Adam Prudhomme
Editor
Scott Chadwick will be bringing his curling expertise back to his hometown Napanee District Curling Club on Feb. 18, leading a clinic designed for local junior curlers.
Open to members of the Junior Curling Programs who are 10 and older with at least one-year experience, the clinic will feature Chadwick along with his Team Epping teammates.
“It means a lot to me coming from the Napanee club, a small town club,” said Chadwick. “It’s hard to break through as a kid, you don’t have a lot of teammates in the area or a lot of high level coaching or opportunities. I’m brining my experience and my teammates experience back and helping to inspire the next generation and the next champions to come out of the club.”
The clinic is supported by Greater Kingston Curling and L&A Mutual Insurance, which keeps the cost of the clinic down to $15 per curler, which covers the cost of lunch. The clinic will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. To register contact Bobstjohn@kos.net by Feb. 11.
Chadwick is current in the midst of his first season with skip John Epping. They’re coming off a third place finish at the Ontario Tankard, held in Port Elgin at the end of January.
With Chadwick as lead, Epping’s rink went 5-2 in the round robin, reaching the semifinals before falling 7-4 to the eventual champion Team McEwen. Epping entered the 10th end down just a point before McEwen scored two to seal the victory and advance to the finals to face Glenn Howard.
“It’s good when you go to a provincial championship and you’re playing on the weekend with a chance to win,” said Chadwick. “Our goal wasn’t to finish third, our goal was to win but we’ll re-evaulaute how the week went and make a game plan from there.”
The first half of the season saw the team do its share of travel, with Chadwick recalling ‘dozens’ of flights to events across Canada. In November they captured back-to-back event titles, winning the Halifax Classic and the Challenge de Curling Desjardins in Charlevoix, Que.
Following the Christmas break they competed in the Meridian Canadian Open Grand Slam in Camrose, AB, followed by the Tankard.
“We played well in both, we executed our game plan, just unfortunately the results weren’t there,” said Chadwick.
With the focus now on the upcoming clinic, Chadwick says the team will soon get together to discuss their plan for the second half of the curling season.