2009 Canada Cup of Curling - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 2009 Canada Cup of Curling was held March 18-22 at the Farrell Agencies Arena

Farrell Agencies Arena

The Farrell Agencies Arena is a 2,300-seat multi-purpose arena in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. It is home to the Yorkton Terriers, a Junior "A" ice hockey team, as well as the Yorkton Harvest, a member of the SMAAAHL....

in Yorkton, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

Teams

Kevin Koe

Kevin Koe is a Canadian curler. Originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, he now resides in Grande Prairie, Alberta and curls out of Edmonton, Alberta. He is the skip of the current World champion team....

(Defending champion) Kevin Martin

Kevin Martin (curler)

Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...

(2008 Brier Champion) Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...

(2008 Player's Championship champion) (dropped out) Bob Ursel
Bob Ursel
Bob "Bobby" Ursel is a Canadian curler who curls out of Kelowna, British Columbia.In 1984, Ursel skipped his native Manitoba to a Canadian Junior Curling Championship...

(Diversified Qualifier) (dropped out) Russ Howard

Russ Howard

Russell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...

(Diversified Qualifier) Mike McEwen

Mike McEwen (curler)

Michael "Mike" McEwen is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. The McEwen team curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg.-Career:...

(Diversified Qualifier) Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

(3rd, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Brad Gushue

Brad Gushue

Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...

(4th, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Wayne Middaugh

Wayne Middaugh

Wayne Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario.Middaugh is a two-time world champion, once as second for Russ Howard in 1993 and as a skip in 1998. He has participated and won in seven and participated in 11 Briers- in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 as Russ Howard's second and in...

(5th, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Kerry Burtnyk

Kerry Burtnyk

Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...

(6th, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Jeff Stoughton

Jeff Stoughton

Jeff Stoughton is a Canadian curler. Stoughton is a three-time Brier champion and two-time World champion as skip.-Career:...

(invited as replacement) Ted Appelman

Ted Appelman

Ted Appelman is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. A former skip, he currently plays second for Randy Ferbey.Appelman has made most of his successes to date as a skip, during the 2008-09 curling season and the 2009-10 curling season. His team was invited to participate in the 2009 Canada...

(invited as replacement)

Standings

Section A	W	L
Martin	4	1
Middaugh	3	2
Gushue	2	3
McEwen	2	3
Howard	1	4
Section B	W	L
Ferbey	4	1
Stoughton	4	1
Koe	3	2
Appelman	1	4
Burtnyk	1	4

Teams

Stefanie Lawton

Stefanie Lawton is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. After an appearance at the 1997 Canadian Junior Championships, she would go on to win the 2000 Championships with the help of her team of sister Marliese Miller , Stacy Helm and Amanda MacDonald . At the worlds that year, she...

(Defending champion) Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones (curler)
Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...

(2008 Scotties champion) (dropped out) Amber Holland

Amber Holland

Amber Holland is a Canadian curler. Holland skipped Saskatchewan's team to a national women's championship in 2011 by defeating defending champion Jennifer Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts...

(2008 Player's Championship champion) Marie-France Larouche

Marie-France Larouche

Marie-France Larouche is a Canadian curler.Larouche is a former national junior curling champion, having won the title in 1999 with her team of Nancy Bélanger, Marie-Ève Létourneau, Valerie Grenier and Véronique Grégoire. Larouche won the championship after four previous unsuccessful attempts...

(JSI Qualifier) Mary-Anne Arsenault

Mary-Anne Arsenault

Mary-Anne Arsenault is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the long time second for Colleen Jones' team with whom she has won five Canadian championships, and two World Curling Championships...

(JSI Qualifier) Sherry Middaugh

Sherry Middaugh

Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....

(JSI Qualifier) Shannon Kleibrink

Shannon Kleibrink

Shannon Kleibrink is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy...

(1st, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Cheryl Bernard

Cheryl Bernard

Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final....

(2nd, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...

(7th, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Cathy King

Cathy King

Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...

(8th, CCA rankings

CCA rankings

Canadian Curling Association rankings, also known as the Canadian Team Ranking System , are a point system used to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada...

as of Dec. 16, 2008) Michelle Englot

Michelle Englot

Michelle Englot ; is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan...

(invited as replacement)

Standings

Section A	W	L
Kleibrink	4	1
Englot	3	2
Arsenault	3	2
Scott	2	3
Middaugh	0	5
Section B	W	L
Larouche	4	1
Bernard	3	2
Holland	2	3
King	2	3
Lawton	2	3

Playoffs

Qualifiers

The four qualifying positions in both the men's and women's events were held December 11-15 , 2008. The men's qualifier was held at the Saville Sports Centre

Saville Sports Centre

The Saville Sports Centre is a sports facility run by the University of Alberta's Faculty of Education and Recreation, where it is located in Edmonton, Alberta. It features a curling rink, tennis courts and a gymnasium....

in Edmonton

Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

while the women's qualifier was held at the Ottawa Curling Club

Ottawa Curling Club

The Ottawa Curling Club is an historic curling club located in downtown Ottawa on O'Connor Street. It is the oldest curling club in Ottawa, established in 1851 by Allan Gilmour as the Bytown Curling Club. The Club first played on the Rideau Canal until 1858...

and Rideau Curling Club

Rideau Curling Club

The Rideau Curling Club is a curling facility and organization located in Ottawa, Ontario. Founded in 1888, the Rideau Curling Club maintains a rivalry with the Ottawa Curling Club.-History:...

in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

Diversified Transportation Canada Cup Qualifier (Men)

Teams: Mike Anderson Ted Appelman

Ted Appelman

Greg Balsdon

Greg Balsdon is a Canadian curler from the Toronto area.In 1995, Balsdon won the Ontario Schoolboy championship for his Don Mills Collegiate Institute team. In 1996, he won the provincial junior mixed title....

David Bohn Kerry Burtnyk

Kerry Burtnyk

Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...

Reid Carruthers

Reid Carruthers is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He currently plays second on the Jeff Stoughton rink. Carruthers is a former junior provincial champion in 2003 and a Manitoba provincial mixed champion in 2008, both as a skip...

Trevor Clifford Chad Cowan Robert Desjardins

Robert Desjardins

Robert Desjardins was a Canadian professional goaltender who had a stellar junior and university career but only a short professional career....

Simon Dupuis Randy Dutiaume

Randy Dutiaume

Randy Dutiaume is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba.Dutiaume was relatively unknown to curling until 2005, having only participated in the 2003 Manitoba men's championship finishing 0-2...

Jeff Erickson Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

Martin Ferland

Martin Ferland is a Canadian curler from Trois-Rivières.Ferland was a member of the 2007 Quebec champion team, that was skipped by Pierre Charette. Ferland threw last stones for the team. At that first Brier, Ferland's team finished with a 4-7 record.Ferland was also the 1989 provincial junior...

Sean Geall Brad Gushue

Brad Gushue

Brad Heidt

Brad Heidt is a Canadian curler from Kerrobert, Saskatchewan. He is a two-time provincial champion.In 1982, Heidt and his team of Wayne Charteris, John Whetter and Warren Rechenmacher finished 5-6 at the Labatt Brier. He won his second provincial championship 13 years later, sending him to the 1995...

Russ Howard

Russell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...

Brad Jacobs

Brad Jacobs (curler)

Brad Jacobs is a Canadian curler. Jacobs is a three-time Northern Ontario "provincial" champion, and one time provincial junior champion....

Joel Jordison Jamie King Jamie Koe

Jamie Koe

Jamie Koe is a Canadian curler. He has played in several Briers though has yet to claim the national championship. He is the brother of Alberta curler, Kevin Koe and twin brother of territorial champion Kerry Galusha.-World Curling Tour:Team Jamie Koe has played on the World Curling Tour in the...

Kevin Koe

Marc Lecocq Rob Maksymetz Kevin Martin

Kevin Martin (curler)

Mike McEwen

Mike McEwen (curler)

Michael "Mike" McEwen is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. The McEwen team curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg.-Career:...

Rick McKague Darrell McKee

Darrell McKee

Darrell McKee is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is a two-time provincial champion.McKee and Bruce Korte have long been team mates, and together, formed teams among the best in Saskatchewan. They have been on again-off again team mates since 1998...

Wayne Middaugh

Greg Monkman Darren Moulding Richard Muntain Shane Park Daley Peters

Daley Peters

Daley Peters is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was back to back Manitoba Junior curling champion in 2004 and 2005, the first Junior Mens skip to repeat in Manitoba in nearly a decade. He is currently curling with his father and former Labatt Brier champion, Vic Peters...

Dan Petryk Steve Petryk Dean Ross

Dean Ross

Dean Ross is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. He was the first man to represent Canada at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships....

Chris Schille Pat Simmons

Pat Simmons (curler)

Pat Simmons is a Canadian curler. Simmons has skipped team Saskatchewan in four straight Briers from 2005 to 2008.Simmons made it to his first Brier in 2005 after winning his first provincial championship...

Jeff Stoughton

Jeff Stoughton is a Canadian curler. Stoughton is a three-time Brier champion and two-time World champion as skip.-Career:...

Dale Swyripa Bob Ursel

Bob Ursel

Bob "Bobby" Ursel is a Canadian curler who curls out of Kelowna, British Columbia.In 1984, Ursel skipped his native Manitoba to a Canadian Junior Curling Championship...

Wade White

John Shea Insurance Canada Cup Qualifier
John Shea Insurance Canada Cup Qualifier
The John Shea Insurance Canada Cup Qualifier was an annual curling bonspiel held at the Ottawa and Rideau Curling Clubs in Ottawa, Canada. In odd years, the event was a qualifier for the men's Canada Cup of Curling while in even years the event is the women's qualifier...

(Women)

Teams: Sherry Anderson

Sherry Anderson

Sherry Anderson is a Canadian curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan.Anderson has been to five Scott Tournament of Hearts, four as a skip. Her first Scotts were in 1994 when her team lost in the semi-final. Anderson returned the following year, but finished out of the playoffs at 6-5...

Mary-Anne Arsenault

Ève Bélisle

Ève Bélisle is a Canadian curler and amateur ornithologist from Montreal. She is employed at the Center for Reseatch in Computational Thermochemistry at École Polytechnique....

Cheryl Bernard

Suzanne Birt

Suzanne Birt is a Canadian curler from Covehead, Prince Edward Island....

Maureen Bonar

Maureen Bonar is a Canadian curler.Bonar is a four time provincial champion- twice as a skip.After having won the 1982 provincial junior championships as skip, Bonar joined up with Patti Vande as her lead and won the 1983 provincial championships earning them the right to represent Manitoba at the...

Suzanne Boudreault Chrissy Cadorin Chelsea Carey

Chelsea Carey

Chelsea Carey is a Canadian curler.Carey is the daughter of former Brier champion Dan Carey.Carey curled in six provincial junior championships, but did not win the event. She did win the 2000 Juvenile Provincial championship which she followed up with a silver medal at the 2001 Canadian Juvenile...

Chantelle Eberle Michelle Englot

Michelle Englot

Michelle Englot ; is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan...

Kerri Flett Alison Goring

Alison Goring

Alison Goring is a Canadian curler.Goring is a former Canadian champion skip, having won the 1990 Scott Tournament of Hearts. She was also a successful junior curler, having won the 1983 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.Goring won her first provincial championship in 1990...

Jenn Hanna

Jennifer Ann Hanna is a Canadian curler who curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts.-Personal life:...

Julie Hastings

Julie Hastings is a Canadian curler from Markham, Ontario.Hastings is a semi-successful skip on the Women's World Curling Tour circuit...

Amber Holland

Rachel Homan

Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian curler from Orleans, Ontario. Homan is a former Canadian Junior Champion.-Career:...

Tracy Horgan

Tracy Horgan is a Canadian curler.Horgan is a three time Northern Ontario junior champion skip, having won the "provincial" championship in 2005, 2006 and 2007....

Kristie Jenion Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones (curler)

Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...

Andrea Kelly

Andrea Kelly is a Canadian curler from Aroostook, New Brunswick.Andrea is originally from Aroostook, New Brunswick and started curling in her youth at the Perth-Andover Legion Curling Club along with her brothers Blake and Michael.Kelly skipped Team New Brunswick in both the 2002 and 2004 Canadian...

Cathy King

Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...

Shannon Kleibrink

Marie-France Larouche

Carrie Lindner

Carrie Lindner is a Canadian curler from Sarnia, Ontario.Her Bradford, Ontario team of Trisha Bourgeois, Lindsay Osborne, Megan Balsdon won the Ontario junior women's championship in 2001. This qualified them for that year's Canadian Junior Curling Championships in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her...

Krista McCarville Jolene McIvor Sherry Middaugh

Sherry Middaugh

Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....

Kristie Moore

Kristie Moore is a Canadian curler. She was the alternate player on the Canadian women's team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was five months pregnant at the time, making her only the third Olympic athlete to be pregnant during Olympic competition...

Jill Mouzar

Jillian Mouzar [pronounced MOW-zer] is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently plays lead for Kirsten Wall's Oakville, Ontario rink.Mouzar started curling in Liverpool, Nova Scotia...

Shelley Nichols

Shelley Nichols is a Canadian curler from St. John's.Nichols played third for Jennifer Guzzwell at the 2002 and 2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. The team lost the 2002 final to Suzanne Gaudet of Prince Edward Island...

Hollie Nicol Brit O'Neill Chantal Osborne

Chantal Osborne

Chantal Osborne born on June 17, 1966 in Ottawa, Ontario is a Canadian curler. She currently skips at team out of the Club de Curling Thurso in Thurso, Quebec. She is a five time Scotties Tournament of Hearts participant.-1992–2000:...

Karen Porritt Heather Rankin

Heather Rankin

Heather Rankin is a Canadian curler currently residing in Alberta.While living in Nova Scotia, Rankin won the provincial junior championships in 1984 and would skip the Nova Scotia team at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships...

Julie Reddick

Julie Reddick is a Canadian curler from Oakville, Ontario.Reddick is a three time provincial junior champion, and a Canadian mixed champion....

Allison Ross Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...

Renée Sonnenberg

Renée Sonnenberg is a Canadian curler from Grande Prairie, Alberta.Sonnenberg is two time provincial champion....

Barb Spencer Cindy Street Heather Strong

Heather Strong

Heather Strong is a Canadian curler.Strong is the current Provincial Director of the Terry Fox Foundation and an avid curler...

Crystal Webster

Crystal Webster is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Webster skips one of the top teams in Alberta, but due to the depth in the province, she has been unable to get out of the province to the Canadian national championships.In 2009, Webster was the first qualifier at the Canadian Olympic...

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