201314 FACT BOOK Second. Lead. Third. Skip. Tim Hortons coffee. And curling. Some things were just made for each other. © Tim Hortons, 2013 FACT BOOK World Curling Federation Management Committee ............. 4 2012-13 Season In Review Canadian Curling Association Canadian Mixed ............... 18 Board of Governors.................. 7 Canadian Curling Association Capital One Canada Cup ........ 23 Administration ..................... 8 World Financial Group Season of Champions Contacts ....... 10 Continental Cup ............... 26 Special Events ..................... 12 M&M Meat Shops Season of Champions Officials ........ 13 Canadian Juniors .............. 32 Canadian Curling Scotties Tournament of Hearts ... 40 Association Awards ................. 14 World Wheelchair.............. 45 Ford Hot Shots..................... 16 Thanks For The Memories............ 82 World Juniors ................. 46 Canadian Curling Hall of Fame ....... 86 Tim Hortons Brier .............. 50 Past Presidents..................... 96 Canadian Mixed Doubles Honorary Life Members ............. 98 Curling Trials .................. 54 The Dominion Member Canadian Seniors .............. 56 Association Cup................... 101 Canadian Curling Reporters ......... 102 World Women’s ............... 62 The 2014 Olympic Winter Games..... 104 CIS-CCA University Olympic Curling Draws ............. 107 Curling Championships ......... 66 Capital One Canadian Wheelchair ........... 70 Road To The Roar Profiles........... 108 Ford World Men’s ............. 72 Road To The Roar Draws............ 114 Canadian Masters .............. 76 Tim Hortons Roar Of The Rings Profiles .......... 116 World Seniors ................. 78 Roar Of The Rings Draw ............ 121 World Mixed Doubles........... 80 2013-14 TSN Broadcast Guide........ 122 MEDIA INFORMATION: Questions on any aspect of curling should be directed to Al Cameron at [email protected] or by calling (403) 463-5500. Members of the media seeking information pertaining to former Canadian or world championships, should contact Larry Wood in Calgary at (403) 281-5300. Wood is also responsible for the Season of Champions records. CANADIAN CURLING ASSOCIATION: 1660 Vimont Court, Cumberland, Ontario K4A 4J4; Tel: (613) 834-2076; fax: (613) 834-0716; email: [email protected]; web: www.curling.ca Editor: Laurie Payne Managing editor: Warren Hansen Art director: Otto Pierre Production director: Marylou Morris Printer: Sunview Press Cover photography: Canadian junior champions Corryn Brown and Matt Dunstone by Michael Burns Photography: Michael Burns Scotties Tournament of Hearts photography: Andrew Klaver National marketing director: David Beesley The 2013-14 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. 3 WORLD CURLING MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE DIRECTOR OF COMPETITIONS President AND DEVELOPMENT Kate Caithness of Scotland Keith Wendorf Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vice-president Bent Ånund Ramsfjell of Norway DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Email: [email protected] Richard Harding Director of finance Email: [email protected] Andy Anderson of the United States COMPETITIONS AND DEVELOPMENT Email: [email protected] OFFICERS Secretary general Colin Grahamslaw of Scotland Scott Arnold Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Allen Coliban Email: [email protected] EXECUTIVE BOARD Darrell Ell Young C. Kim of Korea Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Eeva Röthlisberger Toyokazu Ogawa of Japan Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS Leif Öhman of Sweden Email: [email protected] Joanna Kelly and Danny Parker Email: [email protected] Graham Prouse of Canada Email: [email protected] Web www.worldcurling.org Facebook www.facebook.com/WorldCurlingFederation Follow YouTube www.youtube.com/user/WorldCurlingTV Twitter WCF media www.twitter.com/WCFmedia world curling Twitter WCF fan feed www.twitter.com/worldcurling federation Google+ www.gplus.to/worldcurlingfederation activities at: Linkedin www.linkedin.com/company/world-curling-federation 4 THE WORLD CURLING WORLD CURLING FEDERATION FEDERATION The World Curling Federation is the recognized governing body of curling in the world. PRESIDENT The WCF’s first formal constitution Kate Caithness was approved in 1967 under the Scotland’s Kate Caithness is the original charter of the International first female president of the World Curling Federation in Perth, Scotland. Curling Federation and the first The constitution was significantly female president of any Olympic adjusted in 1982, when the federation winter sports federation. was declared independent from First elected president of the Scotland’s Royal Caledonian Curling WCF in April 2010 and re-elected without opposition Club, to which its original constitution two years later, Caithness has been involved with had been tied. In 1991, the official the sport of curling since the 1980s. As a member of name was changed to World Curling Scotland’s Royal Caledonian Curling Club, she went Federation. Further significant from playing the game to putting something back into changes were made in 1994. the sport in the late 1990s. She served as president of The WCF has a four-part mandate: the RCCC Ladies’ Branch in 1997-98, then became an RCCC representative to the World Curling Federation. • To represent curling internationally Since 2000, Caithness has been the driving force and to facilitate the growth of the behind the WCF’s development of wheelchair sport through a network of member curling. She was on the team that created the first associations World Wheelchair Curling Championship and was • To formulate rules of the sport of instrumental in the sport’s inclusion at the 2006 curling for world competition and Paralympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy. all other competitions approved by From 2005 to ’09 Caithness was an elected the WCF and to further the interests member of the International Paralympic Committee’s of world curling five-person Sports Council Management Committee and she served on the Paralympic Games Committee • To conduct world curling from 2006 to ’09. competitions Caithness was elected vice-president of the WCF • To provide co-operation and mutual in 2006 and served two two-year terms under former understanding among member president Les Harrison. associations and to unite curlers In March 2011, Caithness was appointed to throughout the world the Olympic Program Commission, responsible for reviewing and analyzing the sports, disciplines and events program, as well as the number of athletes in WORLD CURLING FEDERATION each sport, for the Summer and Winter Olympics. 74 Tay Street Married and the mother of two sons, Caithness Perth, Scotland became a grandmother in 2008. She spends her free PH2 8NP time with family and, when she has a chance, curling Tel: 44-1738-451-630 and playing golf at her home club in Edzell, Angus, Email: [email protected] where she was the Lady Captain from 2002 to ’04. Web: www.worldcurling.org 5 CANADIAN CURLING ASSOCIATION BOARD OF GOVERNORS CHAIR representative to the World Curling Federation, Hugh Avery chair of the Constitutional Review Committee The new chair of the Canadian and facilitator of the Member Association Code Curling Association’s board of Conduct Review Committee. of governors is Hugh Avery In addition to being association vice-chair in of Halifax, who will also serve 2012, Avery was the championship liaison to the as a member of the CCA M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors in 2011 and International Committee. the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier. Avery was treasurer and then director Professionally, Avery is a senior forensic of competitions at the Nova Scotia Curling accountant for the Department of Public Works Association before being elected to the CCA and Government Services Canada’s Forensic board in 2010. He first served the sport in Nova Accounting Management Group. He also lectures Scotia as a director and president of the Halifax about fraud for the Institute of Chartered Curling Club. Accountants of Nova Scotia as part of its Avery began to curl at the Westville Curling professional development program. Club in 1981, when he was in junior high. He has Avery graduated from St. Francis Xavier played in men’s championships at the provincial University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in 1989 level in both Nova Scotia and Prince Edward with a bachelor of business administration Island. A member of the Halifax Curling Club, he degree. He continued his education at the Nova served as co-chair of the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier Scotia Community College in Pictou, where he when it was held in Halifax. earned a diploma in accounting in 1995. He was Since being elected to the CCA’s board, Avery designated a chartered accountant in 1998, a has served as a member of the Governance certified anti-money-laundering specialist in Committee, the CEO Performance and 2005, and received a diploma in investigative Compensation Committee and the Appointments and forensic accounting from the University of Suggestion Committee. He was the international Toronto in 2008. PHOTOS: NEIL VALOIS PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOS: NEIL VALOIS The 2013-14 Canadian Curling Association board of governors: (front row, from left) Bob Osborne, Marilyn Neily, Hugh Avery and Ron Hutton;