Saskatchewan will be represented by Weyburn curlers at the 2016 Travelers national curling championship in Kelowna, which begins Monday, November. 21.
Danette Tracey’s team won the provincial Travelers curling title last March at the Weyburn Curling Rink when they won the women’s side of the Travelers Saskatchewan championship.
The Travelers competition is intended for “non-elite” curlers, the club teams that are the backbone of curling in every province. Representatives at the Travelers national championship are very good curlers who do not play or participate at the professional level.
Each team is allowed only one player who has played in a provincial juniors’, men’s (Brier), women’s (Scotties) or seniors’ championship in the current or previous four curling seasons, or participated in a grand slam event in the current or previous four curling seasons.
As well, no player on the teams can have played in a Canadian juniors, men’s, women’s or seniors national championship in the current or previous four seasons
Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador captured their first ever Travelers Canadian Curling Club Championship titles in 2015. Lisa Jackson’s rink out of the Cornwall Curling Club in P.E.I defeated Ontario 5-3 in the women’s final. Andrew Symonds of St. John’s got past Manitoba 6-4 in the men’s final.
