EOYF SQUAD

29 July 2008

WOMEN'S SQUAD MEMBERS FOR EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL

The Royal Caledonian Curling Club in partnership with British Curling are delighted to announce the women's squad selected to represent Great Britain at the European Youth Olympics in Slas Beskidy, Poland from 14th - 21st. February 2009.

The athletes selected are Hannah Fleming, Lauren Gray, Rebecca Kesley, Anna Sloan and Alice Spence.

Debbie Knox has been slected as coach to the squad.

Chris Hildrey, Chairman of British Curling said, "The EYOF provides a fantastic opportunity for our best young curling athletes in Britain to gain invaluable experience at a multi sport event. The support and training the squad will have in advance of the competition will be world class and I hope they all get the most out of the programme whilst having an enjoyable time”

MEN'S SQUAD MEMBERS IN RUSSIA

23 July 2008

MEN'S SQUAD MEMBERS IN RUSSIA

The home curling season is some weeks away yet but David Murdoch, Peter Smith, Euan Byers, members of the initial GB Olympic squad, with non squad member Graeme Connal are in Russia this weekend for a World Curling Tour Europe event.

This is the first WCT-e event staged in Russia, the venue is the Adamant Shopping Centre in St. Petersburg.

Eight teams, three from Russia and five from Canada and Europe will be playing. And it's quite a field, featuring two Olympic Gold Medallists, the 2002 Olympic Champion Pal Trulsen from Norway and the 2006 Olympic Gold Medallist Brad Gushue from Canada. 2008 World Men's Bronze Medallist Thomas Ulsrud from Norway and 2007 World Men's silver winner Germany's Andy Kapp will be skipping their teams.

The Murdoch team have their own share of medals, they're reigning European Champions and 2008 World Men's silver medallist. In Group B they meet a Russian team skipped by Valentin Demenkov in their opening game on Friday 25th July at 16.00 St Petersburg time, that's three hours ahead of BST. Kapp and Trulsen are drawn in Group B.

It's a great opportunity for the squad members to be on the ice ahead of the 2008/2009 season.

NEW MEMBER OF THE MEN'S SQUAD FOR THE WINTER UNIVERSIADE GAMES

22 July 2008

NEW MEMBER FOR THE MEN'S SQUAD FOR THE WINTER UNIVERSIADE GAMES.

Michael Goodfellow from Stirling has been selected as the fourth member of the men's squad for the Winter Universiade Games to be held in Harbin, China in February 2009.

Twenty year old Michael has played in the semi finals of the Scottish Junior Championship for the last three years.

A student of history and politics at Strathclyde University, Michael joins Andrew Craigie, John Hamilton and Thomas Pendreigh in the squad.