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2017-2018 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SEASON OF CHAMPIONS DREAMS COME TRUE FOR BRAD GUSHUE TEAM HOMAN: LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD CANADA’S TOP TEAMS TAKE AIM AT PYEONGCHANG EE18_Cover.indd 1 2017-09-22 12:48 PM B:8.75” T:8.5” B:8.75” B:8.75” T:8.5” T:8.5” 2017 - 2018 To those who To those who THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SEASON OF CHAMPIONS believe in Editor ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4 TIM HORTONS BRIER 40 Laurie Payne Hometown hero Brad Gushue delivers YOU CURLING CANADA with nail-biting win over Team Canada believe in Managing editor BOARD OF GOVERNORS 5 pre-gamebelieve in rituals, ARE Al Cameron WORLD WOMEN’S 44 SEASON OF CHAMPIONS CONTACTS 7 YOU Canada ends gold-medal drought YOU Art director with historic 13-0 run by Rachel Homan pre-game rituals, ARE Samantha Edwards LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD 9 pre-game rituals, ARE Rachel Homan’s great 2016-17 season FORD WORLD MEN’S 46 Production director can be traced back to a crushing loss Brad Gushue’s perfect record Marylou Morris by Bob Weeks powers Canada to back-to-back victories Printer FORD HOT SHOTS 12 A SALUTE TO CHAMPIONS 48 St. Joseph Printing Big prizes for winners Here’s to the teams that won in individual skills contests Cover art 2017 national and world titles Canadian and world champions DREAMS COME TRUE FOR GUSHUE 15 IN THE NEWS 52 Team Gushue and Team Homan Newfoundland and Labrador skip Congrats to annual award winners ticks two biggies off his bucket list Cover photography and Hall of Fame inductees B:11.25” by Scott Cruickshank TeamT:11” Gushue: Michael Burns Photography VOICE OF THE ATHLETES 54 Team Homan: Andrew Klaver THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO THE OLYMPICS 18 Communication is key to relationship B:11.25” Photography between the athletes and Curling Canada T:11” B:11.25” The route to PyeongChang goes through T:11” Michael Burns by Nolan Thiessen Ottawa and quite possibly Summerside Scotties Tournament of Hearts by Paul Wiecek THE MA CUP 56 photography A new ranking system generates Andrew Klaver ON THE ROCKS 21 greater interest among curling fans Canadian mixed doubles teams National sponsorship sales director superb under trying circumstances TEAM WORLD SET David Beesley by Al Cameron FOR 2018 CONTINENTAL CUP 58 Star-studded lineup hopes to end Chief executive officer WILD-CARD GAME five-year losing streak Katherine Henderson HIGHLIGHTS FORMAT CHANGES 22 Hearts and Brier to include more teams, THE 2018 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES 60 seeded pools and a last-chance barn burner Curling will have an expanded presence by Don Landry as mixed doubles makes its debut Extra End magazine is published by Curling Canada. All rights reserved. CURLERS GIVE BACK 25 HOME HARDWARE Reproduction in whole or in part without Curling community generously supports written consent is prohibited. The opinions ROAD TO THE ROAR PROFILES 64 local and national curling programs expressed by writers in Extra End do not ROAD TO THE ROAR DRAW 70 necessarily reflect the views or the position of HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP 26 Curling Canada or World Curling Federation. Jennifer Jones and Reid Carruthers win TIM HORTONS PRINTED IN CANADA. one of curling’s toughest events ROAR OF THE RINGS PROFILES 72 WORLD FINANCIAL GROUP ROAR OF THE RINGS DRAW 75 CONTINENTAL CUP 28 Reid Carruthers’ dazzling double takeout CANADIAN MIXED DOUBLES seals the deal for Team North America CURLING TRIALS PROFILES 77 CANADIAN JUNIORS 32 TSN BROADCAST GUIDE 78 Tyler Tardi and Kristen Streifel skip their teams to national titles ©Tim Hortons, 2016. SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS 36 Rachel Homan makes four-foot runback on her final shot for extra-end victory ©Tim Hortons, 2016. ©Tim Hortons, 2016. curling.ca 3 EE18_Contents.indd 2 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black 2017-09-27 1:58 PM EE18_Contents.indd 3 2017-09-22 12:49 PM OGILVYONE PRODUCTION: Karen Farnocchi AD #: None BUILD DATE: Oct 03/16 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black PUB: None LIVE: NoneCyan, Magenta, Yellow,FILE: 01-42926-EN-WWBrew-Rituals-VERT-SWOP-final.indd Black BUILD OP: JK FORMAT: Ad TRIM: 8.5” x 11” CLIENT: Tim Hortons Advertising REV DATE: None FINAL FILE FORMAT:OGILVYONE PDF/X-1a BLEED:PRODUCTION: 8.75” x Karen11.25” Farnocchi ADJOB #: #: NoneP.TMH.TMHGEN.16130.K.011 REVBUILD OP: DATE: None Oct 03/16 OGILVYONE PRODUCTION: Karen Farnocchi AD #: None BUILD DATE: Oct 03/16 PUB: None LIVE: None FILE: 01-42926-EN-WWBrew-Rituals-VERT-SWOP-final.indd BUILD OP: JK TMH1612-Coffee_equity_AD-v1-SWOP.psdPUB: None LIVE: None519 ppi CMYK Up to Date FILE: 01-42926-EN-WWBrew-Rituals-VERT-SWOP-final.indd BUILD OP: JK CSR: FORMAT: Ad TRIM: 8.5” x 11” CLIENT: Tim Hortons Advertising REV DATE: None TimHortons_Logo.aiFORMAT: Ad TRIM:Up to8.5” Date x 11” CLIENT: Tim Hortons Advertising REV DATE: None KB TMH1612-CDN_LEAF-CMYK_stubby.aiFINAL FILE FORMAT: PDF/X-1a BLEED:Up to 8.75” Date x 11.25” JOB #: P.TMH.TMHGEN.16130.K.011 REV OP: None FINAL FILE FORMAT: PDF/X-1a BLEED: 8.75” x 11.25” JOB #: P.TMH.TMHGEN.16130.K.011 REV OP: None PASS: TMH1612-Coffee_equity_AD-v1-SWOP.psd 519 ppi CMYK Up to Date FINALCSR: TMH1612-Coffee_equity_AD-v1-SWOP.psd 519 ppi CMYK Up to Date CSR: Technical Support: TimHortons_Logo.ai Up to Date GALLEY:KB TMH1612-CDN_LEAF-CMYK_stubby.aiTimHortons_Logo.ai Up to Date KB1 (416) 945-2388 TMH1612-CDN_LEAF-CMYK_stubby.ai Up to Date PASS: FINALPASS: FINAL GALLEY: Technical Support: GALLEY: Technical(416) 945-2388 Support: 1 (416) 945-2388 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CURLING CANADA BOARD OF GOVERNORS Curling Canada extends its sincere appreciation to its partners and its 14 member associations and 14 affiliate organizations. Resby Coutts beCame the fiRst membeR 2011 Canadian mixed in Morris, still the smallest PARTNERS of Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge Curling Club to serve in community to host a Canadian championship; and Season of Champions Sponsors Official Broadcaster the senior volunteer position at Curling Canada was executive director of the 1995 Ford Worlds in when he took over as the chair of the board of Brandon. As a member of the board of governors, governors for the 2017-18 season. Coutts has chaired the Constitution Review His election to the board in 2015 followed Committee and spearheaded a major overhaul of the a six-year term on the board of CurlManitoba, organization’s bylaws through the past two seasons. including two years as president, and nearly two Recognition for contributions to the sport have Funding Partners decades of volunteer involvement with the major come in the form of a Manitoba Curling Association championship events in Manitoba, mainly in media Honorary Life Membership in 1992, inclusion on RESBY COUTTS and marketing and as an emcee. the Westman Millennium Curling Wall of Fame in Chair Coutts’s term on the board of governors marks 2000, and membership in the Governor General’s nearly five decades of curling volunteerism, Curling Club in 2013. beginning when he was intramural curling Coutts learned to play and love the game in co-ordinator at the University of Manitoba. a one-sheet curling rink in the mid-1950s in the 1 Colour He chaired the Manitoba Men’s Safeway now-disappeared community of Elva, in Championship in 2013, the first return of the event southwestern Manitoba, and has been playing Cyan 22 Magenta 100 Yellow 89 to Winnipeg in nearly 20 years; co-chaired the and competing ever since. Black 15 Business Partners MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS Alberta Curling Federation Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian Branch Curling Ontario Blind Curlers Association www.albertacurling.ab.ca Curling Association www.canadianbranch.org Tel: (613) 722-8084 Curl BC www.curlingnl.ca Canadian Deaf Curling Association Ontario Curling Council www.curlbc.ca Northern Ontario Curling Association www.deafcurlcanada.org www.ontariocurlingcouncil.com Curling Québec www.curlnoca.ca Canadian Firefighters Optimist Junior Interclub www.curling-quebec.qc.ca Northwest Territories Curling Association Curling Association Curling League CurlManitoba www.nwtcurling.com www.cffca.ca optimistjuniorcurling.ca www.curlmanitoba.org Nova Scotia Curling Association Canadian Police Curling Association Ottawa Valley Curling Association Curl Prince Edward Island www.nscurl.com www.policecurling.ca www.ovca.com www.peicurling.com Nunavut Curling Association Canadian Postal Employees Peace Curling Association PHOTOGRAPHY NEIL VALOIS PHOTOS: CurlSask Tel: (867) 645-2534 Curling Classic www.peacecurl.org The 2017-18 Curling Canada board of governors: (front row, from left) Peter Inch, Resby Coutts, Maureen Miller and Cathy Hughes; (middle row) www.curlsask.ca Ontario Curling Association www.postalcurling.ca Southern Alberta Curling Association Scott Comfort, Lena West and Angela Hodgson; (back row) John Shea, George Cooke and Brad Gibb. New Brunswick www.ontcurl.com Hamilton and Area Curling Association www.saca.ca Curling Association Yukon Curling Association www.hamiltoncurling.com Toronto Curling Association www.nbcurling.com www.yukoncurling.ca Northern Alberta Curling Association www.torontocurling.com www.northernalbertacurling.com 4 curling.ca curling.ca 5 EE18_Acknowledgments.indd 4 2017-09-22 12:51 PM EE18_Board.indd 5 2017-09-26 1:28 PM “By getting SEASON OF CHAMPIONS CONTACT INFORMATION HOME HARDWARE ROAD TO THE ROAR Everest Concierge NOVEMBER 6 TO 12, 2017 Credit Union Place , Summerside, Prince Edward Island I gave my family time Event manager: Robbie Rankin Tel: 902-786-8196 Email: [email protected] to grieve.” TIM HORTONS ROAR OF THE RINGS DECEMBER 2 TO 10, 2017 Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ontario Event manager: Gord McNabb Tel: 403-894-9553 Email: