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All rights reserved. 3 FB18_Contents_F.indd 2 2017-09-28 10:46 AM FB18_Contents_F.indd 3 2017-09-28 10:46 AM WORLD CURLING FEDERATION EXECUTIVE BOARD DIRECTOR OF COMPETITIONS AND DEVELOPMENT PRESIDENT PRESIDENT Kate Caithness THE WORLD Kate Caithness of Scotland Keith Wendorf Scotland’s Kate Caithness is CURLING FEDERATION Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] the first female president of the World Curling Federation and The World Curling Federation is the recognized VICE-PRESIDENT, AMERICAS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER the first female president of any governing body of curling in the world. Graham Prouse of Canada Richard Harding Olympic winter sports federation. The WCF’s first formal constitution was Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] First elected president of approved in 1967 under the original charter of the WCF in April 2010 and re-elected without VICE-PRESIDENT, EUROPE the International Curling Federation in Perth, COMPETITIONS AND opposition in 2012 and 2014, Caithness has been Scotland. The constitution was significantly Bent Ånund Ramsfjell of Norway involved with the sport of curling since the 1980s. DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS adjusted in 1982, when the federation was Email: [email protected] As a member of Scotland’s Royal Caledonian Scott Arnold Curling Club, she went from playing the game declared independent from Scotland’s Royal VICE-PRESIDENT, PACIFIC-ASIA Email: [email protected] to putting something back into the sport in the Caledonian Curling Club, to which its original Hugh Millikin of Australia Darrell Ell late 1990s. She served as president of the RCCC constitution had been tied. In 1991, the official Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ladies’ Branch in 1997-98, then became an RCCC name was changed to World Curling Federation. representative to the World Curling Federation. Further significant changes were made in 1994. SECRETARY GENERAL Eeva Röthlisberger Email: [email protected] Since 2000, Caithness has been the driving The WCF has a four-part mandate: Colin Grahamslaw of Scotland force behind the WCF’s development of wheelchair Email: [email protected] BROADCAST AND MEDIA curling. She was on the team that created the first • To represent curling internationally and to facilitate the growth of the sport through a DIRECTORS Joanna Kelly World Wheelchair Curling Championship and was instrumental in the sport’s inclusion at the network of member associations Broadcast manager Andy Anderson of the United States 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy. Email: [email protected] • To formulate rules of the sport of curling for Email: [email protected] From 2005 to ’09 Caithness was an elected world competition and all other competitions Hew Chalmers of Scotland Cameron MacAllister member of the International Paralympic Email: [email protected] Communications and media relations manager Committee’s five-person Sports Council approved by the WCF and to further the Email: [email protected] interests of world curling Cathrine Lindahl of Sweden Management Committee and she served on the Email: [email protected] Lesley McCrae Paralympic Games Committee from 2006 to ’09. • To conduct world curling competitions Broadcast projects officer Caithness was elected vice-president of the Toyo Ogawa of Japan Email: [email protected] WCF in 2006 and served two two-year terms • To provide co-operation and mutual Email: [email protected] understanding among member associations Chris Hamilton under former president Les Harrison. and to unite curlers throughout the world Digital media officer In March 2011, Caithness was appointed to the Email: [email protected] Olympic Program Commission, responsible for reviewing and analyzing the sports, disciplines and WORLD CURLING FEDERATION events program, as well as the number of athletes in 3 Atholl Crescent FOLLOW WEB www.worldcurling.org each sport, for the Summer and Winter Olympics. Perth, Scotland FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/WorldCurlingFederation Married and the mother of two sons, PH1 5NG Caithness became a grandmother in 2008. She WORLD CURLING YOUTUBE www.youtube.com/user/WorldCurlingTV Tel: 44-1738-451-630 spends her free time with family and, when FEDERATION TWITTER @worldcurling Email: [email protected] she has a chance, curling and playing golf at Web: www.worldcurling.org ACTIVITIES AT: LINKEDIN www.linkedin.com/company/world-curling-federation her home club in Edzell, Angus, where she was the Lady Captain from 2002 to ’04. 4 5 FB18_WCF_Management.indd 4 2017-09-28 1:32 PM FB18_WCF_Management.indd 5 2017-09-28 1:32 PM ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CURLING CANADA CURLING CANADA EXTENDS ITS SINCERE APPRECIATION TO ITS PARTNERS AND ITS 14 MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS AND 14 AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS. BOARD OF GOVERNORS PARTNERS RESBY COUTTS event to Winnipeg in nearly 20 years; Season of Champions Sponsors Official Broadcaster Chair co-chaired the 2011 Canadian mixed in Morris, Resby Coutts became the first still the smallest community to host a Canadian member of Winnipeg’s Fort championship; and was executive director of Rouge Curling Club to serve in the 1995 Ford Worlds in Brandon. As a member the senior volunteer position of the board of governors, Coutts has chaired Funding Partners at Curling Canada when he the Constitution Review Committee and took over as the chair of the spearheaded a major overhaul of the board of governors for the 2017-18 season. organization’s bylaws through the past His election to the board in 2015 followed two seasons. a six-year term on the board of CurlManitoba, Recognition for contributions to the sport including two years as president, and nearly two have come in the form of a Manitoba Curling decades of volunteer involvement with the major Association Honorary Life Membership in 1992, 1 Colour championship events in Manitoba, mainly in inclusion on the Westman Millennium Curling Cyan 22 media and marketing and as an emcee. Wall of Fame in 2000, and membership in the Magenta 100 Yellow 89 Black 15 Coutts’s term on the board of governors marks Governor General’s Curling Club in 2013. nearly five decades of curling volunteerism, Coutts learned to play and love the game Business Partners beginning when he was intramural curling in a one-sheet curling rink in the mid-1950s co-ordinator at the University of Manitoba. in the now-disappeared community of Elva, in He chaired the Manitoba Men’s Safeway southwestern Manitoba, and has been playing Championship