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.
Nutana has been home to seventeen provincial men's champions—one of which, the Rick Folk rink, went on to win national and world titles—and ten provincial and two national women's champions.
History 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.
Major events 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. It hosts the annual College Clean Restoration Curling Classic on the men's World Curling Tour. 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. In 2022, Nutana began hosting a new cashspiel event geared towards under-30 teams, called the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship. 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. The club hosted 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. 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. Nutana hosted the championship in 2022, with the club's Dustin Anderson rink winning the event.
Champions
Nutana has been the home of seventeen men's provincial champions, including nine since 2010. Charles Anderson's team was the first, winning the Macdonald Tankard in 1934. The Rick Folk rink won three consecutive Tankards from 1978 to 1980, and in 1980 went on to win the Labatt Brier and the Air Canada Silver Broom—the men's world championship. Steve Laycock won seven Tankards, including five as skip and four out of Nutana. Mike McEwen's rink won the 2024 SaskTel Tankard, which was also hosted by Nutana; they went on to finish second at the national championship, and qualified for the Brier as a Wild Card entry in both 2025 and 2026. 2025 marked the sixth time that Nutana teams won both the men's and women's provincial titles in the same year, with the Ryland Kleiter and Nancy Martin rinks winning their respective titles. The first time this happened was in 1985, when Sheila Rowan's rink won their second provincial Scotties and Eugene Hritzuk's rink won their first of two Tankards. Maybell Spooner was the first women's rink from Nutana to win the provincial title, in 1952. Dorenda Schoenhals and Emily Farnham's national titles in 1970 and 1974 were part of a run of six straight national champions from the province—all of them predated the establishment of the women's world championships in 1979.
The club has also seen success at the junior and senior levels. Three Nutana rinks have secured Canadian women's junior championships, including Marliese Miller's rink in 2003 that went on to win the World Junior Curling Championship, the first team to do so with a perfect record. With Laycock's junior team out of Sutherland also winning gold, 2003 marked the first time that men's and women's junior teams from the same country, let alone the same city, won the world title. Former Tankard champion Hritzuk secured Canadian and World Seniors titles in 2008 and 2009, and won a Canadian Masters Championship in 2014. Sherry Anderson won an unprecedented five consecutive Canadian Seniors titles between 2017 and 2022, winning a record three World Seniors titles along the way, the last one in 2023.
Rick Folk also skipped rinks that regularly contended at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, winning the national title in 1974 and 1983, while finishing as runner-up in 1981 and 1982. Bruce Korte's mixed rink was runner-up at the 2016 national championships.
Nutana's Kory Kohuch rink won the men's Canadian Curling Club Championship in 2014; Kohuch's team also won silver at the 2016 Championship and participated for a third time in 2018.
List of champions +Major titles by Nutana rinksYearEventSkipThirdSecondLeadNationals record2025SaskTel TankardRylan KleiterJoshua MatternMatthew HallTrevor Johnson3–52025 Viterra Prairie PinnacleNancy MartinChaelynn StewartKadriana LottDeanna Doig5–32025Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipBruce KorteDarrell McKeeKory KohuchRory Golanowski11–12024SaskTel TankardMike McEwenColton FlaschKevin MarshDan Marsh10–32024Viterra Tournament of HeartsSkylar AckermanAshley ThevenotTaylor StremickKaylin Skinner4–42023World Senior Curling ChampionshipSherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle9–32022Canadian Senior Curling Championship2022SaskTel TankardColton FlaschCatlin SchneiderKevin MarshDan Marsh8–42021Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipSherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle10–22019SaskTel TankardKirk MuyresKevin MarshDan MarshDallan Muyres5–62019Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipWorld Senior Curling ChampionshipSherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle8–02019Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipBruce KorteDarrell McKeeKory KohuchRory Golanowski8–02018SaskTel TankardSteve LaycockMatt DunstoneKirk MuyresDallan Muyres6–52018Viterra Tournament of HeartsSherry AndersonKourtney FesserKrista FesserKarlee Korchinksi2–52018Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipWorld Senior Curling ChampionshipSherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle10–22017Canadian Senior Curling ChampionshipSherry AndersonPatty HersikornBrenda GoertzenAnita Silvernagle6–32016SaskTel TankardSteve LaycockKirk MuyresColton FlaschDallan Muyres5–62015SaskTel TankardSteve LaycockKirk MuyresColton FlaschDallan Muyres8–52015Viterra Tournament of HeartsStefanie LawtonSherry AndersonSherri SinglerMarliese Kasner9–52014SaskTel TankardSteve LaycockKirk MuyresColton FlaschDallan Muyres6–52014Scotties Tournament of HeartsStefanie LawtonSherry AndersonSherri SinglerMarliese Kasner8–52014Canadian Masters Curling ChampionshipEugene HritzukJim WilsonVerne AndersonDave Folk11–12014Canadian Curling Club ChampionshipKory KohuchMark AdamsWes LangDavid Schmirler7–12010SaskTel TankardDarrell McKeeBruce KorteRoger KorteRob Marksowsky4–72011Canadian Junior Curling ChampionshipTrish PaulsenKari KennedyKari PaulsenNatalie Yanko11–32009World Senior Curling ChampionshipEugene HritzukKevin KalthoffVerne AndersonDave Folk11–22008Canadian Senior Curling Championship2003Canadian Junior Curling ChampionshipWorld Junior Curling ChampionshipMarliese MillerTejay SurikJanelle LemonChelsey Bell12–22000Canadian Junior Curling ChampionshipStefanie MillerMarliese MillerStacy HelmAmanda MacDonald11–31988Labatt TankardEugene HritzukDel ShaughnessyMurray SoparloDon Dabrowski9–41985Labatt TankardEugene HritzukBob MillerNick PaulsenArt Paulsen8–61985Scott Tournament of HeartsSheila RowanJean MacLeanMaureen BurkittEileen Wilson3–71983Canadian Mixed Curling ChampionshipRick FolkDorenda SchoenhalsTom WilsonElizabeth Folk12–11983Scott Tournament of HeartsSheila RowanJean MacLeanJudy SeftonLil Martin4–61980Labatt TankardLabatt BrierAir Canada Silver BroomRick FolkRon MillsTom WilsonJim Wilson10–21979Macdonald TankardRick FolkRod ThompsonTom WilsonJim Wilson8–31978Macdonald TankardRick FolkRod ThompsonTom WilsonRoger Schmidt8–31974Canadian Mixed Curling ChampionshipRick FolkCheryl StirtonTom WilsonBonnie Orchard10–11974Saskatchewan LassieMacdonald Lassies ChampionshipEmily FarnhamLinda SaundersPat McBeathDonna Collins9–01970Provincial Women's Curling ChampionshipCanadian Ladies Curling Association ChampionshipDorenda SchoenhalsCheryl StirtonLinda BurnhamJoan Anderson8–21952Provincial Ladies Curling ChampionshipMaybell SpoonerEileen SexsmithPhillis BarclayMerle Dertell—1946Macdonald TankardDalt HendersonJack BrowerCliff AnnableMonty Burns5–41935Macdonald TankardJimmy BlackFrank GermaineSid PeatReg Fraser4–31934Macdonald TankardCharles AndersonR. B. McLeodEdward RobertsonPat McNeill4–3
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See also
List of curling clubs in Saskatchewan
References
External links Official site