CURLING COUPLES

Curling, as many who play will attest, is a social sport. For that reason, it’s no big surprise that many curlers end up as couples, husbands and wives who share a love of rock tossing. Here are a few of the more successful curling couples.

 

Rick and Lorraine Lang: Lorraine Lang was a Canadian champion in 1988 and ’89, and took the world title in 1989. Husband Rick is a three-time Brier winner—1972, ’82, and ’85—winning the world title in ’82 and ’85. Together, they captured the Canadian Mixed in 1981.

 

Dave and Heather Nedohin: Dave throws last rock for the powerful Randy Ferbey team that won four Canadian and three world championships, while Heather has a world junior and world women’s title on her resumé.

 

Ian Tetley and Erica Brown: A cross-border couple. Ian Tetley is a three-time Canadian and world champion, while Erica has four U.S. women’s titles to her credit, as well as two Olympic appearances.

 

Pat Perroud and Jane Hooper Perroud: Pat won Canadian and world championships playing lead for both Al Hackner (1985) and Ed Werenich (1990), while wife Jane was a member of Marilyn Bodogh’s squad, which captured the Canadian and world championship in 1996.

 

Wayne and Sherry Middaugh: Wayne is a two-time Canadian and world champion while better half Sherry has won the Ontario title three times, reaching the semi-finals of the Canadian championship on all three occasions. Both curlers have competed in the Canadian Olympic curling trials.

Curling Quote

“They told us to watch out for odd people when he got here. The first guy I saw was wearing a gopher on his head. Where do you start?”

 

 

—A member of the security detail of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who visited the 2007 Tim Hortons Brier in Hamilton, as told to the Edmonton Sun