Five more inductees to Canadian Curling Hall of Fame

There will be five more members of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame, it was announced today.

Joining the Hall will be one of the most accomplished Canadian curling teams ever assembled, along with an Olympian and former Scotties champion who also served as Chair of the Curling Canada Board of Governors.

Here’s a look at the inductees:

Team Sherry Anderson (Athletes)

(Sherry Anderson, Patty Hersikorn, Brenda Goertzen, Anita Silvernagle)

Anderson’s team from Saskatoon has set a record that may never been broken by winning five consecutive Canadian senior women’s championships, and it could have been six were it not for the pandemic.

Team Anderson started that amazing streak by winning its first national championship in 2017 at Fredericton, N.B., and then followed up with victories in 2018 at Stratford, Ont., 2019 at Chilliwack, B.C., 2021 at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and 2022 at Yarmouth, N.S.

In addition to their Canadian championship victories, Team Anderson also shone on the world stage, winning three gold medals at the World Senior Curling Championships — in 2018 at Östersund, Sweden, in 2019 at Stavanger, Norway, and last year at Gangneung, South Korea.

The team will be formally inducted during an on-ice ceremony at the 2024 Montana’s Brier, presented by AGI, in Regina.

Amy Nixon (Executive Honour Roll)

Nixon’s impact on the sport of curling has been profound, both on and off the ice.

Most recently, she served five years on the Curling Canada Board of Governors, and also was elected Chair of the Board of Governors in June 2021, and stayed in that role until the fall of 2022 — the completion of her four-year term. She also agreed to rejoin the Board for the 2022-23 season to help with the orientation process for new governors who had joined the Board.

During her time as Chair of the Curling Canada Board, Curling Canada held its highly successful Bubble events in Nixon’s hometown of Calgary, and she volunteered often as a scorekeeper during those three months of Bubble events, all the while contributing to the Board’s oversight of the events and risk evaluations.

As a player, Nixon, was the vice-skip for Shannon Kleibrink’s Canadian team that won bronze at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and a silver medal at the 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. She played the same position for Chelsea Carey’s 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts championship team, and was the alternate for Heather Nedohin’s 2012 Scotties champs.

She will be inducted during an on-ice ceremony next Monday, Feb. 19, at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts at the WinSport Event Centre, an event for which she is serving as the organizing committee Vice-Chair.