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| Curling club | Nutana CC, Saskatoon, SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member Association |  Saskatchewan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brier appearances | 3: (1978, 1979, 1980) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 1 (1980) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas R. Wilson is a Canadian curler. He is a 1980 World Men's champion and a 1980 Brier champion.
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977–78 | Rick Folk | Bob Thompson | Tom Wilson | Rodger Schmidt | Brier 1978  |
| 1978–79 | Rick Folk | Bob Thompson | Tom Wilson | Jim Wilson | Brier 1979 |
| 1979–80 | Rick Folk | Ron Mills | Tom Wilson | Jim Wilson | Brier 1980  WCC 1980 |
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Rick Folk | Cheryl Stirton | Tom Wilson | Bonnie Orchard | CMxCC 1974 |
| 1975 | Rick Folk | Dorenda Schoenhals | Tom Wilson | Bonnie Orchard | CMxCC 1975 (?th) [4] |
| 1981 | Rick Folk | Dorenda Schoenhals | Tom Wilson | Elizabeth Folk | CMxCC 1981 |
| 1982 | Rick Folk | Dorenda Schoenhals | Tom Wilson | Elizabeth Folk | CMxCC 1982 |
| 1983 | Rick Folk | Dorenda Schoenhals | Tom Wilson | Elizabeth Folk | CMxCC 1983 |
His brother Jim is a curler too and Tom's teammate.
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.
Russell W. "Russ" Howard, CM, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Regina, Saskatchewan, but originally from Midland, Ontario. He lived in Moncton, New Brunswick, from 2000 to 2019. Known for his gravelly voice, Howard has been to the Brier 14 times, winning the title twice. He is also a two-time world champion, winning in 1987 and 1993. He has also won three TSN Skins Games in 1991, 1992, and 1993, and participated in two Canadian Mixed Curling Championships in 2000 and 2001. He won gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He played in two Canadian Senior Curling Championships in 2008 and 2009 finishing with a silver medal both of those years. Russ Howard was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2011. He is currently a curling analyst and commentator for TSN’s Season of Champions curling coverage.
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