National champions

Campus and Community

March 22, 2017

On the heels of Team Gushue’s 2017 Brier victory comes another Newfoundland and Labrador curling milestone.

The Memorial University Sea-Hawks team of skip Adam Boland, third Stephen Trickett, second Zach Young, lead Evan Kearley and coach Gary Ryan has won the USports Men’s Curling Canada Championship with a victory over the University of Alberta team.

From left are 2017 Canadian curling champions Adam Boland, Stephen Trickett, Zach Young and Evan Kearley.
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The Sea-Hawks finished their season on March 22 in Thunder Bay, Ont., with a perfect 17-0 record, after winning the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) Championship last month, with an 8-0 record.

Team Boland followed that with another perfect week, going 9-0 against some of the top university curlers across Canada.

Memorial skip Adam Boland in action.
Photo: Submitted

The last time Team Boland lost a match was in the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Curling Championship to Team Gushue, the 2017 Tim Horton’s Brier Champions.

This is the third national championship for a Memorial University varsity team, sharing the honour with the 1970 men’s soccer team and the 2010-11 men’s curling team.

Ian Coultas is marketing co-ordinator for Varsity Athletics at Memorial. He can be reached at imcoultas@mun.ca.

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