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| KW Granite Club | |
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| Location | 99 Seagram Dr Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| Information | |
| Established | 1927 |
| Club type | Dedicated Ice |
| Curling Canada region | CurlON Zone 12 |
| Sheets of ice | Six |
| Rock colours | Red and Yellow |
| Website | kwgranite |
The Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Curling Club (branded as the KW Granite Club) is a curling club on Seagram Drive in Waterloo, Ontario.
The club was formed in 1927 as the Granite Club by the Athletic Association of Kitchener and Waterloo (AAKW), which was briefly called the Kitchener Curling Club. The club played on a five-sheet rink at 69 Agnes Street in Kitchener. The AAKW had been formed by members of the clubs located at the corners of Erb and Regina streets in Waterloo and Gaukel Street in Kitchener (previously Berlin). Curling had been played at those clubs since the 1880s. The club adopted the name "Granite Club" to appeal to more than just curling. Artificial ice was added in 1928.
In 1928, the Kitchener Tennis Club built five courts next to the club, and in 1931 the K-W Badminton Club added an addition. From 1941 to 1948 the K-W Skating Club also called the Granite home, until moving to the Waterloo Memorial Arena. Also in 1948, a Ladies section was added to the club.
On May 8, 1955 a fire caused by careless children destroyed half the building, gutting the badminton club and some of the curling facilities. Damages totalled at $200,000. The club rebuilt and remained on Agnes Street until moving to its present location Waterloo in 2003. The badminton club remained on Agnes Street. [1] The current Waterloo Park site of the Granite Club previously housed the K-W Skating Club before it relocated to RIM Park. [2] Called the "Rink in the Park", the Granite Club officially opened the building to the public on September 30, 2003, in time for the annual curling season. [3]
The club has hosted the 1980 World Junior Curling Championships, the 1969 and 1975 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship and the 2004 M&M Meat Shops Skins Game. [4] The club also hosts the annual KW Fall Classic World Curling Tour event. [5]
| Year | Event | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Record at Nationals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Toronto Bonspiel [6] | R. G. Hall | L. L. Cooke | Perry G. Hall | J. B. English | 5-4 (3rd) |
| 1937 | British Consols [7] | Albert Dunker | Irwin Huntington | Arthur Lehnen | Fred Hasenflug | 2-7 (T7th) |
| 1938 | British Consols | Bert Hall | Percy Hall | Ernie Parkes | Campbell Seagram | 4-5 (T5th) |
| 1939 | British Consols | Bert Hall | Percy Hall | Ernie Parkes | Campbell Seagram | 9-1 (1st) |
| 1940 | British Consols | Bert Hall | Percy Hall | Ernie Parkes | Campbell Seagram | 4-5 (T5th) |
| 1941 | British Consols | Percy Hall | Jack Lucas | Arthur Lehnen | William Henderson Jr. | 7-2 (2nd) |
| 1944 | British Consols | Percy Hall | Bert Hall | Arthur Lehnen | William Henderson Jr. | Cancelled due to World War II |
| 1944 | Men's Colts [8] | Carl Asmussen | ||||
| 1945 | British Consols | Percy Hall | Bert Hall | Arthur Lehnen | William Henderson Jr. | Cancelled due to World War II |
| 1946 | British Consols | Percy Hall | Bert Hall | Arthur Lehnen | William Henderson Jr. | 5-4 (T5th) |
| 1948 | Men's Colts | |||||
| 1950 | British Consols | Carl Asmussen | Larry Shantz | Cully Schmidt | Ed Schultz | 5-4 (T4th) |
| 1957 | Women's [9] | Edna Teskey | Jean Beardsley | Veryl Finlay | Anne Trussler | N/A |
| 1963 | Women's Trophy | Mary Gray | Jean Price | Arlene Steep | Myrtle Shuh | N/A |
| 1967 | Men's Senior Championship [10] | Carl Asmussen | Hal Frye | Bill Clarke | Doug Smith | ? |
| 1982 | Women's Trophy | Sue Laurin | Laura Davis-Cook | Gladys O'Hara | Lynda Collins | N/A |
| 1986 | Women's Trophy | Laura Davis-Cook | Gladys O'Hara | Lynda MacRae | Janet Wall | N/A |
| 1997 | Men's Senior Championship | Bob Turcotte | Roy Weigand | Bob Lichti | Steve McDermot | 12-0 (1st) |
| 2000 | Men's Colts | Ron Mooibroek | David Lynn | Dean Palmer | Travis Gambe | N/A |
| 2001 | Men's Colts | Ean MacDonald | Steve Southern | Gerry Lamont | Rob Graham | N/A |
| 2004 | Women's Masters [11] | Wendy Simpson | Ilse Hoffman | Lorna Allen | Glad O'Hara | ? |
| 2007 | Women's Juniors [12] | Hollie Nicol | Laura Hickey | Karen Sagle | Hilary McDermott | 7-5 (T5th) |
| 2009 | Men's Juniors [13] | Bowie Abbis-Mills | Scott McGregor | Scott Hindle | Terry Arnold | 5-5 (T6th) |
| 2009 | Junior Mixed [14] | Mark Kean | Jaclyn Rivington | Andrew Inouye | Darrelle Johnson | N/A |
| 2010 | 4 Person Stick [15] | Ed Ferguson | Bryan Hawkins | Ian Anderson | David Cain | N/A |
| 2011 | Women's Juniors | Clancy Grandy | Sarah Wilkes | Laura Crocker | Lynn Kreviazuk | 5-7 (9th) |
| 2013 | Men's Colts | Richard Krell | Shane Konings | Spencer Nuttall | John Gabel | N/A |
| 2013 | Men's Curling Club Championships [16] | Brent Gray | Brian Gray | Anthony Silvestro | Richard Krell | 3-3 (T6th) |
| 2014 | Women's Juniors | Molly Greenwood | Amy Heitzner | Carly Van Daele | Emma Malfara | 7-3 (4th) |
| 2014 | Men's Senior Championship | Peter Mellor | Jeff Thomson | Rob Saunders | Steve Foster | 5-6 (T5th) |
| 2017 | Mixed Doubles [17] | Nicole Westlund Stewart | Tyler Stewart | 1-6 (T26th) | ||
| 2018 | U21 Mixed Doubles | Matthew Hall | Riley Sandham | N/A | ||
| 2019 | Men's Curling Club Championship | Paul Moffatt | Ben Shane | John Gabel | Kyle Forster | 9-1 (1st) |
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