Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Club hopping

Club hopping
In the history of the Brier, there have been six skips who have won multiple championships and represented different curling clubs at different times in winning those titles.
Of those, seven skips, two have won separate titles for three different curling clubs and, surprise, surprise, they’ve come from the city of champions — Edmonton.
Randy Ferbey was the first one to do it, winning for the Ottewell in 2001 and 2002, the Avonair in 2003 and the Granite in 2005.
Next up was Kevin Martin who has won each of his three Briers while representing a diffferent curling club — the Avonair in 1991, the Ottewell in 1997 and the Saville Sports Centre in 2008.
The other multi-club winners as skips have been:
Rick Folk, Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon in 1980 and Kelowna Curling Club in 1994;
Ed Lukowich, Medicine Hat Curling Club in 1978 and Calgary Winter Club in 1986;
Hec Gervais, Alberta Avenue CC in 1961 and the St. Albert CC in 1974;
Ernie Richardson, Regina Civil Service Curling Club in 1959 and 1960 and the Regina Curling Club in 1962 and 1963;
Ab Gowanlock, Glenboro, Man. CC in 1938 and Dauphin CC in 1953.
The five-winningest all-time curling clubs are:
The (late) Strathcona CC of Winnipeg — 7 (last one in 1949 by Ken Watson);
The Winnipeg Granite CC — 7 (last one in 1992 by Vic Peters);
The Ottewell CC, Edmonton — 5 (last one by Randy Ferbey, in 2001);
The Edmonton Granite CC — 4 (last one by Randy Ferbey in 2005);
The Calgary CC — 4 (last one by Ron Northcott in 1969).

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