Nutana Curling Club
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7J 2H5
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| Location | 2002 Arlington Avenue Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7J 2H5 |
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| Established | 1929 |
| Founder(s) | Joint Stock Company |
| Club type | Dedicated Ice |
| Curling Canada region | SCA Saskatoon Region |
| Sheets of ice | Eight |
| Rock colours | Red and yellow |
| Website | http://www.nutanacurlingclub.ca/ |
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.[1][2]
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.
Major events
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 the corner of Arlington Avenue and Taylor Street in Nutana Suburban Centre.[3]
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.[4] It also hosts the annual College Clean Restoration Curling Classic on the men's World Curling Tour.[5] Nutana hosted the 1993 TSN Skins Game and the 1999 Canadian Senior Curling Championships. In 2009 and 2019, it hosted the Canadian Masters Curling Championships.[6] In 2022, Nutana began hosting a new cashspiel event geared towards under-30 teams, called the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship.[7] The event was conceived as a way to offer young curlers more opportunities to transition from junior curling and to compete late in the season.[8] The club will also host the 2025 Canadian U18 Curling Championships.
Prairie Lily Curling League
In 2014, the club began hosting the Prairie Lily Curling League, the province's first LGBT curling league.[9] 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.[10][11] Nutana hosted the championship in 2022, with the club's Dustin Anderson rink winning the event.[12][13]
