Field taking form for Canadian Olympic curling trials

The box is as regards to finalized for the Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials to make a decision who will put on the maple leaf subsequent yr on the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Four males’s groups and 4 girls’s groups secured spots in line with Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) issues following the realization of the season, which wrapped up previous this month with the AMJ Players’ Championship in Toronto.

Team Rachel Homan (2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion) and Team Kerri Einarson (2023-24 CTRS chief), plus Team Brad Gushue (2024 Montana’s Brier champion) and Team Brad Jacobs (2023-24 CTRS chief) had already locked up berths in line with their performances final season.

One spot continues to be up for grabs on every facet, to be decided on the Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trials, Oct. 20-26, in Wolfville, N.S.

The Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials happen Nov. 22-30 in Halifax.

Here’s a breakdown of the sphere and the way every workforce certified.

Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials girls’s department

Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials males’s department

Eight males’s groups and 8 girls’s groups will compete within the pre-trials match for the overall spots.

Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trials girls’s department

• Team Beth Peterson
• Team Kayla MacMillan
• Team Danielle Inglis
• Team Selena Sturmay
• Team Ashley Thevenot
• Team Krista McCarville
• Team Myla Plett
• Team Nancy Martin

Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trials males’s department

• Team Jordon McDonald
• Team Reid Carruthers
• Team Sam Mooibroek
• Team Scott Howard
• Team Braden Calvert
• Team Mark Kean
• Team Owen Purcell
• Team Félix Asselin

The pre-trials and trials will function round-robin play with the highest 3 groups qualifying for the playoffs. The first-place workforce receives a bye to the overall, and the second- and third-place groups face off in a semifinal. A best-of-three ultimate will decide the winner.