CURLING CANADA • 2021 HOME HARDWARE CANADIAN MIXED DOUBLES CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY NATURE’S BOUNTY VITAMINS • MEDIA GUIDE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION Board of Governors & National Staff 3 Media Information 4 EVENT INFORMATION Fact Sheet 5 Draw & Playoff Bracket 9 Practice Schedule 11 TEAM & PLAYER INFORMATION Rosters 14 Pools 15 Team Biograpphies 16 Alberta 16 British Columbia 17 Manitoba 18 New Brunswick 19 Newfoundland & Labrador 20 Northern Ontario 21 Northwest Territories 22 Nova Scotia 23 Nunavut 23 Ontario 24 Prince Edward Island 25 Quebec 26 Saskatchewan 27 Yukon 28 Birchard/Schneider 29 Courtney/Moulding 31 Desjardins/Desjardins 33 Einarson/Gushue 34 Grandy/Janssen 36 Hawes/Tardi 38 Jones/Laing 40 Kitz/Kleibrink 42 Lawes/Lawes 43 Martin/Griffith 45 Meilleur/Nichols 46 Miskew/Fry 49 Njegovan/Carruthers 51 Peterman/Gallant 53 Sahaidak/Lott 55 Sauder/Bottcher 56 Schmiemann/Morris 57 Sweeting/Kennedy 60 Tuck/Tuck 62 Walker/Muyres 64 Weagle/Epping 66 HISTORICAL INFORMATION Canadian Mixed Doubles Records 68 Player Appearances (All-Time) 71 CURLING CANADA • 2021 HOME HARDWARE CANADIAN MIXED DOUBLES CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY NATURE’S BOUNTY VITAMINS • MEDIA GUIDE 2 BOARD OF GOVERNORS & NATIONAL STAFF CURLING CANADA 1660 Vimont Court Orléans, ON K4A 4J4 TEL: (613) 834-2076 FAX: (613) 834-0716 TOLL FREE: 1-800-550-2875 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Mitch Minken, Chair Chana Martineau, Governor Donna Krotz, Governor Kathy O’Rourke, Governor Amy Nixon, Governor Mike Szajewski, Governor Paul Addison, Governor Darren Oryniak, Governor Cathy Dalziel, Governor NATIONAL STAFF Katherine Henderson, Chief Executive Officer Marcy Hrechkosy, Event Manager Bill Merklinger, Executive Director, Corporate Services Kyle Jahns, Manager, Communication & Media Relations Karen Ryan, Executive Assistant Robyn Mattie, Manager, Curling Club Championship Stephanie Carbonette, Comptroller Helen Radford, Manager, Program Development Youth Feeder System Al Cameron, Director, Communication & Media Relations Casey Sweeney, Manager, Reporting and Strategic Projects Danny Lamoureux, Director, Club Development & Event Rachel Delaney, Coordinator, Development & Championship Operations Services Marylou Morris, Director, Client Services, National Marketing Louise Delorme, Coordinator, National Athlete Services & Coaching Gerry Peckham, Director, High Performance Melissa Hicks, Sales Account Coordinator, Local Sponsorships, Event Operations Justin Perry, Director, Information Services & Technology Maddie Kelly, Marketing and Office Coordinator Nolan Thiessen, Director, Broadcast, Marketing, Innovation Amanda MacKenzie, Marketing and Office Coordinator and Event Presentation and Athlete Liaison Brodie Bazinet, Foundation Manager Louise Sauvé, Administrative Assistant Andy Henry, Manager, Marketing & Tickets JoAnne Viau, Coordinator, Financial Services Neil Houston, Event Manager CURLING CANADA • 2021 HOME HARDWARE CANADIAN MIXED DOUBLES CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY NATURE’S BOUNTY VITAMINS • MEDIA GUIDE 3 MEDIA INFORMATION INTERVIEW REGULATIONS/PROCEDURES All 2021 Home Hardware Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, presented by Nature’s Bounty Vitamins, media interviews will be virtual. Accredited media will receive a Zoom link that will be valid for the entirety of the event. Players will be brought to the mixed zone upon completion of their games and available for five-minute media scrums. It is the responsibility of the accredited media member to be on the Zoom call upon completion of the game as players will not be available after leaving the mixed zone unless pre-arranged in advance. All media scrums will be uploaded to Curling Canada’s YouTube page as soon as possible after each draw. Media scrums will only be conducted during the three middle draws of the day (11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. MST) with winning teams during the round robin. For teams/players not available during those times, please contact Curling Canada at [email protected] and staff will do its best to arrange a phone interview. Beginning on Wednesday, March 24 media scrums will be conducted after all draws during the playoffs. DRAW STATISTICS Live scores and stats are updated in real-time and can be viewed online at the Curling Canada scoreboard page. If you would like to receive the Draw Stats media report by email, please contact Al Cameron ([email protected] or 403-463-5500) TV NON-RIGHTS HOLDERS TSN is sole TV rights-holder for this event. However, in order to provide other stations and/or networks with an opportunity to get brief game/highlight footage, broadcast media may air two minutes of game footage daily, and must provide credit to TSN. TV non-rights holders may use as much post-game media scrum footage as they wish. No live hits, stand-ups or recording of non-broadcast games will be allowed to occur inside WinSport Arena at Canada Olympic Park. PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES Curling Canada will have a photographer at this event. Media outlets in need of photos should e-mail [email protected]. CURLING CANADA • 2021 HOME HARDWARE CANADIAN MIXED DOUBLES CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY NATURE’S BOUNTY VITAMINS • MEDIA GUIDE 4 FACT SHEET OFFICIAL NAME: 2021 Home Hardware Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, presented by Nature’s Bounty Vitamins DATE/SITE: March 18-25, 2021 - WinSport Arena at Canada Olympic Park SEATING CAPACITY: 2,500 (not applicable) FORMAT: Thirty-five teams will compete in five pools of seven. The 35 teams were selected by the following criteria: • 14 Member Associations (provinces and territories) • 14 teams from the Canadian Mixed Doubles Rankings [CMDR] based on results from March 15, 2019 and March 15, 2020 (teams must have played at least two mixed doubles events during the season) • Seven teams unable to compete this season due to COVID-19 but had committed to playing mixed doubles together. (Rankings are based on each player’s best three CTRS points events from the 2019/2020 season combined with their partners. All players must be part of Curling Canada’s National Team program) Teams will play six games in their respective pools. The top 12 teams will advance to the playoff bracket with the top four seeds receiving a bye. The remaining playoff games will be: 8v9, 5v12, 7v10 and 6v11. Winners advance to play the top four seeds in the Round of Eight. Teams that advance through the Round of Eight will officially qualify for the Page playoff, and will play one Page Seeding game where the winners advance to the 1v2 game and the losers play in the 3v4 game. The winner of the 1v2 game advances directly to the final and the loser plays in the semifinal. The winner of the 3v4 game advances to the semifinal and loser is out. The winner of the semifinal game will advance to the final where the 2021 Canadian mixed doubles champion will be crowned. INTERNET: Draw results and event information can be obtained at: https://www.curling.ca/2021mixeddoubles/ TELEVISION: TSN, RDS2, ESPN3 WINNERS EARN: • Opportunity to represent Canada at the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, pending an announcement from the World Curling Federation. Total purse: $150,000 1st: $50,000 5th-8th: $6,500 2nd: $30,000 9th-12th: $3,500 3rd: $20,000 4th: $10,000 CURLING CANADA • 2021 HOME HARDWARE CANADIAN MIXED DOUBLES CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY NATURE’S BOUNTY VITAMINS • MEDIA GUIDE 5 GAME DURATION: In the round robin, games are scheduled for eight ends with a minimum of six ends played and completed before a team may concede. ROUND ROBIN RED teams (first team on the draw) will begin their six-minute practice 20 minutes prior to PRE-GAME PRACTICES: the scheduled game time. Immediately following the RED pre-game practice, each player will deliver a stone to the button - one clockwise to the away end and one counter-clockwise to the home end. Both will be measured and combined to determine the team’s LSD value. YELLOW teams will begin their practice immediately following the RED teams draw to the button. After their six-minute practice, each player will deliver a stone to the button - one counter-clockwise to the away end and one clockwise to the home end. Both will be measured and combined to determine the team’s LSD value. Full sweeping is allowed. Each player must throw at least three clockwise and three counterclockwise turns during the round robin. Teams opposing each other in the game shall use the Last Stone Draw (LSD) process to determine which team has the decision on the placement of the stones for the first end. The team with the lesser combined LSD distance shall have the decision. For the purpose of event ranking, the two highest individual distances of the twelve draws will be discarded. The remaining total distance from the round robin will be used to rank teams. GAME TIMING: “Thinking Time” will be used. Each team will receive 24 minutes to complete an eight-end game. Extra ends will be 3 minutes each for each team. Your clock will run when: • All stones have come to rest and stones in an out of play position have been moved behind the back line AND • The sweeper(s) and person who has just delivered have moved to the side of the sheet AND • The person in charge of the house has relinquished control of the house AND • The person in charge of the house who is now the “delivering team” has taken control of the house. A team’s game clock stops once the stone has reached the tee line at the delivery end. TIMEOUTS: Each team is allotted 2 - ninety second time-outs when their team clock will be stopped. Please signify to your Game Umpire and Time Clock Operator that you are calling a time-out. The Coach may attend the time-out. The team that did not request the time-out may meet with their coach (positioned behind the scoreboard). Each team will receive 1 - ninety second team time-out for each extra end.