The Canadian Curling Association will play a significant role in the Year of Sport in Canada, it was announced today.
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Canada’s most comprehensive curling website now has even more to offer fans.
|Winnipeg's Jennifer Jones
With several events on the World Curling Tour this weekend, there was plenty of action across the country and lots of points up for grabs. Two Manitoba teams came away as the big winners, with Jennifer Jones and Reid Carruthers cashing in tournament wins, in high-valued events.
Les joueurs sur la piste dans un match ordinaire des Venerables au Club de curling et de tennis Tam Heather à Scarborough
Dedicated curlers know that curling is a sport for life. Thanks to innovations in equipment (think Little Rocks and delivery sticks, for example) participants of practically any age or level of physical ability can take to the ice – and stay there.
Two different kinds of sliders gathered on Thursday afternoon at the Glencoe Club in Calgary for some Canadian team bonding.
|Dr. Neville Headley practices his delivery while his teammates and coach look on. (Photo by Lisa Shamchuk)|Lisa Shamchuk tries out a training broom that measures sweeping speed and pressure. (Photo by Lisa Shamchuk)|Doug Marks comments on a video recording of a teammates alignment during delivery. (Photo by Lisa Shamchuk)
Coaching and skills instruction can benefit more than just elite curlers, a trend the Alberta Rocks Curling Camp proved with great success recently when it welcomed over 60 adult recreational club curlers looking for instruction on how to improve their curling delivery, sweeping, strategy and mental game play.
|Joanne Courtney
At age 25, Joanne Courtney has already handled most of the high pressure situations in competitive curling. She’s played in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings, and countless other high-level events. But this season, she’s facing a new challenge: being the new girl.
||Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo
Canada’s best university curling teams will congregate in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., for the 2015 CIS/CCA Canadian University Curling Championships, it was announced jointly today by the Canadian Curling Association and Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
|Riley Puhl with Jill Officer (CCA Photo)
Canadian kids are being left out of traditional sports, especially girls, obese children, those with special needs, and kids from low income families.* We want kids to be happy and healthy for years to come.
|Beth Iskiw gives feedback to a group of adult curlers at the Pros in the Park Curling Camp (Photo courtesy H. Nedohin)|Heather Nedohin
On September 27, over 50 curlers had a chance to get up close and personal with Heather Nedohin and some curling “friends” at the Sherwood Park Curling Club, kicking off the new season – and Nedohin’s new role as the club’s Curling Pro and Manager – with camps for both juniors and adults.
|Val Sweeting's team from Edmonton finished second at a World Curling Tour event on the weekend in Vernon
With most of the top teams taking the week off, the World Curling Tour’s Prestige Hotel & Resorts Curling Classic in Vernon, B.C., seemed like a good opportunity for some Canadian women’s teams to score some easier points on the Canadian Team Ranking System list.
|Curlers practice under the watchful eye of their coach (Photo Lisa Shamchuk)|Skips hold the broom and teammates watch while a rock is delivered during The Great Shoot Out (Photo by Lisa Shamchuk)|Participants observe as Paul Webster and Andy Jones demonstrate a proper curling delivery. (Photo by Lisa Shamchuk)]
Curling camp is just for kids and junior curlers, right? Wrong!