2017 U18 Provincial Curling Champions
The Brett Walter’s team playing out of the Morris Curling Club won the U18 Men’s Curling
Championship on March 5. The Championship was held at the Springfield Curling Club in Dugald. The
Championship team of Skip Brett Walter, Third Jordan Peters, second Zach Wasylik and lead Liam Tod
and coached by Lorne Hamblin will compete at the first National Championship to be held in Moncton,
NB April 18-22, 2017. Jordan, Zach and Liam play regularly in the Morris league and have been
participants at Curl Manitoba’s Next Gen program running at the Cargill Curling Training Centre in
Morris. The fourth on their team, Graeme Bergman, being too old for this competition was replaced
with Brett Walter from Winnipeg. Brett has been training and competing with the team since early
January. The team won the regionals in Plumas in early February defeating another Morris team and
Cargill Curling Training Centre team, that being Josh Friesen. The final of the regionals was tightly
contested and worthy of any provincial final.
On the women’s side, Morris’s team of Hayley Bergman, Olivia Bruneau, Payton Bergman and Stasia
Ginters were defeated at the regionals by the defending U18 Provincial Champions, Mackenzie Zacharias
and her team from Altona, including Morgan Reimer, Emily Zacharias and Paige Beaudry. They went on
to represent the Central region at the U18 Championship and won the gold medal as well and will
accompany Brett’s team to the U18 Nationals.
On the same weekend, the Morris Curling Club/Cargill Curling Training Centre also had a team
competing at the U18 mixed doubles. Hayley Bergman and Zach Wasylik earned a bronze medal at this
event. Brett Walter and his sister, Meghan, won the gold medal defeating Klaudius Harsch and Bianca
Dubois from the Rossmere Curling Club. There is no National event for this competition.
The Cargill Curling Training Centre congratulates all the teams competing in this event and
acknowledges their accomplishments. The Centre also congratulates all the other curlers that have
represented their schools and the club at various provincials. In all 13 teams/individuals involved in
Cargill Curling Training Centre have qualified to play in 13 provincial competitions this season.
The Morris Curling Club will be hosting a send-off social on April 8 at the Morris Curling Club. We
encourage everyone to come out and wish the team well at the National event in Moncton. For more
information or to purchase tickets, contact Lorne
or Chris Hamblin 204-746-3330.
Players Left to right: Coach Lorne Hamblin, lead
Liam Tod, second Zach Wasylik, third Jordan Peters
and skip Brett Walter