The Nutana Curling Club is a curling club located in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada . Established in 1929 and first opening its doors in 1930, the club was originally located in the city's historic Nutana neighbourhood. The club relocated to the south-central Nutana Suburban Centre neighbourhood in 1966. Once one of six curling clubs in Saskatoon, Nutana is one of three clubs still operating along with the Sutherland Curling Club and the CN Curling Club .
18-708: Nutana has been home to sixteen provincial men's champions—one of which, the Rick Folk rink, went on to win national and world titles—and nine provincial and two national women's champions. The Nutana Curling Club was organized in 1929 at the Nutana Collegiate Institute . The club first opened on 1 January, 1930 at the corner of Dufferin Avenue and Main Street in the Nutana neighbourhood. In 1966, it moved to its current location at
36-514: A provincial championship again until 2002. In the meantime, she qualified for the 2001 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials by being the top earning women's team in 1999–2000 season. At the Trials, she made it to the finals, before losing to Kelley Law . Anderson returned to the Scotts as a skip at the 2002 Scott Tournament of Hearts . There, her team of Kim Hodson , Sandra Mulroney and Donna Gignac lost in
54-544: A record three World Seniors titles along the way, most recently in 2023. Rick Folk also skipped rinks that regularly contended at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships , winning the national title in 1974 and 1983, while finishing as runner-up in 1981 and 1982. Bruce Korte 's mixed rink was runner-up at the 2016 national championships. Nutana's Kory Kohuch rink won the men's Canadian Curling Club Championship in 2014; Kohuch's team also won silver at
72-492: Is a Canadian curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan . She is a record three-time winner of the World Senior Curling Championships for Canada. Anderson has been to ten Scotties Tournament of Hearts , six as a skip. She qualified for her first Hearts by winning the 1994 Saskatchewan women's championship , defeating Leanne Whitrow in the final, 7–4. At the 1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts , her team lost in
90-572: Is the Mike McEwen rink, which won the 2024 SaskTel Tankard , which was also hosted by Nutana. 2024 marked the fifth time that Nutana teams won both the men's and women's provincial titles in the same year, with the Skylar Ackerman rink winning the 2024 Viterra Scotties . The first time this happened was in 1985, when Sheila Rowan 's rink won their second provincial Scotties and Eugene Hritzuk 's rink won their first of two Tankards. Maybell Spooner
108-743: The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party . Folk was born in Saskatoon at the Saskatoon City Hospital , the son of Alex and Jen Folk. At the time of the 1994 Brier, Folk owned a curling and golf supply store in Kelowna. His son, Kevin is also a curler. As of 2023, he was living in the Comox Valley of British Columbia, and is the head referee of BC Pickleball . Sherry Anderson Sherry Anderson (born January 6, 1964)
126-612: The World Junior Curling Championship , the first team to do so with a perfect record. With Laycock's junior team out of Sutherland also winning gold, 2003 marked the first time that men's and women's junior teams from the same country, let alone the same city, won the world title. Former Tankard champion Hritzuk secured Canadian and World Seniors titles in 2008 and 2009, and won a Canadian Masters Championship in 2014. Sherry Anderson won an unprecedented five consecutive Canadian Seniors titles between 2017 and 2022, winning
144-623: The 1993 TSN Skins Game and the 1999 Canadian Senior Curling Championships . In 2009 and 2019, it hosted the Canadian Masters Curling Championships . In 2022, Nutana began hosting a new cashspiel event geared towards under-30 teams, called the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship . The event was conceived as a way to offer young curlers more opportunities to transition from junior curling and to compete late in
162-754: The 2016 Championship and participated for a third time in 2018. Rick Folk Richard Dale “Rick” Folk (born March 5, 1950, in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian curler and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan , where he represented the Progressive Conservative Party for one term from 1982 until 1986. He is a two-time world curling champion, representing Canada. When curling in Canada, Folk represented both Saskatchewan and British Columbia. In 1974, Folk skipped
180-561: The Brier for the first time in 1989, and won his second Brier in 1994, this time skipping the B.C. team. He lost just one game at the Worlds that year, and beat Sweden in the final to claim gold in a low scoring 3-2 decision. In 1995, Folk played in his last Brier. Folk and his rink from the 1994 World Championships were inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. Folk has also been honoured by
198-618: The Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame as well as the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame. Folk ran in the riding of Saskatoon University in the 1982 Saskatchewan provincial election for the Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party . Folk won the seat, and served as Minister for Culture and Recreation from 1983 to 1986. Folk was not re-elected in the 1986 election , losing to Peter Prebble of
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#1732891888386216-676: The Saskatchewan team to the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship that year. Four years later, he attended his first Brier , skipping the Saskatchewan team. In 1980, he won his first Brier and went on to win the World Curling Championships , posting an undefeated record and defeating Norway in the final. In 1983, Folk won another Canadian Mixed Championship. After serving in government, Folk moved to Kelowna , British Columbia . He represented British Columbia at
234-545: The corner of Arlington Avenue and Taylor Street in Nutana Suburban Centre. The club has hosted a number of annual and national events in its history. It hosts the annual Colonial Square Ladies Classic , one of the women's events on the World Curling Tour and a former Grand Slam of Curling event. It also hosts the annual College Clean Restoration Curling Classic on the men's World Curling Tour. Nutana hosted
252-531: The final to Colleen Jones . Two years later, Anderson finished 7–4 at the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts . In 2004, Anderson was awarded the Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award at the Tournament of Hearts. In 2010, Anderson joined team Stefanie Lawton to play as her third. She played with Lawton until 2014, at which point she took over the team for one season. Anderson reached the final of
270-648: The home of sixteen men's provincial champions, including eight since 2010. Charles Anderson 's team was the first, winning the Macdonald Tankard in 1934. The Rick Folk rink won three consecutive Tankards from 1978 to 1980, and in 1980 went on to win the Labatt Brier and the Air Canada Silver Broom —the men's world championship. Steve Laycock has won seven Tankards, including five as skip and four out of Nutana. The most recent provincial champion from Nutana
288-588: The season. In 2014, the club began hosting the Prairie Lily Curling League, the province's first LGBT curling league. The league grew from seven teams in 2014 to eighteen by 2020, and teams from the league took first and second place at the 2017 Canadian Pride Curling Championships in Montreal. Nutana hosted the championship in 2022, with the club's Dustin Anderson rink winning the event. Nutana has been
306-405: The semi-final. Anderson won her second provincial title in 1995, defeating Michelle Schneider (Englot) in the final, 7–5. At the 1995 Scott Tournament of Hearts , she finished out of the playoffs with a 6–5 record. At the 2000 Scott Tournament of Hearts , Anderson was the alternate for June Campbell . Anderson skipped one of the top teams in the country in the late 90s, but wasn't able to win
324-511: Was the first women's rink from Nutana to win the provincial title, in 1952. Dorenda Schoenhals and Emily Farnham 's national titles in 1970 and 1974 were part of a run of six straight national champions from the province—all of them predated the establishment of the women's world championships in 1979. The club has also seen success at the junior and senior levels. Three Nutana rinks have secured Canadian women's junior championships , including Marliese Miller 's rink in 2003 that went on to win
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