that it’s a quiet time on the World Curling Tour. The truth is quite the opposite — both the men and women have several events going on across the country, featuring some highly-positioned teams on the Canadian Team Ranking System.
|Team Morris
The first weekend of competition is over for the new Team Morris and we were cautiously optimistic about our start.
|The ice at the North Bay Granite Club is ready for the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship gets underway on Monday at the North Bay Granite Club.
|The opening ceremonies of the 2010 Ford World Women's Championship in Swift Current. (Photo
The Ford World Women’s Curling Championship is returning to Swift Current, Sask., it was announced jointly today by the Canadian Curling Association and World Curling Federation.
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