CurlManitoba Executive Director Craig Baker has announced new title and presenting sponsors and a new name for the Manitoba Women’s Curling Championship. The first event under the new branding will be played in 2025 in Pilot Mound. It will be the CurlManitoba RME WOMEN OF THE RINGS CHAMPIONSHIP presented by Case IH. “The RME Women of the Rings presented by Case IH expands the support of curling in Manitoba which began a few years ago when Rocky Mountain Equipment joined us as presenting sponsor of our women’s championship and as a major supporter of our expanded livestream broadcast program ..read more

Former champion teams from La Salle and Pembina have won the 2024 Seagram’s Whisky Curling Club Championships. Deb McCreanor and her La Salle team (Trisha Hill, Michelle Buchanan, Jennifer Cawson) won their third Manitoba Curling Club Championship with a 5-4 win Jennifer Clark-Rouire and her Fort Garry team (Karen Klein, Amanda Hickey, Kristie Moroz) Sunday afternoon in Gimli. The McCreanor and Clark-Rouire teams had both finished with 4W-1L records in the same round-robin pool. McCreanor’s semi-final with Alyssa Calvert (Carberry) was a re-match of the only game the La Salle team had lo ..read more

Eighteen different curling clubs from across Manitoba will be represented when the Seagram’s Whisky Curling Club Championships take place at Gimli Curling Club this weekend (April 4-7, 2024). The women’s first games are scheduled for 11:30AM, today with the men starting on the 2:30PM draw. Twelve teams will compete in a round-robin with pools of six teams in each of the two championships. The first-place team in each pool advances to the semifinals while the second and third place teams will meet in a crossover play-in game. All playoff games are scheduled for Sunday, April 7 with the tw ..read more

CurlManitoba is pleased to announce that the Co-ops of Manitoba will be partnering with CurlManitoba as title sponsor of the Manitoba Junior Men’s and Women’s Championships beginning with the 2025 event. The initial commitment of a three-year sponsorship will run through the 2026-2027 curling season. “We are delighted to welcome the Co-ops of Manitoba and their support of youth curling in Manitoba. The support of a sponsor which is a visible part of the community province-wide will be very supportive of our efforts to encourage youth curling right across the province,” says CurlManitoba Exe ..read more

Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame & Museum President Peter Nicholls is pleased to announce that Wellington-Altus will be the Presenting Sponsor of the 2024 Induction Banquet when it returns to Winnipeg’s CanadInns Destination Centre Polo Park on May 5, 2024. “We very much appreciate the support of Wellington-Altus in our efforts to celebrate the three champion teams, the curler, and the two builders who will be honoured at our 2024 Induction Dinner,” Nicholls said. “I am also delighted to report that Wellington-Altus will be with us as our Presenting Sponsor not only this year but for the n ..read more

Randy Neufeld and his La Salle team have won Manitoba’s Strathcona Trust Senior Men’s Championship, with a 7-2 victory Monday afternoon at Heather Curling Club over Dave Boehmer – Petersfield. It is a record setting fifth championship for Neufeld and three of his La Salle teammates Dean Moxham, Peter Nicholls and Dale Michie. They had previously shared the record with Boehmer (2018, 2019, 2020, 2023) and Lloyd Gunnlaugson who is still the only skip to win four consecutive senior titles (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985). Boehmer and his lead George Hacking were attempting to win their fifth senior ..read more

Reigning Manitoba Senior champion Dave Boehmer (Petersfield) will begin the quest for a fifth Manitoba senior title when the Strathcona Trust Senior Men’s gets underway at 9:00AM on Thursday, March 21 at Heather Curling Club. Boehmer returns with the same team which won the championship a year ago: Dale Lott, Sean Bracken, and George Hacking. Hacking was with Boehmer when they won in 2018, 2019, and 2020 so Hacking is also chasing a fifth senior title. The quest for five senior championships also extends to the La Salle team of Randy Neufeld. Neufeld, Dean Moxham, Peter Nicholls, and Dal ..read more

Carman’s Shaela Hayward made Manitoba curling history as third for Ryan Wiebe’s Fort Rouge team when they won the Chicken Chef Mixed last weekend in Neepawa. Hayward became the first person in Manitoba’s long curling history to win THREE Manitoba championships in the same curling season. Earlier, she had skipped her teams to the Manitoba U-18 Women’s and U-21 Women’s titles. The young Carman curler added to this year’s championships total by winning Curling Canada’s U-18 Championship and she can add to the total again when she competes in the U-21 Nationals, March 24-31, in Fort McMurray ..read more

Equal numbers of rural and Winnipeg based teams will compete in the 10-team Chicken Chef Mixed Curling Championship, March 14-17, at the Neepawa Curling Club. The Mixed champion this spring will be the CurlManitoba representative at the 2024 National Championship to be played November 3-9, 2024 at St Catherines Golf & Country Club in St Catherines, ON. The rural representatives in the triple knock-out event come from Arden (Kevin Paramor), Carberry (Braden Calvert), Minnedosa (Janelle Lach), and Rorketon (Bryan Preston). Paul Robertson will skip a Neepawa team in the competition. Winn ..read more

The 16-team Dynasty U-20 Mixed Doubles Championship wrapped up Sunday with Lauren Evason and Rylan Campbell winning the first Manitoba U-20 Mixed Doubles. The game was proof of the dramatic ebbs & flows of fortune inherent in Mixed Doubles curling. Facing Zoey Terrick & Tanner Graham in the final, Evason and Campbell controlled the game with well placed draws and guards end after end. They scored singles on the first and fourth ends and stole single points on each of the second, fifth and sixth ends to lead 5-1 with two ends to play. A Terrick-Graham “power-play” on the seventh en ..read more