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Stranraer Ice Rink Livingston Curling Club Muthill Curling Club Ugie Curling Club Border Ice Rink Inverness Ice Centre Curl Aberdee Issue 26 Your Curler November The Royal Caledonian Curling Club Member Ezine 2014 In this issue... Keir Curling Club Forfar Indoor Sports Stranraer Ice Rink Livingston Curling Club Muthill Curling Club Ugie Curling Club Border Ice Rink Inverness Ice Centre Curl Aberdee Features Blast from the Past Charles Lees’ Two Sports Masterpieces United History of the Swiss Tour Swiss Tour Update Cameron Bryce Appointment Strategy Update Competitions European Playdowns Asham Under 17 Slam Asham Under 21 Slam Dates for your Diary www.royalcaledoniancurlingclub.org 02 Clubs & Rinks November Issue KEIR CURLING CLUB Iona Paterson was first introduced to curling through the Curling’s Cool programme in her hometown of Stranraer. Now a student at Stirling University, she decided to take up the game again after being inspired by the Olympic Games and participating in a course of Beginner Classes at the Peak. In one of her first outings for Keir Curling Club, Iona was a member of the side that scored an 8 ender, something that most curlers can only dream of achieving in their curling life – what a start! Iona and team members Lizzie Forsyth (who returned to curling this season after a few years gap) and Lisa Davie (the club’s youngest member at the age of 14) were led calmly by skip Andrew McAughtrie to build up stones in the house whilst opposition were Pictured: Andrew McAughtrie, Iona Paterson, distracted by their own stones. After the end was complete, it was vice-skip Lisa Davie and Lizzie Forsyth Lisa Davie who agreed the score of 8 with her opposing vice-skip. Here is a picture of the victorious side. FORFAR INDOOR SPORTS It has been a busy first month of the new curling season with new competitions and new leagues getting off the ground. First up was the 25th Anniversary Bonspiel where Fothringham CC (pictured) emerged victorious, but it was to be a close run affair with Edzell CC only one shot behind in second place. Fothringham CC were to follow this up with a very fine win in the inaugural Swing & Sweep competition which involved a 9-hole game of golf followed by several 2-end games of curling with the golf and curling scores combined to determine the winner. Edzell CC finished runners-up here again, so no rivalry building here then? Next up was the National Super League Finals played with rinks from all around Scotland vying for the title. Dundee 1 won the day in a closely fought final against Forfar 2. The SCT Forfar Open attracted 16 top teams from around Scotland with Team Edwards competing for the first time since qualifying for the European Championships. After a tough round robin section Team Fleming and Team Martin qualified for the Women’s Final with Team Fleming lifting the trophy and £400 cash prize. Team Fleming made it through to the overall final meeting an on form Team Edwards who eventually took control of the game to become SCT Forfar Open Last but not least Forfar Indoor Sports has a new website and we are Champions for 2014. The SCT Forfar trophy and £400 was a just rewards as proud as punch with it. Considerable thought and effort has gone for a hard weekends work. A big thank you to all the rinks that entered into its design. We have included a new curling calendar that enables and supported all of the competitions. our curlers to view who is playing when and see when there are empty Also this month, we were very pleased to see the new Novice League rinks and book them on-line. You can even check up on the scores for kick off so successfully and equally pleased to witness the creation of certain games. the new Forfar Virtual Club, duly constituted with a keen committee The curling results section allows our clubs and curlers to see where ready to push on and develop our new bank of curlers and play in the they are placed in our major leagues and with the majority of our new Virtual Club League. competition draws available for download, so there can be no excuse for not knowing the date of the next round and such like. We have also built in a curling clubs page that shows where our clubs come from in the area and by following the link you can view full club details. We hope this will help new curlers find their local club, make contact and build relationships. We are also currently working on a live video link and a live on- line scoring page. These items combined with our new Forfar Indoor Sports app for apple and android demonstrate our commitment to use modern technology to its best advantage, to keep our curlers fully informed and hopefully help attract new players to the sport at Forfar. The new site can be found at: www.forfarindoorsports.co.uk Report and photo courtesy of Mike Ferguson November Issue Clubs & Rinks 03 STRANRAER ICE RINK Stranraer Ice Rink recently honoured their international players and, in return, the current women’s senior world champions presented Stranraer Ice Rink Curling Club with their world title banner. The 2014 World and Scottish Senior Champions, were skipped by Wigtown Curling Club member Christine Cannon, to a heartwarming victory in front of a partisan home crowd at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in April, when coming from behind to beat a strong Canadian rink 7-5 in the final. Ice rink manager Gail Munro presented four of the winning squad, Christine, Margaret Richardson, Isobel Hannen and Margaret Robertson, with engraved crystal vases and flowers to mark their achievement. Replying Report and photo courtesy of Louise Kerr on behalf of her team, Christine Cannon thanked Gail and the members for their generosity, adding: “We were all delighted with our success in Dumfries and we would like to thank everyone at Stranraer Ice Rink for The presentations began by the members honouring the girls’ their support. We came here to practice a lot before the championships and Scottish junior champion Naomi Brown from Stoneykirk, who, along stayed in the hotel and that was a big factor in our preparation...Therefore, with other members of her rink Gina Aitken, Rowena Kerr and Rachel we would like to present the world champions’ banner to Gail and Stranraer Hannen, had gone on the represent Scotland at the World Junior Ice Rink.” Curling Championships in Switzerland in March. In the absence of After the handover to loud cheers from the members, an overwhelmed the team, the mothers of Naomi and Rachel, Lynn Brown and Isobel Gail Munro thanked the team saying: “Wow! I accept this banner on behalf Hannen, received the engraved gifts on behalf of their daughters. of Stranraer Ice Rink with immense pride. Anyone who was at Dumfries was Another mum, Kate Adams, was also on hand to receive a similar incredibly proud of what Christine and her team achieved there.” gift on behalf of her daughter Vicki, the pride of the Lochans, The banner will now be hung in the ice rink alongside the three other who won Olympic bronze at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in world title banners brought home by Stranraer curlers; the men’s world February with her GB teammates Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan and championships from 1999 and the two men world junior titles from 1980 Claire Hamilton, as well as picking up a silver medal for Scotland at and 1981. the European Curling Championships earlier in the season. LIVINGSTON CURLING CLUB Livingston Curling Club recently received a surprise e-mail from Ailsa Anderson, asking if we could put out a team to play on the 28th September at 1:45pm at Murrayfield against the Irish Ladies Curling Team, who were preparing to travel to Holland the next week to participate in the European C League competition. Although it was at extremely short notice, conflicted with a scheduled committee meeting and four of our league 1 teams were playing at 3:45pm that day, we managed to get sufficient volunteers to put out a team. The team, which was skipped by Report by Alan Ogilvie Josh Kellock, supported by Pamela Hart, Betty Rodgers and Jim Wilson made sure that they gave Irish a good workout. UGIE CURLING CLUB Ugie Curling Club hosted its 2nd annual Bonspiel on the 1st November at Curl Aberdeen. The club was founded in 1989 and admitted to the RCCC in 1990. The Bonspiel was enjoyed by members of Ugie Curling Club and neighbouring rinks, Aberdeen Wheelchair Curling Club, Fochabers Curling Club, Forres Curling Club, Granite City Ladies Curling Club, Moray Juniors, Turriff Curling Club, Team Leudi and Team Maxwell. Turriff Curling Club narrowly won the Bonspiel, with Team Maxwell runners up. The event was sponsored by anCnoc (Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky), from the Knockdhu Distillery in Aberdeenshire, in conjunction with Taylor’s Furniture House and BIBBB. Pictured are Bonspiel winners Turriff Curling Club with the competition sponsors. Report and photo courtesy of Karen Wares 04 Clubs & Rinks November Issue MUTHILL CURLING CLUB On 17th November 1739, Muthill Curling Club (Society) was formally established and as such constitutes one of Scotland’s and indeed the World’s oldest curling clubs. The club became affiliated to the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC) in 1843. To mark 275 years of near continuous curling, courtesy of “Jack Frost”, “Lord and Master of the Ice” and latterly and more predictably, the artificial ice of the 20th century “ice rinks” the club are hosting a Bonspiel and dinner. The event will take place at Dewar’s Ice Rink, Perth on 22nd November and entirely in keeping with the spirit of “Scotland’s ain Game” we begin with the friendly rivalry of an inter club Bonspiel with Muthill taking on their sister clubs in the Upper Strathearn Province.
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