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Yourcurler Ed8 June2012 Enter curling No 8: May 201 2 competitions NOW! See page 6 for details Celebration of Scotland’s curling achievements cotland’s curlers, teams, coaches, ice rinks, clubs, curling groups, volunteers Sand supporters all came together on the afternoon of 26 May at the Glynhill Hotel, Renfrew, to celebrate the best of curling in Scotland at the Scottish Curling Awards. The event, which is hosted by the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, is held annually to acknowledge the success and achievements of Scottish curlers over the last year. Guests were welcomed at a drinks reception before the afternoon’s proceedings began with a welcome from RCCC President Pat Edington and Master of Ceremonies Alastair MacNish OBE. A presentation of teams that had medalled at international events in the 2011/12 season followed. These were Eve Muirhead’s European Champions (Gold), Hannah Fleming’s World Junior Women’s Champions (Gold), Team Brewster’s World Men’s Curling Championship Silver Medallists, Barbara Watt’s World Senior Women’s Championship Silver Medallists, and Kyle Picture courtesy of Tom Brydone Smith’s World Junior Men’s Champion- ship Bronze Medallists. In the very first issue of Medallist Rhona Martin, They were led into the room by piper YOURCurler back in Curlers carry torch Tom Killin and Scott Sandy Robinson and met with generous October 2011 we Andrews. At the time of applause. A special presentation was featured an item on Meg publication we can made to Hannah Fleming’s team, who Allen who was nominated confirm their particip- as one of the torch- received their World Junior Champion- ation at the following bearers for the Olympic times: 8 June: Rhona ship banner from Hew Chalmers, Torch Relay following Martin, Glasgow. representing the World Curling her achievement as 12 June: Meg Allen, Federation (pictured above). Grassroots Coach of the Aberdeen/Dundee. A three -course buffet lunch was Year at the 2011 Scottish 14 June: Tom Killin, served and a raffle followed before the Curling Awards. 30 May, Day 12: The Olympic Torch reaches Bamburgh, South of We are delighted to main award ceremony itself took place. Chester. Picture courtesy of LOCOG Berwick. 21 June: Hew hear that Meg was chosen This featured six award categories – Chalmers, Dumfries as one of the 8,000 torchbearers for the relay and TBC: Scott Andrews. We understand that Young Curler of the Year, Club/Group of will be taking to the streets on Tuesday 12 June participants are not informed of the exact details the Year, Grassroots Coach of the Year, on part of the route between Aberdeen and of their leg until shortly before they are due to take Ice Rink of the Year, Ice Diamond and Dundee. The Olympic Torch arrived in the UK on part so we are unable to bring you more Team of the Year. Nominees for each 18 May, beginning its 70 day relay to bring the information at this time. It is great that so many of excitement of the Games to everyone. were shortlisted several weeks before the our curlers are representing the sport in this once Torchbearers will carry the Flame through more event and voted for by members of the in a lifetime opportunity and we wish everyone than 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the UK. taking part the best of luck on their journey. Find RCCC. We are also pleased to learn that a number of out more about the Olympic Torch Relay, route Find out who the winners are on other curlers were chosen for the relay including maps and where it is now on the official site page 4… Hew Chalmers of the BOA Board, Olympic Gold http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/ Scottish Curling AGM 2012 The next issue of YOURCurler for season 2012-13 is due out in October (submissions by 5 October). In the meantime, keep up to date with curling news and information at www.royalcaledoniancurlingclub.org YOURCurler is published by the Royal Caledonian Curling Club on a monthly basis during the winter season. General enquiries to Cairnie House, Ingliston, Newbridge, Midlothian, EH28 8NB. T: 0131 333 3003. E: [email protected] The Royal Caledonian Club AGM will be held on Saturday 9 June 2012 at Murray- YOUR Curler enquiries to: field Curling, 13a Riversdale Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 5XN at 2pm. For an E: [email protected] Agenda and the Annual Report visit http://royalcaledoniancurlingclub.org/about-us/agm/ Highland Show The Royal Caledonian Curling Club will once YOURCurler - again be opening its doors to RCCC members, friends and family at the Royal Highland Show, call for Ingliston Showground from Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 June. If you’re attending the show, why not stop by RCCC HQ (pictured) at Cairnie House content and meet our staff, who will be serving refreshments and home baking from 9am YOURCurler is the official RCCC member to 4pm each day. magazine available free to all members by Initiatives – want to grow attendance at email once a month. It features curling your event? Tell us and we’ll spread the Super Prize Draw news and events from clubs and ice rinks word! around Scotland and the UK, competition Top tips! – are you a coach, an ice-maker, previews and reports, feature articles and a curling enthusiast?! Share your regular columns. experiences and ideas to help others. YOURCurler was launched in October Industry developments – what have you 2011 and this issue heard on the curling grapevine? Anything marks our eighth and big happening in the final for the season. sport? Send us We are pleased to be details, links or your Congratulations to Alan Lindsay of Glasgow, publishing another opinions. who won our free prize draw in Issue 7 and eight issues over the Special offers – would your business receives a Pro Edition Rockwatcher! Thanks 2012/13 season and to everyone who took part, the response was need your input! like to offer RCCC members a discount fantastic. We look forward to bringing you YOURCurler is a or special offer? more giveaways in next season’s issues. publication written Speak to us about by members, for joint promotional members, and we opportunities. rely on your The next issue of YOURCurler will be contributions to continue its success. It is published in October 2012. Please send an opportunity for you to promote your content material by 5 October to achievements, club activities, news and [email protected] rink events to the wider curling Please note that submitting content to community in Scotland and beyond. YOURCurler does not automatically We will be producing YOURCurler guarantee publication. However, we monthly from October 2012 to May 2013. will endeavour to include as many Bring your business to Murrayfield for We would like to receive content on topics articles as possible within the space team-building and corporate days out such as those listed below. If it is of interest, we will endeavour to include it. available. While we are pleased to Manager: Iain Baxter News – what have you, your club, or your support all events and initiatives, we Administrator: Debbie Kerr local rink been doing? What do you have reserve the right to omit any content Riversdale Crescent planned? Tell others about your achievements which we deem to be of a commercial Edinburgh EH12 5XN and success stories. nature. We offer paid advertising Tel: 0131 337 4242 Events – send us reports and photos of any opportunities for businesses or groups Fax: 0131 346 4654 events you have been involved with. Email: [email protected] who wish to increase their presence in Feature articles – are you a budding author Website: www.murrayfieldcurling. Co.uk or reporter? Choose a curling-related topic and the e-zine or to promote their products Online Shop: www.murrayfieldcurlingshop.co.uk write us an article of your choice! or services to our members (see page 8). Mixed results Picture courtesy of WCF/Richard Gray Switzerland won the gold medal game at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2012 in Erzurum, Turkey, beating Sweden 7-6 in the final. For Martin Rios and team-mate Nadine Lehmann, it is the fourth championship title for Switzerland in the five-year history of the event. Sweden’s Per Noreen and Camilla Johansson took silver, and Claudia Toth and Christian Roth won the first-ever WCF curling championship medal for Austria, winning the bronze medal game 12-7 against the USA pair Cristin and Brady Clark. Representing Scotland at the Milli Piyango Curling Arena were Judith McFarlane and Lee McCleary (pictured), steal not one but two deuces, losing 10-4 be a bit of a landslide. Toth and Roth who won the Scottish Mixed Doubles in in the end and giving Australia their first stole their way into the game and were December 2011. Having started strongly victory of the event. 6-2 up by the fourth-end break. The in the round-robin with three consecutive On Day 5, Scotland beat Korea 7-1 and Austrian pair got a lot of stones in play, victories against Romania (7-4), Sweden then saw off Hungary in a close game, Scotland playing catch-up, and shook (8-7) and Italy (9-6), they lost narrowly to where McFarlane played a really nice hands when Austria took four points in Denmark in their fourth. The Danish pair split to sit three. The Scottish duo took a the seventh end with the score at 11-4. managed to take advantage of a steal of further three points in the last end to Judith commented: “We just didn’t three points in the fifth end after a missed pick up a 7-6 win.
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