Regional curling hub network extends reach
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Curling Canada is expanding regional high-performance training hubs to Victoria, Okotoks, Alta., Moose Jaw, Sask., and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.
Curling Canada is expanding regional high-performance training hubs to Victoria, Okotoks, Alta., Moose Jaw, Sask., and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.
Clubs in those communities join Winnipeg, in its second year after a pilot project, and long-established training centres in Calgary and Edmonton to create a network that can mimic arena ice conditions, offer technology to enhance shotmaking and sweeping, and provide high-level coaching.
“The challenge for Canada is just the sheer size of the country,” said Curling Canada high-performance director David Murdoch.
“We have national training centres located in Alberta, but how do other athletes get access to those types of resources? How do we create something in these facilities where we create the next future Rachel Homan or Brad Jacobs?
“We’d like to think by creating this type of facility with the right programming, the right coaches, we can accelerate our under-18, under-21, under-25 programs. They would be able to go there more often, train there more often, maybe they’ll actually live close to it.”
When Murdoch accepted the Curling Canada job three years ago, he envisioned regional training hubs across the country to serve the nation’s top curlers and teams, as well as the next generation in the sport, in those specific geographical areas.
Provincial and territorial associations were invited to apply with a proposed funding model as part of the criteria.
The Victoria Curling Club, Okotoks Curling Club, Moose Jaw Curling Centre at Temple Gardens Centre, and the KW Granite Club were successful applicants to get training centres up and running this fall.
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