Some Black Diamond area curlers will be teamed up with an Olympic gold medallist or the skip for the defending Canadian women’s championship rink in a showdown on the ice.
Marc Kennedy, second on Kevin’s Martin’s 2010 gold medal rink in Vancouver and Chelsea Carey, the 2018 Canadian women’s champion, will curl against one another on Oct. 18 at the Oilfields Curling Rink in the Battle of the Breweries at 7 p.m.
Their respective teams will be curlers who successfully bid for the right to be teamed up two of the best curlers in the world.
On Team Fahr are Chelsea Carey, skip; Michael Keenan, third; Nancy Jackson, second and Tim Tomayer, lead. Team Hard Knox Brewery consists of Marc Kennedy, skip; Sydney Libbus, third; Chantal Marleau, second and Macey Anderson lead.
Kennedy took a year off of competitive curling last year but he is back curling with 2014 Olympic champion Brad Jacobs as a third.
Carey, who curls out of the Glencoe Club, will defend her Canadian title as Team Canada skip in February in Moose Jaw.
Kennedy is also hosting a sold-out curling clinic at Oilfields along with 2018 Canadian Masters champion Mickey Pendergast and 1998 Olympic gold medallist Atina Ford Johnston Oct. 19-20.
A banquet is scheduled for the evening of Oct. 19.
