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2020

CANADIAN MIXED

CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

MEDIA GUIDE

2020 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Table of Contents

2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Fact Sheet 1...................................................................................

2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Draw 5...........................................................................................

2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Rosters 6........................................................................................

2019 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Rosters 7........................................................................................

2018 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship 13...................................................................................................




















1998 AT&T Canada Mixed Curling Championship 80...........................................................................................

1997 AT&T Canada Mixed Curling Championship 82...........................................................................................

1996 Unitel Mixed Curling Championship 84........................................................................................................

1995 Unitel Mixed Curling Championship 85........................................................................................................

History of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship 86.....................................................................................

Canadian Mixed Champions 89..............................................................................................................................

Canadian Mixed Championship Sites 94................................................................................................................

The Mixed – Media Guide 1

2020 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP FACT SHEET

OFFICIAL NAME: Canadian Mixed Curling Championship – 57th edition

SITE: Foyer des loisirs et de la culture, Saguenay, Québec

DATE: November 3-9, 2019

SPONSOR: O'Keefe Mixed 1964 - 1971

Canadian Curling Association 1972

Seagram Mixed 1973 - 1983

Canadian Curling Association/ Canadian Ladies Curling Assoc. 1984 - 1994

Unitel Mixed 1995 - 1996

AT&T Canada Mixed 1997 - 1998

Canadian Curling Association 1999 – 2015

Curling Canada 2016 –

TROPHY: Canadian Mixed Championship Trophy

COMPETITION: Fourteen teams (10 provinces plus Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon) have been seeded and separated into two pools of seven teams each (see below). They first play a round robin within their pool, beginning Sunday evening, November 3.

At the conclusion of the round robin on Wednesday, the top four teams in each pool advance to the Championship Round, carrying forward their full win-loss records. The teams then play each of the four teams from the opposite pool.

Meanwhile, the bottom three teams in each pool advance to the Seeding Round, where they will compete against the three teams from the opposite pool. Teams will carry forward their full win-loss records. Their final win-loss records determine seeding for next year’s event.

At the conclusion of the Championship Round on Friday, two semifinals will take place on Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m., pitting 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. The two winners advance to the gold-medal final Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. while the two losing teams meet in the bronze-medal game at the same time.

All games throughout the competition are scheduled for eight ends. All round robin and playoff games at the Canadian Championship shall be a minimum of seven (7) ends or a deficit of seven (7) points or more after 6 ends at which time a team may concede.

Also, no tiebreaker games will be played in either round. Instead, any ties for position

will be determined first by head-to-head results, then by accumulated Draw Shot results if an unsolvable tie.


Stone Selection, Practice & Last Stone Advantage – Round Robin

The team throwing red-handled stones will be listed on top of the scoreboard and have first practice.

During the round robin portions of the 2020 Mixed, each team will be assigned both

colour of stones equally or +/-1 if an odd number of games are played. The first named

team on the draw will deliver red-handled stones and will have pre-game practice for

exactly nine (9) minutes, commencing thirty (30) minutes prior to the start of the round

robin draw. The team throwing yellow-handled stones will have the same period of

practice starting immediately following the red stone draw to the button for last stone

advantage.

Last stone advantage in the first end (hammer) will be decided by draws to the button

following each team’s pre-game practice. At the completion of the nine-minute pre-

game practice, two different players from the team will each throw a stone (full

sweeping allowed): one clockwise and one counter-clockwise. The better distance of the

total of the two draws between the two teams will receive last stone advantage in the

first end. During the pool play of the 2020 Mixed, each player on each team will deliver

a minimum of two (2) draw shots for last stone advantage. The two (2) draw shots can

be taken anytime during the round robin. The draw to the button shall be played towards

the home end. During the championship round and seeding round, any two players can

deliver the draws to the button for hammer.

In playoff games, last stone advantage and choice of stone handle colour shall be awarded to the team with the best overall win-loss record during the round robin. If the win-loss records are identical, the higher ranked team will have the choice of last stone advantage OR stone handle colour. The team delivering the last stone in the first end will practice first. A team is only allowed to throw its own stones during practice.

Sportsmanship Awards, selected by the players, will be presented to a male and female curler who best combine the ideals of sportsmanship, observance of rules and exemplary conduct on and off the ice.

The winning team will represent Canada at the 2020 World Mixed Curling Championship (dates, location TBA by World Curling Federation).

From 2008-2012, two players from the winning Canadian Mixed team represented Canada at the World Mixed Doubles.

In 2013, the inaugural Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials were contested in Leduc, Alberta, March 13-17, to determine Canada’s team for the World Mixed Doubles, which were held April 13-20 in Fredericton, N.B. The four members (two two-person teams) of the 2013 Canadian Mixed champions earned invitations to the 2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials. In 2014, the Mixed winning team was again awarded berths (two two-person teams) into the 2014 Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials in Ottawa.

However, since 2015, winning teams at Canadian Mixed have represented Canada at the World Mixed Curling Championship.


2019 CHAMPION: MANITOBA – Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club, Winnipeg (Colin Kurz, Meghan Walter, Brendan Bilawka, Sara Oliver)

CHAIR, BOARD OF GOVERNORS CURLING CANADA: John Shea, Ottawa


Practice Schedule

Each team practices on each sheet of ice for 10 minutes and then rotates to the right.

Individual team photos will be taken after each pre-event practice

The group photo will be taken after the opening ceremony

POOLS A & B (based on results from the past three national Championships):

POOL A

SEEDS #1, #4, #5, #8, #9, #12 & # 14

POOL B

SEEDS #2, #3, #6, #7, #10, #11 & #13

Sunday, Nov 3 A B C D E

Group A – 10:00 a.m. SK ON QC NO AB

Group B – 12:00 p.m. NL NS NT NB YT

Group C – 2:00 p.m. MB NU PE BC

POOL A POOL B

Seed Team Seed Team

#1 Ontario #2 Quebec

#4 Nova Scotia #3 Manitoba

#5 Saskatchewan #6 New Brunswick

Nov Scotia#8 Newfoundland & Labrador #7 Northern Ontario

#9 Alberta #10 British Columbia

#12 Northwest Territories #11 Yukon

#14 Nunavut #13 Prince Edward Island


2020 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW


2020 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP ROSTERS November 3-9, 2019

Foyer des loisirs et de la culture, Saguenay, Quebec

(Teams listed in order of fourth/skip, third, second and lead, unless otherwise noted)

Alberta - Saville Community Sports Centre, Edmonton Warren Cross, Erica Wiese, Cody Bartlett, Ashley Kalk, Jim Weber (coach)

British Columbia – Victoria Curling Club Cameron de Jong, Taylor Reese-Hansen, Alex Horvath, Mariah Coulombe

Manitoba – Miami Curling Club Corey Chambers, Lisa McLeod, Nigel Milnes, Jolene Callum

New Brunswick – Curl Moncton Grant Odishaw, Sylvie Quillian, Marc Lecocq, Jane Boyle

Newfoundland and Labrador – RE/MAX Centre, St. John’s Cory Schuh, Erin Porter, Andrew Taylor, Brooke Godsland

Northern Ontario – North Bay Granite Club Sandy MacEwan, Laura Johnston, Gavan Jamieson, Amanda Corkal

Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Club Jamie Koe, Kerry Galusha, David Aho, Megan Koehler

Nova Scotia – NSCA Peter Burgess, Colleen Jones, Luke Saunders, Lindsey Burgess

Nunavut – Iqaluit Curling Club Wade Kingdon, Alison Griffin, Dennis Masson, Megan Ingram

Ontario – Ilderton Curling Club Wayne Tuck Jr., Kimberly Tuck, Jake Higgs, Sara Gatchell

Prince Edward Island – Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside Jamie Newson, Melissa Morrow, Andrew MacDougall, Miranda Ellis

Quebec – Des Collines/Etchemin Curling Club Curling Clubs Jean-Sébastien Roy, Amélie Blais, Dan deWaard, Brenda Nicholls

Saskatchewan – Swift Current Curling Club Shaun Meachem, Kelly Schafer, Chris Haichert, Teejay Haichert

Yukon – Whitehorse Curling Club Thomas Scoffin, Helen Strong, Wade Scoffin, Kim Brown


2019 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP ROSTERS November 4-10, 2018

Fort Rouge Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba


Alberta - Grande Prairie Curling Club Kurt Balderston, Janais DeJong, Les Sonnenberg, Adrienne Winfield

British Columbia – Richmond Curling Club Cody Tanaka, Shawna Jensen, Travis Cameron, Catera Park

Manitoba – Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club, Winnipeg Colin Kurz, Meghan Walter, Brendan Bilawka, Sara Oliver

New Brunswick – Oromocto Curling Club Chris Jeffrey, Jillian Keough, Brian King, Katie Forward

Newfoundland and Labrador – RE/MAX Centre, St. John’s Harold Walters, Wendy Dunne, Stephen Trickett, Carolyn Walters

Northern Ontario – Port Arthur Curling Club, Thunder Bay Trevor Bonot, Jackie McCormick, Mike McCarville, Angela Lee-Wiwcharyk

Northwest Territories – Inuvik Curling Club Mel Sittichinli, Alison Lennie, Georgie Greenland, Eleanor Jerome

Nova Scotia – Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax Kendal Thompson, Marie Christianson, Bryce Everist, Karlee Jones

Nunavut – Iqaluit Curling Club Ed MacDonald, Denise Hutchings, Gregory Howard, Sadie Pinksen

Ontario – Ilderton Curling Club Wayne Tuck Jr., Kimberly Tuck, Wesley Forget, Sara Gatchell

Prince Edward Island – Summerside and Charlottetown Curling Clubs Jamie Newson, Melissa Morrow, Andrew Macdougall, Miranda Ellis

Quebec – Glenmore, Laval-sur-le-Lac and Baie d’Urfé Curling Clubs Félix Asselin, Laurie St-Georges, Émile Asselin, Emily Riley

Saskatchewan – Highland Curling Club, Regina Jason Ackerman, Deanna Doig, Mitch Criton, Colleen Ackerman

Yukon – Whitehorse Curling Club Bob Smallwood, Jenna Duncan, Alexx Peech, Jody Smallwood



November 4-10, 2018 Fort Rouge Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba

*last rock advantage

MANITOBA (Colin Kurz of Winnipeg) defeated NOVA SCOTIA (Kendal Thompson of Halifax), 7-4 to win the 2019 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at Winnipeg.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Colin Kurz, vice-skip Meghan Walter, second Brendan Bilawka and lead Sara Oliver. It was also the ninth Canadian Mixed Championship title for Manitoba since 1964, but first since 2009, when Sean Grassie won in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The winning team represented Canada in the 2019 World Mixed Curling Championship, Oct. 12-19 at Aberdeen, Scotland. Canada finished Group A with an undefeated record and claimed the top seed in the 16-team playoffs. Kurz and his team from the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg won all four of their playoff games, capping it off with a 6-5 win against Germany’s Andy Kapp in the final. With the win, Canada became the first nation to win back-to-back gold medals at the event.

BRONZE MEDAL

Quebec (Asselin) 7 Ontario (Tuck) 6 (extra end)

SEMIFINALS

The top four teams in the Championship Pool proceeded to the semifinals, pairing 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. The winners then advanced to the gold medal final, the losers to the bronze medal game.

(1) Quebec (Asselin) 3 (4) Nova Scotia (Thompson) 5

(2) Manitoba (Kurz) 9 (3) Ontario (Tuck) 1

GOLD MEDAL Total

NOVA SCOTIA* (Thompson) 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 4MANITOBA (Kurz) 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 7



November 4-10, 2018 Fort Rouge Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba

2019 Canadian Mixed Results (Standings)

POOL A Games Wins Losses

1 Quebec (Asselin) 6 5 1

2 Saskatchewan (Ackerman) 6 4 2

3 Manitoba (Kurz) 6 4 2

4 Yukon (Smallwood) 6 4 2

5 Northern Ontario (Bonot) 6 3 3

6 Newfoundland & Labrador (Walters) 6 1 5

7 Nunavut (MacDonald) 6 0 6

POOL B Games Wins Losses

1 Ontario (Tuck) 6 6 0

2 Nova Scotia (Thompson) 6 5 1

3 Alberta (Balderston) 6 4 2

4 British Columbia (Tanaka) 6 3 3

5 New Brunswick (Jeffrey) 6 2 4

6 Prince Edward Island (Morrow) 6 1 5

7 Northwest Territories (Sittichinli) 6 0 6

CHAMPIONSHIP POOL Games Wins Losses

1 Quebec (Asselin) 10 8 2

2 Manitoba (Kurz) 10 7 3


4 Nova Scotia (Thompson) 10 7 3

5 Saskatchewan (Ackerman) 10 6 4

6 Alberta (Balderston) 10 6 4


8 British Columbia (Tanaka) 10 5 5


2019 Canadian Mixed Most Valuable Players

Newfoundland & Labrador skip Harold Walters and Ontario vice-skip Kim Tuck were named 2019 Canadian Mixed Most Valuable Players.

The men’s and women’s MVP awards were decided by event umpires based on leadership, attitude, team spirit, skill and performance.

2019 Canadian Mixed Sportsmanship Awards

Nova Scotia vice-skip Marie Christianson, Nova Scotia lead Karlee Jones, Nortbern Manitoba second Mike McCarville and Northern Ontario skip Trevor Bonot received the 2019 Canadian Mixed Sportsmanship Awards, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by players.

SEEDING POOL Games Wins Losses

1 New Brunswick (Jeffrey) 9 5 4


3 Newfoundland & Labrador (Walters) 9 2 7

4 Prince Edward Island (Morrow) 9 2 7

5 Northwest Territories (Sittichinli) 9 2 7



Manitoba wins Canadian Mixed title in front of hometown crowd

Manitoba’s Colin Kurz and his team from the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club scored early and protected its lead to win the 2019 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. The 21-year-old skip bested Nova Scotia’s Kendal Thompson (Mayflower Curling Club) 7-4 in the final.

Kurz secured the victory in the eighth end with a high-weight shot to remove Nova Scotia’s shot stone. While the shooter didn’t stick around, Manitoba scored two and picked up the win in front of friends and family at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg.

With the win, the young team becomes the first to win the Canadian Mixed title in their home province since Dean Ross of Alberta did so in 2008. Kurz, third Megan Walter, second Brendan Bilawka and lead Sara Oliver won eight of their last nine games to win the championship.

“After the first round it seemed that every time we were needing to win a game, we’d win that game. And whether it was a pretty win or kind of a grind we still managed to pull it out,” said Kurz. “So I think after a couple of those extra end or last rock wins that maybe the home crowd was helping us out.” The crowd was certainly on their side during the final game. While Manitoba missed its opportunity for a deuce in the opening end they contained Nova Scotia to a single in the second. In the second, a Manitoba double to sit three forced Thompson to draw for a piece of the button to score one. In the third, Manitoba played a draw to the four-foot with backing for a point and 2-1 lead. Kurz and his team increased their lead in the fourth end. Nova Scotia needed to hit and stick for one, but Thompson’s toss was wide. While it removed one Manitoban stone the shooter rolled out of the house, resulting in a steal of two and 4-1 lead for Manitoba halfway through the game.

“It would have been nicer if I made a couple of more shots, but it worked out in the end. I was a little frustrated in the first four ends. I couldn’t seem to finish off ends. You try to look at it as just another game, but obviously it’s not just another game, it’s a national final so nerves do end up coming to you little bit,” Kurz said.

Thompson started the second half of the game well and cut into the lead to trail 5-3 over the following two ends. He slipped his takeout shot by some traffic to score two in the fifth and forced Kurz to make a draw to the button for one in the sixth.

“At that point I was kind of feeling confident with the way I was throwing the rock,” Kurz said. Nova Scotia missed out on an opportunity to even the score in the seventh. Kurz missed his final shot, a double attempt, and left Nova Scotia with a draw for two. However Thompson’s shot was light, and Nova Scotia settled for one. It also gifted Manitoba a one-point lead with hammer heading into the last end.

Kurz credits his teammates for playing a big part in winning the event. Walter, at age 16, is the youngest athlete in the field at the 2019 Mixed Championship. Bilawka, along with Kurz, represented Manitoba at the 2018 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championship and won bronze with JT Ryan at skip. The pair also won the 2015 Canada Games. Oliver has also been the national junior


championships twice and earned first-team all star honours on both occasions. But this will be the first time any of them have worn the Maple Leaf on their back.

“I was left with, for the most part, pretty easy shots,” Kurz said. “They just put me in the best position they could have.”

The team will represent Canada at the 2019 World Mixed Curling Championship (location and dates are to be announced by the World Curling Federation).

Kurz follows in his mom’s footsteps. Lynn Fallis-Kurz won the Canadian Mixed championship in 1988 and 1991 with Jeff Stoughton.

In the bronze medal game Quebec’s Félix Asselin and his team from the Glenmore, Laval-sur-le-Lac and Baie d’Urfé Curling Clubs defeated Ontario’s Wayne Tuck of the Ilderton Curling Club 7-6 in an extra end.

It is Manitoba’s ninth Canadian Mixed gold medal; previously, Sean Grassie won in 2009 at Iqaluit, Nunavut; Jeff Stoughton won in 1991 and 1988 in Thunder Bay, Ont., and North Bay, Ont., respectively; in 1980 Jim Dunstone won the championship in St. John’s, N.L.; Harold Tanasichuk won in 1977 at Halifax; Barry Fry was victorious at Charlottetown in 1973; and Ernie Boushy won two titles in Toronto – in 1966 and the inaugural championship in 1964.



November 12-18, 2017 Swan River Curling Club, Swan River, Manitoba


Alberta - Avonair CC, Edmonton Warren Cross, Katie Morrissey, Dean Darwent, Heather Steele

British Columbia – Kimberley CC Tom Buchy, Lori Buchy, Dave Toffolo, Robyn Toffolo

Manitoba – East St. Paul CC, Winnipeg Dean Dunstone, Natalie Claude Harding, Peter Nicholls, Renee Fletcher

New Brunswick – Thistle-St. Andrews CC, Saint John Charlie Sullivan, Leah Thompson, Paul Nason, Erica Cluff

Newfoundland and Labrador – RE/MAX Centre, St. John’s Chris Ford, Brooke Godsland, Zach Young, Kate Murphy

Northern Ontario – Community First Curling Centre, Sault Ste. Marie Charlie Robert, Alissa Begin, Dan Mick, Tracy Auld

Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Centre Jamie Koe, Kerry Galusha, Brad Chorostkowski, Megan Koehler

Nova Scotia – Dartmouth CC Brent MacDougall, Christina Ann Black, Graham Breckon, Jennifer Crouse

Nunavut – Iqaluit CC Edmund MacDonald, Denise Hutchings, Greg Howard, Sadie Pinksen

Ontario –Thornhill CC Mike Anderson, Danielle Inglis, Sean Harrison, Lauren Harrison

Prince Edward Island –Charlottetown CC Dennis Watts, Jackie Reid, Erik Brodersen, Alison Griffin

Quebec – Chicoutimi CC Robert Desjardins, Amelie Blais, Thierry Fournier, Veronique Bouchard

Saskatchewan – Prince Albert G&CC Bruce Korte, Brett Barber, Jayden Shwaga, Robyn Despins

Yukon – Whitehorse CC Robert Smallwood, Sarah Koltun, Alexx Peech, Jody Smallwood



November 12-18, 2017 Swan River Curling Club, Swan River, Manitoba


ONTARIO (Mike Anderson of Thornhill) defeated QUEBEC (Robert Desjardins of Chicoutimi), 7-3 to win the 2018 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at Swan River, M.B.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Mike Anderson, third Danielle Inglis, second Sean Harrison and lead Lauren Harrison. It was also the fourth Canadian Mixed Championship title for Ontario since 1964, but first since 2013, when Cory Heggestad won in Mount Royal, Que.

The winning team represented Canada in the 2018 World Mixed Curling Championship, Oct. 13-20 at Kelowna, B.C. Canada was tied with Norway for the best record in Group D, but Canada’s 6-1 record finished second by virtue of it’s head-to-head record.

Anderson and his Thornhill Curling Club team won all four playoff games (including a rematch against Norway in the semifinal) to earn Canada gold for the first time in the event’s history. Team Canada capped its historic run with a 6-2 victory against Spain’s Sergio Vez in seven ends.

BRONZE MEDAL

New Brunswick (Sullivan) 3 Newfoundland and Labrador (Ford) 6

SEMIFINALS


(1) Quebec (Desjardins) 9 (4) Newfoundland and Labrador (Ford) 2

(2) Ontario (Anderson) 7 (3) New Brunswick (Sullivan) 6 (extra end)

GOLD MEDAL Total

QUEBEC (Desjardins)* 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3ONTARIO (Anderson) 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 3 7



2018 Canadian Mixed Most Valuable Players

Ontario skip Mike Anderson and Quebec vice-skip Amélie Blais were named 2018 Canadian Mixed Most Valuable Players.

The men’s and women’s MVP awards were decided by event umpires based on leadership, attitude, team spirit, skill and performance.

2018 Canadian Mixed Sportsmanship Awards

Quebec vice-skip Amélie Blais, Quebec lead Veronique Bouchard, New Brunswick second Paul Nason and Prince Edward Island skip Dennis Watts received the 2018 Canadian Mixed Sportsmanship Awards, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by players.


Team Ontario captures gold in Swan River

Nov. 18…Ontario’s Mike Anderson and his team from Thornhill stole its way to victory Saturday in the championship game of the 2018 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, presented by Westman Communications Group.

Anderson, playing alongside vice-skip Danielle Inglis, second Sean Harrison and lead Lauren Harrison, stole a

POOL A Games Wins Losses

1 Quebec (Desjardins) 6 6 0

2 Newfoundland and Labrador (Ford) 6 4 2

3 Northwest Territories (Koe) 6 4 2

4 Alberta (Cross) 6 3 3

5 Saskatchewan (Korte) 6 3 3

6 Manitoba (Dunstone) 6 1 5


POOL B Games Wins Losses

1 Ontario (Anderson) 6 5 1

2 New Brunswick (Sullivan) 6 5 1

3 Nova Scotia (MacDougall) 6 4 2

4 Northern Ontario (Robert) 6 3 3

5 British Columbia (Buchy) 6 3 3


7 Prince Edward Island (Watts) 6 0 6

CHAMPIONSHIP POOL Games Wins Losses

1 Quebec (Desjardins) 10 10 0

2 Ontario (Anderson) 10 8 2


4 Newfoundland and Labrador (Ford) 10 6 4

5 Nova Scotia (MacDougall) 10 6 4

6 Northwest Territories (Koe) 10 5 5

7 Alberta (Cross) 10 4 6

8 Northern Ontario (Robert) 10 3 7


go-ahead point in the seventh end and three more in the eighth and final end for a 7-3 win over previously undefeated Robert Desjardins of Quebec.

Desjardins, a former Canadian Mixed Doubles champion, was left only with a nearly impossible triple takeout with his final shot, but was unsuccessful, leaving three Ontario counters for the victory.

“Awesome would be the first word. Proud would be the second, probably.,” said Anderson when asked to describe the feeling of winning a Canadian title. “It’s starting to set in; when we were reading the names of the people who’ve won the trophy in the past, and now to be considered in that class, and nobody can ever take that away from us; it’s pretty special.”

Quebec, which had won 11 consecutive games, couldn’t have asked for a better start, opening the gold-medal game with two points, and took a 3-1 lead after four ends.

But Ontario was able to keep Quebec from its defensive strategy in the final four ends of the game. Ontario blanked the fifth end, and tied the game with a sixth-end deuce. And when Desjardins tried to generate offence in the seventh end instead of going for a blank to take the last-rock advantage into the final end, Ontario made him pay with a series of wonderful shots that left a rock in the four-foot behind protection. Desjardins attempted draw-shot for a single was heavy, and Ontario had its first lead with the stolen point.

And in the eighth, Ontario took advantage of a series of Quebec missed shots to leave Desjardins (his Chicoutimi team was rounded out by vice-skip Amélie Blais, second Thierry Fournier and lead Véronique Bouchard) with the difficult shot at the end.

“When we got to vice-skip rocks in the eighth end, we said, ‘We’ve played three perfect ends. Let’s not outsmart ourselves. Just keep doing what we’re doing,’ ” said Anderson, a 32-year-old management consultant. “They (Quebec) kept it so open all week, but we knew we would get a couple opportunities and it was just going to be a matter of taking them when we got them. I was really proud of the team for sticking with it and staying positive.”

Both Anderson and Inglis have worn the Maple Leaf internationally; both were playing for Team Canada at the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, China, where Anderson skipped Canada to a fifth-place finish, while Inglis won silver throwing third rocks for Hollie Nicol’s team. A year earlier, both had won Canadian university championships representing Wilfrid Laurier University.

And while the husband-and-wife front end of Sean and Lauren Harrison haven’t played internationally, Sean has some family history in that department. His dad, the late Neil Harrison, won two Brier and two world men’s championships playing lead for Ed Werenich’s renowned Ontario team.

The Anderson team will get its chance on the world stage at the 2018 World Mixed Championship next fall (location, dates TBA by the World Curling Federation).

SEEDING POOL Games Wins Losses


2 British Columbia (Buchy) 9 4 5

3 Manitoba (Dunstone) 9 3 6


5 Prince Edward Island (Watts) 9 2 7



“It’s unbelievable. I can’t wait to get (the Team Canada uniform) back,” said Anderson. “I was in awe the first time, and I feel like Danielle and I will be better prepared this time. You know you’re going to be the No. 1 target when you go anywhere and you’re wearing the Maple Leaf. We accept that and can’t wait to get started with it.”

In the bronze-medal game, Newfoundland/Labrador’s Chris Ford and his St. John’s team — third Brooke Godsland, second Zach Young and lead Kate Murphy — stole a crucial deuce in the fifth end, which made the difference in a 6-3 win over New Brunswick’s Charlie Sullivan.

It was Ontario’s fourth Canadian Mixed gold medal; previously, Cory Heggestad won in 2013 at Mount Royal, Que.; John Epping won in 2006 at Whitehorse; and in 1986 at Kamloops, B.C., it was Dave Van Dine coming out on top.


2017 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP November 13-19, 2016

Mariners Centre, Yarmouth, N.S.

(Teams listed in order of skip, third, second and lead, unless otherwise noted)

Alberta - Saville Community Sports Centre, Edmonton Evan Asmussen, Lindsay Makichuk, Kyle Reynolds, Kelly Erickson

British Columbia – Kerry Park CC, Mill Bay & Nanaimo Curling Centre, Nanaimo Wes Craig, Kesa Van Osch, Miles Craig, Marika Van Osch

Manitoba – Gimli CC, Gimli Braden Calvert, Kerri Einarson, Kyle Einarson, Jennifer Clark-Rouire

New Brunswick – Thistle-St. Andrews CC, Saint John Charles Sullivan, Leah Thompson, Ryan Freeze, Joanne Freeze

Newfoundland and Labrador – RE/MAX Centre, St. John’s Adam Boland, Sarah Hill, Zach Young, Brooke Godsland

Northern Ontario –Port Arthur CC, Thunder Bay Trevor Bonot, Jackie McCormick, Kory Carr, Megan Carr

Northwest Territories – Inuvik CC, Inuvik Donovan Arey, Eileen McKay-Saturnino, Richard Ross, Alyssa Ross

Nova Scotia – Mayflower CC, Halifax Paul Flemming, Christie Gamble, Tyler Gamble, Teri Udle (replaces Jenn Baxter)

Nunavut – Iqaluit CC, Iqaluit Ed MacDonald, Denise Hutchings, Greg Howard, Jenine Bodner

Ontario –Ilderton CC, Ilderton Wayne Tuck Jr., Kimberly Tuck, Jake Higgs, Sara Gatchell

Prince Edward Island –Cornwall CC, Cornwall Veronica Smith, Tyler Smith, Sabrina Smith, Dylan Lowery

Quebec – Laviolette CC, Trois-Rivières Martin Ferland, Isabelle Néron, Frédéric Marchand, Anik Brascoup

Saskatchewan – Nutana CC, Saskatoon Brady Scharback, Kourtney Fesser, Jacob Hersikorn, Krista Fesser

Yukon – Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse Robert Smallwood, Jody Smallwood, Scott Odian, Shannon Hall



Mariners Centre, Yarmouth, N.S.

GOLD MEDAL Total

MANITOBA (Braden Calvert) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 X 2 NORTHERN ONTARIO (Trevor Bonot)* 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 X 5 *last rock advantage

PERCENTAGES

MANITOBA NORTHERN ONTARIO (Gimli CC) (Port Arthur CC, Thunder Bay) Jennifer Clark-Rouire 89% Megan Carr 64% Kyle Einarson 83% Kory Carr 81% Kerri Einarson 80% Jackie McCormick 83% Braden Calvert (s) 84% Trevor Bonot (s) 83%

Team Totals 84% Team Totals 78%

NORTHERN ONTARIO (Trevor Bonot of Thunder Bay) defeated MANITOBA (Braden Calvert of Gimli), 5-2 to win the 2017 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at Yarmouth, N.S.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Trevor Bonot, third Jackie McCormick, second Kory Carr and lead Megan Carr. It was also the fourth Canadian Mixed Championship title for Northern Ontario since 1964, but first since 1997, when Chris Johnson won in Kindersley, Sask. The winning team represented Canada in the 2017 World Mixed Curling Championship, October 6-14 at Champéry, Switzerland. After winning Group E (one of five groups) with a 6-0 mark, Bonot and his Port Arthur Curling Club team proceeded to win its next three playoff games to advance undefeated to the final against Scotland. However, Canada had to settle for a silver medal, but its first ever at this championship, dropping an extra end decision, 8-5 to Scotland (Grant Hardie), to finish with an overall record of 9-1.

BRONZE MEDAL

Saskatchewan (Brady Scharback) 4 Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 6 (extra end)

SEMIFINALS


(1) Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 2 (4) Manitoba (Braden Calvert) 4

(2) Saskatchewan (Brady Scharback) 4 (3) Northern Ontario (Trevor Bonot) 5



Pool A Games Wins Losses



3 Newfoundland & Labrador (Boland) 6 3 3

4 Nova Scotia (Flemming) 6 2 4


6 Prince Edward Island (Smith) 6 2 4

7 Alberta (Asmussen) 6 1 5

Pool B Games Wins Losses

1 Saskatchewan (Scharback) 6 5 1


3 Quebec (Ferland) 6 4 2

4 Manitoba (Calvert) 6 4 2

5 British Columbia (Craig) 6 2 4


7 Northwest Territories (Arey) 6 0 6

Championship Pool Games Wins Losses


2 Saskatchewan (Scharback) 10 8 2


4 Manitoba (Calvert) 10 7 3


6 Newfoundland & Labrador (Boland) 10 4 6

7 Quebec (Ferland) 10 4 6

8 Nova Scotia (Flemming) 10 3 7


2017 Canadian Mixed All-stars

Skip - Braden Calvert (Manitoba) 83% Third – Kerri Einarson (Manitoba) 82% Second - Jake Higgs (Ontario) 80% Lead – Teri Udle (Nova Scotia) 82%

All-star selections were determined by overall shooting percentages during the round robin.

Northern Ontario skip Trevor Bonot and Prince Edward Island skip Veronica Smith received the men’s and women’s Sportsmanship Awards, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.

Seeding Pool Games Wins Losses

1 British Columbia (Craig) 9 5 4


3 Alberta (Asmussen) 9 3 6

4 Prince Edward Island (Smith) 9 3 6


6 Northwest Territories (Arey) 9 0 9



Weston Golf and Country Club, Toronto


Alberta - Saville Centre, Edmonton Mick Lizmore, Sarah Wilkes, Brad Thiessen, Alison Kotylak

British Columbia – Royal City CC, New Westminster Dean Joanisse, Shannon Aleksic, Tyler Orme, Kelsey Steiger

Manitoba – Granite CC, Winnipeg Bob Sigurdson, Erika Sigurdson, Al Purdy, Lindsay Baldock

New Brunswick – Thistle-St. Andrews CC, Saint John Charlie Sullivan, Leah Thompson, Paul Nason, Joanne Freeze

Newfoundland and Labrador – RE/MAX Centre, St. John’s Chris Ford, Marie Christianson, Cory Ewart, Lauren Wasylkiw

Northern Ontario –Port Arthur CC, Thunder Bay Colin Koivula, Oye-Sem Won Briand, Chris Briand, Amanda Gates

Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Centre, Yellowknife Steve Moss, Dawn Moses, Brett Zubot, Debbie Moss

Nova Scotia – Windsor CC, Windsor Doug MacKenzie, Jocelyn Nix, Richard Barker, Shelley Barker

Nunavut – Iqaluit CC, Iqaluit Ed MacDonald, Denise Hutchings, Peter Mackey (replaced Alex Larabie), Robyn Mackey (replaced Danielle North)

Ontario – Ottawa CC, Ottawa Mike McLean, Brit O’Neill, Andrew Denny-Petch, Karen Sagle

Prince Edward Island –Charlottetown Curling Complex, Charlottetown Eddie MacKenzie, Chloe McCloskey, Tyler MacKenzie, Megan Wile

Quebec – Club de curling Etchemin, St-Romuald Maxime Elmaleh, Roxane Perron, Jean Gagnon, Sonia Delisle

Saskatchewan – Nutana CC, Saskatoon Bruce Korte, Ros Stewart, Kevin Marsh, Carolyn Marsh

Yukon – Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse Bob Smallwood, Nicole Baldwin, Wade Scoffin, Jody Smallwood



November 8-14, 2015 Weston Golf and Country Club, Toronto

GOLD MEDAL Total

Alberta (Mick Lizmore)* 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 4

Saskatchewan (Bruce Korte) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2

*last rock advantage PERCENTAGES

ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN (Saville Centre, Edmonton) (Nutana CC, Saskatoon) Alison Kotylak 83% Carolyn Marsh 78% Brad Thiessen 83% Kevin Marsh 75% Sarah Wilkes 86% Ros Stewart 63% Mick Lizmore 95% Bruce Korte 88%


ALBERTA (Mick Lizmore of Edmonton) defeated SASKATCHEWAN (Bruce Korte of Saskatoon), 4-2 to win the 2016 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Toronto.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Mick Lizmore, third Sarah Wilkes, second Brad Thiessen and lead Alison Kotylak. It was also a leading 11th Canadian Mixed Championship title for Alberta since 1964, one more than Saskatchewan. Alberta finished the competition unbeaten with an overall record of 12-0, just the fifth team to do so since 1964. The others were Alberta (10-0 in 1965), Saskatchewan (10-0 in 1968), Alberta (10-0 in 1969) and Saskatchewan (12-0 in 1984).

The winning team represented Canada in the 2016 World Mixed Curling Championship, October 14-22 at Kazan, Russia. After winning Group D, one of five groups in the competition, with a 7-0 mark, then beating Czech Republic in the round of 16, Canada lost its quarter-final match to Scotland, 6-5 and was eliminated from medal contention. Host Russia eventually won the event over Sweden.

BRONZE MEDAL

New Brunswick (Charlie Sullivan) 3 Northern Ontario (Colin Koivula) 8

SEMIFINALS


(1) Alberta (Mick Lizmore) 6 (4) New Brunswick (Charlie Sullivan) 3

(3) Saskatchewan (Bruce Korte) 5 (extra end) (2) Northern Ontario (Colin Koivula) 4


2016 CANADIAN MIXED RESULTS (STANDINGS)

Pool A Games Wins Losses

1 Alberta (Lizmore) 6 6 0

2 Nova Scotia (MacKenzie) 6 4 2

3 Northern Ontario (Koivula) 6 4 2


5 Newfoundland & Labrador (Ford) 6 2 4

6 Prince Edward Island (MacKenzie) 6 1 5

7 British Columbia (Joanisse) 6 1 5

Pool B Games Wins Losses


2 Quebec (Elmaleh) 6 4 2

3 Northwest Territories (Moss) 6 3 3


5 Manitoba (Sigurdson) 6 3 3

6 Ontario (McLean) 6 3 3

7 Nunavut (Macdonald) 6 0 6

Seeding Pool Games Wins Losses

1 Ontario (McLean) 9 6 3

2 Manitoba (Sigurdson) 9 5 4

3 British Columbia (Joanisse) 9 3 6

4 Newfoundland & Labrador (Ford) 9 3 6

5 Prince Edward Island (MacKenzie) 9 2 7

6 Nunavut (Macdonald) 9 0 9


Championship Pool Games Wins Losses

1 Alberta (Lizmore) 10 10 0

2 Northern Ontario (Koivula) 10 8 2



5 Nova Scotia (MacKenzie) 10 6 4

6 Quebec (Elmaleh) 10 5 5

7 Northwest Territories (Moss) 10 4 6



Beginning with the 2005 renewal, the Mixed playoff format was changed from the Page System to one whereby the first place finisher advanced directly to the final, while the second and third place teams met in a semifinal.

However, that format was revised beginning with the 2015 edition, with the top four teams in the Championship Pool qualifying for the semifinals - 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 – with the winners playing in the gold medal game, the losers in the bronze medal game.


Skip - Colin Koivula (Northern Ontario) 85% Third – Sarah Wilkes (Alberta) 87% Second - Chris Briand (Northern Ontario) 86%* Lead – Amanda Gates (Northern Ontario) 87%*

All-star selections were determined by overall shooting percentages during the round robin. In the case of a tie (*), the position was determined by the best plus/minus. If the players were still tied, the shorter distance from the best two draws to the button for Last Stone Advantage determined the all-star.

Northern Ontario second Chris Briand and Northern Ontario third Oye-Sem Won Briand received the men’s and women’s Sportsmanship Awards, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.



North Bay Granite Club, North Bay, Ontario


Alberta – Hinton, CC, Hinton Glen Hansen, Lisa Miller (replaces Tiffany Steuber), Les Steuber, Sherry French

British Columbia – Kerry Park CC, Mill Bay

Wes Craig, Sarah Wark, Miles Craig, Michelle Allen

Manitoba – Gimli CC, Gimli Jared Kolomaya, Kerri Einarson, Kyle Einarson, Jennifer Clark-Rouire

New Brunswick – Curl Moncton, Moncton Scott Jones, Cathlia Ward, Chris Jeffrey, Kendra Lister

Newfoundland and Labrador – Corner Brook CC, Corner Brook Gary Oke, Susan Curtis, Terry Oke, Sigrid Fitzpatrick

Northern Ontario –Port Arthur CC, Thunder Bay Colin Koivula, Oye-Sem Won Briand, Chris Briand, Amanda Gates

Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Centre, Yellowknife Jamie Koe, Kerry Galusha, Robert Borden, Megan Cormier

Nova Scotia – Mayflower CC, Halifax Brent MacDougall, Christina Black, Kris Granchelli, Jane Snyder

Nunavut – Iqaluit CC, Iqaluit Wade Kingdon, Geneva Chislett, Peter Mackey, Robyn Mackey

Ontario – Ottawa CC, Ottawa Chris Gardner, Trish Hill, Jonathan Beuk, Jessica Barcauskas

Prince Edward Island –Charlottetown Curling Complex, Charlottetown and Crapaud Community Curling Club, Crapaud Jamie Newson, Vanessa Hamming, Andrew Robinson, Michelle MacIntyre

Quebec –Glenmore CC, Montreal Tom Wharry, Amélie Blais, Mike Kennedy, Marie-Josée Fortier Saskatchewan – Swift Current CC, Swift Current Max Kirkpatrick, Jolene Campbell, Chris Haichert, Teejay Haichert

Yukon – Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse Bob Smallwood, Nicole Baldwin, Wade Scoffin, Jody Smallwood



November 10-15, 2014 North Bay Granite Club, North Bay, Ontario

GOLD MEDAL Total

Saskatchewan (Max Kirkpatrick)* 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 x 7

Northwest Territories (Jamie Koe) 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 x 4


SASKATCHEWAN NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (Swift Current CC, Swift Current) (Yellowknife Curling Centre)

Teejay Haichert 95% Megan Cormier 92% Chris Haichert 81% Robert Borden 81% Jolene Campbell 89% Kerry Galusha 77% Max Kirkpatrick 88% Jamie Koe 80%


SASKATCHEWAN (Max Kirkpatrick of Swift Current) defeated NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (Jamie Koe of Yellowknife), 7-4 to win the 2015 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in North Bay.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Max Kirkpatrick, third Jolene Campbell, second Chris Haichert and lead Teejay Haichert. It was also a record-tying (along with Alberta) 10th Canadian Mixed Championship title for Saskatchewan since 1964, but first since the 2012 edition (played in November of 2011), when Jason Ackerman of Regina won.

Saskatchewan finished with an overall record of 8-1.

The winning team represented Canada at the 2015 World Mixed Championship in Berne, Switzerland, September 12-19. The team posted a 6-2 mark in Pool B (there were four Pools), good enough for third place within its Pool, then won a crossover playoff game over Italy. However, Canada was eliminated by Russia in the quarterfinals to finish with an overall record of 7-3.

BRONZE MEDAL

British Columbia (Wes Craig) 2 Ontario (Chris Gardner) 9

SEMIFINALS

The top four teams in the Championship Pool advanced to the semifinals, pairing 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. The winners then advanced to the gold medal final, the losers to the bronze medal game.

(1) Saskatchewan (Max Kirkpatrick) 7 (4) British Columbia (Wes Craig) 4

(3) Ontario (Chris Gardner) 3 (2) Northwest Territories (Jamie Koe) 7


2015 CANADIAN MIXED RESULTS

RR Pool A

Team W L

Northwest Territories (Koe) 4 2

Québec (Wharry) 4 2

Manitoba (Kolomaya) 4 2

British Columbia (Craig) 3 3

Alberta (Hansen) 3 3

Yukon (Smallwood) 2 4

New Brunswick (Jones) 1 5

RR Pool B

Team W L

Ontario (Gardner) 6 0

Saskatchewan (Kirkpatrick) 4 2

Nova Scotia (MacDougall) 4 2

Northern Ontario (Koivula) 3 3

Prince Edward Island (Newson) 3 3

Newfoundland & Labrador (Oke) 1 5

Nunavut (Kingdon) 0 6

Championship Pool

Team W L

Saskatchewan (Kirkpatrick) 6 1

Northwest Territories (Koe) 5 2

Ontario (Gardner) 5 2

British Columbia (Craig) 4 3

Northern Ontario (Koivula) 3 4

Québec (Wharry) 2 5

Manitoba (Kolomaya) 2 5

Nova Scotia (MacDougall) 1 6

Seeding Pool

Team W L

Alberta (Hansen) 6 3

Yukon (Smallwood) 5 4

New Brunswick (Jones) 4 5

Prince Edward Island (Newson) 3 6

Newfoundland & Labrador (Oke) 1 8

Nunavut (Kingdon) 0 9

Beginning with the 2005 renewal, the Mixed playoff format was changed from the Page System to one whereby the first place finisher advanced directly to the final, while the second and third place teams met in a semifinal.

However, that format was changed for the 2015 edition, with the top four teams in the Championship Pool qualifying for the semifinals, with 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3.



Skip - Colin Koivula (Northern Ontario) 83% Third - Christina Black (Nova Scotia) 85% Second - Chris Briand (Northern Ontario) 85% Lead - Jessica Barcauskas (Ontario) 86%

All-star selections were determined by overall shooting percentages during the round robin. In the case of a tie (*), the position was determined by the best plus/minus.

Quebec second Mike Kennedy and Northern Ontario third Oye-Sem Won Briand received the men’s and women’s Sportsmanship Awards, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.


Saskatchewan claims Canadian Mixed gold

Saskatchewan’s Max Kirkpatrick had an answer for Polar Polar on Saturday afternoon at the Granite Club in

North Bay, Ont.

Kirkpatrick’s team from the Swift Current Curling Club — third Jolene Campbell, second Chris Haichert and

lead Teejay Haichert — claimed the gold medal at the 2015 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship with a 7-4

win over Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories. It ended the Territories’ attempt to win a first gold medal in

any level at a national curling championship.

For Saskatchewan, it was its 10th gold medal at the Canadian Mixed, tying the province with Alberta for tops in

the category.

“Oh, fantastic. Unbelievable, unbelievable,” said the 54-year-old grain farmer who calls Cabri, a hamlet 45

minutes northwest of Swift Current, his hometown. “It was just a really well-played game, both teams played

really well. My team was playing so well; we kept the pressure on them, but we had to make everything. It was

unreal. My team curled fantastic.”

Saskatchewan had to withstand some early pressure from Koe’s team from Yellowknife (third Kerry Galusha,

who is Koe’s twin sister, second Robert Borden and lead Megan Cormier). After Saskatchewan took a 3-1 lead

with a third-end deuce, Koe made the shot of the championship in the fourth, negotiating a narrow port and

hitting into crotch to record a triple takeout and score tying deuce.

But Saskatchewan came back strongly with two more in the fifth, held the Territories to one in the sixth, and put

the game away with two in the seventh. Kirkpatrick said following up Koe’s stunning shot in the fourth with a

deuce in the fifth was crucial for his team.

“If I threw my last shot in the fourth into the boards, he doesn’t get a deuce,” said Kirkpatrick, whose team

reached the final with a 7-4 win over B.C.’s Wes Craig, while the Territories advance with a 7-3 win over

Ontario’s Chris Gardner. “I kind of put it in the only place I could where he could make the deuce. That was a

little unfortunate, but we came right back with the deuce in five, and that was key.”

With the win, the Swift Current foursome earns the right to wear Canadian colours at the inaugural World Mixed

Championship in next September at a location to be announced by the World Curling Federation.

“It’s unbelievable; I can’t even fathom that yet,” marvelled Kirkpatrick. “There’ll be high expectations there,

too. Hopefully we can find some ice and get some games in before September. That’s actually when I’m

harvesting, so I might be getting off my combine and going straight to a world championship.”

While Kirkpatrick has never played internationally, all three of his teammates have. Campbell was the alternate

on Amber Holland’s team that won silver at the 2011 World Women’s Championship in Denmark, while the the

husband-and-wife Haicherts both won gold medals at the 2003 World Junior Championships in Flims,

Switzerland. Chris played third for Steve Laycock’s men’s team, while Teejay (then Teejay Surik) was the third

for Marliese Kasner’s gold-medal team.

“I’m old enough and I’ve curled enough that the nerves weren’t too bad,” said Kirkpatrick, who was making his

national championship debut. “But I’m curling with world champions, Brier competitors, Scotties competitors

— they’re such strong players, and they made my job pretty easy.

In the bronze-medal game, Gardner’s team from Ottawa (third Trish Hill, second Jon Beuk and lead Jessica

Barcauskas) stole five in the fourth end en route to a 8-2 win over B.C.



Rideau Curling Club, Ottawa, Ontario


Alberta – Coaldale Granite Club, Coaldale and Airdrie CC, Airdrie Darren Moulding, Heather Jensen, Brent Hamilton, Anna-Marie Moulding

British Columbia – Vancouver CC, VancouverKeith Switzer, Sandra Comadina, Leonard Firkus, Carman Cheng

Manitoba – Deer Lodge CC, Winnipeg Sean Grassie, Tracey Lavery, Scott McCamis, Calleen Friesen

New Brunswick – Curl Moncton, Moncton Sylvie Robichaud, Marcel Robichaud, Marie Richard, Lloyd Morrison

*Newfoundland and Labrador – Corner Brook CC, Corner Brook Gary Oke, Susan Curtis, Terry Oke, Sigfrid Fitzpatrick

Northern Ontario – Soo Curlers Association, Sault Ste. Marie Charlie Robert, Lindsay Miners, Rob Thomas, Alissa Begin

*Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Centre, Yellowknife Steve Moss, Ashley Green, Rosh Begg (replaces Scott Alexander), Debbie Moss

Nova Scotia – Mayflower CC, Halifax Rob Harris, Mary Mattatall, Cameron MacKenzie, Katarina Hakansson

*Nunavut – Iqaluit CC, Iqaluit Ed Sattelberger, Chantelle Masson, Dennis Masson, D’Arcy Masson

Ontario – Orillia CC, Orillia Cory Heggestad, Heather Graham, Greg Balsdon, Amy Balsdon

Prince Edward Island – Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, Summerside Rod MacDonald, Kathy O’Rourke, Mark O’Rourke, Karen MacDonald

Quebec –Glenmore CC, Montreal Mike Fournier, Alanna Routledge, Mike Kennedy, Joëlle St-Hilaire Saskatchewan – Swift Current CC, Swift Current Shaun Meachem, Kelly Wood, Carl deConinck Smith, Kelsey Dutton

*Yukon – Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse Bob Smallwood, Tamar Vandenberghe, Adam Pleasant, Jody Smallwood

*Played a four-team double knockout on November 14-15 at the Rideau CC to determine which two teams advanced

to the main draw of the 2014 Canadian Mixed, beginning Saturday, November 16. Newfoundland/Labrador and

Northwest Territories qualified.



November 16-23, 2013 Rideau Curling Club, Ottawa, Ontario

FINAL Total

Ontario (Cory Heggestad) 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 X 5

Alberta (Darren Moulding)* 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 X 8


ONTARIO ALBERTA (Orillia CC, Orillia) (Coaldale Granite Club, Coaldale and Airdrie CC, Airdrie) Amy Balsdon 88% Anna-Marie Moulding 75% Greg Balsdon 75% Brent Hamilton 89% Heather Graham 74% Heather Jensen 76% Cory Heggestad 75% Darren Moulding 78%


ALBERTA (Darren Moulding of Coaldale) defeated defending champion ONTARIO (Cory Heggestad of Orillia), 8-5 to win the 2014 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Ottawa.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Darren Moulding, third Heather Jensen, second Brent Hamilton and lead Anna-Marie Moulding. It was also a record 10th Canadian Mixed Championship title for Alberta, but first since 2008, when Dean Ross of Calgary won. Alberta and Saskatchewan had been tied with nine Mixed wins apiece since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto.

Alberta finished with an overall record of 10-2, after winding up tied for first upon completion of the round robin with a 9-2 mark (tied with Saskatchewan, but placed first for its round robin win over Saskatchewan, thus earning a bye to the final). Ontario qualified for the final by beating New Brunswick, 9-8 in a tiebreaker for third, then defeating Saskatchewan, 6-5 in the semifinal.

The four players from the winning team earned two team (two-person) entries into the 2014 Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials in Ottawa, March 19-23, which determined Canada’s representatives for the 2014 World Mixed Doubles Championship, April 22-29 in Dumfries, Scotland.

SEMIFINAL Ontario (Cory Heggestad) 6 Saskatchewan (Shaun Meachem) 5

TIEBREAKER New Brunswick (Sylvie Robichaud) 8 Ontario (Cory Heggestad) 9


ROUND ROBIN STANDINGS W L

Alberta (Darren Moulding) 9 2 Saskatchewan (Shaun Meachem) 9 2 Ontario (Cory Heggestad) 8 3 New Brunswick (Sylvie Robichaud) 8 3 Québec (Mike Fournier) 7 4 Nova Scotia (Rob Harris) 6 5 Manitoba (Sean Grassie) 5 6 Prince Edward Island (Rod MacDonald) 5 6 Northern Ontario (Charlie Robert) 4 7 Northwest Territories (Steve Moss) 2 9 British Columbia (Keith Switzer) 2 9 Newfoundland and Labrador (Gary Oke) 1 10

Beginning with the 2005 renewal, the Mixed playoff format was changed from the Page System to one whereby the first place finisher advances directly to the final, while the second and third place teams meet in a semifinal.

Alberta (Darren Moulding of Coaldale) and Saskatchewan (Shaun Meachem of Swift Current) finished tied for first with 9-2 records. Since Alberta defeated Saskatchewan in the round robin, it was placed first and advanced directly to the final.

Saskatchewan was placed second and advanced to the semifinal to meet third-place finisher Ontario (Cory Heggestad of Orillia), who eliminated New Brunswick (Sylvie Robichaud), 9-8 in a tiebreaker (for third).

Immediately prior to the event (November 14-15), the bottom four provinces/territories from the 2013 championship (Newfoundland/Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon) competed in a double knockout to qualify two of them for the national championship. Newfoundland/Labrador and Northwest Territories advanced to the main draw.

2014 Canadian Mixed All-Stars

Skip Sylvie Robichaud, New Brunswick (82%) Third Marcel Robichaud, New Brunswick (84%) Second Greg Balsdon, Ontario (86%) Lead Calleen Friesen, Manitoba (84%)


Newfoundland and Labrador skip Gary Oke and Nova Scotia lead Katarina Hakansson received the Sportsmanship Awards, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.



Town of Mount Royal Curling Club, Mount Royal, Quebec


Alberta – Grande Prairie CC, Grande Prairie

Kurt Balderston, Cheryl Bernard, Del Shaughnessy, Stephanie Malekoff

British Columbia – Kimberley CC, Kimberley

Tom Buchy, Lori Buchy, Dave Toffolo, Robyn Toffolo

Manitoba – Brandon CC, BrandonTerry McNamee, Kerri Einarson, Kyle Einarson, Stacey Fordyce

New Brunswick – Gage Golf and Curling Association, Oromocto James Grattan, Rebecca Atkinson, Kevin Boyle, Jane Boyle

*Newfoundland and Labrador – Corner Brook CC, Corner Brook Kenny Young, Amanda Rumboldt, Stephen Shepherd, Donna Davis

Northern Ontario – Fort William CC, Thunder Bay Mike Assad, Ashley Kallos, Taylor Kallos, Kady Stachiw

Northwest Territories – Inuvik CC, Inuvik Nick Saturnino, Stephanie Crocker, Richard Gordon, Eileen McKay-Saturnino

*Nova Scotia – CFB Halifax CC, Halifax Brent MacDougall, Christina Black, Kris Granchelli, Jane Snyder

*Nunavut – Iqaluit CC, Iqaluit Ed Sattelberger, D’Arcy Masson, Dennis Masson, Chantelle Masson

Ontario – Orillia CC, Orillia Cory Heggestad, Heather Graham, Greg Balsdon, Amy Mackay

Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown

Robert Campbell, Rebecca Jean MacDonald, Robbie Doherty, Jackie Reid

Quebec –Glenmore CC, Montreal Mike Fournier, Alanna Routledge, Mike Kennedy, Joëlle St-Hilaire Saskatchewan - Langenburg CC, Langenburg Jeff Hartung, Brooklyn Lemon, Kody Hartung, Nicole Lang

*Yukon – Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse Steve Fecteau, Helen Strong, Wade Scoffin, Patty Wallingham

*Played a four-team double knockout November 15-16 at Town of Mount Royal CC to determine which two

teams advanced to the main draw of the 2013 Canadian Mixed, beginning Saturday, November 17. Nova Scotia

and Yukon qualified.



Town of Mount Royal Curling Club, Mount Royal, Quebec

FINAL Total

Nova Scotia (Brent MacDougall)* 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 X X 3 Ontario (Cory Heggestad) 1 0 2 2 1 3 0 1 X X 10


NOVA SCOTIA ONTARIO (CFB Halifax CC, Halifax) (Orillia CC, Orillia) Jane Snyder 84% Amy Mackay 91% Kris Granchelli 84% Greg Balsdon 81% Christina Black 75% Heather Graham 94% Brent MacDougall 56% Cory Heggestad 91%


ONTARIO (Cory Heggestad of Orillia) defeated NOVA SCOTIA (Brent MacDougall of Halifax), 10-3 to win the 2013 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in the Town of Mount Royal, Quebec.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Cory Heggestad, third Heather Graham, second Greg Balsdon and lead Amy Mackay. It was just the third Canadian Mixed Championship for Ontario, as Heggestad joined previous winning skips Dave Van Dine of Ottawa (1986) and John Epping of Oakville (2006). Alberta and Saskatchewan are tied with nine Mixed wins apiece since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto.

Ontario finished with an overall record of 11-2, after winding up second in the round robin with a 9-2 mark (tied with Nova Scotia, but placed second for its round robin loss to Nova Scotia). Ontario qualified for the final by beating third-place finisher Quebec, 9-8 in an extra end semifinal. Meanwhile, Nova Scotia, which had to play in the event pre-qualifier just to make the round robin, advanced directly to the final by finishing first.

The four players from the winning team earned two team (two-person) entries into the inaugural Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials in Leduc, Alberta, March 13-17, which determined Canada’s representatives for the 2013 World Mixed Doubles Championship, April 13-20 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

SEMIFINAL Quebec (Mike Fournier) 8 Ontario (Cory Heggestad) 9* (extra end)



Nova Scotia (Brent MacDougall) 9 2 Ontario (Cory Heggestad) 9 2 Québec (Mike Fournier) 8 3 New Brunswick (James Grattan) 7 4 Saskatchewan (Jeff Hartung) 6 5 Northern Ontario (Mike Assad) 6 5 Alberta (Kurt Balderston) 5 6 British Columbia (Tom Buchy) 5 6 Prince Edward Island (Robert Campbell) 5 6 Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 4 7 Northwest Territories (Nick Saturnino) 2 9 Yukon (Steve Fecteau) 0 11

Beginning with the 2005 renewal, the Mixed playoff format was changed from the Page System to one whereby the first place finisher advances directly to the final, while the second and third place teams meet in a semifinal.

Nova Scotia (Brent MacDougall of Halifax) and Ontario (Cory Heggestad of Orillia) finished tied for first with 9-2 records. Since Nova Scotia defeated Ontario in the round robin, it was placed first and advanced directly to the final.

Ontario was placed second and advanced to the semifinal to meet third-place finisher Quebec (Mike Fournier of Montreal).

Immediately prior to the event (November 15-16), the bottom four provinces/territories from the 2012 championship (Newfoundland/Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut and Yukon) competed in a double knockout to qualify two of them for the national championship. Nova Scotia and Yukon advanced to the main draw.


Skip Brent MacDougall, Nova Scotia (81%)* Third Cheryl Bernard, Alberta (82%) Second Del Shaughnessy, Alberta (82%)* Lead Jane Snyder, Nova Scotia (84%)*


Nova Scotia skip Brent MacDougall and Stephanie Crocker, Northwest Territories third, received the Sportsmanship Awards, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.



Sudbury Curling Club, Sudbury, Ontario


Alberta – Grande Prairie CC, Grande Prairie Kurt Balderston, Desireé Owen, Del Shaughnessy, Stephanie Malekoff

British Columbia – Chilliwack CC, Chilliwack Doug Marshall, Lisa Deputan, Darren Jarvis, Janet Klebe

Manitoba – Deer Lodge CC, Winnipeg Sean Grassie, Tracey Lavery, Scott McCamis, Calleen Neufeld

New Brunswick – Curling Beauséjour, Moncton Sylvie Robichaud, Marcel Robichaud, Marie Richard, André Boudreau

Newfoundland and Labrador – Caribou CC, Stephenville Gary Alcock, Susan Curtis, Brian Bailey, Ashley Rumboldt

Northern Ontario – Fort William CC, Thunder Bay Mike Assad, Alissa Begin, Andrew Nerpin, Jann Bobenic-Costante

Northwest Territories - Yellowknife Curling Centre, Yellowknife, NT Steve Moss, Kalie Dobson, Robert Borden, Debbie Moss

Nova Scotia - Mayflower CC, Halifax Chris Sutherland, Kelly MacIntosh, Glen MacLeod, Jen Crouse

Nunavut – Iqaluit CC, Iqaluit Ed Sattelberger, Denise Hutchings (replaces Kristy Hewitt), Dennis Masson, D’Arcy Masson (replaces Kim Masson)

Ontario – Rideau CC, Ottawa Mark Homan, Rachel Homan, Brian Fleischhaker, Alison Kreviazuk

Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown Brett Gallant, Erin Carmody, Anson Carmody, Michelle Mackie

Quebec – Laviolette CC, Trois-Rivières Martin Ferland, Virginie Lessard, Frédéric Marchand, Anik Brascoup

Saskatchewan - Tartan CC, Regina Jason Ackerman, Chantelle Eberle, Dean Hicke, Colleen Ackerman

Yukon – Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse Scott Hamilton, Darlene Hutton, Herbert Balsam, Corinne Delaire



Sudbury Curling Club, Sudbury, Ontario

FINAL Total

Alberta (Kurt Balderston)* 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 7 Saskatchewan (Jason Ackerman) 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 8

(extra end)


ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN (Grande Prairie Curling Club, Grande Prairie) (Tartan CC, Regina) Stephanie Malekoff 86% Colleen Ackerman 88% Del Shaughnessy 92% Dean Hicke 77% Desireé Owen 68% Chantelle Eberle 75% Kurt Balderston 61% Jason Ackerman 81%


SASKATCHEWAN (Jason Ackerman of Regina), defeated ALBERTA (Kurt Balderston of Grande Prairie), 8-7 in an extra end to win the 2012 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Sudbury. It was the first extra end Mixed final since Nova Scotia’s Paul Flemming edged Alberta’s Shannon Kleibrink, 12-11 in 2003 in Abbotsford, BC.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Jason Ackerman, third Chantelle Eberle, second Dean Hicke and lead Colleen Ackerman.

It was also a record-tying ninth Mixed crown for Saskatchewan since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto, but the first since 1996, when won by Regina’s Randy Bryden in Charlottetown. Alberta also has nine Mixed wins.

Saskatchewan finished with an overall record of 11-4, after winding up second in the round robin with a 9-4 mark, then advancing to the final by winning the semifinal over New Brunswick. Meanwhile, Alberta had qualified directly for the final by finishing first with an 11-2 mark.

Two players from the winning team – Dean Hicke and Chantelle Eberle - then represented Canada at the 2012 World Mixed Doubles Championship, April 23-29 in Erzurum, Turkey. Canada finished the round robin with an 8-0 mark and first place in Section B, but lost its quarter-final to Sweden and was eliminated from the playoffs, finishing sixth overall.

SEMIFINAL Saskatchewan (Jason Ackerman) 8 New Brunswick (Sylvie Robichaud) 3



Alberta (Kurt Balderston) 11 2 Saskatchewan (Jason Ackerman) 9 4 New Brunswick (Sylvie Robichaud) 9 4 British Columbia (Doug Marshall) 8 5 Prince Edward Island (Brett Gallant) 8 5 Ontario (Mark Homan) 8 5 Manitoba (Sean Grassie) 8 5 Quebec (Martin Ferland) 8 5 Northern Ontario (Mike Assad) 7 6 Northwest Territories (Steve Moss) 6 7 Newfoundland/Labrador (Gary Alcock) 4 9 Nova Scotia (Chris Sutherland) 4 9 Nunavut (Ed Sattelberger) 1 12 Yukon (Scott Hamilton) 0 13

Beginning with the 2005 renewal, the Mixed playoff format was changed from the Page System to a format whereby the first place finisher advances directly to the final, while the second and third place teams meet in a semifinal.

Alberta (Kurt Balderston of Grande Prairie) finished first with an 11-2 mark to advance directly to the final.

Saskatchewan (Jason Ackerman of Regina) and New Brunswick (Sylvie Robichaud of Moncton) finished tied for second with 9-4 records to advance to the semifinal. Saskatchewan was placed second, though, for its round robin win over New Brunswick.

Fourteen teams, representing the 10 provinces plus separate entries for Northern Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, competed in the round robin, in order to fulfill the Equitable Opportunity to Access Canadian Championships policy adopted at the CCA’s 2010 Annual General Meeting.

The bottom four provinces/territories in 2012 will now compete in a double knockout prior to the 2013 Mixed in order to qualify two of them for the national championship, which will thus become a 12-team draw in future.


Skip Jason Ackerman, Saskatchewan (77%) Third Tracey Lavery, Manitoba (78%)* Second Del Shaughnessy, Saskatchewan (77%)* Lead André Boudreau, New Brunswick, (84%)


Brian Bailey, second for Newfoundland/Labrador, received the Sportsmanship Award, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.



Morris Curling Club, Morris, Manitoba


Alberta – Medicine Hat CC, Medicine Hat

Tim Krassman, Holly Stroh, Jeff Bodin, Vicki Sjolie

British Columbia – Kimberley CC, Kimberley

Tom Buchy, Lori Buchy, Dave Toffolo, Robyn Toffolo

Manitoba – Hamiota CC, Hamiota

Terry McNamee, Lana Hunter, Allan Lawn, Lisa Blixhavn (replaces Tanya Enns)

New Brunswick – Riverside Country Club, Rothesay (Saint John)

Charlie Sullivan, Becky Atkinson, Kevin Boyle, Jane Boyle

Newfoundland and Labrador – Carol CC, Labrador City

Gary Wensman, Marcie Brown, Paul Mouland, Steph Casmey

Northern Ontario – Fort William CC, Thunder Bay

Craig Kochan, Liz Kingston, Colin Koivula, Alissa Begin

Northwest Territories/Yukon - Yellowknife CC, Yellowknife, NT

Steve Moss, Kalie Dobson, Brian Kelln, Danielle Ellis

Nova Scotia - Mayflower CC, Halifax

Paul Flemming, Kelly MacIntosh, Glen MacLeod, Theresa Breen

Ontario – Arnprior CC, Arnprior

Chris Gardner, Erin Morrissey, Brad Kidd, Kim Brown


Robert Campbell, Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Robbie Doherty, Jackie Reid

Quebec – Club de Curling Etchemin, St-Romuald

Simon Hébert, Amélie Blais, Nicolas Marceau (replaces Marc Rivard), Vicky Tremblay

Saskatchewan - Hillcrest CC, Moose Jaw

Steven Slupski, Allison Slupski, Derek Owens, Danielle Sicinski



Morris Curling Club, Morris, Manitoba

FINAL Total

Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 P.E.I. (Robert Campbell)* 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4


MANITOBA PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (Hamiota Curling Club, Hamiota) (Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown) Lisa Blixhavn 85% Jackie Reid 76% Allan Lawn 85% Robert Doherty 71% Lana Hunter 69% Rebecca Jean MacPhee 76% Terry McNamee 74% Robert Campbell 75%


PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (Robert Campbell of Charlottetown), defeated MANITOBA (Terry McNamee of Hamiota), 4-3 to win the 2011 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Morris.

It was the second Mixed title for Campbell, who also won the 1989 renewal in Brandon, the last time the event was staged in Manitoba. It’s the first Canadian Mixed title, though, for third Rebecca Jean MacPhee, second Robbie Doherty and lead Jackie Reid.

It was also the third Mixed crown for Prince Edward Island since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto. Skip Peter Gallant won in 1987, followed by Campbell in 1989.

Campbell becomes just the seventh skip to win two Canadian Mixed titles. Saskatchewan’s Larry McGrath is the only three-time winning skip.

Prince Edward Island finished with an overall record of 11-1, after winning the round robin with a 10-1 mark to earn a bye to the final.

Morris, with a population of under 2,000, is the smallest community to ever host a Canadian curling championship.

Two players from the winning team - Robert Campbell and Rebecca Jean MacDonald (MacPhee) - represented Canada at the 2011 World Mixed Doubles Championship, April 17-23 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Canada finished with a 4-4 record, failing to qualify for the quarterfinals when losing a second tiebreaker to Denmark after eliminating Slovakia.

SEMIFINAL Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 8 Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 3

TIE-BREAKER #2 Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 7 (for third place) Ontario (Chris Gardner) 6

TIE-BREAKER #1 New Brunswick (Charlie Sullivan) 3 Ontario (Chris Gardner) 9



Prince Edward Island (Robert Campbell) 10 1 Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 9 2 Ontario (Chris Gardner) 7 4 New Brunswick (Charlie Sullivan) 7 4 Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 7 4 Alberta (Tim Krassman) 6 5 British Columbia (Tom Buchy) 4 7 Saskatchewan (Steven Slupski) 4 7 Northern Ontario (Craig Kochan) 4 7 Northwest Territories/Yukon (Steve Moss) 3 8 Quebec (Simon Hébert) 3 8 Newfoundland and Labrador (Gary Wensman) 2 9


Prince Edward Island (Robert Campbell of Charlottetown) finished first with a 10-1 mark to advance directly to the final.

Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming of Halifax) finished second with a 9-2 record to advance to the semifinal.

Ontario (Chris Gardner of Arnprior), New Brunswick (Charlie Sullivan of Saint John) and Manitoba (Terry McNamee of Hamiota) finished tied for third with 7-4 records. Since the teams were 1-1 within the group, the draw to the button results were needed for seeding. Thus, Manitoba was top-seeded and awaited the winner of the first tiebreaker between New Brunswick and Ontario in the second tiebreaker in the battle for third place.


Skip Robert Campbell, Prince Edward Island (79%)* Third Becky Atkinson New Brunswick (80%) Second Derek Owens, Saskatchewan (81%) Lead Vicki Sjolie, Alberta (85%)

All-star selections were determined by overall shooting percentages during the round robin. In the case of a tie (*), the position was determined by the best plus/minus. *There was a three-way tie among Campbell, Terry McNamee (MB) and Charlie Sullivan (NB) at 79% but Campbell, with a plus 9, was awarded the all-star selection.

British Columbia skip Tom Buchy received the Sportsmanship Award, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.



Burlington Golf and Country Club, Burlington, Ontario


Alberta – Sexsmith CC, Sexsmith

Graham Powell, Karen Powell (skip), Todd Maxwell, Michelle Trarback

British Columbia – Duncan CC, Duncan

Jason Montgomery, Sarah Wark, Will Duggan, Nicole Montgomery (Vice-skip)

Manitoba – Selkirk CC, Selkirk

Dave Boehmer, Kerri Flett, Kyle Einarson, Tamara Bauknecht

New Brunswick – Capital Winter Club, Fredericton

Mary Jane McGuire, Jérémy Mallais, Megan McGuire, Jared Bezanson

Newfoundland and Labrador – Re/Max Centre, St. John’s

Matthew (Matt) Blandford, Stephanie (Steph) LeDrew, Kelly Schuh, Jessica Mouland

Northern Ontario – Idylwylde Golf & Country Club, Sudbury

Jordan Chandler, Tracy Horgan, Clint Cudmore, Lindsay Miners


Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey, Andrew Gibson, Jill Mouzar

Ontario – Sarnia Golf and Curling Club, Sarnia

Mark Bice, Leslie Bishop, Codey Maus, Courtney Davies


Kyle Stevenson, Donna Butler, Doug MacGregor, Tricia Affleck

Quebec – Club de Curling Baie-Comeau, Baie-Comeau

Simon Hébert, Noémie Verreault, William Dion, Vicky Tremblay

Saskatchewan - Tartan CC, Regina

Jason Ackerman, Lana Vey (replaces Amber Holland), Andrew Foreman, Colleen Ackerman

Yukon/Northwest Territories - Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse, Yukon

Wade Scoffin, Helen Strong, Steve Fecteau, Rhonda Horte



Burlington Golf and Country Club, Burlington, Ontario

FINAL Total

Ontario (Mark Bice) 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 X 5 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey)* 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 X 7 *last rock advantage

PERCENTAGES

ONTARIO NOVA SCOTIA (Sarnia Golf and Curling Club, Sarnia) (Mayflower CC, Halifax) Courtney Davies 86% Jill Mouzar 95% Codey Maus 70% Andrew Gibson 81% Leslie Bishop 83% Heather Smith-Dacey 85% Mark Bice 74% Mark Dacey 83%


NOVA SCOTIA (Mark Dacey of Halifax) defeated ONTARIO (Mark Bice of Sarnia), 7-5, to win the 47th edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at the Burlington Golf and Country Club in Burlington, Ontario. Nova Scotia finished with an overall record of 10-2.

It was the seventh Mixed title for Nova Scotia since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto, but the first since 2003, when skip Paul Flemming won in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

It was the second Mixed title for Dacey, who won in 2002 in Halifax, but the third Mixed crown for his wife, Heather Smith-Dacey, who, in addition to playing third for Dacey this year and in 2002, was also the third for New Brunswick’s Grant Odishaw, when winning in 1994 in Leduc, Alberta.

It was the first Mixed title, though, for Nova Scotia second Andrew Gibson and lead Jill Mouzar.

Mark Dacey and Heather Smith-Dacey were supposed to represent Canada at the 2010 World Mixed Doubles Championship, April 16-24 in Chelyabinsk, Russia. However, due to the world-wide cancellation of flights over Europe for a period of time prior to the event due to volcanic ash from Iceland, the Daceys were unable to arrive to compete.

SEMIFINAL Ontario (Mark Bice) 12 British Columbia (Jason Montgomery) 3

TIE-BREAKER British Columbia (Jason Montgomery) 10 (extra end) (for third place) Manitoba (Dave Boehmer) 9



Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 9 2 Ontario (Mark Bice) 9 2 British Columbia (Jason Montgomery) 8 3 Manitoba (Dave Boehmer) 8 3 Saskatchewan (Jason Ackerman) 5 6 Newfoundland and Labrador (Matt Blandford) 5 6 Alberta (Graham Powell) 5 6 Prince Edward Island (Kyle Stevenson) 5 6 Quebec (Simon Hébert) 4 7 New Brunswick (Mary Jane McGuire) 4 7 Northern Ontario (Jordan Chandler) 3 8 Yukon/Northwest Territories (Wade Scoffin) 1 10


Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey of Halifax) and Ontario (Mark Bice of Sarnia (finished tied for first with 9-2 records, but since Nova Scotia had defeated Ontario during the round robin, it was placed first and advanced directly to the final. Ontario was placed second and advanced to the semifinal.

British Columbia (Jason Montgomery of Duncan) and Manitoba (Dave Boehmer of Selkirk) finished tied for third with 8-3 records and met in a tiebreaker to determine the third place finisher, prior to the playoffs.


Skip Mark Bice, Ontario (82%) Third Heather Smith-Dacey, Nova Scotia (78%) Second Andrew Gibson, Nova Scotia (80%)* Lead Jill Mouzar, Nova Scotia (89%)


Prince Edward Island second Doug MacGregor received the Sportsmanship Award, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, as voted by the players.


2009 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP Presented by First Air

November 8-15, 2008

Arniatok Arena, Iqaluit, Nunavut

(Teams listed in order of skip, third, second and lead)

Alberta – Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton

Tom Appelman, Kalynn Park, Brandon Klassen, Rachel Pidherny

British Columbia – Royal City CC, New Westminster

Greg Monkman, Susan Allen, Randie Shen, Anita Cochrane

Manitoba – Deer Lodge CC, Winnipeg

Sean Grassie, Alli Nimik, Ross Derksen, Kendra Green

New Brunswick – Beaver CC, Moncton

Scott Jones, Sandy Comeau, Pierre Fraser, Stephanie Taylor

Newfoundland and Labrador – Re/Max Centre, St. John’s

Andrew Mercer, Jillian Waite, Scott Davidge, Tiffany Cuthbert

Northern Ontario – Soo Curlers Association, Sault Ste. Marie

Ian Fisher, Lindsay Miners, Caleb Flaxey, Chris Fortin


Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey, Dave Stephenson, Lisa Stephenson

Ontario – Brantford Golf & Country Club, Brantford

Wayne Tuck, Kimberly Tuck, Jake Higgs, Sara Jane Gatchell


Bill Hope, Sandra Hope, Jeff Gallant, Shelley Ebbett

Quebec – Thetford Mines Golf & Curling Club, Thetford Mines

Simon Hébert, Noémie Audet-Verreault, Nicolas Marceau, Vicky Tremblay

Saskatchewan - Nutana CC, Saskatoon

Darrell McKee, Allison Gerhardt, Jason Jacobson, Amanda Jacobson

Territories - Inuvik CC, Northwest Territories

George Lennie, Donna Maring, Edgar Maring, Diane Baxter



Presented by First Air

November 8-15, 2008

Arniatok Arena, Iqaluit, Nunavut

FINAL Total

Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 4 Manitoba (Sean Grassie)* 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 X 6


ONTARIO MANITOBA (Brantford Golf & Country Club, Brantford) (Deer Lodge CC, Winnipeg) Sara Jane Gatchell 89% Kendra Green 75% Jake Higgs 75% Ross Derksen 79% Kimberly Tuck 86% Alli Nimik 81% Wayne Tuck 82% Sean Grassie 69%


MANITOBA (Sean Grassie of Winnipeg) defeated ONTARIO (Wayne Tuck of Brantford), 6-4, to win the 46th edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, presented by First Air, at the Arniatok Arena in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Manitoba finished with an overall record of 11-1.

It was the first time that a Canadian sport championship was staged in the territory of Nunavut.

It was the eighth Mixed title for Manitoba since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto. Alberta leads all provinces with nine wins, while Saskatchewan also has eight victories. However, it was the first win for Manitoba since 1991, when skip Jeff Stoughton won in Thunder Bay.

It was the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Sean Grassie, third Alli Nimik, second Ross Derksen and lead Kendra Green, who represented the Deer Lodge Curling Club. Derksen and Green were runners-up at the 2006 Canadian Mixed in Whitehorse, when playing second and lead, respectively, for skip David Hamblin, losing the final to Ontario’s John Epping. Derksen is also a former Canadian and world junior champion, having played third for David Hamblin in 2002.

Grassie and Nimik then represented Canada at the 2009 world mixed doubles championship, April 17-25, 2009 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. After finishing the round robin with an 8-0 mark to lead its group (of three), Canada lost the semifinal, 7-5 to Hungary. However, Canada then defeated China, 6-5, overcoming a 5-0 deficit, to win the bronze medal game and finish with an overall record of 9-1.

Undefeated Switzerland (10-0) won its second consecutive world mixed doubles championship, defeating Hungary, 7-4 in the final.

SEMIFINAL Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 6 Saskatchewan (Darrell McKee) 5

TIE-BREAKER Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 4 (for third place) Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 8



Manitoba (Sean Grassie) 10 1 Saskatchewan (Darrell McKee) 8 3 Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 8 3 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 8 3 Northern Ontario (Ian Fisher) 6 5 Prince Edward Island (Bill Hope) 5 6 British Columbia (Greg Monkman) 5 6 New Brunswick (Scott Jones) 5 6 Quebec (Simon Hebert) 4 7 Alberta (Tom Appelman) 3 8 Newfoundland and Labrador (Andrew Mercer) 3 8 Territories (George Lennie) 0 11


Manitoba (Sean Grassie of Winnipeg) finished first with a 10-1 record and advanced directly to the final.

Saskatchewan (Darrell McKee of Saskatoon), Ontario (Wayne Tuck of Brantford) and Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey of Halifax) finished tied for second with 8-3 records. Since Saskatchewan had defeated both Ontario and Nova Scotia during the round robin, it was placed second and advanced to the semifinal.

Ontario (Wayne Tuck of Brantford) and Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey of Halifax) met in a tiebreaker to determine the third place finisher, prior to the playoffs.


Skip Mark Dacey, Nova Scotia (80%) Third Alli Nimik, Manitoba (81%) Second Jason Jacobson, Saskatchewan (81%) Lead Rachel Pidherny, Alberta (80%)*


Anita Cochrane, lead for British Columbia, was voted the Sportsmanship Award, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, by the players.


2008 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP November 10-16, 2007Calgary Curling Club

Calgary, Alberta


Alberta – Calgary CC and North Hill CC, Calgary

Dean Ross, Susan O’Connor, Tim Krassman, Susan Wright

British Columbia – Royal City CC, New Westminster

Bryan Miki, Adina Tasaka, Jay Batch, Jacalyn Brown

Manitoba – Pembina CC, Winnipeg

Reid Carruthers, Theresa Cannon, Jason Gunnlaugson, Sarah Wazney


Jamie Brannen, Heather Munn, Nick Munn, Lesley Hicks Brannen

Newfoundland and Labrador – Corner Brook CC, Corner Brook

Brian Bailey, Susan Curtis, Gary Alcock, Diane Keating

Northern Ontario – Port Arthur CC, Thunder Bay

Mike Assad, Ashley Miharija, Mike McCarville, Larissa Stevens

Nova Scotia - Truro CC, Truro

Peter Burgess, Colleen Pinkney, Chuck Patriquin, Shelley MacNutt

Ontario – Scarboro Golf & Country Club, Toronto

Bob Turcotte, Kristin Turcotte, Roy Weigand, Andrea Lawes


Kyle Stevenson, Tammi Lowther, Doug MacGregor, Tricia Affleck

Quebec – Thurso CC, Thurso

Simon Dupuis, Isabelle Néron, Jean-François Charest, Marie-Josée Précourt

Saskatchewan - Debden CC, Debden

Ian Mayoh, Susan Altman, Neil Vaughan, Marcia Indzeoski

Yukon/Northwest Territories - Whitehorse CC, Whitehorse, Yukon

Wade Scoffin, Nicole Baldwin, James Buyck, Helen Strong



November 10-16, 2007Calgary Curling Club

Calgary, Alberta FINAL Total

Alberta (Dean Ross)* 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 5 Ontario (Bob Turcotte) 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 4


PERCENTAGES

ALBERTA ONTARIO (Calgary CC and North Hill CC, Calgary) (Scarboro Golf & Country Club, Toronto) Susan Wright 76% Andrea Lawes 93% Tim Krassman 94% Roy Weigand 85% Susan O’Connor 79% Kristin Turcotte 93% Dean Ross 92% Bob Turcotte 75% Team Totals 85% Team Totals 86%

ALBERTA (Dean Ross of Calgary) defeated ONTARIO (Bob Turcotte of Toronto), 5-4 to win the 45th edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, held at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta.

It was a leading ninth Mixed title for Alberta, but first since 2004, when won by Calgary’s Shannon Kleibrink, who also became the first female to skip a winning Canadian Mixed team.

It was the first Mixed win for skip Dean Ross, second Tim Krassman and lead Susan Wright, but the second Mixed title for third Susan O’Connor, who also played third for Alberta’s Kevin Koe in 2000, when winning the Canadian title in Lethbridge. The Ross team represented both the Calgary and North Hill Curling Clubs in Calgary and finished with an overall record of 11-1.

Ross and O’Connor then represented Canada at the first world mixed doubles championship, March 8-15, 2008 in Vierumäki, Finland. After finishing the round robin with a 5-2 mark in its pool (one of three), Canada beat both Hungary and Czech Republic in tiebreakers, before succumbing to Finland, 9-8 in a tiebreaker for the fourth and final playoff spot. Switzerland won the inaugural event, 5-4 over host Finland.

SEMIFINAL Nova Scotia (Peter Burgess) 5 Ontario (Bob Turcotte) 11

TIE-BREAKER Quebec (Simon Dupuis) 5 (for third place) Nova Scotia (Peter Burgess) 8



Alberta (Dean Ross) 10 1 Ontario (Bob Turcotte) 8 3 Nova Scotia (Peter Burgess) 7 4 Quebec (Simon Dupuis) 7 4 British Columbia (Bryan Miki) 6 5 Northern Ontario (Mike Assad) 6 5 Manitoba (Reid Carruthers) 5 6 New Brunswick (Jamie Brannen) 4 7 Prince Edward Island (Kyle Stevenson) 4 7 Saskatchewan (Ian Mayoh) 3 8 Newfoundland and Labrador (Brian Bailey) 3 8 Yukon/ Northwest Territories (Wade Scoffin) 3 8


Alberta (Dean Ross of Calgary) finished first with a 10-1 record and advanced directly to Friday’s final.

Ontario (Bob Turcotte of Toronto) finished second with an 8-3 record and advanced to the semifinal.

Nova Scotia (Peter Burgess of Truro) and Quebec (Simon Dupuis of Thurso) finished tied for third with 7-4 records and met in a tiebreaker to determine the third place finisher.

2008 CANADIAN MIXED ALL-STARS

Skip Dean Ross, Alberta (82%) Third Susan O’Connor, Alberta (81%) Second Roy Weigand, Ontario (81%) Lead Jacalyn Brown, British Columbia (83%)


Bryan Miki, skip of British Columbia, was voted the Sportsmanship Award, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, by the players.



Westmount Golf & Country Club

Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario


Alberta – Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton Ted Appelman, Heather Nedohin, David Harper, Kate Horne

British Columbia – Kelowna CC, Kelowna Brad Kuhn, Stephanie Jackson, Jock Tyre, Heather Mockford

Manitoba – Wheat City CC, Brandon Terry McNamee, Lana Hunter, Geordie Hargreaves, Tanya Enns, Lee Robins (coach)

New Brunswick – Beauteous CC, Moncton and Thistle St. Andrews CC, Saint John Terry Odishaw, Becky Atkinson, Kevin Boyle, Jane Boyle

Newfoundland and Labrador – St. John’s CC, St. John’s Trent Skanes, Stacie Devereaux, Andrew Mercer, Stephanie (Steph) LeDrew (replaced Amy Fitzpatrick)

Northern Ontario – Sudbury CC, Sudbury Tim Phillips, Victoria (Vicky) Barrett, Lloyd Bigras, Andrea Souliere Poland, Alan Arkilander (coach)

Northwest Territories/Yukon- Inuvik CC, Inuvik, NWT Manny Arey, Evelyn Storr, Robert McLeod, Judy McLeod

Nova Scotia - Dartmouth CC, Dartmouth Alan Darragh (replaced Michael Robinson), Tracey Leslie, Owen Graham, Denice Nicholson

Ontario – Oakville CC, Oakville

John Epping, Julie Reddick, Scott Foster, Melissa Foster

Prince Edward Island – Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, Summerside Mike Gaudet, Suzanne Gaudet, Craig Arsenault, Leslie MacDougall

Quebec – Longue-Pointe CC, Montreal and Brownsburg CC, Brownsburg Eve Bélisle, Mark McClory, Martine Comeau, Christian Bouchard

Saskatchewan - Kerrobert CC, Kerrobert Brad Heidt, Darlene Gillies, Drew Heidt, Tracy Heidt



November 11-18, 2006

Westmount Golf & Country Club

Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

FINAL Total

Quebec (Eve Bélisle) *0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 New Brunswick (Terry Odishaw) 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 6


PERCENTAGES

QUEBEC NEW BRUNSWICK (Longue-Pointe CC, Montreal & (Beausejour CC, Moncton and Brownsburg CC, Brownsburg) Thistle St. Andrews CC, Saint John)

Christian Bouchard 86% Jane Boyle 82% Martine Comeau 95% Kevin Boyle 100% Mark McClory 74% Becky Atkinson 85% Eve Bélisle 53% Terry Odishaw 78%


NEW BRUNSWICK (Terry Odishaw of Moncton) defeats QUEBEC (Eve Bélisle of Montreal), 6-4 to win the 44th edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, held at the Westmount Golf & Country Club in Kitchener, Ontario.

It is only the second Mixed title for New Brunswick since the event began in Toronto in 1964. The first win came in 1994, when Grant Odishaw, the brother of Terry Odishaw, skipped his province to victory in Leduc, Alberta.

It is the first Mixed win for skip Terry Odishaw, third Becky Atkinson, second Kevin Boyle and lead Jane Boyle, representing both the Beausejour CC in Moncton and the Thistle St. Andrews Curling Club in Saint John.

SEMIFINAL Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 7 New Brunswick (Terry Odishaw) 8

TIEBREAKER #2 Alberta (Ted Appelman) 6 Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 7

TIEBREAKER #1 British Columbia (Brad Kuhn) 5 Alberta (Ted Appelman) 7



Quebec (Eve Bélisle) 9 2 New Brunswick (Terry Odishaw) 8 3 Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 7 4 British Columbia (Brad Kuhn) 7 4 Alberta (Ted Appelman) 7 4 Ontario (John Epping) 6 5 Saskatchewan (Brad Heidt) 6 5 Northern Ontario (Tim Phillips) 5 6 Newfoundland and Labrador (Trent Skanes) 5 6 Prince Edward Island (Mike Gaudet) 4 7 Nova Scotia (Alan Darragh) 2 9 Northwest Territories/Yukon (Manny Arey) 0 11

Beginning with the 2005 renewal, the Mixed playoff format was changed from the Page System to a format whereby the first place finisher would advance directly to the final, while the second and third place teams would meet in a semifinal.

Quebec (Eve Bélisle) finished first with a 9-2 record and advanced to the final. New Brunswick (Terry Odishaw) finished second with an 8-3 mark. Manitoba (Terry McNamee of Brandon), British Columbia (Brad Kuhn of Kelowna) and Alberta (Ted Appelman of Edmonton) finished tied for third with 7-4 records.

Since Manitoba, British Columbia and Alberta were 1-1 within the group, the pre-event draw to the button results were used to seed the teams for the tiebreakers. Manitoba was the highest ranked and thus was placed in the second tiebreaker. In the first tiebreaker, Alberta eliminated British Columbia. In the second tiebreaker, Manitoba eliminated Alberta. New Brunswick then defeated Manitoba in the semifinal to advance to the final against Quebec.


Skip Eve Bélisle, Quebec (79%) Third Mark McClory, Quebec (81%) Second Geordie Hargreaves, Manitoba (85%) Lead Melissa Foster, Ontario (86%)


Manny Arey, skip of Northwest Territories/Yukon, was voted the Sportsmanship Award, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, by the players.


2006 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP November 19-26, 2005, Whitehorse Curling Club

(Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre)Whitehorse, Yukon


Alberta – Spruce Grove CC, Spruce Grove Les Steuber, Heather Kuntz, Lorne Reed, Sheila Ashton

British Columbia – Kimberley CC, Kimberley Tom Buchy, Lori Buchy, Dave Toffolo, Robyn Toffolo

Manitoba - Morris CC, Morris David Hamblin, Kristen Williamson, Ross Derksen, Kendra Green

New Brunswick – Thistle St. Andrews CC, Saint John and Capital WC, Fredericton Terry Odishaw, Becky Atkinson, Kevin Boyle, Jane Boyle

Newfoundland and Labrador – Corner Brook CC, Corner Brook Gary Oke, Marcie Brown, Scott Davidge, Donna Davis

Northern Ontario – Fort William CC, Thunder Bay Mike Assad, Angela Lee, Ben Mikkelsen, Kari MacLean

Northwest Territories/Yukon- Yellowknife CC, Yellowknife, NWT Jamie Koe, Kerry Koe, Randy Turpin, Kelli Turpin

Nova Scotia - Bridgewater CC, Bridgewater Brian Rafuse, Laura Fultz, Dave Slauenwhite, Alexis Sinclair

Ontario – Oakville CC, Oakville

John Epping, Julie Reddick, Scott Foster, Leigh Armstrong

Prince Edward Island - Montague CC, Montague Larry Dewar, Tammy Dewar, Ross Petrie, Gail Greene

Quebec – Club de curling Boucherville, Boucherville & Club de curling Laval-Sur-Le-Lac, Laval Dwayne Fowler, Nathalie Audet, Marco Berthelot, Janique Berthelot

Saskatchewan - Humboldt CC, Humboldt Brian Wempe, Amy Jurgens, Kim Jurgens, Laura Jurgens



November 19-26, 2005, Whitehorse Curling Club

(Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre)Whitehorse, Yukon

FINAL Total

Manitoba (David Hamblin) *1 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 X 6 Ontario (John Epping) 0 2 0 1 3 1 0 0 4 X 11


PERCENTAGES

MANITOBA ONTARIO (Morris Curling Club, Morris) (Oakville Curling Club, Oakville)

Kendra Green 72% Leigh Armstrong 71% Ross Derksen 72% Scott Foster 69% Kristen Williamson 72% Julie Reddick 79% David Hamblin 60% John Epping 74%


ONTARIO (John Epping of Oakville) defeats MANITOBA (David Hamblin of Morris), 11-6 to win the 43rd

edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, held at the Whitehorse Curling Club (Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre) in Whitehorse, Yukon.

It is the only second Mixed title for Ontario since the event began in Toronto in 1964. The first win came in 1986, when Dave Van Dine skipped the province to victory in Kamloops, BC.

It is the first Mixed win for skip John Epping, third Julie Reddick, second Scott Foster and lead Leigh Armstrong, representing the Oakville Curling Club.

SEMIFINAL Quebec (Dwayne Fowler) 6 Ontario (John Epping) 11


Manitoba (David Hamblin) 9 2 Quebec (Dwayne Fowler) 8 3 Ontario (John Epping) 8 3 New Brunswick (Terry Odishaw) 6 5 Northwest Territories/Yukon (Jamie Koe) 6 5 British Columbia (Tom Buchy) 6 5 Newfoundland and Labrador (Gary Oke) 5 6 Alberta (Les Steuber) 5 6 Nova Scotia (Brian Rafuse) 5 6 Saskatchewan (Brian Wempe) 3 8 Northern Ontario (Mike Assad) 3 8 Prince Edward Island (Larry Dewar) 2 9

Beginning with the 2005 renewal, the Mixed playoff format was changed from the Page System to a format whereby the first place finisher would advance directly to the final, while the second and third place teams would meet in a semifinal.


Manitoba (David Hamblin) finished first with a 9-2 record and advanced to the final. Quebec (Dwayne Fowler of Boucherville) and Ontario (John Epping of Oakville) finish tied for second with 8-3 records. Since Quebec had defeated Ontario during the round robin, it was awarded second place, while Ontario finished third.


Skip David Hamblin, Manitoba (75%) Third Julie Reddick, Ontario (77%) Second Marco Berthelot, Quebec (78%) Lead Janique Berthelot, Quebec (83%)

All-star selections were determined by overall shooting percentages during the round robin. In the case of a percentage tie, the player on the higher-ranking team was awarded the all-star position.

Kari MacLean, lead for Northern Ontario, was voted the Sportsmanship Award, recognizing the ideals of sportsmanship and ability, by the players.


2005 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP November 21-28, 2004, Prince Albert Golf and Curling Club

Prince Albert, Saskatchewan


Alberta – La Glace CC, La Glace

Ralph Brust, Karen Powell, Ken Powell, Tina McDonald

British Columbia – Kamloops CC, Kamloops

Scott DeCap, Kristen Windsor, Brian Windsor, Lanette Nordick

Manitoba - Brandon CC, Brandon

Terry McNamee, Tasha Hunter, Brendan Taylor, Tanya Robins


Terry Odishaw, Becky Atkinson, Kevin Boyle, Jane Boyle

Newfoundland and Labrador - St. John's CC, St. John’s

Mark Nichols, Shelley Nichols, Brent Hamilton, Jennifer Guzzwell

Northern Ontario – Port Arthur CC, Thunder Bay

Joe Scharf, Krista Scharf, Mike McCarville, Amy Stachiw

Northwest Territories/Yukon- Yellowknife CC, Yellowknife, NWT

Jamie Koe, Monique Gagnier, Brad Chorostkowski (replaces Kevin Whitehead),

Kelly Kaylo


Paul Flemming, Melanie Comstock, Alan Cameron, Hayley Clarke

Ontario – Sun Parlour CC, Leamington

Phil Daniel, Kerry Lackie, Spencer Townley, Kim Ambrose

Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown

Kim Dolan, Kevin Champion, Marion MacAulay, Mike Dillon

Quebec – Longue-Pointe CC, Montreal and Lachine CC, Lachine

Eve Bélisle, Mark McClory, Martine Comeau, Christian Bouchard

Saskatchewan - Davidson CC, Davidson

Kyle George, Jolene McIvor, Ben Hebert, Maegan Strueby



November 21-28, 2004, Prince Albert Golf and Curling Club Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

FINAL Total

Newfoundland and Labrador (Mark Nichols) 0 2 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 X 7 Saskatchewan (Kyle George) *2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 X 5 *last rock advantage

PERCENTAGES

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR SASKATCHEWAN (St. John’s Curling Club, St. John’s) (Davidson Curling Club, Davidson)

Jennifer Guzzwell 87% Maegan Strueby 86% Brent Hamilton 96% Ben Hebert 76% Shelley Nichols 85% Jolene McIvor 70% Mark Nichols 86% Kyle George 70%


NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR (Mark Nichols of St. John’s) defeats SASKATCHEWAN (Kyle George of Davidson), 7-5 to win the 42nd edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, held at the Prince Albert Golf and Curling Club in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

It is the first Mixed title for Newfoundland and Labrador since the event began in Toronto in 1964.

It is also the first Mixed win for skip Mark Nichols, third Shelley Nichols, second Brent Hamilton and lead Jennifer Guzzwell, representing the St. John’s Curling Club.

SEMIFINAL Newfoundland and Labrador (Mark Nichols) 9 Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 7

TIEBREAKER FOR THIRD PLACE: Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 8 British Columbia (Scott DeCap) 4


Saskatchewan (Kyle George) 8 3 Newfoundland and Labrador (Mark Nichols) 8 3 British Columbia (Scott DeCap) 7 4 Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 7 4 New Brunswick (Terry Odishaw) 6 5 Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 6 5 Ontario (Phil Daniel) 6 5 Northern Ontario (Joe Scharf) 5 6 Quebec (Eve Bélisle) 4 7 Northwest Territories/Yukon (Jamie Koe) 3 8 Alberta (Ralph Brust) 3 8 Prince Edward Island (Kim Dolan) 3 8 The Mixed playoff format was changed for 2005 from the Page System to a format whereby the first place finisher advances directly to the final, while the second and third place teams meet in a semifinal


Saskatchewan (Kyle George of Davidson) and Newfoundland and Labrador (Mark Nichols of St. John’s) finish tied for first with 8-3 records. Since Saskatchewan had defeated Newfoundland and Labrador during the round robin, it was awarded first place and a bye to the final

Newfoundland and Labrador was placed second and advanced to the semifinal.

British Columbia (Scott DeCap of Kamloops) and Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming of Halifax) finished tied for third with 7-4 records and met in a tiebreaker to determine the third place team, which then advanced to the semifinal.


Skip Scott DeCap, British Columbia (80%) Third Jolene McIvor, Saskatchewan (83%) Second Ben Hebert, Saskatchewan (84%) Lead Kelly Kaylo, NWT/Yukon (87%)


Phil Daniel, Ontario skip, was voted the Sportsmanship Award by the players.


2004 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 10-18, McIntyre Curling Club

Schumacher (Timmins), Ontario

TEAMS (listed in order of skip, third, second, lead)

Alberta – Calgary Winter Club, Calgary

Shannon Kleibrink, Richard Kleibrink, Judy Pendergast, Kevin Pendergast

British Columbia – Nelson Curling Club, Nelson

Fred Thomson, Heather Griffiths, Brent Pihowich, Allison Hurley

Manitoba – Brandon Curling Club, Brandon

Terry McNamee, Jill Officer, Brendan Taylor, Tanya Robins

New Brunswick – Thistle St. Andrews Curling Club, Saint John

Charles Sullivan Jr., Sandy Comeau, Paul Nason, Stacey Leger

Newfoundland and Labrador – Corner Brook Curling Club, Corner Brook

Gary Oke, Anna Mae Holden, Scott Davidge, Sandra Sparrow

Northern Ontario – Sudbury Curling Club, Sudbury

Tim Phillips, Dawn Schwar, Gilles Allaire, Janice Vettoretti

Nova Scotia – Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax

Steve Ogden, Monica Moriarty, Jack Robar, Marg Cutcliffe

Ontario – Cannington Curling Club, Cannington

Heath McCormick, Denna Schell, Jason Young, Julie Promoli

Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown

John Likely, Janice MacCallum, Mark Butler, Nancy Cameron

Qubec – Victoria Curling Club, Sainte-Foy

Steven Munroe, Nancy Doré, Philippe Brassard, Judy Doré

Saskatchewan – Bushell Park Curling Club, Moose Jaw

Randy Gilewich, Michelle Englot, Pat Simmons, Cindy Simmons

Yukon/Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Club, Yellowknife, NWT

Kevin Whitehead, Stacey Stabel, Brad Whitehead, Alana Fisher


2004 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 10-18, McIntyre Curling Club

Schumacher (Timmins), Ontario

FINAL Total

Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink) * 102 010 104 X 9 Ontario (Heath McCormick) 010 102 010 X 5


PERCENTAGES

ALBERTA ONTARIO (Calgary Winter Club, Calgary) (Cannington Curling Club, Cannington)

Kevin Pendergast 96% Julie Promoli 91% Judy Pendergast 84% Jason Young 69% Richard Kleibrink 86% Denna Schell 71% Shannon Kleibrink 71% Heath McCormick 74%

Team totals 84% Team totals 76%

Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary) defeats Ontario (Heath McCormick of Cannington), 9-5 to win the 41st edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, held at the McIntyre Curling Club in Schumacher (Timmins), Ontario.

It is a record-tying eighth Mixed title for Alberta, equalling Saskatchewan, since the event began in Toronto in 1964 and the first for the province since Kevin Koe of Calgary won in 2000 in Lethbridge.

Kleibrink becomes the first woman to win the Mixed as skip, after being the first woman to skip at the Mixed last year in Abbotsford, British Columbia, where she finished as the runner-up to Nova Scotia’s Paul Flemming.

It is the first Mixed win for Kleibrink, along with her husband Richard Kleibrink at third, Judy Pendergast at second and her husband Kevin Pendergast at lead, representing the Calgary Winter Club.

SEMIFINAL Ontario (Heath McCormick) 6 Manitoba (Terry McNamee) 5

PAGE PLAYOFF (1) Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink) 6 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (2) Ontario (Heath McCormick) 5

(3) Manitoba (Terry McNamee 10 (4) Quebec (Steven Munroe) 6



Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink) 9 2 Ontario (Heath McCormick) 7 4 Manitoba (Terry McNamee)) 7 4 Quebec (Steven Munroe) 7 4 New Brunswick (Charlie Sullivan Jr.) 6 5 Nova Scotia (Steve Ogden) 6 5 Newfoundland and Labrador (Gary Oke/Dave MacInnes)) 6 5 Northern Ontario (Tim Phillips) 5 6 Saskatchewan (Randy Gilewich) 5 6 British Columbia (Fred Thomson) 5 6 Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 3 8 Northwest Territories/Yukon (Kevin Whitehead) 0 11

Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary) finishes first with a 9-2 record. Ontario (Heath McCormick of Cannington), Manitoba (Terry McNamee of Brandon) and Quebec (Steven Munroe of Sainte Foy) finish tied for second with 7-4 records.

Since Ontario defeated both during the round robin, it is placed second. Manitoba is placed third because it defeated Quebec during the round robin. Quebec is placed fourth.

Dave MacInnes of the host club substituted as skip for an injured Gary Oke (Newfoundland/Labrador) after the first draw and played all of the remaining draws.


Skip Shannon Kleibrink, Alberta (81%) Third Michelle Englot, Saskatchewan (81%) Second Pat Simmons, Saskatchewan (89%) Lead Cindy Simmons, Saskatchewan (86%)


Randy Gilewich, Saskatchewan skip, was voted the Sportsmanship Award by the players.


2003 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 11-19, Abbotsford Recreation Centre

Abbotsford, British Columbia

TEAMS (listed in order of skip, third, second, lead)

Alberta – Airdrie Curling Club, Airdrie

Shannon Kleibrink, Richard Kleibrink, Amy Nixon, Mike Westlund

British Columbia – Nelson Curling Club, Nelson

Fred Thomson, Heather Griffiths, Brent Pihowich, Allison Hurley

Manitoba – Brandon Curling Club, Brandon

Kelly Robertson (replaces Mike McEwen), Amber Dawson, Geordie Hargreaves, Kristen Williamson

New Brunswick – Gladstone Curling Club, Fredericton Junction

Wayne Tallon, Sandy Comeau, Kevin Keefe, Stacey Leger

Newfoundland – Carol Curling Club, Labrador City

Garry Pinsent, Barbara Pinsent, Gerry Nichols, Joyce Nichols

Northern Ontario – McIntyre Curling Club, Timmins (Schumacher)

David MacInnes, Valerie MacInnes, Neil MacInnes, Judy MacInnes


Paul Flemming, Kim Kelly, Tom Fetterly, Cathy Donald

Ontario – Brant Curling Club, Brantford

Nick Rizzo, Jo-Ann Rizzo, Gareth Parry, Vicki Advent

Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown

Andrew Robinson, Pamela Jay, Tyler Harris, Paula Creamer

Quebec – Laval sur le lac Club de curling,, Laval

Jean-Pierre Venne, Tracey Knox, Daniel Lafleur, Carole Moreau

Saskatchewan – Yorkton Curling Club, Yorkton

Bryan Derbowka, Cathy Trowell, Gerry Adam, Karen Cottenie

Yukon/Northwest Territories – Whitehorse Curling Club, Yukon

Chad Cowan, Donna Scott, Bernie Adilman, Dawn Cowan


2003 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 11-19, Abbotsford Recreation Centre

Abbotsford, British Columbia

FINAL Total

Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink) 030 203 020 10 11 Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) * 203 010 203 01 12 (extra end)


PERCENTAGES

ALBERTA NOVA SCOTIA (Airdrie Curling Club) (Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax)

Mike Westlund 95% Cathy Donald 90% Amy Nixon 89% Tom Fetterly 83% Richard Kleibrink 76% Kim Kelly 78% Shannon Kleibrink 76% Paul Flemming 86%


Nova Scotia (skip Paul Flemming of Halifax) won the 40th Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, defeating Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary, the first woman to ever skip at the Mixed), 12-11 in an extra end in Abbotsford, British Columbia. It was one of the highest scoring finals in Mixed history.

It was the sixth Mixed title for Nova Scotia since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto and the second consecutive win for both the province and the Mayflower Curling Club, after Mark Dacey won last year in Halifax.

It was the second Canadian Mixed title for Flemming, who also skipped Nova Scotia to victory in 1999 in Victoria. It was the first Mixed win for third Kim Kelly, a four-time Scott Tournament of Hearts (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003) champion and 2001 Ford Worlds winner.

It was the third Canadian Mixed title for second Tom Fetterly, who also won in 1993 (skip Scott Saunders) and 1999 (skip Paul Flemming), but the first Mixed title for lead Cathy Donald.

SEMIFINAL Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink) 6 Saskatchewan (Bryan Derbowka) 5

PAGE PLAYOFF (1) Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 4 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (2) Saskatchewan (Bryan Derbowka) 3

(3) Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink) 8 (4) Ontario (Nick Rizzo) 7

TIE-BREAKER #2 Ontario (Nick Rizzo) 8 (for fourth place) Manitoba (Kelly Robertson) 7

TIE BREAKER #1 Ontario (Nick Rizzo) 7 New Brunswick (Wayne Tallon) 5



Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 10 1 Saskatchewan (Bryan Derbowka) 10 1 Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink) 9 2 Manitoba (Kelly Robertson) 6 5 Ontario (Nick Rizzo) 6 5 New Brunswick (Wayne Tallon) 6 5 British Columbia (Fred Thomson) 5 6 Northern Ontario (David MacInnes) 4 7 Quebec (Jean-Pierre Venne) 4 7 Prince Edward Island (Andrew Robinson) 3 8 Yukon/Northwest Territories (Chad Cowan) 2 9 Newfoundland (Garry Pinsent) 1 10

Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming of Halifax) and Saskatchewan (Bryan Derbowka of Yorkton) finish tied for first with 10-1 records. Since Nova Scotia defeated Saskatchewan 7-5 during the round robin, Nova Scotia was placed first, Saskatchewan second. Alberta (Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary) finished third with a 9-2 record.

Manitoba (Kelly Robertson of Brandon), New Brunswick (Wayne Tallon of Fredericton Junction) and Ontario (Nick Rizzo of Brantford) finish tied for fourth with 6-5 records.

The results of the pre-event draw-to-the-button skills competition were used as the tie-breaking procedure for seeding only, since no team had defeated the other two in round robin competition. Manitoba was seeded first, Ontario second and New Brunswick third. Therefore, Ontario met New Brunswick in the first tiebreaker, winning 7-5. Ontario then defeated Manitoba, 8-7 in the second tiebreaker to claim fourth place prior to the start of the Page Playoffs.


Skip Paul Flemming, Nova Scotia (87%) Third Cathy Trowell, Saskatchewan (84%)* Second Gareth Parry, Ontario (88%) Lead Mike Westlund, Alberta (88%)


*Trowell tied with Ontario’s Jo-Ann Rizzo but was awarded the all-star position.

Fred Thomson, British Columbia skip, was voted the Sportsmanship Award by the players.


2002 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 5-13, Mayflower Curling Club

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Alberta – Shamrock Curling Club, Edmonton

Ken Hunka, Sandy Bjornstad, Dwight Alfrey, Sandra Jenkins (replaces Sandy Tougas)

British Columbia – Cloverdale Curling Club, Cloverdale

Craig Lepine, Karen Lepine, Ian Cordner, Dolores Cordner

Manitoba – Stony Mountain Curling Club, Stony Mountain

Arnold Asham (throws second rocks), Chris Scalena,

Nathan Asham (throws skip rocks), Lori Boudreau (replaces Trisha Eck)

NEW BRUNSWICK – Thistle St. Andrews Curling Club, Saint John

Wade Blanchard, Heidi Hanlon, Greg Hanlon, Judy Blanchard

Newfoundland – St. John’s Curling Club, St. John’s

Ken Peddigrew, Michelle Jewer, Keith Jewer, Leslie Anne Walsh

Northern Ontario – McIntyre Curling Club, Timmins

David MacInnes, Valerie MacInnes, Neil MacInnes, Judy MacInnes


Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey, Rob Harris, Laine Peters

Ontario – Ilderton Curling Club, Ilderton

Wayne Tuck Jr., Kimberly Tuck, Jake Higgs, Sara Gatchell


John Likely, Susan McInnis, Mark Butler, Nancy Cameron

Quebec – Club de curling, Longue-Pointe, Montreal

Daniel Grégoire, Caroline Boily, Noel-Yves Perron, Caroline Perron

Saskatchewan – Yorkton Curling Club, Yorkton

Gerald Shymko, Myrna Nielsen, Arnie Geisler, Lynne Doll

Yukon/Northwest Territories – Yellowknife Curling Club, Northwest Territories

Doug Bothamley, Dawn Moses, Ron Delmage, Kelly Kaylo



January 5-13, Mayflower Curling Club Halifax, Nova Scotia

FINAL Total

PEI (John Likely) 010 200 100 x 4 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) * 002 011 011 x 6


PERCENTAGES

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NOVA SCOTIA (Charlottetown Curling Club) (Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax)

Nancy Cameron 73% Laine Peters 86% Mark Butler 65% Rob Harris 89% Susan McInnis 73% Heather Smith-Dacey 90% John Likely 85% Mark Dacey 84%


Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey of Halifax) defeats Prince Edward Island (John Likely of Charlottetown), 6-4 to win

the 2002 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax.

It is the fifth Canadian Mixed title for Nova Scotia since the championship began in 1964. Nova Scotia’s other wins came in 1993 (skip Scott Saunders), 1995 and 1998 (skip Steve Ogden) and 1999 (skip Paul Flemming).

It is the first Canadian Mixed win for Mayflower Curling Club skip Mark Dacey, second Rob Harris and lead Laine Peters but second for third Heather Smith-Dacey, who won in 1994 as third for New Brunswick’s Grant Odishaw.

It is also only the third time that a skip has won the Canadian Mixed at his home club. The others were Kurt Balderston of Grande Prairie Curling Club in Grande Prairie, Alberta in 1992 and Bernie Yuzdepski of the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon in 1978.

Of note for the week was PEI skip John Likely setting records for the most Mixed appearances as skip (8) and the most wins (52).

SEMIFINAL Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 6 Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 5

PAGE PLAYOFF (1) Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 4 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (2) Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 8

(4) Saskatchewan (Gerald Shymko) 5 (3) Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 10

TIE-BREAKER Saskatchewan (Gerald Shymko) 9 (for fourth place) Alberta (Ken Hunka) 7



Ontario (Wayne Tuck) 10 1 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 10 1 Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 8 3 Saskatchewan (Gerald Shymko) 6 5 Alberta (Ken Hunka) 6 5 British Columbia (Craig Lepine) 5 6 Newfoundland (Ken Peddigrew) 5 6 Northern Ontario (David MacInnes) 4 7 Yukon/Northwest Territories (Doug Bothamley) 4 7 Manitoba (Arnold Asham) 4 7 New Brunswick (Wade Blanchard) 3 8 Quebec (Daniel Grégoire) 1 10

Ontario (Wayne Tuck Jr. of Ilderton) and Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey of Halifax) finished tied for first with 10-1 records. Since Ontario defeated Nova Scotia during the round robin, it was placed first, Nova Scotia second. PEI (John Likely of Charlottetown) was alone in third at 8-3. Alberta (Ken Hunka of Edmonton) and Saskatchewan (Gerald Shymko of Yorkton) finish tied for fourth with 6-5 marks, thus requiring a tie-breaker to determine the fourth place finisher, prior to the Page Playoff system.

1999 Canadian Mixed champion Paul Flemming replaced an ill Craig Lepine of B.C. for three games as skip during the week.


Skip Mark Dacey, Nova Scotia (87%) Third Heather Smith-Dacey, Nova Scotia (86%) Second Rob Harris, Nova Scotia (85%)* Lead Sandra Jenkins, Alberta (89%)


*Harris tied with Saskatchewan’s Arnie Geisler but was awarded the all-star position.

Kelly Kaylo, Yukon/Northwest Territories lead, was voted the Sportsmanship Award by the players.


2001 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 6-14, The Colosseum

Weyburn, Saskatchewan

Alberta - Sexsmith Curling Club, Sexsmith

Kurt Balderston, Renée Sonnenberg, Les Sonnenberg, Karen McNamee

British Columbia – Kerry Park Curling Club, Mill Bay

Wes Craig, Roselyn Craig, Randy Thiessen, Cheryl Noble

Manitoba - Portage Curling Club, Portage la Prairie

Brian Pallister, Chris Scalena, Dale Michie, Rose Neufeld

New Brunswick - Beaver Curling Club, Moncton

Russ Howard, Nancy Toner, Wayne Tallon, Wendy Howard

Newfoundland – Grand Falls Curling Club, Grand Falls

Tony Power, Thelma Stockley, Jerry Osmond, Shirley Down

Northern Ontario – McIntyre Curling Club, Schumacher

Rick Stewart, Valerie MacInnes, Neil MacInnes, Marianne Kentish

Nova Scotia - Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax

Mark Dacey Heather Smith-Dacey Rob Harris Laine Peters

Ontario – Rideau Curling Club, Ottawa

Howard Rajala, Darcie Simpson, Chris Fulton, Linda Fulton


John Likely, Kathie Gallant, Mark Butler, Krista Cameron

Quebec - Boucherville Curling Club, Boucherville

Jean Michel Ménard, Jessica Marchand, Marco Berthelot, Joëlle Sabourin

Saskatchewan - Sutherland Curling Club, Saskatoon

Scott Coghlan, Kim Hodson, Murray Humble, Laurie Secord-Humble

Ykon/Northwest Territories – Whitehorse Curling Club, Yukon Orest Peech, Wendy Hales, Bob Chambers, Corinne Delaire


2001 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 6-14, The Colosseum

Weyburn, Saskatchewan

FINAL Total

Québec (Jean-Michel Ménard) * 101 000 101 1 5 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 010 101 010 0 4


QUÉBEC NOVA SCOTIA (Boucherville Curling Club, Boucherville) (Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax)

Joëlle Sabourin 80% Laine Peters 81% Marco Berthelot 68% Rob Harris 73% Jessica Marchand 81% Heather Smith-Dacey 71% Jean-Michel Ménard 84% Mark Dacey 89%


Québec (Jean-Michel Ménard of Boucherville) wins Canadian Mixed final over Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey of Halifax), 5-4 by stealing one in the 10th end.

It is the first Mixed title for Québec since the competition began in 1964. It is also the first Mixed win for skip Jean-Michel Ménard, third Jessica Marchand, second Marco Berthelot and lead Joëlle Sabourin.

Weyburn stages the second best-attended Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in history, with an attendance of 20,340, behind only Owen Sound’s 22,147 in 1998, but ahead of Kindersley’s 19,910 in 1997.

SEMIFINAL Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 4 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 6 (extra end)

PAGE PLAYOFF (2) Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 3 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (1) Quebec (Jean-Michel Ménard) 7

(4) Saskatchewan (Scott Coghlan) 5 (3) Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 7

TIE-BREAKER Saskatchewan (Scott Coghlan) 7 (for fourth place) Ontario (Howard Rajala) 4

TIE-BREAKERS British Columbia (Wes Craig) 1 Ontario (Howard Rajala) 7

Saskatchewan (Scott Coghlan) 6 (extra end) Alberta (Kurt Balderston) 5



Quebec (Jean-Michel Ménard) 7 4 Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 7 4 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 7 4 Alberta (Kurt Balderston) 7 4 Ontario (Howard Rajala) 7 4 British Columbia (Wes Craig) 7 4 Saskatchewan (Scott Coghlan) 7 4 Northern Ontario (Rick Stewart) 5 6 New Brunswick (Russ Howard) 5 6 Yukon/Northwest Territories (Orest Peech) 4 7 Manitoba (Brian Pallister) 3 8 Newfoundland (Tony Power) 0 11

There was a history-making seven-way tie for first place, as Quebec, PEI, N.S., Alberta, Ontario, B.C. and Saskatchewan finished with 7-4 records.

1. In head-to-head tie-breaking procedures plus a pre-event skill-based contest involving a team draw to the button, Quebec (Jean Michel Ménard) was placed first.

2. Prince Edward Island (John Likely) was placed second. 3. Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) was placed third. 4. Alberta (Kurt Balderston) was placed fourth. 5. Ontario (Howard Rajala) was placed fifth. 6. British Columbia (Wes Craig) was placed sixth. 7. Saskatchewan (Scott Coghlan) was placed seventh.

Tie-breaker schedule: (4) Alberta (Kurt Balderston) vs (7) Saskatchewan (Scott Coghlan) (5) Ontario (Howard Rajala) vs (6) British Columbia (Wes Craig)

Note: Leah Birnie replaced Kim Hodson (Saskatchewan) for tiebreakers. Hodson had to attend women’s provincials. Birnie became the lead, while Laurie Secord-Humble moved to third.

The two winners then played to determine the fourth place finisher. Once that was accomplished, the Page Playoff System took effect: (1) Quebec vs (2) PEI, winner to final, loser to semifinal; 3 (NS) vs 4 (SK), winner to semifinal, loser eliminated.


First team Second team

Scott Coghlan, SK Skip Howard Rajala, ON Darcie Simpson, ON Third Kim Hodson, SK Les Sonnenberg, AB Second Chris Fulton, ON Linda Fulton, ON Lead Joëlle Sabourin, QC


Skips: Scott Coghlan (80%), Howard Rajala (79%) Thirds: Darcie Simpson (78%), Kim Hodson (78%) Seconds: Les Sonnenberg (79%), Chris Fulton (79%) Leads: Linda Fulton (81%), Joëlle Sabourin (79%)

Wendy Howard, New Brunswick Lead, was voted the Sportsmanship Award by the players.


2000 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 8-16, Lethbridge Curling Club

Lethbridge, Alberta

Alberta - Calgary Curling Club, Calgary

Kevin Koe, Susan O’Connor, Greg Northcott, Lawnie Goodfellow

British Columbia - Cloverdale Curling Club, Cloverdale

Craig Lepine, Karen Lepine, Tony Tuson, Jacalyn Brown

Manitoba - Heather Curling Club, Winnipeg

Doug Harrison, Lori Boudreau, Terry McRae, Allyson Stewart

New Brunswick - Beaver Curling Club, Moncton

Russ Howard, Nancy Toner, Wayne Tallon, Wendy Howard

Newfoundland - St. John’s Curling Club, St. John’s

Gary Rowe, Diane Ryan, Neal Blackmore, Jennifer Day

Northern Ontario - Idylwylde Golf & Curling Club, Sudbury

Tim Phillips, Dawn Schwar, Doug Hong, Margaret Goldsborough

Nova Scotia - Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax

Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey, Rob Harris, Laine Peters

Ontario - Forest Curling Club, Forest

Dale Kelly, Julie Kelly, Shawn Hartle, Becky Philpott

Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown

John Likely, Susan McInnis, Mark Butler, Nancy Cameron

Quebec - Trois-Rivières Curling Club, Trois-Rivières

Jean Michel Ménard, Stephanie Marchand, Marco Berthelot, Jessica Marchand

Saskatchewan - Estevan Curling Club, Estevan

Jim Packet, Brenda Malaryk, Dallas Duce, Audrey Dubiel

Yukon/Northwest Territories - Hay River Curling Club, Hay River, Northwest Territories

Ron Cook, Terry Allen, Tim Garrett, Carol Bennett


2000 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 8-16, Lethbridge Curling Club

Lethbridge, Alberta

FINAL Total

Saskatchewan (Jim Packet) 001 102 001 x 5 Alberta (Kevin Koe)* 200 040 020 x 8


PERCENTAGES

SASKATCHEWAN ALBERTA (Estevan Curling Club) (Calgary Curling Club)

Audrey Dubiel 88% Lawnie Goodfellow 99% Kory Kohuch 94% Greg Northcott 88% Brenda Lee Malaryk 84% Susan O’Connor 93% Jim Packet 65% Kevin Koe 82%


Note: Second Kory Kohuch replaced an ill Dallas Duce in the Mixed final.

It was the seventh Canadian Mixed title for Alberta, the last coming in 1992 in Grande Prairie with skip Kurt Balderston, since the championship began in 1964.

It was also the first Canadian Mixed title for skip Kevin Koe, third Susan O’Connor, second Greg Northcott and lead Lawnie Goodfellow.

SEMIFINAL Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 8 Saskatchewan (Jim Packet) 10 (extra end)

PAGE PLAYOFF (2) Saskatchewan (Jim Packet) 4 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (1) Alberta (Kevin Koe) 6

(4) Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 6 (3) New Brunswick (Russ Howard) 5

TIE-BREAKER Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 8 (for fourth place) Ontario (Dale Kelly) 3

TIE-BREAKERS British Columbia (Craig Lepine) 4 Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 6

Quebec (Jean-Michel Menard) 5 Ontario (Dale Kelly) 6 (extra end)

Northern Ontario (Tim Phillips) 3 British Columbia (Craig Lepine) 9



Alberta (Kevin Koe) 8 3 Saskatchewan (Jim Packet) 7 4 New Brunswick (Russ Howard) 7 4 British Columbia (Craig Lepine) 6 5 Northern Ontario (Tim Phillips) 6 5 Ontario (Dale Kelly) 6 5 Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 6 5 Quebec (Jean-Michel Ménard) 6 5 Nova Scotia (Mark Dacey) 5 6 Manitoba (Doug Harrison) 4 7 Yukon/NWT (Ron Cook) 3 8 Newfoundland (Gary Rowe) 2 9

Notes: Saskatchewan was awarded second place by virtue of its round robin win over New Brunswick. Five teams tied for fourth. A draw-to-the-button competition then took place to determine seedings for a playoff format, which would determine the fourth place finisher. The results of the competition were (1) PEI, (2) Quebec, (3) Ontario, (4) British Columbia and (5) Northern Ontario.



John Likely, PEI Skip Mark Dacey, NS Susan McInnis, PEI Third Susan O’Connor, AB Marco Berthelot, Quebec Second Wayne Tallon, NB Nancy Cameron, PEI Lead Lawnie Goodfellow, AB


Skips: John Likely (81%), Mark Dacey (81%) Thirds: Susan McInnis (84%), Susan O’Connor (81%) Seconds: Marco Berthelot (87%), Wayne Tallon (84%) Leads: Nancy Cameron (88%), Lawnie Goodfellow (86%)

Doug Hong, Northern Ontario second, was voted the Sportsmanship Award by the players.


1999 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 9-17, 1999

Victoria Curling Club Victoria, British Columbia

FINAL Total

Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 100 202 130 X 9 Prince Edward Island (Peter MacDonald) * 020 010 001 X 4


PERCENTAGES

NOVA SCOTIA PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax) (Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, Summerside)

Monica Moriarty 88% Karen MacDonald 84% Tom Fetterly 86% Mark O’Rourke 83% Colleen Jones 89% Kathy O’Rourke 75% Paul Flemming 88% Peter MacDonald 71%

Team totals 88% Team Totals 78%

It was the fourth Canadian Mixed title for Nova Scotia, after wins in 1993 (Scott Saunders, skip), 1995 and 1998 (Steve Ogden, skip).

It was the first Canadian Mixed win for skip Paul Flemming and lead Monica Moriarty. It was the second Canadian Mixed title for second Tom Fetterly (1993) and third Colleen Jones, who also won in 1993, when Nova Scotia was skipped by her husband Scott Saunders.

SEMIFINAL Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 7 Ontario (Bob Turcotte) *4

PAGE PLAYOFF (2) Ontario (Bob Turcotte) 7 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (1) Prince-Edward-Island (Peter MacDonald) *10 (3) Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) *9 (4) British Columbia (Eric Wiltzen) 7


Prince-Edward-Island (Peter MacDonald) 9 2 Ontario (Bob Turcotte) 8 3 Nova Scotia (Paul Flemming) 8 3 British Columbia (Eric Wiltzen) 8 3 Manitoba (Doug Armour) 6 5 Alberta (Rick Maksymetz) 5 6 Québec (Daniel Bedard) 5 6 Saskatchewan (Greg Anholt) 5 6 Yukon/Northwest Territories (Jamie Koe) 4 7 Newfoundland (Gary Oke) 4 7 New Brunswick (Vance LeCocq) 2 9 Northern Ontario (Chris Buchan) 2 9

Although Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia finished tied for second with 8-3 marks, their playoff positions were determined by head-to-head results during the round robin.


1999 CANADA MIXED ALL-STARS


Paul Flemming (NS) Skip Bob Turcotte (ON) Jan Wiltzen (BC) Third Lori McGeary (MB) Roy Weigand (ON) Second Mark O’Rourke (PEI) Valerie Lahucik (BC) Lead Heather Walsh (SK)

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

The Sportsmanship Award, voted by the players to the curler whom they feel best exhibits sportsmanship and ability, was won by Nova Scotia skip Paul Flemming.


1998 AT&T CANADA MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 10-18, 1998

Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Cnetre Owen Sound, Ontario

FINAL Total

Nova Scotia (Steve Ogden) * 200 020 200 2 8 Ontario (Dean Wadland) 011 102 011 0 7


PERCENTAGES

NOVA SCOTIA ONTARIO (Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax) (Bayview Country Club, Thornhill)

Heather Hopkins 86% Marian Arai 79% Jeff Hopkins 83% Paul Wadland 54% Mary Mattatall 70% Cheryl McPherson 73% Steve Ogden 70% Dean Wadland 73%


It was the third Canadian Mixed title for Nova Scotia and the second for Steve Ogden, Mary Mattatall, Jeff and Heather Hopkins, who also won in 1995 in Sarnia. Scott Saunders skipped Nova Scotia to its other Mixed championship in 1993.

Owen Sound set a Canadian Mixed attendance record of 22,147, eclipsing the mark of 19,910 established in 1997 in Kindersley, Saskatchewan.

SEMIFINAL Ontario (Dean Wadland) 9 Alberta (Kurt Balderston) *6

PAGE PLAYOFF (2) Nova Scotia (Steve Ogden) 7 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (1) Alberta (Kurt Balderston) *4

(4) Ontario (Dean Wadland) 6 (3) Northern Ontario (Rick Stewart) *5

TIEBREAKERS (There was a five-way tie for fourth place. Therefore, a series of tiebreakers were played to determine fourth place, prior to the Page Playoff.)

Tiebreaker #3: Québec (Claude Brazeau) 2 Ontario (Dean Wadland) *11

Tiebreaker #2: Saskatchewan (Warren Betker) 3 Ontario (Dean Wadland) *5

Québec (Claude Brazeau) 10 British Columbia (Grant Dezura) *5

Tiebreaker #1: Saskatchewan (Warren Betker) *8 Manitoba (Rob Fowler) 4




Alberta (Kurt Balderston) 10 1 Nova Scotia (Steve Ogden) 8 3 Northern Ontario (Rick Stewart) 7 4 Ontario (Dean Wadland) 6 5 British Columbia (Grant Dezura) 6 5 Québec (Claude Brazeau) 6 5 Saskatchewan (Warren Betker) 6 5 Manitoba (Rob Fowler) 6 5 New Brunswick (Vance LeCocq) 4 7 Yukon/Northwest Territories (Gerry Menard) 3 8 Prince-Edward-Island (Mike Gaudet) 2 9 Newfoundland (Garry Pinsent) 2 9

AT&T CANADA MIXED ALL-STARS


Steve Ogden (Nova Scotia) Skip Kurt Balderston (Alberta) Marcy Balderston (Alberta) Third Lois Fowler (Manitoba) Bill Fisher (British Columbia) Second Les Sonnenberg (Alberta) Sloan Girardin (Saskatchewan) Lead Susan Allen (British Columbia)

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

The Sportsmanship Award, voted by the players to the curler whom they feel best exhibits sportsmanship and ability, was won by Saskatchewan skip Warren Betker, for the second year in a row.


1997 AT&T CANADA MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 11-19, 1997

Kindersley Curling Club, Kindersley, Saskatchewan

FINAL Total

Northern Ontario (Chris Johnson) 101 002 110 1 7 British Columbia (Eric Wiltzen) * 010 220 001 0 6


PERCENTAGES

NORTHERN ONTARIO BRITISH COLUMBIA Sudbury Curling Club Kamloops Curling Club

Lisa Gauvreau 79% Valerie Lahucik 83% Drew Eloranta 76% Bert Hinch 69% Barb McKinty 73% Jan Wiltzen 71% Chris Johnson 83% Eric Wiltzen 75%


SEMIFINAL Alberta 4 Northern Ontario 9

PAGE PLAYOFF (1) British Columbia 11 (3) Nova Scotia 4 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (2) Alberta 4 (4) N. Ontario 5+ +extra end

TIE-BREAKER N. Ontario 8 PEI 4


British Columbia (Eric Wiltzen) 9 2 Alberta (Kory Kohuch) 8 3 Nova Scotia (Scott Saunders) 8 3 Prince Edward Island (John Likely) 7 4 Northern Ontario (Chris Johnson) 7 4 Quebec (Guy Hemmings) 6 5 New Brunswick (Grant Odishaw) 6 5 Manitoba (Doug Armour) 5 6 Yukon/NWT (Orest Peech) 4 7 Saskatchewan (Warren Betker) 3 8 Ontario (Jim Hunker) 2 9 Newfoundland (Bob Osborne) 1 10

AT&T CANADA MIXED ALL-STARS


Eric Wiltzen (B.C.) Skip Scott Saunders (Nova Scotia) Susan McInnis (PEI) Third Barb McKinty (N. Ontario) Rudy Nordin (Alberta) Second Drew Eloranta (N. Ontario) Valerie Lahucik (B.C.) Lead Helen Radford (Nova Scotia)


SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

The Sportsmanship Award, voted by the players to the curler whom they feel best exhibits sportsmanship and ability, was won by Warren Betker, skip of Saskatchewan.


1996 UNITEL MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 6 - 14, 1996

Charlottetown Curling Club

FINAL Total

Saskatchewan (Bryden) *020 010 021 0 2 8 Ontario (Moffatt) 101 001 100 2 0 6

* Last rock advantage

PERCENTAGES

SASKATCHEWAN ONTARIO Caledonian Curling Club, Regina Rideau Curling Club, Ottawa

Karen Inglis 84% Denise Allan 90% Russ Bryden 84% Peter Woodcox 66% Cathy Trowell 73% Theresa Breen 83% Randy Bryden 71% Rich Moffatt 70%


SEMI FINAL Saskatchewan 6 British Columbia 4

PAGE PLAYOFF (1) Saskatchewan 4 (3) Nova Scotia 6 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (2) Ontario 6 (4) British Columbia 7

ROUND-ROBIN STANDINGS W L

Saskatchewan (Randy Bryden) 9 2 Ontario (Rich Moffatt) 8 3 Nova Scotia (Scott Saunders) 8 3 British Columbia (Craig Lepine) 7 4 Prince Edward Island (Blair Weeks) 6 5 Alberta (Mike Sali) 6 5 New Brunswick (Grant Odishaw) 5 6 Manitoba (Chad McMullan) 4 7 Newfoundland (Gary Oke) 4 7 Yukon/Northwest Territories (Trevor Alexander) 3 8 Northern Ontario (Rick Stewart) 3 8 Québec (Steeve Gagnon) 3 8

UNITEL MIXED ALL-STARS

Skip Randy Bryden (Saskatchewan) Third Theresa Breen (Ontario) Second Russ Bryden (Saskatchewan) Lead Denise Allan (Ontario)

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

The Sportsmanship Award, voted by the players to the curler whom they feel best exhibits sportsmanship and ability, was won by Trevor Alexander, skip of the Yukon/Northwest Territories. He also won this award in 1994.


1995 UNITEL MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP January 7 - 15, 1995

Sarnia Golf & Curling Club

FINAL Total

Prince Edward Island (MacDonald) 000 110 201 0 5 Nova Scotia (Ogden) * 201 001 010 1 6

* Last rock advantage

PERCENTAGES

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (67%) NOVA SCOTIA (72%) Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club, Summerside Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax

Peter MacDonald 65% Steve Ogden 76% Karen A. MacDonald 65% Mary Mattatall 74% Rod MacDonald 81% Jeffrey Hopkins 79% Karen E. MacDonald 57% Heather Hopkins 59%

SEMI FINAL Nova Scotia 10 Alberta 5

PAGE PLAYOFF (3) Alberta 4 (2) P.E.I. 4 (1 vs 2; 3 vs 4) (4) Ontario-Host 2 (1) Nova Scotia 3

TIE-BREAKERS P.E.I. 8 Ontario-Host 7 Alberta 6 B.C. 6

ROUND-ROBIN STANDINGS W L

Nova Scotia (Steve Ogden) 11 2 Prince Edward Island (Peter MacDonald) 9 4 Alberta (Mike Sali) 9 4 Ontario - Host (Ed Werenich) 8 5 British Columbia (Alan Roemer) 8 5 Manitoba (Scott Brown) 7 6 New Brunswick (Grant Odishaw) 7 6 Québec (Guy Hemmings) 7 6 Saskatchewan (Grant McGrath) 7 6 Northern Ontario (Jeffrey Henderson) 7 6 Yukon (Orest Peech) 4 9 Ontario (James Marshall) 4 9 Newfoundland (Roger Mabey) 3 10 Northwest Territories (Jack MacKinnon) 0 13

ALL STARSSkip Steve Ogden (Nova Scotia) Third Nathalie Audet (Québec) Second Jeff Hopkins (Nova Scotia) Lead Krista Smith (New Brunswick)

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

The Sportsmanship Award is decided by player vote and presented to the player who best exhibits the ideals of sportsmanship and ability. The 1995 winner was Yukon’s second, Pat Paslawski.


HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship began in 1964 in Toronto and was held at the Royal Canadian Curling Club. At that time, Carling O’Keefe Brewery was the event sponsor and remained so through the 1971 edition.

Manitoba’s Ernie Boushy won the first Canadian Mixed and would go on to win his second title two years later in 1966.

During the eight years of the O’Keefe Mixed Championship, Saskatchewan and Alberta each won three times (Manitoba took the other two), while Saskatchewan’s Larry McGrath became the event’s only three-time winning skip, in 1967, 1968 and 1971.

In 1972, the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) temporarily took over as the sponsor, but starting in 1973, Seagram Distillers came on board as the new title sponsor, after deciding to shift its existing curling sponsorship from the Senior’s men’s championship to the Mixed. Seagram would remain the event’s sponsor through 1983.

During the Seagram Mixed years, the winning skips included Manitoba’s Barry Fry (1973), Saskatchewan’s Rick Folk (1974, 1983) and Northern Ontario’s Rick Lang (1981). Fry would go on to skip Manitoba to a Brier victory in 1979. Folk won two Briers and world titles, in 1980 and 1994, while Lang won three Briers, all as third, for Bill Tetley in 1975 and for Al Hackner in 1982 and 1985, when he also took two world titles.

From 1984-1994, the CCA (renamed Curling Canada in February of 2015) once again assumed sponsorship of the Mixed, which was normally held in late March, one of the final events in the Canadian championship calendar. Among the winning skips during that era were Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton (1988, 1991) and Prince Edward Island’s Peter Gallant (1987) and Robert Campbell (1989). Stoughton would also eventually win three Briers (1996, 1999 and 2011) and two world titles (1996 and 2011).

Other well-known curlers who won the Mixed during this time included Saskatchewan’s Jan Betker (1984), an eventual three-time world champion (1993, 1994, 1997) and 1998 Olympic gold medallist, Ontario’s Hugh Millikin (1986) and Nova Scotia’s Colleen Jones (1993).

In 1995, some significant changes took place to the Mixed, which was staged that year in Sarnia. Unitel became the title sponsor and the event, now held in January, became the first one in the new ‘Season of Champions’, a marketing concept involving all of the televised Canadian and world curling championships.

A new playoff format was also introduced, the Page Playoff system, which placed the top four finishers in a unique playoff structure. The Page system was also adopted that year for both the Labatt Brier and Scott Tournament of Hearts.

The ‘Page’ paired the first and second place teams in one game, with the winner advancing to the final, the loser to the semifinal. The third and fourth place teams met in the other game, with the winner also advancing to the semifinal, while the loser was eliminated.

Unitel sponsored the Mixed in 1995 and 1996, before its parent company, AT&T, took over for the 1997 and 1998 editions. The CCA assumed sponsorship of the national championship once again in 1999.

The Mixed continued to be the first event in the Season of Champions through 2004. Among the two-time winners during that period were Nova Scotia skips Steve Ogden (1995, 1998) and Paul Flemming (1999, 2003).


Other well-known skips to win include Alberta’s Kevin Koe in 2000. Koe has since gone on to win three Briers (2010, 2014, 2016) and two world titles (2010 and 2016) while other Mixed winners such as Quebec’s Jean-Michel Ménard (2001) and Nova Scotia’s Mark Dacey (2002), also won the Brier…Dacey in 2004, Ménard in 2006.

Record six-time Scott Tournament of Hearts winner (1982, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) and two-time world champion (2001, 2004) Colleen Jones won her second Mixed title during this time, as third for Flemming in 1999.

In 2003 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Alberta’s Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary became the first woman to skip a national Mixed team. The following year, in Schumacher, Ontario, Kleibrink made history again, this time winning the Canadian Mixed.

However, beginning with the 2005 edition, the Mixed was no longer part of the televised ‘Season of Champions’. The event was moved to mid-November, since many of the provincial champions were now being determined the previous spring. The 2005 Canadian Mixed was held November 21-28, 2004 at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

In addition, the Page Playoff system was replaced by the traditional first place team (at the conclusion of the round robin) advancing to the final while the second and third place teams play in a semifinal. The 2005 Canadian Mixed was won for the first time by Newfoundland and Labrador, skipped by Mark Nichols, a former world junior champion (2001) who would also go on to Olympic glory in 2006, as third for Canada’s Brad Gushue (fourth rock thrower) when winning the gold medal in Turin, Italy. Nichols is also a two-time Brier (2017, 2018) and men’s world champion (2017).

In 2008, the city of Iqaluit in Nunavut staged the 2009 Canadian Mixed. It was the first time that the territory of Nunavut had hosted a national sporting championship of any kind.

Only two provinces have gone unbeaten at The Mixed: Alberta in 1965 (10-0), 1969 (10-0) and 2016 (12-0); Saskatchewan in 1968 (10-0) and 1984 (12-0).

There’s been one seven-way tie for first place - in Weyburn, Saskatchewan in 2001 - when the teams were eventually seeded for the playoffs by their won-loss records within the group plus the pre-event draw to the button results.

Prince Edward Island’s John Likely holds the record for most appearances as skip (9) and most games won (55).

Alberta has won a leading 11 Canadian Mixed titles through 2016. Saskatchewan is second with 10. Every province, plus Northern Ontario, has won at least one Mixed since 1964.

The 2015 Canadian Mixed was held November 10-15, 2014 in North Bay, Ontario. Unlike the two previous years when the bottom four teams (11th-14th) from the previous Mixed played a pre-event double knockout to determine which two teams advanced for the main 12-team draw, this renewal had a new format, somewhat similar to the Canadian Juniors.

There were two seven-team pools, with the teams seeded based on their won-lost records in the last three years. The teams played a round robin within the pool. The top four in each pool then advanced to the championship round where the teams played games against the teams they did not play in the first round. At the conclusion of the championship round, two semifinals were played: 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. The winners advanced to the gold medal final while the losers met in a bronze medal game. This competition format, which once again consists of eight-end, not 10-end games, has been in place ever since.


Since 2008, two members of the Mixed winning team had represented Canada at the World Mixed Doubles. However, in 2013 and 2014, the winning team at the Canadian Mixed received two entries (two two-person teams) into the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, the event that determines the duo to represent Canada at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

However, beginning with the 2015 Mixed (played in November of 2014) the winning team has instead represented Canada at the following year’s World Mixed Curling Championship. Canada has won one gold at the worlds, courtesy of Ontario’s Mike Anderson in 2018.


CANADIAN MIXED CHAMPIONS

O'KEEFE MIXED CHAMPIONS

1964 Manitoba Ernie Boushy, Ina Light, Garry De Blonde, Bea McKenzie

1965 Alberta Lee Green, Kay Berreth, Shirley Salt, Vi Salt

1966 Manitoba Ernie Boushy, Ina Light, Garry De Blonde, Betty Hird

1967 Saskatchewan Larry McGrath, Darlene Hill, Peter Gunn, Marlene Dorsett

1968 Saskatchewan Larry McGrath, Darlene Hill, Peter Gunn, Marlene Dorsett

1969 Alberta Don Anderson, Bernie Hunter, Bill Tainsh, Marion Weir

1970 Alberta Bill Mitchell, Hadie Manley, Bill Tainsh, Connie Reeve

1971 Saskatchewan Larry McGrath, Darlene Hill, John Gunn, Audrey St. John

CCA/CLCA MIXED CHAMPIONS

1972 British Columbia Trev Fisher, Gail Wren, Bryan Bettesworth, Louise Fisher

SEAGRAM MIXED CHAMPIONS

1973 Manitoba Barry Fry, Peggy Casselman, Stephen Decter, Susan Lynch

1974 Saskatchewan Rick Folk, Cheryl Stirton, Tom Wilson, Bonnie Orchard

1975 Alberta Les Rowland, Audrey Rowland, Dan Schmaltz, Betty Schmaltz

1976 British Columbia Tony Eberts, Elizabeth Short, Clark Glanville, Eleanor Short

1977 Manitoba Harold Tanasichuk, Rose Tanasichuk, Jim Kirkness, Debbie Orr

1978 Saskatchewan Bernie Yuzdepski, Marnie McNiven, Roy Uchman, Joan Bjerke

1979 Northern Ontario Roy Lund, Nancy Lund, Ron Apland, Marsha Kerr

1980 Manitoba Jim Dunstone, Carol Dunstone, Del Stitt, Elaine Jones


1981 Northern Ontario Rick Lang, Anne Provo, Bert Provo, Lorraine Edwards

1982 British Columbia Glen Pierce, Marlene Neubauer, Fuji Miki, Sharon Bradley

1983 Saskatchewan Rick Folk, Dorenda Schoenhals, Tom Wilson, Elizabeth Folk

CCA MIXED CHAMPIONS

1984 Saskatchewan Randy Woytowich, Kathy Fahlman, Brian McCusker, Jan Betker

1985 British Columbia Steve Skillings, Pat Sanders, Allan Carlson, Louise Herlinveaux

1986 Ontario Dave Van Dine, Dawn Ventura, Hugh Millikin, Cindy Wiggins

1987 Prince Edward Island Peter Gallant, Kathy Gallant, Phil Gorveatt, Simone MacKenzie

1988 Manitoba Jeff Stoughton, Karen Fallis, Rob Meakin, Lynn Morrow

1989 Prince Edward Island Robert Campbell, Angela Roberts, Mark O'Rourke, Kathy O'Rourke

1990 Alberta Marvin Wirth, Glenna Rubin, Millard Evans, Robin Pettit

1991 Manitoba Jeff Stoughton, Karen Fallis, Scott Morrow, Lynn Morrow

1992 Alberta Kurt Balderston, Marcy Balderston, Rod Kramer, Joanne Morrison

1993 Nova Scotia Scott Saunders, Colleen Jones, Tom Fetterly, Helen Radford

1994 New Brunswick Grant Odishaw, Heather Smith, Rick Perron, Krista Smith

UNITEL MIXED CHAMPIONS

1995 Nova Scotia Stephen Ogden, Mary Mattatall, Jeff Hopkins, Heather Hopkins

1996 Saskatchewan Randy Bryden, Cathy Trowell, Russ Bryden, Karen Inglis

AT&T CANADA MIXED CHAMPIONS

1997 Northern Ontario Chris Johnson, Barb McKinty, Drew Eloranta, Lisa Gauvreau

1998 Nova Scotia Steve Ogden, Mary Mattatall, Jeff Hopkins, Heather Hopkins


CCA MIXED CHAMPIONS

1999 Nova Scotia Paul Flemming, Colleen Jones, Tom Fetterly, Monica Moriarty

2000 Alberta Kevin Koe, Susan O’Connor, Greg Northcott, Lawnie Goodfellow

2001 Québec Jean-Michel Ménard, Jessica Marchand, Marco Berthelot, Joëlle Sabourin

2002 Nova Scotia Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey Rob Harris, Laine Peters

2003 Nova Scotia Paul Flemming, Kim Kelly, Tom Fetterly, Cathy Donald

2004 Alberta Shannon Kleibrink, Richard Kleibrink, Judy Pendergast, Kevin Pendergast

2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Mark Nichols, Shelley Nichols, Brent Hamilton, Jennifer Guzzwell

2006 Ontario John Epping, Julie Reddick, Scott Foster, Leigh Armstrong

2007 New Brunswick Terry Odishaw, Becky Atkinson, Kevin Boyle, Jane Boyle

2008 Alberta Dean Ross, Susan O’Connor, Tim Krassman, Susan Wright

2009 Manitoba Sean Grassie, Alli Nimik, Ross Derksen, Kendra Green

2010 Nova Scotia Mark Dacey, Heather Smith-Dacey, Andrew Gibson, Jill Mouzar

2011 Prince Edward Island Robert Campbell, Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Robbie Doherty, Jackie Reid

2012 Saskatchewan Jason Ackerman, Chantelle Eberle, Dean Hicke, Colleen Ackerman

2013 Ontario Cory Heggestad, Heather Graham, Greg Balsdon, Amy Mackay

2014 Alberta Darren Moulding, Heather Jensen, Brent Hamilton, Anna-Marie Moulding

2015 Saskatchewan Max Kirkpatrick, Jolene Campbell, Chris Haichert, Teejay Haichert

CURLING CANADA MIXED CHAMPIONS

2016 Alberta Mick Lizmore, Sarah Wilkes, Brad Thiessen, Alison Kotylak

2017 Northern Ontario Trevor Bonot, Jackie McCormick, Kory Carr, Megan Carr

2018 Ontario Mike Anderson, Danielle Inglis Sean Harrison, Lauren Harrison


2019 Manitoba Colin Kurz, Meghan Walter, Brendan Bilawka, Sara Oliver


CANADIAN MIXED CHAMPIONS (BY PROVINCE)

Alberta 11 (1965, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1990, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2016)

Saskatchewan 10 (1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1996, 2012, 2015)

Manitoba 9 (1964, 1966, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1988, 1991, 2009, 2019)

Nova Scotia 7 (1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2010)

British Columbia 4 (1972, 1976, 1982, 1985)

Northern Ontario 4 (1979, 1981, 1997, 2017)

Ontario 4 (1986, 2006, 2013, 2018)

Prince Edward Island 3 (1987, 1989, 2011)

New Brunswick 2 (1994, 2007)

Newfoundland and Labrador 1 (2005)

Québec 1 (2001)

SUMMARY OF PAST LOCATIONS (1964 - 2020)

ONTARIO 11

NORTHERN ONTARIO 8

MANITOBA 8

SASKATCHEWAN 6

ALBERTA 5

BRITISH COLUMBIA 5

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 3

QUEBEC 4

NOVA SCOTIA 3

NEW BRUNSWICK 2

NEWFOUNDLAND 1

YUKON 1

NUNAVUT 1


CANADIAN MIXED CHAMPIONSHIP SITES

1964 Ontario Toronto Royal Canadian Curling Club

1965 Ontario Toronto Royal Canadian Curling Club

1966 Northern Ontario Fort William Fort William Curling Club

1967 Quebec Quebec City Quebec Winter Club

1968 Manitoba St. Boniface Heather Curling Club

1969 Ontario Kitchener Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club

1970 British Columbia Vancouver Capilano Winter Club

1971 New Brunswick Saint John Riverside Country Club

1972 Northern Ontario Thunder Bay Thunder Bay Country Club

1973 Prince Edward Island Charlottetown Charlottetown Curling Club

1974 Manitoba Winnipeg St. Vital Curling Club

1975 Ontario Kitchener Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club

1976 Alberta Lethbridge Lethbridge Curling Club

1977 Nova Scotia Halifax Mayflower Curling Club

1978 Saskatchewan Saskatoon Nutana Curling Club

1979 British Columbia Prince George Prince George Golf and Curling Club

1980 Newfoundland St. John's St. John's Curling Club

1981 Manitoba Winnipeg The Wildewood Club

1982 Northern Ontario Timmins McIntyre Curling Club

1983 New Brunswick Saint John Thistle-St. Andrews Curling Club

1984 Saskatchewan Prince Albert Prince Albert Golf and Curling Club

1985 Ontario Toronto Bayview Country Club

1986 British Columbia Kamloops Kamloops Curling Club

1987 Prince Edward Island Summerside Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club

1988 Northern Ontario North Bay North Bay Granite Club

1989 Manitoba Brandon Keystone Centre

1990 Quebec Rimouski Rimouski Curling Club

1991 Northern Ontario Thunder Bay Fort William Gardens

1992 Alberta Grande Prairie Grande Prairie Curling Club

1993 Saskatchewan Swift Current Swift Current Curling Club

1994 Alberta Leduc Leduc Curling Club

1995 Ontario Sarnia Sarnia Golf and Curling Club

1996 Prince Edward Island Charlottetown Charlottetown Curling Club

1997 Saskatchewan Kindersley Kindersley Curling Club


1998 Ontario Owen Sound Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre

1999 British Columbia Victoria Victoria Curling Club

2000 Alberta Lethbridge Lethbridge Curling Club

2001 Saskatchewan Weyburn Weyburn Colosseum

2002 Nova Scotia Halifax Mayflower Curling Club

2003 British Columbia Abbotsford Abbotsford Recreation Centre

2004 Northern Ontario Schumacher (Timmins) McIntyre Curling Club

2005 Saskatchewan Prince Albert Prince Albert Golf & Curling Club

2006 Yukon Whitehorse Whitehorse Curling Club (Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre)

2007 Ontario Kitchener-Waterloo Westmount Golf & Country Club

2008 Alberta Calgary Calgary Curling Club

2009 Nunavut Iqaluit Arniatok Arena

2010 Ontario Burlington Burlington Golf & Country Club

2011 Manitoba Morris Morris Curling Club

2012 Northern Ontario Sudbury Sudbury Curling Club

2013 Quebec Mount Royal Town of Mount Royal Curling Club

2014 Ontario Ottawa Rideau Curling Club

2015 Northern Ontario North Bay North Bay Granite Club

2016 Ontario Toronto Weston Golf and Country Club

2017 Nova Scotia Yarmouth Mariners Centre

2018 Manitoba Swan River Swan River Curling Club

2019 Manitoba Winnipeg Fort Rouge Curling Club

2020 Quebec Saguenay Foyer des loisirs et de la culture


CURLING CANADA OFFICIALS

CURLING CANADA CHAIR, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

John Shea Ottawa, ON

DIRECTOR, CHAMPIONSHIP SERVICES AND CURLING CLUB DEVELOPMENT

Danny Lamoureux Ottawa, ON

EVENT MANAGER

Robyn Mattie Ottawa, ON

DIRECTOR, EVENT OPERATIONS

Gord McNabb Lethbridge, AB

DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATION & MEDIA RELATIONS

Al Cameron Kamloops, BC

MANAGER, COMMUNICATION & MEDIA RELATIONS

Kyle Jahns Winnipeg, MB

CHIEF UMPIRE

Irénée Gaudreau

HOST COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Véronique Bouchard and Jean-François Charest

Documents

2020 Mixed Guide-Formatted - Curling Canada · The Mixed – Media Guide 6 2020 CANADIAN MIXED CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP ROSTERS November 3-9, 2019 Foyer des loisirs et de la culture,