Stick Curling provincials underway at PGGCC

“There was no such thing as a stick league or a stirling League or whatever,” explain Shalansky. “And Jamie says, ‘Let’s go to find a place where they’re stick curling.’ And lo and behold, after doing a lot of research, we found a provincials way down in Armstrong or in that area and he says, ‘Let’s go.’ As we were driving down there, we were reading the rules.”

But one of the other co-creators of the club says it’s gaining in popularity.

“This is becoming more popular up here,” says Jamie Mould. “It hasn’t expanded it regionally the way I think we would have hoped it might have. We were disappointed to hear no teams from out west, Prince Rupert, none from up north, Fort St John or Dawson Creek made it this way. And I don’t know what they have there for for actual state leagues, but we’re getting there.”

Gerry Loreth is the lead for his team. He not only curls in the traditional sport, but stick curls and, aside from the obvious, there some differences between the two.

“When you’re down in the hack and you have your glove off, you can feel the handle, you’ve got a better feel for what the rock is doing and the weight. And that’s what you don’t have with the stick curling. What I found with the stick curling, though, is that I hit the broom better.”

The winners at this event will represent BC at the 2026 Canadian Stick Curling Association national championships March 25-29 in in Nova Scotia.

by Cheryl Jahn

Stick Curling provincials underway at PGGCC

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