Two of Saskatchewan's top curling teams are getting ready to represent their province at national competitions. CurlSask selected the teams skipped by.
By Derek Taylor
Jan 14, 2021 1:56 PM
CURLSASK has named its representatives for this year national curling championships. They do not include two-time defending Scotties champion Robyn Silvernagle.
CURLSASK decided to cancel the Tankard, Scotties and Mixed Doubles Championships for 2021 after the provincial government rejected the group’s proposal for a “bubble” event. Without a play-down, CURLSASK had to pick representatives to play at the national events.
With player changes to both the men’s and women’s provincial champions from last year, CURLSASK says they used performance over two seasons “calculated based on the current registered lineups of each team” according to to a release.
On Jan. 13, the CURLSASK “bubble” Provincial Final proposal was rejected by the Saskatchewan Government. All options foranyform of competition to declare our representatives have been exhausted. CURLSASK has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 CURLSASK Mixed DoublesChampionships, 2021 Viterra Scotties Women’s Curling Championship and the 2021 SaskTel Tankard Men’s Curling Championship. The National Championships did take place for both Men s and Ladies last season, CURLSASK did not simply choose last year s champions as our representatives. Roster changes are present in both the men’s and women’s past champions. (Team Matt Dunstone retainedthreemembers from last season and Team Silvernagle has tworeturning members.)