Darren Zary
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Canada’s curling future will be on display in Saskatoon for the next week at the Nutana Curling Club.
The Canadian under-18 male and female curling championships are both running in Saskatoon, starting Sunday and wrapping up next Saturday, when national champions will be declared.
The host city and Saskatoon high schools will be represented by the Saskatchewan Team 2 girls’ team, consisting of skip Renee Wood from the Bedford Road mixed open A team, vice-skip Edie Jardine from the Holy Cross girls A team, Amelia Whiting from the Centennial mixed open A squad and lead Winnie Morin, along with alternate Amy Fradette and coach Dwayne Yachiw.
The other Saskatchewan team, from the Moose Jaw Curling Centre, consists of sip Kaylee Hogeboom, vice-skip Payton Fisher, second Abby Hogeboom and lead Callista McQueen, along with alternate Kelsey McQueen and coach Barb Owens.
On the male side, Saskatchewan Team 1, out of the Esterhazy Curling Club, includes skip Brandon Weiss, vice-skip Josh Lussier, second Carter Nelson, lead Elijah Chomos and alternate Tyler Derksen, as well as coach Mark Weiss.
Saskatchewan Team 2 is skipped by Dayne Heisler, with vice-skip Blake Montgomery, second, Riley Cushway, lead Laine Burnham and coach Rod Montgomery
Overall, the event is attracting 42 teams — 21 male, 21 female — from across Canada.
On the female side are two teams each from:
— Alberta (Skip Alena Yurko and her North Hill Curling Club/Crestwood Curling Club team from Calgary and Edmonton; Skip Abby Desormeau and her Beaumont Curling Club team from Red Deer)
— British Columbia (Skip Ava Arndt and her team from the Vernon Curling Club and Kamloops Curling Club; Skip Megan Rempel and her team from the Kelowna Curling Club and Penticton Curling Club)
— Manitoba (Skip Caitlyn McPherson and her Gimli Curling Club team; Skip Karys Buchalter and her West St. Paul Curling Club team)
— Newfoundland/Labrador (Skip Cailey Locke and her St. John’s Curling Club team; Skip Kyla Walsh and her St. John’s Curling Club team)
— Nova Scotia (Skip Cassidy Blades and her Halifax Curling Club team; Skip Olivia Gouthro and her Truro Curling Club team)
— Ontario (Skip Katrina Frlan and her Huntley Curling Club squad from Carp; Skip Charlotte Wilson and her Rideau Curling Club team from Ottawa)
— and Quebec (Skip Anais Morissette andher Etcheman Curling Club from Levis, Que.; Skip Summer St. James and her Pointe-Clare Curling Club team).
They’ll be joined by teams from:
— New Brunswick (Skip Kate Gaines, Gage Golf and Curling Club in Oromocto, N.B.)
— Northern Ontario (Skip Claire Dubinsky, Kababeka Falls Curling Club)
— Northwest Territories (Skip Reese Wainman, Inuvik Curling Club)
— Nunavut (Skip Arianna Mae Atienza, Igaluit Curling Club)
— and Prince Edward Island (Skip Veronica Pater, Cornwall Curling Club).
On the male side are two teams apiece from:
— Alberta (skip Peter Hlushak, Crestwood Curling Centre and Sherwood Park Curling Club; skip Austin Hennig, Saville Community Sports Centre)
— Manitoba (skip Nash Sugden, Morden Curling Club; skip Logan Zacharias, Winnipeg’s Heather Curling Club)
— New Brunswick (skip Sahil Dalrymple, Gage Golf and Curling Club in Oromocto; skip
Evan Hanson, Capital Winter Club in Fredericton, N.B.)
— Newfoundland/Labrador (skip Ephram Noel, St. John’s Curling Club; skip
Zachery French, St. John’s Curling Club)
— Nova Scotia (skip Zach Atherton, Halifax Curling Club/Chester Curling Club; skip Elex Lockhart, Berwick Curling Club)
— and Quebec (skip Raphaël Tremblay, Grande-Mere Curling Club, Shawinigan Curling Club; skip Zachary Janidlo, Pointe-Claire Curling Club).
Rounding out the boys’ competition are teams from:
— British Columbia (skip Owen Jaeger, Kelowna Curling Club)
— Northern Ontario (skip Justin MacKay, YNCU Curling Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) — Northwest Territories (skip Jasper
