Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:57:16 -0500
From: Jeff Timson
Subject: 2001 Canadian Seniors
CANADIAN SENIORS SET FOR CALGARY
January 3, 2001...The Canadian Senior Men's and Women's Curling
Championships will be contested at the Calgary Curling Club, January
20-28. The Canadian Seniors is the second event in the 2001 Season
of Champions, comprising five Canadian and two world championships.
More than 235 hours of television coverage of this championship
season will be provided by TSN, RDS and CBC.
Twelve men's and 12 women's teams, representing the 10 provinces plus
entries from Northern Ontario and Yukon/Northwest Territories, will
compete in the 2001 Canadian Seniors. Following the round robin, the
first place teams advance to their respective finals on Sunday,
January 28 while the second and third place teams meet in semi-finals
on Saturday.
TSN will televise both the women's and men's finals live on Sunday,
January 28. RDS will also air both finals on tape delay.
The Senior men's competition began in 1965. Ontario, the defending
champion, has won a leading nine titles. Last year in Portage la
Prairie, Manitoba, Ontario, skipped by Bob Turcotte, defeated British
Columbia. It was Turcotte's third win in the past five years.
Alberta has hosted four previous Canadian senior men's competitions:
Edmonton (1968 and 1993), Calgary (1975) and Medicine Hat (1996).
The Senior women's event, which began in 1973, has been hosted by
Alberta on three previous occasions: Peace River (1977), Edmonton
(1993) and Medicine Hat (1996). It wasn't until 1985 in Yorkton,
Saskatchewan that both the men's and women's championships were
conducted jointly at the same site. British Columbia leads the way
with six women's victories.
Quebec skip Agnès Charette, a three-time senior women's champion,
will be back to defend her title. Charette and her Buckingham
Curling Club teammates Martha Don, Lois Baines and Mary Anne
Robertson defeated Saskatchewan in last year's final in Portage la
Prairie and will be trying to win the championship three years in a
row. They also won in 1997 in Thornhill and in 1999 in Saskatoon.
Alberta has won three senior men's titles, the most recent by Len
Erickson in 1993 and four senior women's crowns, with skip Cordella
Schwengler of the Calgary Curling Club the latest in 1994.
Jeff Timson
Media Director, St. Clair Group
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