For
Immediate Release
June
24, 2013
2014
Canadian Wheelchair Championship awarded to Boucherville, Que.
The reigning champions will get a
chance to defend their title in their home province at the 2014 Canadian
Wheelchair Curling Championship, it was announced today by the Canadian Curling
Association.
The 11th edition of the national
wheelchair championship will be played April 28 to May 4, 2014, at Club de curling Boucherville in
Boucherville, Que.
At the 2013 championship at the RA
Centre in Ottawa, Quebec’s Benoît Lessard and his team from Magog — Carl
Marquis, Sébastien Boisvert, Johanne Daly and coach Germain Tremblay — claimed
their province’s first Canadian wheelchair title.
“Curling Quebec is excited that the
country’s top wheelchair curlers will be in Boucherville for the Canadian
championship,” said Curling Quebec executive-director Marco Ferraro. “It’s
going to be a wonderful season of curling in our province, with both the
Canadian wheelchair championship and the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in
Montreal. Quebec’s curlers and curling fans couldn’t be happier.”
The 2014 Canadian Wheelchair
Championship will be organized and operated by Défi sportif AlterGo, a
Quebec-based organization focused on raising awareness of sports for athletes
with a disability.
“We have an extensive background in
running competitions for athletes with a disability, and we know there’s a
passion for wheelchair curling in this country,” said Maxime Gagnon, the
director for Défi sportif AlterGo. “We’re truly excited to be a part of this
championship as it’s staged in Quebec for the first time. We’re confident that
the curling community in Boucherville and around the province will embrace the
2014 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship and make it a big success.”
The Canadian
Wheelchair Curling Championship began in 2004 and has previously been won by
Team Canada (skip Chris Daw) in 2004, 2005 and 2006; by British Columbia in
2007 (skip Darryl Neighbour), 2008 and 2009 (skip Jim Armstrong) and 2010 (skip
Gary Cormack); by Manitoba (skip Chris Sobkowicz) in 2011; and by Saskatchewan
(skip Darwin Bender) in 2012.
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For more information:
Danny Lamoureux
Director, Championship Services
& Curling Club Development
Canadian Curling Association
Office: 613-834-2076 x116
Cell: 613-878-3682
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