2006 World Men’s Curling Championship – It’s On!

A LITTLE BACKGROUND OF THE GAMES

Sweeping the World / Brushing with History

The World Men’s Curling Championship is coming to Lowell, Massachusetts from April 1-9, 2006, hosted by the Grand National Curling Club of America (GNCC) the eastern U.S. regional curling association. The 12-team round-robin event will include teams from around the world competing for curling’s most coveted prize.

Source: www.wcc2006.org/

* Here are the 12 teams competing….

European Qualifiers: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland

Pacific Qualifiers: Australia, Japan

North American Qualifiers: Canada, United States

HERE IS THE SCHEDULE OF GAMES

Here is just Canada and United States Schedules …

Source: www.wcc2006.org/draws/

Meet The North American Team

TEAM CANADA

Skip – Jean-Michel MENARD
Third – Francois ROBERGE
Second – Eric SYLVAIN
Lead – Maxime ELMALEH
Alternate – Jean GAGON
Coach – Michel ST-ONGE

TEAM USA

Skip – Pete FENSON
Third – Shawn ROJESKI
Second – Joe POLO
Lead – John SHUSTER
Alternate – Scott BAIRD
Coach – Robert FENSON

Source: including all other teams …

(one of these days .. the Curling Blog will have to make an unofficial list of all the “Team Canada”‘s that we have!

GO CANADA GO!

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