First Ambassador of the Year

Yves Morissette from the Desjardins Curling Club in Val d’Or received from the hands of Marco Ferraro, General Manager of Curling Québec, the first ever Méritas awarded to the “Ambassador of the Year”. Yves has done exemplary work throughout the season by ensuring that its members are kept abreast of all the activities and services offered…

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Women’s and Men’s 2014 Provincial Championships

Press release For immediate release Suggested title: Tankard and Scotties Championships 2014 Val-d’Or: the countdown has begun VAL-D’OR (19 September 2013) – The Pavillon Desjardins Curling Club Sports Belvedere Val d’Or officially launched on Thursday, while the process leading to provincial curling Championships men “Tankard” and female “Scotties”, scheduled from 12 to 19 January 2014.…

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Summer training for our top athletes

High Performance Camp A High Performance camp was held last weekend at the Glenmore curling centre in Dollard-des-Ormeaux. The CCA’s conditioning expert, Bob Comartin, evaluated the fitness level of our top teams and prepared a training program for them for the  upcoming season. Team coaches as well as Quebec’s Provincial Coach, Guy Gosselin, were also…

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Val d’Or will host the 2014 Tankard and 2014 Scotties

VAL-D’OR (June 25th, 2013) – It is now official.  The Belvédère Sports Centre in Val- d’Or will be the host of the 2014 Women’s « Scotties » Provincial Curling Championships and the 2014 Men’s « Tankard » Provincial Championships from January 12th to the 19th, 2014.  Ten (10) men’s teams and eight (8) women’s team will be taking part in…

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Canadian curlers hope research pays off with gold in Sochi

Canada’s Olympic curlers won’t just have a top-level coaching and support staff behind them next February in Russia. They’ll also have science on their side. Ongoing research funded by Sport Canada and the Own The Podium program continues to search for any insight that will give Team Canada more of an edge when our men’s…

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Championnat provincial Colts

Championnat provincial Colts La compétition pour novices (5 années ou moins d’expérience) s’est déroulée aux centres de curling Buckingham et Thurso du 4 au 6 janvier 2013. La catégorie A, jouant pour le trophée Royal Montréal Colts, a été remportée par Roscoe Kkink, Simon Morissette, Marcello Mello et Mathieu Tremblay (skip) de Sherbrooke. Le trophée Grand…

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