CALGARY, November 6, 2007…The 45th edition of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship gets underway this Saturday at the Calgary Curling Club.
Twelve teams, representing the 10 provinces plus Northern Ontario and Yukon/Northwest Territories, will compete in the round robin, after which the first place team advances directly to the final on Friday, November 16, while the second and third place teams meet in a semi-final to determine the other finalist.
In addition to winning the Canadian championship, two players from the winning team will also represent Canada at the inaugural World Mixed Doubles Championship, March 9-15, 2008 in Vierumäki, Finland.
This is the first time that Calgary has hosted the Mixed, which began in 1964 in Toronto. However, the Calgary Curling Club has staged two other Canadian championships in recent years, the 2001 Canadian Seniors and 1998 Canadian Juniors. And, of course, the city successfully hosted the 1997 and 2002 Canadian men’s curling championships and will stage the Tim Hortons Brier, once again, in 2009.
Among the competing skips are British Columbia’s Bryan Miki, who won the 2000 Canadian and Ford world men’s curling championship as second for Greg McAulay; Ontario’s Bob Turcotte, a three-time (1996, 1997 and 2000) Canadian Senior champion, former provincial junior champions Reid Carruthers of Manitoba and Prince Edward Island’s Kyle Stevenson and Northern Ontario’s Mike Assad, who has previously competed in a Canadian Juniors, Brier and Canadian Mixed.
Alberta and Saskatchewan lead all provinces with eight Mixed titles each. Alberta’s last win came in 2004 in Schumacher, Ontario by Calgary’s Shannon Kleibrink, who also became the first female skip to win the Canadian championship.
Last year in Kitchener, the Mixed was captured by New Brunswick’s Terry Odishaw. The last time the Mixed was held in Alberta was in 2000 in Lethbridge, when it was won by the host province’s Kevin Koe. Alberta third Susan O’Connor was also a member of that championship team.
Draw results will be available immediately at www.curling.ca or www.seasonofchampions.ca. CurlTV (curltv.com) will also be providing daily coverage to its subscribers.
2008 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
November 10-16, 2007
Calgary Curling Club
Calgary, Alberta
(Teams listed in order of skip, third, second and lead)
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
New Brunswick – Capital Winter Club, Fredericton
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
Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown
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
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