Because my day job is editing and writing stories for the
CCA website, this blog – which I always intended to be my place to write about
All Things Curling – has been neglected.
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| The view from the media bench during the final of the 2013 Scotties in Kingston. |
But the season has pretty well come to an end for me. The
events are done, the regular columns I write and edit are done, and I am subsiding into maintenance mode.
It was a terrific season, full of great stories on and
off the ice. Here's a sample of the more grassroots-type stories I worked on during the 2012-2013 curling season:
The 13-year-old blogger in Kingston who has become curling’s biggest fan
Some savvy curling club managers who keep things hopping at
their clubs – Scott Comfort, in Wadena, Sask. And Bobby Ray in North Bay, Ont.
The growth of wheelchair curling at the first-ever national summit on the sport, and Andy Jones, a curling coach from Alberta who has lots
to say about the coaching side of wheelchair curling.
Coach Helen Radford talked about working with four young curlers as they prepared to compete at the first-ever Youth Olympic Games last
year, and coach Gerry Richard shared the ups and downs of coaching his daughter at the highest levels of curling competition.
The Minister of State (Sport), the Honourable Bal Gosal took to the ice at the Ottawa Curling Club last Fall with Rachel Homan, Craig Savill
and coach Earle Morris to see what curling was all about (and he did great,
apparently!).
But even though the ice is out, that doesn’t mean the sport
sleeps during the summer. There are summer spiels coming up, and clubs doing
renovations, and changes to some of the high-performance teams (here’s a great piece by Bob Weeks on the recent departure of John Morris from the Kevin Martin team.)
Lots of news still coming down the pipe from all over the country and the world. So the focus is now on sharing more stories over the summer. Stories about curling - especially the grassroots!
