Just returned from u18 nationals, myself and my brother Drove 1600 k rd trip to watch his grandson curl out of Albert (Hebiert) team 6-0 record when we had to return home👍🥌 We are from Thunder Bay, got to meet and get pictures with Krista Mccarville, home town girl,,going to...
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The Jean Shot Who needs sweepers…. My curling story starts with my mother, Jean Bassett, who inspired me as a curler. She started her curling career in Ottawa at the Carleton Heights Curling Club on an outdoor rink in 1956 before the club was built in 1958. It was a...
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My 4 yr old has been interested in curling since she was 3. She would sneak down the stairs when I would be watch the tournament or hearts or brier, sit quietly on the stairs just to watch. She started curling this year and loves it. I know she would...
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Brad and his team represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Team Gushue and Canada won the tournament, taking home Canada’s first Olympic gold in men’s curling, and Newfoundland’s first in any sport all while his mom was in hospital struggling with cancer. He was a real trooper and stayed...
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Good afternoon/morning teachers and classmates. My name is Paiton Gusba and I am in Ms Smiths grade 3/4 split class. Today I am here to do a speech about curling. Curling is a winter sport that is played in curling clubs and arenas across the world. I have been curling...
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As the Winter morning dawns, with a Timmy’s in hand, the cottage window provides the most serene setting filled with a frosty white landscape of Lake Heney, QC. Venturing outside into Nature, a stillness fills the air…until the sound of bagpipes steals the show. Yes, it has begun. The official...
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As an organizer for the past 17 years of the annual Kurling for Kids event which raises funds for the St.Justine and Montreal Children’s Hospitals I am proud to say that over these years 150,665.49$ have been raised by the Otterburn Legion Memorial Curling Club. The funds that are raised...
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I started taking a learn-to-curl program this year to be able to start curling with my wife, who is an avid curler, (she has represented PEI at National Events, and also Team Canada at the Youth Olympics). Curling is her passion, and I admire her love for the sport, and...
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Our 53 years of love started the year my family moved to the town of Aberdeen, SK. I had been curling since a young teen, learning from some wonderful people in Grand Coulee, SK. In Aberdeen, when we moved there, I was in grade 12. I had to forge new...
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The love story starts when my daughter was curling in a provincial qualifier for a ladies team . There was men’s teams there too ! One very special guy said to his team mate I will marry that girl ! His team mate said first you do even know her.he...
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Growing up I lived in a small town, where curling wasn’t really available to kids. The local rink had a few sheets of ice and had a farmers league with a bonspiel. I started watching curling on TV in 2008 and fell in love with the sport. In 2011, my...
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Growing up, curling was always a big part of my life. Starting from my grandpa, moving down the generations. My grandpa was so proud to bring us to watch the brier when we were children. Fast forward many years of curling bonspiels as a family, I have my own children...
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I’ve always enjoyed watching curling while I was a kid, my mother never really got it but she would always allow me to watch it and join me in screaming HURRY HARD! We grew up in poverty on assistance and never had the opportunity to play it growing up. We...
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During the first game of the Brier our Mate Lester Bowering blew out his knee meaning that Alex Andrews and I had to throw three rocks each with only one sweeper. This was the in the days of twelve end games and using the good old corn broom. On Wednesday...
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I have been curling since I was 3 at my local curling club in Wiarton. I was in my Little Rocks and Junior program as well as teaching and now starting ladies nights now that I’m home from university. My favourite memory if that each year we have a family...
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My 9 year old son has been curling 🥌 since he was 5 he lost his Grampie when he was 10 months old and his Grampie won many trophy’s curling in the army . He was drawn to the sport and feels it makes him closer to his Grampie knowing...
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Winters can be long in Saskatchewan, and it goes by a little sweeter when Mom can watch the Scotties, the Brier and the Worlds. If a tournament is going on, she will ask us “Have you been watching the curling?” If we have we will share our favourite part of...
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These were my dad’s first words upon my birth. As such, Curling has been a huge part of my life. My dad has always loved the sport. He played competitively for many years, dreaming of that fabled purple heart. And although he gave up his dream to settle down and...
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I am a retired nurse and have avidly watched curling my entire life We do not have a curling rink in Springhill NS any more I was very young when they tore down the old building But I watch every tournament and have even taken to watching live stream when...
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Met my husband curling and made the absolute best friends curling from our little province of NB and neighbouring Maine. Can’t say I am the best curler but with this sport it is not about being great it is about getting out having fun, meeting the best people, getting exercise...
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The year was 2005. The Brier was in Edmonton, 240 km from our home in rural Kitscoty, Alberta. I was a high school teacher and my son Glenn was a grade 4 student at our local elementary school. First a little background. Glenn was a curling addict from a very...
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I am a recently retired Registered Nurse. I have come to love the game of curling. I volunteered for Special Olympics Curling. It was àn amazing experience. The feel of community and friendship. I also volunteered for the Scotties when they were held in Thunder Bay. That event was also...
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My mother, Dorothy Shortreed, was an avid and passionate curler in the 1960’s and 1970’s in Calgary, Alberta. She entered many bonspiels and play downs, and often I had a babysitter for when she was out on the ice. She curled out of the Calgary Winter Club, but often she...
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Our town motto is “Small Community, Big Heart”. Our curling rink is supported by our small town and surrounding farming community. Year round it is the local coffee shop, and post (senior) walking group meeting place. In the winter we run men’s, ladies, seniors, mixed, drop-in and junior leagues out...
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I have been watching curling on TV for years. Last year I joined Learn To Curl program in my community. I am loving it and enjoying playing as often as I can. I am a regular curling club member now. As a senior citizen, I am no longer a couch...
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