The Red Deer Curling Club is a curling club in Red Deer, Alberta .
4-626: The club was founded ca. 1900s. The club has been operating out of its current location, the Pidherney Curling Centre (formerly the Red Deer Curling Centre ) since 1953. Plans are underway to move to a larger, 12-sheet building. The club is located on 43rd Street in the central part of the city. The club hosts the annual Red Deer Curling Classic on the World Curling Tour every November. The club has sent one team to
8-550: The Red Deer Curling Club in Red Deer, Alberta . The tournament is held in a triple-knockout format. The men's tournament started in 1992 as a skins tournament. The women's tournament started in 1999 as a separate event held a few weeks earlier and merged with the men's event in 2007. The event was held as a World Curling Tour event until 2019 and has been held nearly every year since 2007. Curlers from Alberta have dominated
12-448: The Brier , in 1931 when Robert Welliver , Joseph LaFrance , Jack Fulton and George Lindsay represented Alberta. They finished 4-5 (5th place). In 2011, the club won the men's side of the 2011 The Dominion Curling Club Championship . Red Deer Curling Classic The Pumps and Pressure Red Deer Curling Classic is an annual bonspiel , or curling tournament, that takes place at
16-575: The event on both sides since its inception. The event counts toward the Canadian Team Ranking System , which hands out points based on performances at CTRS events and deals with qualification to the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials . The 2018 edition of the event made headlines for the ejection of Team Jamie Koe for "unacceptable behaviour", which included arriving to compete while clearly intoxicated. Only skip's name
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