2024 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2024 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held from March 24 to 31 at the Suncor Community Leisure Centre and the Oilsands Curling Club in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The winners earned the right to represent Canada at the 2025 World Junior Curling Championships.
2024 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships | |
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Host city | Fort McMurray, Alberta |
Arena | Suncor Community Leisure Centre & Oilsands Curling Club |
Dates | March 24–31 |
Men's winner | Alberta 1 |
Curling club | The Glencoe Club, Calgary |
Skip | Kenan Wipf |
Third | Ky Macaulay |
Second | Michael Keenan |
Lead | Max Cinnamon |
Coach | Derek Bowyer |
Finalist | Nova Scotia 1 (MacIsaac) |
Women's winner | Nova Scotia 1 |
Curling club | Halifax CC, Halifax |
Skip | Allyson MacNutt |
Third | Maria Fitzgerald |
Second | Alison Umlah |
Lead | Grace McCusker |
Coach | Theresa Breen |
Finalist | Ontario 1 (Markle) |
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This was the second time Fort McMurray played host to the Canadian Junior Curling Championships. The city previously held the 2013 championship which was won by Manitoba's Matt Dunstone and British Columbia's Corryn Brown. Fort McMurray was also supposed to host the 2021 championship before it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, being replaced by the 2021 World Junior Qualification Event.
The event featured eighteen teams on both the men's and women's sides, each split into two pools of nine. The top three teams from each pool at the end of the round robin advanced to the playoff round. Based on results from the 2022 and 2023 events, certain provinces earned two berths to the championship. British Columbia, Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Saskatchewan each earned an extra berth on the men's side, while Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northern Ontario, Nova Scotia and Ontario got two berths on the women's side The host province, Alberta, also earned two teams.