Caledonian Curling Club

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The Caledonian Curling Club, also known as the Callie, is a curling club located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Established in 1915, the club is among the oldest in the province and has been the home of many championship teams, including the Sandra Schmirler rink, which won three provincial, national, and world championships in the 1990s and the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Caledonian Curling Club
The Callie
Location2225 Sandra Schmirler Way
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4W 1B6
Information
Established1915; 109 years ago (1915)
Club typeDedicated ice
Curling Canada regionSCA Regina
Sheets of iceTwelve
Rock coloursRed and yellow   
Websitehttp://www.callieclub.com/

The Callie merged with the Tartan Curling Club in 2018, leaving it as one of two clubs in Regina, alongside the Highland Curling Club.

History

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On 7 October 1915, curlers gathered in Slater and Finlayson's store to discuss prospects for the formation of a second curling club in Regina; it was agreed that a second club would prove beneficial to the interests of curling in the city, and that the additional rink would provide better accommodation for the provincial bonspiel. The club was officially established on 14 October 1915, when it was christened the Caledonian Curling Club of Regina. C. J. Watson, who had chaired the meetings, was named the first president of the club.[citation needed]

The club was originally situated on the Regina Fair Grounds, moving between various buildings before settling in the Grain Show Building by 1933. In November 1978, the club moved to its current location next to the Regina International Airport.[1]

In 2015, the club marked its 100th anniversary with a multi-day 100-end curling match.[2]

In 2018, the Callie absorbed the former Tartan Curling Club when it closed.[3]

In 2023, the Callie began hosting the Queen City Curling League, the province's second LGBT curling league after the Prairie Lily Curling League was established at Saskatoon's Nutana Curling Club in 2014.[4][5]

Champions

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The Callie is noted for being the home of Sandra Schmirler's world championship team.[1] Schmirler, along with third Jan Betker, second Joan McCusker, and lead Marcia Gudereit, won three national and World Championships in the 1990s before winning the first Olympic gold medal in women's curling in 1998. In 2019, the team was voted first in a national ranking of the best ever women's curling teams.[6] After Schmirler died in 2000, Betker skipped two more provincial championship teams.

Long before the Schmirler team's success, the Callie produced the first women's team to win an inter-provincial competition when Janet Perkin's rink won the 1953 Western Canadian Ladies' Championship, which was hosted in Regina.[7] In 1980, Marj Mitchell's team won Canada's first Women's World Championship in the second ever edition of the event in Perth, Scotland.[8] In 1990, the Atina Ford rink won the Canadian Junior Championship, while Nancy Kerr's team won the 2003 Canadian and World Seniors titles.[9] Overall, the Callie has been the home of fifteen women's provincial champions.

On the men's side, the Callie has been home to four Canadian Junior Champions, as well as the 2005 World Junior Champion Kyle George rink.[10] In 1998, Gary Bryden's rink won the Canadian Senior Championship.[11] Altogether, Caledonian rinks have claimed six men's provincial championships.

The club also secured a Canadian Mixed Curling title in 1996, with Randy Bryden's rink, featuring brother Russ and sisters Cathy Trowell (Inglis) and Karen Inglis, winning the championship.[12]

Major titles by Callie rinks[13]
Year Event Skip Third Second Lead Nationals record
2013 SaskTel Tankard Brock Virtue Braeden Moskowy Chris Schille D. J. Kidby 5–6
2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championship Braeden Moskowy Kirk Muyres Colton Flasch Matt Lang 13–0
2007 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts Jan Betker Lana Vey Nancy Inglis Marcia Gudereit 10–3
2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championship
World Junior Curling Championship
Kyle George Justin Mihalicz D. J. Kidby Chris Hebert 11–2
2003 Canadian Senior Curling Championship
World Senior Curling Championship
Nancy Kerr Linda Burnham Kenda Richards Gertie Pick 11–2
2003 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Jan Betker Sherry Linton Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit 7–5
2002 Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Tankard Scott Bitz Mark Lang Brian McCusker Kelly Moskowy 7–5
2001 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Michelle Ridgway Lorie Kehler Roberta Materi Joan Stricker 4–7
2000 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts June Campbell Cathy Walter Karen Daku Leanne Whitrow 8–4
1998 Winter Olympics Sandra Schmirler Jan Betker Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit
1998 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Cathy Trowell Kristy Lewis Karen Daku Keri-Lynn Schikowski 6–6
1998 Canadian Senior Curling Championship Gary Bryden Dale Graham Wilf Foss Jerry Zimmer 10–2
1997 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts
Scott Tournament of Hearts
World Women's Curling Championship
Sandra Schmirler Jan Betker Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit 11–2
1996 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Randy Bryden Cathy Trowell Russ Bryden Karen Inglis 11–3
1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts
World Women's Curling Championship
Sandra Peterson Jan Betker Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit 11–1
1993 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts
Scott Tournament of Hearts
World Women's Curling Championship
Sandra Peterson Jan Betker Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit 10–2
1992 Labatt Tankard Brad Hebert Warren Sharp Bob Novakowski Kerry Gudereit 5–6
1991 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Sandra Peterson Jan Betker Joan Inglis Marcia Schiml 8–5
1990 Canadian Junior Curling Championship Atina Ford Darlene Kidd Leslie Beck Cindy Ford 10–2
1984 Labatt Tankard Gary Bryden Dale Graham Wilf Foss Jerry Zimmer 7–5
1982 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Arleen Day Shirley McKendry Velva Squire Dorthy Hepper 8–4
1980 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts
Canadian Ladies Curling Association Championship
World Women's Curling Championship
Marj Mitchell Nancy Kerr Shirley McKendry Wendy Leach 9–4
1977 Macdonald Tankard Les Rogers Greg Manwaring Morris Tait Vic Rogers 5–6
1975 Saskatchewan Lassies' Curling Championship Marj Mitchell Kenda Richards Nancy Kerr Florence Sanna 7–3
1967 Saskatchewan Ladies' Curling Championship Betty Clarke Enid Anderson Jean Broeder Beverly Langton 5–4
1964 Saskatchewan Ladies' Curling Championship Janet Perkin Kay Krug Joyce Miller Doreen Thomas 5–4
1959 Saskatchewan Ladies' Curling Championship Janet Perkin Win Rogers Joyce Miller B. Malesh
1956 National Schoolboys Championship Bob Hawkins Ted Clarke Bruce Beveridge Dave Williams
1953 Saskatchewan Ladies' Curling Championship
Western Canadian Ladies' Championship
Janet Perkin Phyllis Day Jean Graham Joyce Miller 3–1
1950 National Schoolboys Championship Bill Clarke Gary Carlson Ian Innes Harold Grassie
1949 Macdonald Tankard Harold Horeak Edward Richter John Heaney Ernest Kittleson 4–5

Tartan Curling Club merger

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Tartan Curling Club
Location1464 Broadway Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4P 1E2
Information
Established1948
Club typeDedicated ice
Closed2018
Sheets of iceTen
Rock coloursRed and blue   

In 2018, the Callie absorbed the former Tartan Curling Club, which closed the doors at its Broadway Avenue location after 60 years of operating there.[3][14] At the time of the closure, the two clubs proposed a merger to help stabilize curling in the city.[15] The Tartan was founded in 1948 as the Civil Service Curling Club, which later merged with the Community Co-operative Curling Association and changed its name to the Tartan. The club opened a ten-sheet artificial ice rink in 1958. In 2003, the Tartan absorbed the Wheat City Curling Club upon its closure.[16] The Tartan itself was the home of a number of provincial championship rinks, including Randy Woytowich's mixed rink that went undefeated en route to the 1984 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship.[17]

Provincial titles by Tartan rinks
Year Event Skip Third Second Lead Nationals record
2012 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Jason Ackerman Chantelle Eberle Dean Hicke Colleen Ackerman 11–4
2012 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts Michelle Englot Lana Vey Roberta Materi Sarah Slywka 5–6
2011 SaskTel Tankard Steve Laycock Pat Simmons Brennen Jones Dallan Muyres 4–7
2008 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts Michelle Englot Darlene Kidd Roberta Materi Cindy Simmons 5–6
1993 Labatt Tankard Randy Woytowich Brian McCusker Wyatt Buck John Grundy 6–5
1992 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Michelle Schneider Kathy Fahlman Joan Stricker Lorie Kehler 7–4
1991 Labatt Tankard Randy Woytowich Brian McCusker Wyatt Buck John Grundy 8–4
1990 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Michelle Schneider Kathy Fahlman Joan Stricker Lorie Kehler 6–5
1989 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Michelle Schneider Joan Stricker Lorie Kehler Leanne Eberle 8–5
1988 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Michelle Schneider Jan Herauf Lorie Kehler Leanne Eberle 9–3
1987 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts Kathy Fahlman Sandra Schmirler Jan Betker Sheila Schneider 7–5
1984 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Randy Woytowich Kathy Fahlman Brian McCusker Jan Betker 12–0

See also

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References

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  2. ^ Hamilton, Ian (2016-01-01). "Callie Curling Club marks 100th anniversary with 100-end curling match". Regina Leader-Post. Archived from the original on 2016-01-02. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
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  4. ^ "LGTBQ2S+ Curling in Canada". pridecurl.ca. Canadian Pride Curling Association. Archived from the original on 2024-02-05. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  5. ^ Spray, Hannah (2014-09-02). "Gay curling league takes to the ice". Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
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  8. ^ "1980 Marj Mitchell Curling Team". Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  9. ^ "2003 Nancy Kerr Curling Team". Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
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  17. ^ "1984 Randy Woytowich Mixed Curling Team". Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2023-02-07. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
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