McIntyre honoured by Curling Canada
Regina’s Bernadette McIntyre was named the recipient of Curling Canada’s Award of Achievement on Monday.
The award recognizes people who have contributed significantly to curling in one of four areas: builder, technical development, marketing and media.
“I am humbled and honoured to receive this Award of Achievement from Curling Canada,” McIntyre said. “I accept it on behalf of the hundreds of volunteers that have been part of every event and initiative we pursued. Thank you to CurlSask for the nomination and to my family for their unending support.”
McIntyre’s involvement in curling ranges from serving on the board of the Saskatchewan Curling Association (now CurlSask) the board of governors for Curling Canada to chairing numerous national curling championships in Regina.
She served as the president of the host committees for the 1998 Scotties Tournament of Hearts national championship, the 2001 Olympic team trials and the 2006 Brier, and as the executive vicepresident of the host committee for the 2008 Scotties. She also chaired the host committees for the 2014 Curling Canada-Canadian university championships and the 2016 Canadian wheelchair championships. McIntyre also chaired the bid committee for the 2018 Brier, to be held in Regina.
Saskatchewan met Saskatchewan — sort of — at the Scotties on the weekend.
On Sunday morning in St. Catharines, Ont., Team Saskatchewan met Team Manitoba — skipped by Regina’s Michelle Englot — at the Canadian women’s championship.
“It was kind of surreal and I’m still getting mixed up with our schedule,” said Englot, a seventime Saskatchewan women’s champion who now skips a Winnipeg-based foursome.
The Montmartre-born Englot defeated Saskatchewan’s Penny Barker 8-5 on Day 2 of the Scotties. Englot was pleased and relieved with how things went.
“Playing Saskatchewan was tougher than I thought and I’m just glad it happened early in the week so the story can now be done,” Englot said.
Englot skips a foursome from Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club that also includes third Kate Cameron, second Leslie Wilson and lead Raunora Westcott. Cameron, Wilson and Westcott are Manitobans. Curling Canada rules allow a team to have one out-of-province player at a national championship.
Englot had a 4-0 record after Monday’s competition. Barker, who is from Moose Jaw, carried an 0-3 slate into Monday evening ’s matchup with Quebec’s Eve Belisle.