Nutana Curling Club

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

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]

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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

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

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

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

Nutana hosted the 2024 SaskTel Tankard. The event was won by Mike McEwen's Nutana rink. Nutana '24 Tankard.jpg
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. Nutana CC.jpg
Ice sheets at Nutana Curling Club.

List of champions

Major titles by Nutana rinks
YearEventSkipThirdSecondLeadNationals record
2024 SaskTel Tankard Mike McEwen Colton Flasch Kevin Marsh Dan Marsh 10–3
2024 Viterra Tournament of Hearts Skylar Ackerman Ashley ThevenotTaylor StremickKaylin Skinner4–4
2023 World Senior Curling Championship Sherry Anderson Patty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle9–3
2022 Canadian Senior Curling Championship
2022 SaskTel TankardColton Flasch Catlin Schneider Kevin MarshDan Marsh8–4
2021 Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipSherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle10–2
2019 SaskTel Tankard Kirk Muyres Kevin MarshDan Marsh Dallan Muyres 5–6
2019Canadian Senior Curling Championship
World Senior Curling Championship		Sherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle8–0
2019 Canadian Senior Curling Championship Bruce Korte Darrell McKee Kory KohuchRory Golanowski8–0
2018 SaskTel Tankard Steve Laycock Matt Dunstone [lower-alpha 1] Kirk MuyresDallan Muyres6–5
2018 Viterra Tournament of HeartsSherry AndersonKourtney FesserKrista FesserKarlee Korchinksi2–5
2018Canadian Senior Curling Championship
World Senior Curling Championship		Sherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle10–2
2017 Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipSherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle6–3
2016 SaskTel TankardSteve LaycockKirk MuyresColton FlaschDallan Muyres5–6
2015 SaskTel TankardSteve LaycockKirk MuyresColton FlaschDallan Muyres8–5
2015 Viterra Tournament of Hearts Stefanie Lawton Sherry Anderson Sherri Singler Marliese Kasner 9–5
2014 SaskTel TankardSteve LaycockKirk MuyresColton FlaschDallan Muyres6–5
2014 Scotties Tournament of HeartsStefanie LawtonSherry AndersonSherri Singler Marliese Kasner 8–5
2014 Canadian Masters Curling Championship Eugene Hritzuk Jim Wilson Verne AndersonDave Folk11–1
2014 Canadian Curling Club Championship Kory KohuchMark AdamsWes LangDavid Schmirler7–1
2010 SaskTel Tankard Darrell McKee Bruce Korte Roger Korte Rob Marksowsky4–7
2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championship Trish PaulsenKari KennedyKari PaulsenNatalie Yanko11–3
2009 World Senior Curling ChampionshipEugene HritzukKevin KalthoffVerne AndersonDave Folk11–2
2008 Canadian Senior Curling Championship
2003Canadian Junior Curling Championship
World Junior Curling Championship 		Marliese Miller Tejay SurikJanelle Lemon Chelsey Bell 12–2
2000 Canadian Junior Curling Championship Stefanie Miller Marliese MillerStacy HelmAmanda MacDonald11–3
1988Labatt TankardEugene HritzukDel ShaughnessyMurray SoparloDon Dabrowski9–4
1985Labatt TankardEugene HritzukBob MillerNick PaulsenArt Paulsen8–6
1985Scott Tournament of Hearts Sheila Rowan Jean MacLeanMaureen BurkittEileen Wilson3–7
1983 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Rick Folk Dorenda Schoenhals Tom Wilson Elizabeth Folk12–1
1983Scott Tournament of HeartsSheila RowanJean MacLeanJudy SeftonLil Martin4–6
1980Labatt Tankard
Labatt Brier
Air Canada Silver Broom 		Rick Folk Ron Mills Tom Wilson Jim Wilson 10–2
1979Macdonald TankardRick FolkRod ThompsonTom WilsonJim Wilson8–3
1978Macdonald TankardRick FolkRod ThompsonTom WilsonRoger Schmidt8–3
1974Canadian Mixed Curling ChampionshipRick FolkCheryl StirtonTom WilsonBonnie Orchard10–1
1974Saskatchewan Lassie
Macdonald Lassies Championship 		Emily Farnham Linda SaundersPat McBeathDonna Collins9–0
1970Provincial Women's Curling Championship
Canadian Ladies Curling Association Championship 		Dorenda Schoenhals Cheryl StirtonLinda BurnhamJoan Anderson8–2
1952Provincial Ladies Curling ChampionshipMaybell SpoonerEileen SexsmithPhillis BarclayMerle Dertell—
1946Macdonald TankardDalt HendersonJack BrowerCliff AnnableMonty Burns5–4
1935Macdonald TankardJimmy BlackFrank GermaineSid PeatReg Fraser4–3
1934Macdonald TankardCharles AndersonR. B. McLeodEdward RobertsonPat McNeill4–3

Notes

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

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