This weekend Memorial will be hosting the 2019 AUS Curling Championships from February 7th-10th at the RE/MAX St. John's Curling Club.
The Sea-Hawks will have representation on both the women's and men's sides with the draw as follows:
Women's Draw
Draw #1 Memorial vs Dalhousie 2:00pm
Draw #2 Memorial vs Saint Mary's 7:30pm
Draw #3 Memorial vs UNB 10:00am
Draw #4 Memorial vs St. FX 7:00pm
Draw #5 Memorial vs Mount Allison 10:00am
Men's Draw
Draw #1 Memorial vs Dalhousie 2:00pm
Draw #2 Memorial vs St. FX 7:30pm
Draw #3 Memorial vs Saint Mary's 10:00am
Draw #4 Memorial vs UNB 7:00pm
The women's division consists of 6 teams – Memorial, Dalhousie, Saint Mary's, UNB, St. FX, and Mount Allison, while the men's division has 5 teams competing. Those teams include Memorial, Dalhousie, Saint Mary's, St. FX, and UNB.
Members of the Memorial women's team include – Mackenzie Glynn (Skip), Chantal Newell, Camille Burt, Stephanie Nadeau, and Lauren Barron. The team will be coached by Gary Ryan. The Memorial men's team is made up of – Greg Blyde (Skip), Daniel Bruce, Ryan McNeil Lamswood, and Nathan King. The men's coach is Leslie Anne Walsh.
The top four teams from the round-robin will make the semi-finals, which will be held on Saturday February 9th at 7:00pm. The finals will be held the next day on Sunday February 10th at 10:00am. The finalists from women's and men's AUS Championships qualify for the U Sports Championships, which is being hosted by UNB this year. With UNB hosting, their women's and men's teams have already qualified as hosts.
Memorial men's skip, Greg Blyde, feels prepared for the weekend. He says "we have had a pretty rigorous practice schedule all year. Competitions have been pretty sparse but it allows us to peak for every event we play in and we hope it is the same for this one".
The women's skip, Mackenzie Glynn, says "my team and I feel very confident heading into this weekend! This is our first event as a team however our front end placed second at last year's AUS so with that advantage, as well as having home ice advantage, I feel as though we have a really good chance at the championship this year".
Live scoring will be available for all draws this weekend at the following link -https://curlingnl.ca/scoreboard/#!/ and you can also watch the live stream from AUStv.ca, which will be webcasting Ice #4.
By: Sydney Hector