The Nutana Curling Club is a
curling
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club located in the neighbourhood of
Nutana Suburban Centre in south-central
Saskatoon
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,
Saskatchewan
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.
The club was organized in 1929 at the
Nutana Collegiate Institute. The club was first opened in 1930 at the corner of Dufferin Avenue and Main Street in the
Nutana neighbourhood of the city. In 1966, it moved to its current suburban location at the corner of Arlington Avenue and Taylor Street.
The club hosts the annual
Colonial Square Ladies Classic
The Colonial Square Ladies Classic is an annual women's curling tournament held at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The tournament has run since 1983 and is part of the Women's World Curling Tour. From 2012 to 2014, the Colon ...
, one of women's events on the
World Curling Tour
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History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later assistance from Jo ...
and former
Grand Slam of Curling
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event. It also hosts the annual
Point Optical Curling Classic on the men's World Curling Tour. Additionally, it hosted the 1999
Canadian Senior Curling Championships
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and the 1993
TSN Skins Game
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.
Winners
Teams from the Nutana have won the
provincial men's championship ten times. The
Charles Anderson rink was the first in 1934. Other winning rinks to win were
J.S. Black in 1935,
Dalton Henderson
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in 1946,
Rick Folk
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(1978, 1979, 1980),
Eugene Hritzuk
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Hritzuk has won two provincial championships as skip, once in 1985 and again in 1988. This qualified him f ...
(1985, 1988),
Darrell McKee (2010) and
Steve Laycock
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Career
In 2003, Laycock skipped Team Saskatchewan to a Canadian Junior Curling Ch ...
(2014, 2018). Folk and his rink of
Ron Mills,
Tom Wilson and
Jim Wilson would go on to win the
1980 Labatt Brier and the
1980 Air Canada Silver Broom, the
World Curling Championships
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.
External links
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Curling clubs established in 1929
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