Boucherville to host second straight Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship

Boucherville to host second straight Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship

Wednesday, 25 June 2014 - Posted by Al Cameron

Boucherville, Que., will play host to the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship for the second straight year, it was announced today by the Canadian Curling Association.

Canada’s top wheelchair curlers will once again gather in Boucherville, Que., for the 2015 Canadian Championship. (Photo, Morgan Daw)

The 12th wheelchair nationals will be staged April 27 to May 3, 2015, at Club de curling Boucherville in Boucherville, Que.
The 2015 Canadian Wheelchair Championship will again be organized and operated by Défi sportif AlterGo, a Quebec-based organization focused on raising awareness of sports for athletes with a disability.
“We’re excited to be able to get behind the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship for the second straight year,” said Maxime Gagnon, the director for Défi sportif AlterGo. “The 2014 event in Boucherville was a resounding success according from the standpoint of the participants, the spectators and the organizers, and we’re hoping to make it even better in 2015.”
At the 2014 nationals, Manitoba won its second Canadian championship when Dennis Thiessen and his team from the Assiniboine Curling Club (third Mark Wherrett, second Melissa Lecuyer, lead Jamie Anseeuw and coach Tom Wherrett) beat defending champion Benoit Lessard of Quebec 8-5 in the gold-medal game. It capped an amazing season for Thiessen, who also won gold playing for Team Canada at the 2014 Winter Paraympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
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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BRITISH OPEN WHEELCHAIR CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

                     

                                                        

BRITISH OPEN WHEELCHAIR CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

SUNDAY 18 - TUESDAY 20 January 2015

LANARKSHIRE (Hamilton) ICE RINK, HAMILTON

 

ENTRY FEE

£170 per Team

 

CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT

The championship will be played by mixed gender teams.

Entry is limited to 12 teams

Each team will play 6 matches. Made up of 5 group matches, 4 play-off matches for teams in 3^rd,4^th,5^th & 6^th place in each section, 2 semi-finals, final & 3^rd 4^th play-off.

2 matches will be played per day. Make the semi-final you will have 3 matches on the last day.

1st match 2.30pm Sunday - Tournament finish by 8pm Tuesday

8 ends or the Bell will be played

 

TRANSPORT

 

Transport can be arranged from your arrival airport to hotel and between hotel and ice rink if required. To provide transport during your stay we would require you to include £100 deposit with your entry fee. The remaining cost for transport to be paid directly by each team to the driver.

 

ACCOMMODATION

 

The 2 nearest hotels are:-

Holiday Inn Express Town Centre (5 minute walk from ice rink)

Keith Street, Hamilton, ML3 7BL, United Kingdom

Tel: +44-1698-456300 (Front Desk)

 

Holiday Inn Express: Strathclyde Park (Transport would be required from this hotel)

Hamilton Road, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, ML1 3RB, United Kingdom.

Tel: +44-1698-858585 (Front Desk)

 

All accommodation to be booked and paid directly by each team. 

 

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES 30^TH SEPTEMBER 2014

 

Teams will be informed if their entry has been accepted no later than 14th OCTOBER 2014.

 

Draw will be sent by 30^th November 2014

 

Please note that event organisers reserve the right to select the field for their tournament in the event of oversubscription.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRITISH OPEN WHEELCHAIR CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP 2015

 

ENTRY FORM

 

 

TEAM             _______________________________

 

Skip                _______________________________

 

Third               _______________________________ 

 

Second          _______________________________

 

Lead               _______________________________

 

Reserve         _______________________________

 

Team contact details

Name             ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________________________

e-mail             ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________________________

Telephone     ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________________________

 

Entry Fee Payment

Payment should be made, along with entry, by bank transfer to:

Royal Bank of Scotland (Giffnock Branch)

158A Fenwick Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6XB

Sort Code: 83-20-22

Acc. No: 00150114

IBAN GB51RBOS83202200150114

SWIFT/BIC RBOSGB2L

Account name: Scottish Wheelchair Curling Association

Reference: British Open - Your Team Name

 

If payment by cheque is required please email gordon.rainey@talktalk.net for postal address.

Completed entry forms should be returned to: gordon.rainey@talktalk.net

 

Thank You

Ian Archer - Tournament Coordinator

ianarcher@yahoo.co.uk