Canadian Seniors At Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club

Read the Curling News item about the World Financial Group Seniors which started Saturday at the Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club.

Ford World Women's starts Saturday in Swift Current

SWIFT CURRENT, Saskatchewan, March 17...The 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, presented by Monsanto, gets underway Saturday at the Credit Union i-plex in Swift Current. It's the second time that a world women's curling championship has been held in Saskatchewan. In 1983, the event took place in Moose Jaw and was won by Switzerland's Erika Müller. Full story...

Canadians win wheelchair curling gold

VANCOUVER — Team Canada successfully defended its 2006 Paralympic wheelchair curling gold medal Saturday, defeating Korea 8-7 in the final played before a capacity crowd of 5,500. Earlier Saturday, Canada earned its spot in the championship game with a 10-5 triumph over Sweden. Full story....

OVCA Ottawa Men's Bonspiel

The bonspiel started Tuesday night at area clubs. Draw and results are up on the bonspiel website. Grand Aggregate finals are at Granite on Sunday at 1 pm and 5 pm. Dean Hibbard is looking after the official draw and can be reached at 613-894-7968.

OVCA Little Rock Championship

Congratulations to Travis Barber, Hayden Richmond, Ryley Gemmill, and Tyler Hawkins from Perth Curling Club on winning the 2010 Little Rock Championship.
Runners up were from Richmond Curling Club: Mitchell Jeffs, Thomas Ryan, Emma Jeffs and William Anderson

Orphan Clinic at Huntley

For Junior and Bantam players looking for a team, or teams looking for a player, an Orphan Clinic will be held on Sunday April 18 at Huntley Curling Club from 10 am to 12:30 pm. Contact Jill Rivington for more information.

Team Delaney

Navy Curling Club had a sendoff party for Team Delaney on March 11. At right is Bruce Delaney's Senior Men's Champions who will be representing Canada at the World Seniors in Chelyabinsk, Russia April 16-24. Left to right: Bruce Delaney, Rick Bachand, Duncan Jamieson and George Mitchell.

OVCA Teams win Quebec Seniors

Congratulations to Pierre Charette of Thurso and Agnes Charette (no relation) of Buckingham who will represent Quebec at the World Financial Group Seniors at the Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club March 20-28, 2010.

Governor Generals/Lady Tweedsmuir

Winners of the Governor Generals at Granite on Saturday February 13 was Sherbrooke, and winners of the Lady Tweedsmuir was Glenmore. To see the list of teams, see the Branch or LCA page.

Go Canada

Above are some of the hardy curlers who showed up at Dow's Lake this morning at 8 am for the Flash Mob to cheer on our Olympic athletes in curling and speedskating. Thanks go to Liz Armstrong for organizing this event on behalf of the OVCA for the NCC. Watch for an update as to where the video will be posted.

OVCA Mixed Bonspiel Winners

Congratulation to the 2010 OVCA Mixed Bonspiel Safeguard Trophy winner Chris Gardner of Ottawa Curling Club. Senior winner was Serge Denis, also of Ottawa Curling Club, a repeat from last year. Other event winners: Paul Madden of Rideau, David Cormier of Huntley, Luc Landiault of Navan, Bob Walker of Granite, and Layne Noble of Rideau (filling in for Wally Morris). See the full draw and results on the OVCA Mixed Bonspiel website.

L to R: Doug Sears, Chris Gardner, Rhonda Varnes, Keith Coulthardt, Jessica Barcauskas and Safeguard's Yvan Dubeau.

Ottawa's Rachel Homan is Canadian Junior Champ

SOREL-TRACY, Que. -- Ontario's Rachel Homan capped an undefeated run at the Canadian junior curling championship by beating Dailene Sivertson's B.C. rink 9-5 on Sunday. It is the first Canadian junior title for skip Rachel Homan, third Emma Miskew, second Laura Crocker and lead Lynn Kreviazuk, along with coach Earle Morris. Full Story...

Navy Cooks in support of Haiti fundraiser

Above, Ken Hannaberry, André Paquette, and René Boucher are in the kitchen at Navy curling club cooking up a stew for the OVCA Mixed.

School Curling

A brochure is available for curling clubs to distribute to elementary schools near them who might be interested in having their students learn to curl. Download the brochure for more information.