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Nutana Curling Club

The Nutana Curling Club is a curling club located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Established in 1929 and first opening its doors in 1930, the club was originally located in the city's historic Nutana neighbourhood. The club relocated to the south-central Nutana Suburban Centre neighbourhood in 1966. Once one of six curling clubs in Saskatoon, Nutana is one of three clubs still operating along with the Sutherland Curling Club and the CN Curling Club.[1][2]

Nutana Curling Club
Location2002 Arlington Avenue
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7J 2H5
Information
Established1929
Founder(s)Joint Stock Company
Club typeDedicated Ice
Curling Canada regionSCA Saskatoon Region
Sheets of iceEight
Rock coloursRed and yellow   
Websitehttp://www.nutanacurlingclub.ca/

Nutana has been home to sixteen provincial men's champions—one of which, the Rick Folk rink, went on to win national and world titles—and nine provincial and two national women's champions.

History edit

The Nutana Curling Club was organized in 1929 at the Nutana Collegiate Institute. The club first opened on 1 January, 1930 at the corner of Dufferin Avenue and Main Street in the Nutana neighbourhood. In 1966, it moved to its current location at the corner of Arlington Avenue and Taylor Street in Nutana Suburban Centre.[3]

Major events edit

The club has hosted a number of annual and national events in its history. It hosts the annual Colonial Square Ladies Classic, one of the women's events on the World Curling Tour and a former Grand Slam of Curling event.[4] It also hosts the annual College Clean Restoration Curling Classic on the men's World Curling Tour.[5] Nutana hosted the 1993 TSN Skins Game and the 1999 Canadian Senior Curling Championships. In 2009 and 2019, it hosted the Canadian Masters Curling Championships.[6] In 2022, Nutana began hosting a new cashspiel event geared towards under-30 teams, called the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship.[7] The event was conceived as a way to offer young curlers more opportunities to transition from junior curling and to compete late in the season.[8]

Prairie Lily Curling League edit

In 2014, the club began hosting the Prairie Lily Curling League, the province's first LGBT curling league.[9] The league grew from seven teams in 2014 to eighteen by 2020, and teams from the league took first and second place at the 2017 Canadian Pride Curling Championships in Montreal.[10][11] Nutana hosted the championship in 2022, with the club's Dustin Anderson rink winning the event.[12][13]

Champions edit

 
Nutana hosted the 2024 SaskTel Tankard. The event was won by Mike McEwen's Nutana rink.

Nutana has been the home of sixteen men's provincial champions, including eight since 2010. Charles Anderson's team was the first, winning the Macdonald Tankard in 1934. The Rick Folk rink won three consecutive Tankards from 1978 to 1980, and in 1980 went on to win the Labatt Brier and the Air Canada Silver Broom—the men's world championship.[14][15] Steve Laycock has won seven Tankards, including five as skip and four out of Nutana.[16] The most recent provincial champion from Nutana is the Mike McEwen rink, which won the 2024 SaskTel Tankard, which was also hosted by Nutana.[15][17] 2024 marked the fifth time that Nutana teams won both the men's and women's provincial titles in the same year, with the Skylar Ackerman rink winning the 2024 Viterra Scotties.[18] The first time this happened was in 1985, when Sheila Rowan's rink won their second provincial Scotties and Eugene Hritzuk's rink won their first of two Tankards. Maybell Spooner was the first women's rink from Nutana to win the provincial title, in 1952. Dorenda Schoenhals and Emily Farnham's national titles in 1970 and 1974 were part of a run of six straight national champions from the province—all of them predated the establishment of the women's world championships in 1979.[19][20]

The club has also seen success at the junior and senior levels. Three Nutana rinks have secured Canadian women's junior championships, including Marliese Miller's rink in 2003 that went on to win the World Junior Curling Championship, the first team to do so with a perfect record.[21] With Laycock's junior team out of Sutherland also winning gold, 2003 marked the first time that men's and women's junior teams from the same country, let alone the same city, won the world title.[22] Former Tankard champion Hritzuk secured Canadian and World Seniors titles in 2008 and 2009, and won a Canadian Masters Championship in 2014.[6][23] Sherry Anderson won an unprecedented five consecutive Canadian Seniors titles between 2017 and 2022, winning a record three World Seniors titles along the way, most recently in 2023.[24]

Rick Folk also skipped rinks that regularly contended at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, winning the national title in 1974 and 1983, while finishing as runner-up in 1981 and 1982.[25][26] Bruce Korte's mixed rink was runner-up at the 2016 national championships.[27]

Nutana's Kory Kohuch rink won the men's Canadian Curling Club Championship in 2014; Kohuch's team also won silver at the 2016 Championship and participated for a third time in 2018.[28][29]

 
Ice sheets at Nutana Curling Club.

List of champions edit

Major titles by Nutana rinks
Year Event Skip Third Second Lead Nationals record
2024 SaskTel Tankard Mike McEwen Colton Flasch Kevin Marsh Dan Marsh 10–3
2024 Viterra Tournament of Hearts Skylar Ackerman Ashley Thevenot Taylor Stremick Kaylin Skinner 4–4
2023 World Senior Curling Championship Sherry Anderson Patty Hersikorn Brenda Goertzen Anita Silvernagle 9–3
2022 Canadian Senior Curling Championship
2022 SaskTel Tankard Colton Flasch Catlin Schneider Kevin Marsh Dan Marsh 8–4
2021 Canadian Senior Curling Championship Sherry Anderson Patty Hersikorn Brenda Goertzen Anita Silvernagle 10–2
2019 SaskTel Tankard Kirk Muyres Kevin Marsh Dan Marsh Dallan Muyres 5–6
2019 Canadian Senior Curling Championship
World Senior Curling Championship 		Sherry Anderson Patty Hersikorn Brenda Goertzen Anita Silvernagle 8–0
2019 Canadian Senior Curling Championship Bruce Korte Darrell McKee Kory Kohuch Rory Golanowski 8–0
2018 SaskTel Tankard Steve Laycock Matt Dunstone[a] Kirk Muyres Dallan Muyres 6–5
2018 Viterra Tournament of Hearts Sherry Anderson Kourtney Fesser Krista Fesser Karlee Korchinksi 2–5
2018 Canadian Senior Curling Championship
World Senior Curling Championship 		Sherry Anderson Patty Hersikorn Brenda Goertzen Anita Silvernagle 10–2
2017 Canadian Senior Curling Championship Sherry Anderson Patty Hersikorn Brenda Goertzen Anita Silvernagle 6–3
2016 SaskTel Tankard Steve Laycock Kirk Muyres Colton Flasch Dallan Muyres 5–6
2015 SaskTel Tankard Steve Laycock Kirk Muyres Colton Flasch Dallan Muyres 8–5
2015 Viterra Tournament of Hearts Stefanie Lawton Sherry Anderson Sherri Singler Marliese Kasner 9–5
2014 SaskTel Tankard Steve Laycock Kirk Muyres Colton Flasch Dallan Muyres 6–5
2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Stefanie Lawton Sherry Anderson Sherri Singler Marliese Kasner 8–5
2014 Canadian Masters Curling Championship Eugene Hritzuk Jim Wilson Verne Anderson Dave Folk 11–1
2014 Canadian Curling Club Championship Kory Kohuch Mark Adams Wes Lang David Schmirler 7–1
2010 SaskTel Tankard Darrell McKee Bruce Korte Roger Korte Rob Marksowsky 4–7
2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championship Trish Paulsen Kari Kennedy Kari Paulsen Natalie Yanko 11–3
2009 World Senior Curling Championship Eugene Hritzuk Kevin Kalthoff Verne Anderson Dave Folk 11–2
2008 Canadian Senior Curling Championship
2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championship
World Junior Curling Championship 		Marliese Miller Tejay Surik Janelle Lemon Chelsey Bell 12–2
2000 Canadian Junior Curling Championship Stefanie Miller Marliese Miller Stacy Helm Amanda MacDonald 11–3
1988 Labatt Tankard Eugene Hritzuk Del Shaughnessy Murray Soparlo Don Dabrowski 9–4
1985 Labatt Tankard Eugene Hritzuk Bob Miller Nick Paulsen Art Paulsen 8–6
1985 Scott Tournament of Hearts Sheila Rowan Jean MacLean Maureen Burkitt Eileen Wilson 3–7
1983 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Rick Folk Dorenda Schoenhals Tom Wilson Elizabeth Folk 12–1
1983 Scott Tournament of Hearts Sheila Rowan Jean MacLean Judy Sefton Lil Martin 4–6
1980 Labatt Tankard
Labatt Brier
Air Canada Silver Broom 		Rick Folk Ron Mills Tom Wilson Jim Wilson 10–2
1979 Macdonald Tankard Rick Folk Rod Thompson Tom Wilson Jim Wilson 8–3
1978 Macdonald Tankard Rick Folk Rod Thompson Tom Wilson Roger Schmidt 8–3
1974 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Rick Folk Cheryl Stirton Tom Wilson Bonnie Orchard 10–1
1974 Saskatchewan Lassie
Macdonald Lassies Championship 		Emily Farnham Linda Saunders Pat McBeath Donna Collins 9–0
1970 Provincial Women's Curling Championship
Canadian Ladies Curling Association Championship 		Dorenda Schoenhals Cheryl Stirton Linda Burnham Joan Anderson 8–2
1952 Provincial Ladies Curling Championship Maybell Spooner Eileen Sexsmith Phillis Barclay Merle Dertell —
1946 Macdonald Tankard Dalt Henderson Jack Brower Cliff Annable Monty Burns 5–4
1935 Macdonald Tankard Jimmy Black Frank Germaine Sid Peat Reg Fraser 4–3
1934 Macdonald Tankard Charles Anderson R. B. McLeod Edward Robertson Pat McNeill 4–3

Notes edit

  1. ^ Dunstone threw fourth stones, with Laycock skipping.[16]

See also edit

References edit

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