Sandra Marie Schmirler was a Canadian curler who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler also skipped (captained) her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year women's curling was a medal sport. At tournaments where she was not competing, Schmirler sometimes worked as a commentator for CBC Sports, which popularized her nickname "Schmirler the Curler" and claimed she was the only person who had a name that rhymed with the sport she played. She died in 2000 at 36 of cancer, leaving a legacy that extended outside of curling. Schmirler was honoured posthumously with an induction into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and was awarded the World Curling Freytag Award, which later led to her induction into the World Curling Federation Hall of Fame.
The Canadian Under-21 Curling Championships, more commonly known as the Canadian Junior Curling Championships, is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best Under-21 curling team in Canada. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 21 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament.
The Players' Championship, currently known as the Princess Auto Players' Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the final event of the Grand Slam of Curling tour, and is formerly the championship of the World Curling Tour season.
Michelle Englot ; is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan. She currently skips her own team out of Regina. She is a nine-time provincial champion skip.
Benjamin "Ben" Hebert is a Canadian curler, a Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medallist, 2008 World Champion and four time Brier Champion from Chestermere, Alberta. He currently plays lead on Team Brad Jacobs.
Richard Dale “Rick” Folk is a Canadian curler and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, where he represented the Progressive Conservative Party for one term from 1982 until 1986. He is a two-time world curling champion, representing Canada. When curling in Canada, Folk represented both Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
The Kamloops Crown of Curling is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, held in October at the Kamloops Curling Club in Kamloops. The purse for the event is CAD $15,000 for the men's event and $11,000 for the women's event.
The Viterra Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the annual Saskatchewan provincial women's curling championship. The winning team represents Saskatchewan at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the national women's championship. The bonspiel is organized by CURLSASK, the provincial curling association.
J. Ragnar Kamp is a Swedish-American curler and World Champion. He won a gold medal at the 1977 World Curling Championships for Sweden. After winning the Worlds, Kamp threatened to move to Canada, complaining of Sweden's 'high taxes' and 'negative outlook'. After the 1980 World Championships, Kamp did move to Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, and won two provincial championships, in 1984 and in 1989. He then moved to Ellsworth, Maine where he played in five U.S. national championships.
Gerald Chick is a Canadian-Australian curler and curling coach. He is originally from Winnipeg. As of 1996, he was living in Melbourne. He moved to Australia in 1990, and joined the Australian team as their coach, until he was eligible to curl for the country in 1992.
Giuseppe Dal Molin is an Italian curler.
Bill "Billy" Shipstad is an American curler.
Urs Studer is a Swiss curler.
Jürg Studer is a Swiss curler.
Jerry van Brunt Jr. is an American curler.
Arthur John McNelly was an American curler and curling coach.
Bruno Binggeli is a Swiss curler.
Daniel Wyser is a Swiss curler.
Andrew McQuistin is a Scottish curler, originally from Stranraer.
Robert A. Cowan is a Scottish curler, journalist, curling historian, blogger.
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