// BONUS ONLINE-ONLY COVERAGE USA’s Brown named captain for Continental Cup By Terry L. Kolesar, Editor,
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wo of the most familiar faces in Canadian and United States curl- ing will be at the helm of Team North America for the 2014 World Financial Group Continental Cup, it was announced today.
Te Ryder Cup-style curling competition, a joint collaboration of the Ca-
nadian Curling Association, USA Curling and the World Curling Federa- tion, is being staged outside of Canada for the first time, running Jan. 16-19 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. Tree-time Brier and two-time World champion Rick Lang of Tunder
Bay, Ont., will serve as the North American coach for the fourth straight year; he also will be Canada’s national men’s coach at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Lang will be joined by USA Curling Hall of Fame member Steve Brown
of Madison, Wis., as the captain. Brown is a three-time U.S. national cham- pion and a two-time world championship bronze-medalist. He will be the coach of the U.S. wheelchair curling team at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, also in Sochi, Russia. Team North America will be looking to defend the title it won in the 2013
renewal of the Continental Cup in Penticton, B.C., and become the first side to repeat as champion this unique event that pits six North American teams (four from Canada, two from the U.S.) against a six-team World lineup in a variety of curling competitions. It will be the 10th renewal of the event. “I’m thrilled to get another chance to participate in one of curling’s best
events,” said Lang. “I’m also excited to get a chance to work with Steve. We saw a lot of each other on the circuit over the years, and I have a lot of respect for him as a competitor and as a coach. I think we’ll work extremely well together.” Lang and Brown still don’t have a complete lineup of teams to choose be-
tween as the North American players from Canada won’t be confirmed un- til following the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials, Dec. 1-8, in Winnipeg. USA’s entrants will be the winners of the Olympic Team Trials – the Erika Brown and John Shuster rinks. Tey’ll be pitted against a Team World side helmed by Captain David Hay of Scotland and Coach Peja Lindholm of Sweden. Team World’s lineup fea-
tures reigning men’s and wom- en’s champions Niklas Edin of Sweden and Eve Muirhead of Scotland, along with David Murdoch of Scotland, Tomas Ulsrud of Norway, Margaretha Sigfridsson of Sweden and Sat- suki Fujisawa of Japan. “I couldn’t possibly be more
thrilled and honored to be se- lected as captain for Team North America at the upcoming Con- tinental Cup in Las Vegas,” said Brown. “Tis will be one of the greatest showcases in history for our fabulous sport as it contin- ues to grow across the world and in the United States. To have the opportunity to work with the reigning superstars of North America against the best of the rest of the world is literally a dream come true. I will do ev- erything in my power to make this event a ringing success in every fashion possible.” For event details, as well as information on accommodation and tickets, go to:
www.curling.ca/2014continentalcup-en. n
Team USA will be sporting fashion- able new rims (above) for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi as the national wheelchair team received a donation of five sets of rims from Precision Bil- let Co., an Arizona company.
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