University and college curling
With the inclusion of curling into many FISU Universiades many countries have had to hold national championships to determine a representative.
International University Sports Federation (FISU)
Year | Men's Gold | Men's Silver | Men's Bronze | Women's Gold | Women's Silver | Women's Bronze |
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2003 Winter Universiade | Canada | Czech Republic | Great Britain | Canada | Germany | Japan |
2007 Winter Universiade | United States | Great Britain | Sweden | Canada | Russia | Japan |
2009 Winter Universiade | Sweden | Norway | China | China | Canada | Russia |
2007 Winter Universiade Participating teams[1] Curling at the 2007 Winter Universiade
FISU University Winter Games (Universiade) will be held in 2009 in Harbin, China. (2009 Winter Universiade)
Canada
In Canada, University curling is played in a variety of levels. The CIS has sanctioned the University Curling Championships since 2008 [2]. The winners of the event will represent Canada at the FISU Universiades (in even years) and at the Karizawa Spiel (odd years).
Canadian Interuniversity Sport
2011 CIS Curling Championship
The 2011 CIS / CCA Curling Championship has been awarded to the Memorial University of Newfoundland. It will be contested in St. John's, NL.
2010 CIS Curling Championship
In 2010, the CIS Nationals were staged at the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. The men's title was won by the surprise of the tournament, the Queen's Gaels skipped by Jon Beuk. In the final the Gaels defeated the UPEI Panthers, skipped by former Canadian junior champion and world junior silver medalist, Brett Gallant. In the women's final, the Regina Cougars took the title when skip Brooklyn Lemon drew the pin in an extra to defeat the St. Mary's Huskies. This was the second consecutive runner up finish for SMU skip Marie Christianson. With their wins Queen's and Regina will represent Canada at the 2011 FISU Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey.
Men's Results:
Men's Pool A | W | L |
---|---|---|
Queen's Gaels | 5 | 1 |
Western Mustangs | 4 | 2 |
Alberta Golden Bears | 4 | 2 |
UPEI Panthers | 4 | 2 |
McGill Redmen | 2 | 4 |
Victoria Vikes | 2 | 4 |
Saint Mary's Huskies | 0 | 6 |
Men's Pool B | W | L |
---|---|---|
Dalhouse Tigers | 5 | 1 |
Manitoba Bisons | 5 | 1 |
Toronto Blues | 4 | 2 |
Regina Cougars | 3 | 3 |
Memorial SeaHawks | 2 | 4 |
Laurier Golden Hawks | 2 | 4 |
Calgary Dinos | 0 | 6 |
Tiebreaker 1: UPEI over Alberta
Tiebreaker 2: UPEI over Western
Semifinals: Queen's over Manitoba & UPEI over Dalhousie
Final: Queen's over UPEI
Queen's Gaels Skip - Jonathan Beuk Third - Andrew Inouye Second - Chadd Vandermade Lead - Scott Chadwick Coach - Dick Henderson
Women's Results:
Women's Pool A | W | L |
---|---|---|
Laurier Golden Hawks | 4 | 1 |
Waterloo Warriors | 4 | 1 |
Alberta Pandas | 4 | 1 |
Concordia Stingers | 2 | 3 |
Dalhousie Tigers | 1 | 4 |
PEI Panthers | 0 | 5 |
Women's Pool B | W | L |
---|---|---|
St. Mary's Huskies | 4 | 1 |
Regina Cougars | 4 | 1 |
Brock Badgers | 3 | 2 |
Western Mustangs | 2 | 3 |
Manitoba Bisons | 1 | 4 |
Calgary Dinos | 1 | 4 |
Tiebreaker: Waterloo over Alberta
Semifinals: St. Mary's over Waterloo & Regina over Laurier
Final: Regina over St. Mary's (EE)
Regina Cougars Skip- Brooklyn Lemon Third - Chelsey Peterson Second - Ashley Green Lead - Nicole Lang Fifth - Sarah Watamanuk Coach - Jackie Downer
2009 CIS Curling Championship
The 2009 edition of the CIS nationals was held in Montreal, Quebec.[3] The event was played March 25 - 29, 2009 at the Royal Montreal Curling Club and Montreal West Curling Club. 12 men's and women's team were expected to participate. One rep from each province plus 2 additional teams from Ontario.
The Universiades are only held every 2 years, so this years winner will represent Canada at the 2010 Karuizawa Invitational in Japan.
2008 CIS Curling Championship
CIS and the CCA combined to host the first national curling championship hosted by U of Waterloo. It was held from March 12 to 16, 2008 at the Guelph Curling Club and Elora Curling Club. http://universitysport.ca/e/championships/curling/2008/index.cfm
In the inaugural event the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks took both the men's and women's titles.
In men's play the top teams after pool play were:
Men's Pool A | W | L |
---|---|---|
Laurier | 5 | 1 |
Guelph | 4 | 2 |
Calgary | 4 | 2 |
McGill | 3 | 3 |
Victoria | 1 | 5 |
Saint Mary's | 0 | 6 |
Men's Pool B | W | L |
---|---|---|
Brock | 5 | 1 |
Queen's | 5 | 1 |
Alberta | 3 | 3 |
Western | 3 | 3 |
Manitoba | 2 | 4 |
St Francis Xavier | 1 | 5 |
Men's Pool C | W | L |
---|---|---|
Lakehead | 6 | 0 |
Memorial | 4 | 2 |
Regina | 3 | 3 |
Waterloo | 2 | 4 |
Lethbridge | 2 | 4 |
Laurentian | 2 | 4 |
Brandon | 2 | 4 |
Tie-Breakers | Tie-Breakers | ||||||||
1 | Regina | 10 | |||||||
4 | McGill | 4 | |||||||
Regina | 6 | ||||||||
Western | 4 | ||||||||
3 | Western | 9 | |||||||
2 | Alberta | 4 |
Quarter-final | Semi-final | Final | ||||||||||||
1 | Lakehead | 4 | ||||||||||||
8 | Regina | 9 | ||||||||||||
8 | Regina | 5 | ||||||||||||
5 | Calagary | 7 | ||||||||||||
4 | Queen's | 4 | ||||||||||||
5 | Calgary | 6 | ||||||||||||
5 | Calgary | 4 | ||||||||||||
3 | Laurier | 9 | ||||||||||||
3 | Laurier | 8 | ||||||||||||
6 | Guelph | 3 | ||||||||||||
3 | Laurier | 10 | ||||||||||||
2 | Brock | 2 | ||||||||||||
2 | Brock | 9 | ||||||||||||
7 | Memorial | 4 |
Sheet Guelph-6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Calgary (Thomas) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
Laurier (Anderson) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | X | 9 |
In women's play the top teams after pool play were:
In the end the Golden Hawks swept to victory in both division. Especially impressive were the female Hawks who started out 0-3 and then won 7 in a row to claim victory.
Sheet Guelph-4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Laurier (Nicol) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
Manitoba (Strath) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
2007 Championships
2006 Championships
Although this event was not fully sanctioned by the CIS or CCA, the winners still went on to represent Canada at the 2007 Winter Universiade. [4] Men's champs were the Saskatchewan Huskies and the women were from the Calgary Dinos. The women's team went on to win Gold.
Ontario University Athletics
Currently, the only conference with a curling championship is the OUA. Other member schools can apply directly to get to the national tournament. The OUA[5] offers curling championships in Men's and Women's divisions.
2009 Teams:
- Brock
- Laurentian
- Laurier
- Queen's
- Toronto
- Trent
- Waterloo
- Western
- Windsor
Canadian Colleges Athletics Association
The CCAA does not have a national championship, however 2 of their member conferences do.
Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference
- Augustana Faculty University of Alberta
- Concordia University College of Alberta
- Grand Prairie Regional College
- Lakeland College
- MacEwan College
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)
- Olds College
- Portage College
- Red Deer College
Ontario Colleges Athletic Association
- Algonquin College
- Confederation College
- Mohawk College
- Niagara College
- Seneca College
- Sir Sanford Flemming College
- Sir Sanford Flemming College (Lindsay)
- St. Clair College
United States of America
Curling in the US is governed by College Curling USA.
References
- ^ universiadetorino2007.org
- ^ Canadian Curling Association
- ^ "Canadian University Championship to Montreal". CurlTV.com. 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ "2007 Winter Universiade - Canadian curling a family affair at University Games". Canadian Interuniversity Sport. 2007-01-22. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ Ontario University Athletics