Season of Champions 2010-11 FACT BOOK Season of Champions FACT BOOK The 2010-11 Season of Champions Fact Book is published by the Canadian Curling Association. Reproduction in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher is prohibited. World Curling Federation Management Committee . 4 2009-10 SEASON IN REVIEW Canadian Curling Association Canadian Curling Pre-Trials . 20 Board of Governors . 7 The Mixed . 24 Canadian Curling Association Tim Hortons Administration . 8 Canadian Curling Trials . 26 M&M Meat Shops 2010-11 Season of Champions . 11 Canadian Juniors . 30 Season of Champions Contacts . 12 Scotties Tournament of Hearts . 36 Olympic Winter Games . 40 Special Events . 13 Tim Hortons Brier . 44 Season of Champions Officials . 14 World Juniors . 48 Paralympic Winter Games . 52 Canadian Curling Association Awards . 16 Canadian Wheelchair . 53 Ford World Women’s . 54 Ford Hot Shots . 18 World Financial Group Canadian Seniors . 58 Thanks For The Memories . 72 Canadian Masters . 62 Canadian Curling Hall of Fame . 74 World Men’s . 64 Past Presidents. 82 World Mixed Doubles . 69 World Seniors . 70 Honorary Life Members . 84 Canadian Curling Reporters . 88 MEDIA INFORMATION Questions on any aspect of curling should be World Financial Group directed to Warren Hansen, P.O. 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K4A 4J4 director: David Beesley Tel: (613) 834-2076; fax: (613) 834-0716; email: [email protected]; web: www.curling.ca 3 FB11_WCF_Management 07/09/10 10:09 PM Page 2 WORLD CURLING MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Leif Öhman President Cirkelvägen 46 Kate Caithness S-2556 25 Jönköping, Sweden Glenesk, Inchbare Tel/fax: 46-36-769-69 Edzell, Angus DD9 7QJ, Scotland Email: [email protected] Tel: 44-1356-647-212 Graham Prouse Fax: 44-1738-451-641 P.O. Box 2391 Email: [email protected] Fort Nelson, British Columbia V0C 1R0 Vice-president Tel: (250) 500-2961 Patrick Hürlimann Fax: (250) 774-4450 Mugerenstrasse 83 Email: [email protected] CH-6330 Cham, Switzerland Tel: 41-41-780-92-63 MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICER Email: [email protected] Joanna Kelly WCF Secretariat Director of finance 74 Tay Street Andy Anderson Perth, Scotland PH2 8NP 1817G Wildberry Drive Tel: 44-1738-451-630 Glenview, Illinois 60025 Fax: 44-1738-451-641 Tel: (847) 486-9416 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] CURLING DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS Secretary general Richard Harding Colin Grahamslaw WCF Secretariat WCF Secretariat 74 Tay Street 74 Tay Street Perth, Scotland PH2 8NP Perth, Scotland PH2 8NP Tel: 44-1738-451-630 Tel: 44-1738-451-630 Fax: 44-1738-451-641 Fax: 44-1738-451-641 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Eeva Röthlisberger EXECUTIVE BOARD Choserfeldweg 28 Young C. Kim CH-3400 Burgdorf, Switzerland Sindonga @ 4-801 Tel: 41-79-442-83-00 275 Eungbong-Dong Email: [email protected] Seongdong-Gu Seoul, Korea 133-772 DIRECTOR OF COMPETITIONS Tel: 82-2-2295-0125 Keith Wendorf Fax: 82-2-6238-0125 8, Rue du 34ème R.I.F. Email: [email protected] F-67860 Rhinau, France Tel/fax: 33-3-88-74-86-55 Niels Larsen Email: [email protected] Fjordvej 14 3630 Jaegerspris, Denmark Tel: 45-38-60-75-25 Email: [email protected] 4 FB11_WCF_Management 07/09/10 10:10 PM Page 3 THE WORLD CURLING FEDERATION NG FEDERATION The World Curling Federation is the recognized governing body of curling in the world. The WCF’s first formal constitution PRESIDENT was approved in 1967 under the Kate Caithness original charter of the International Scotland’s Kate Curling Federation in Perth, Scotland. Caithness is the new president of the World The constitution was significantly Curling Federation. adjusted in 1982, when the federation Elected in April 2010, was declared independent from she is the first female Scotland’s Royal Caledonian Curling president of the WCF Club, to which its original constitution and the first female had been tied. In 1991, the official president of any Olympic winter sports name was changed to World Curling federation. Caithness has been involved with the sport Federation. Further significant of curling since the 1980s. As a member of changes were made in 1994. Scotland’s Royal Caledonian Curling Club, she went from playing the game to putting The WCF has a four-part mandate: something back into the sport in the late • To represent curling internationally 1990s. She served as president of the RCCC and to facilitate the growth of the Ladies’ Branch in 1997-98, then became an RCCC representative to the World Curling sport through a network of member Federation. associations Since 2000, Caithness has been the driving • To formulate rules of the sport of force behind the WCF’s development of curling for world competition and all wheelchair curling. She was on the team that created the first World Wheelchair Curling other competitions approved by the Championship and was instrumental in the WCF and to further the interests of sport’s inclusion at the 2006 Paralympic world curling Winter Games in Turin, Italy. From 2005 to ’09 Caithness was elected to • To conduct world curling the International Paralympic Committee’s competitions five-person Sports’ Council Management • To provide co-operation and mutual Committee and she served on the Paralympic Games Committee from 2006 to ’09. understanding among member Caithness was elected vice-president of the associations and to unite curlers WCF in 2006 and served two two-year terms throughout the world under former president Les Harrison. Married and the mother of two sons, WORLD CURLING FEDERATION Caithness recently became a grandmother. She 74 Tay Street spends her free time with family and, when Perth, Scotland she has a chance, curling and playing golf at PH2 8NP her home club in Edzell, Angus, where she was Tel: 44-1738-451-630 the Lady Captain from 2002 to ’04. Fax: 44-1738-451-641 Email: [email protected] 5 FB11_Board 07/09/10 8:46 PM Page 1 CANADIAN CURLING ASSOCIATION BOARD OF GOVERNORS CHAIR addition to being association chair in 2011, Jack Bowman Bowman will continue as a member of the CCA A resident of Victoria, Jack International Committee. Bowman was executive An avid curler, Bowman has played in senior director of the Pacific men’s and masters’ championships at regional Coast Curling Association and provincial levels on several occasions and has and Curl BC’s dedicated many hours as a seminar facilitator for competition director the CCA’s Business Of Curling program. before being elected to the Bowman holds degrees in physical, health and Canadian Curling recreation education from the University of Association board of governors. He first served Manitoba, the University of Guelph and the the sport in British Columbia as a club University of Western Ontario in London, representative to the PCCA in 1997 and spent Ontario. two terms as president, in 2001 and ’02. Before moving to Victoria in 1997, Bowman Elected to the CCA’s board in 2006, Bowman was program director of the Orillia YMCA, served as chair of the Finance and Audit director of physical education for the Committee and of the Appointment Metropolitan Toronto YMCA, and was professor Recommendation Committee and was a member of recreation leadership at Humber College in of the Governance Joint Working Committee. In Toronto. The 2010-11 Canadian Curling Association board of governors: (front row, from left) Bernadette McIntyre, Jack Bowman, Laura Lochanski and Georgina Granchelli; (middle row) Ron Hutton, Marilyn Neily and Mitch Tarapasky; (back row) Hugh Avery, Elaine de Ryk and Jim Campbell. 7 CCA ADMINISTRATION The Canadian Curling Association’s head office is located in Cumberland, Ontario, at 1660 Vimont Court. The administration unit has a resident staff of 12, headed by chief executive officer Greg Stremlaw. In addition, the CCA retains Warren Hansen under contract from his office in Vancouver as director of event operations and media, and Paul Webster, the national development coach, works from the National Training Centre in Calgary. CEO Skeleton World Championship and Women’s Greg Stremlaw Bobsleigh Championship. Greg Stremlaw works He holds a master’s degree in sports out of the Canadian management from the University of Miami Curling Association’s in Coral Gables, Florida, a master’s of business national office in administration from the University of Maine Cumberland, Ontario, in Orono, Maine, and a bachelor of arts in and has just completed commerce from the University of Western his third year as chief Ontario in London, Ontario. executive officer. Stremlaw’s board experience includes Before joining the CCA in 2007, Stremlaw Canadian Ski Council Kidsability and the was the CEO and executive director of Conestoga College Program Advisory Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort in Kitchener, Committee. He is a member of the Sandra Ontario, where he had been employed since Schmirler Foundation Advisory Board. 2002. Before that, he was the Calgary Olympic An athlete of note, Stremlaw has been active Development Association’s (now Winsport) in many sports, including soccer and track and director of sport services for luge and bobsleigh field, and was a member of the United States for six years, which included his role as race hockey team program.