ISSUE NO. 3 | NOVEMBER 2019 FEATURE SUDBURY’S noca NEWS FLEURY WINS MASTERS IN NORTH BAY CLUBS IS YOUR CLUB OFFERING ADULT LEARN TO CURL? COLUMN RONNEBECK: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER TRACY FLEURY OF SUDBURY WINS 2019 MASTERS PHOTO CREDIT: ANIL MUNGAL | GRAND SLAM OF CURLING @CURLNOCA ON THE WEB @ CURLNOCA.CA INSIDE THIS ISSUE PAGE 3 ➔ POSTER: CANADIAN U18 CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS COMING TO SUDBURY PAGE 4-5 ➔ RONNEBECK:THE HONNEYMOON IS OVER Fleury fearless in securing 1st Grand Slam PAGE 6-7 ➔ IN CASE YOU MISSED IT title at Masters PAGE 8 ➔ CURLING AND PICKLEBALL, WHAT A BY: JONATHAN BRAZEAU MATCH NORTH BAY, Ont. — Tracy Fleury wasn’t nervous playing for a Pinty’s + WEBINAR: MAKE Grand Slam of Curling title in her backyard. SOCIAL MEDIA WORK Instead, the roaring crowd for the Sudbury skip fired her up shooting a FOR YOU game-leading 91 percent in her pursuit of the Masters women’s title. PAGE 9 ➔ POSTER: Fleury was a tour de force fending off Japan’s Sayaka Yoshimura 7-5 ROWAN’S LAW Sunday and sending the fans at Memorial Gardens into a frenzy PAGE 10 ➔ CURLING “I definitely felt the crowd support and had a lot of family and friends CANADA VOLUNTEER OF out there,” Fleury said. “I think that helped us.” THE YEAR AWARD “I’d said if anything it pumped me up a little bit. It wasn’t a distraction.” + TIM HORTON’S HIT No moment best exemplified that than the last shot of the game with DRAW TAP Fleury holding the all-important hammer advantage and up by one. PAGE 11 ➔ POSTER: Yoshimura sat two counters apart in the eight-foot circle, Fleury opted BROKERLINK 4 ROCK for a hit and just when it looked like it wasn’t going to make it, her CHARITY CHALLENGE shooter connected and rolled for the clutch double. PAGE 12 ➔ ONTARIO Although Fleury is famous for her great draw game, with the ice sitting WINTER GAMES for a little bit, hitting worked out better in that situation. + CURLING DAY IN “They took quite a long time to decide where to place their final stone, CANADA so you never know with the paths and stuff,” Fleury explained. “A nose hit was good or a little roll. It seemed like the safer call.” + IS YOUR CLUB OFFERING ADULT Although it’s Fleury’s first Grand Slam, it’s the second major for her teammates of third Selena Njegovan, second Liz Fyfe and lead Kristin LEARN TO CURL? MacCuish. The Manitoba-based trio captured the 2016 BOOST National PAGE 14 ➔ ROCK THE in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., with skip Kerri Einarson. SHORES IN 2020 “It feels amazing,” Fleury said. “It was tough being so close in the past a PAGE 15 ➔ POSTER: couple of times. To finally pull it off it really means a lot.” 2020 MEN’S AND LADIES Team Fleury cashed in $35,000, 12 Pinty’s Cup points and a spot in the PROVINCIALS season-ending Humpty’s Champions Cup. AND MORE! Click Here to continue reading. originally discovered on occasionally, but if dealt business teams has been with effectively, Storming called the “Team Wheel”. will get shorter and less The wheel is made up of 4 dramatic. phases and teams will move through the phases in There are a few tools and varying degrees and length activities that coaches can of times. use to help build positive team relationships and The first stage is Forming address the negative actions where the team comes of the team. together and everyone is RONNEBECK: The happy to be part of the Set the Ground Rules Honeymoon Is team. Sometimes this is • Text, email and social Over! called the “Honeymoon” media are only phase. It’s an exciting time positive and about and everyone tries to bring You’re probably well into the concrete their best. There may be competitive season and communication – successes but with a few have been practicing what time is practice, disappointing performances. diligently. Your team’s hard can I get a ride, who The team may enter the work and commitment may is bringing the Storming stage. In this be paying off with some brushes, etc. stage, individuals start to performance goals • If an issue arises, it explore their own needs and accomplished through will be dealt within how they can get them met. execution of your process 48 hours. Address it They may start to seek to goals. Practices have been early so it doesn’t have these needs fulfilled happening and the team is fester and explode and when it doesn’t happen, sticking to established like a bad pimple. they might express their routines. • Issues and concerns dissatisfaction verbally or are addressed with BUT perhaps you’re starting nonverbally in a less than the player themselves to sense some disquiet, positive way. This stage can not taken to others dissatisfaction or tension. go anywhere from slightly on the team unless Someone knows something uncomfortable to truly they are directly and isn’t saying anything. “storming”. However, if involved. An It’s starting to feel like the needs aren’t met or exception might be proverbial elephant is in the addressed, it can become a that the coach’s living room. At best, the distraction and impact advice can be sought team is ignoring it and still performance. in confidence prior to able to perform relatively Once issues are addressed addressing the issue. well. At worst, performance and/or resolved, the team • This is not personal. is being affected probably goes through a Norming It is about mostly in team stage where everyone gets behaviours, actions communication and that will comfortable again and and statements. ultimately affect the finally into Performing athletes’ ability to do what Stop, Start and Continue where needs are being met they know they can do when and the team has fewer My good friend, Bill they need to do it. distractions. Teams may go Tschirhart, often talks about This phenomenon which was through the last 3 stages Stop, Start and Continue. Individual athletes and the to the facts and the He took 4 chairs and placed coach make three separate interviewee’s job is to them in a square with confidential lists. The first provide the information as everyone facing out when one is everything that is truthfully and objectively as they were seated. They happening on the team that possible. Not providing any couldn’t see each other. needs to Stop, another with “dirt” just the facts. Then a Each player then took turns everything that needs to discussion can follow to saying one thing they like Start happening and finally problem solve. about each of the other everything that needs to players and one action that Anonymous Questions continue. These lists should could be changed. It describe actions, behaviours Players can take turns seemed easier for and statements. They are asking each other questions. communication to take not about who a person is The coach has to do a bit of place when not looking at but what a person does. homework and Stop, Start one another. I tried this with The coach gathers each and Continue might help my daughter’s team years players’ lists and organizes ago and there were tears inform this process. The them so that the information coach will formulate the (teenagers – go figure). contained is kept as questions based on After though, they were back confidential as possible. information from S.S.C. and on track as a team and went Then the task is to review then give each player a for ice cream. It helped the behaviours, actions and question to ask and be feeling like they were heard. statements and what can be answered by the other What is most important is done so that they become players. Questions should addressing issues, not less of a distraction. always be objective and not letting them lay dormant accuse any player on the There Oughta’ be a Law and explode at the most team of anything. inopportune time. If it’s If there is something Suggestion Box going to come to the fore, it happening on the team that will probably be at the is negatively impacting The team “builds” a highest level of competition them, the team and coach suggestion box and the team reaches and no write a law to address the concerns, gratitudes and one wants that. Free your issue. The law is written in acknowledgements can be athletes to perform by such a way that a placed in the box after every reducing the distractions “Philadelphia Lawyer” practice or game. The coach that starts within. couldn’t find a loophole. then goes through the box There is no room for and helps them team ------------------------------------------- misinterpretation. process anything there that Submitted by: needs attention or sharing. The Press Conference ANDREA RONNEBECK Talk without Looking Work with the team, or Education Manager – North individuals if that’s where [email protected] My good friend, Bill the problem is, and tell Charlebois, came up with Phone: 807-466-8351 them to think of themselves this activity. Bill had a team as either the reporter or the of young women who were athlete being interviewed. struggling and in true Bill fashion he met the problem The reporter’s job is to get head on. CLUB COACH STURGEON FALLS Club Coach candidates from the SFCC drew these caricatures depicting all that it means to be a coach. Our favourite: ring on left hand to represent being “engaged”. CROISIER WINS FIRST JR SLAM SERIES EVENT Congratulations to the Idylwylde G&CC’s Team Croisier on winning their opening Junior Slam Series event of the season.