Carman’s Shaela Hayward made Manitoba curling history as third for Ryan Wiebe’s Fort Rouge team when they won the Chicken Chef Mixed last weekend in Neepawa.
Hayward became the first person in Manitoba’s long curling history to win THREE Manitoba championships in the same curling season. Earlier, she had skipped her teams to the Manitoba U-18 Women’s and U-21 Women’s titles.
The young Carman curler added to this year’s championships total by winning Curling Canada’s U-18 Championship and she can add to the total again when she competes in the U-21 Nationals, March 24-31, in Fort McMurray.
Team Wiebe (Shaela Hayward, Ty Dilello, Jennifer Clark-Rouire) had a 6W-2L record in the Neepawa event. They lost “A” and “B” qualifiers to former champions Braden Calvert (Carberry) and Sean Grassie (Deer Lodge) respectively. They won their “C” qualifier with a win over Michael Siwicki (Granite) to advance to the Page Playoff 3-4 game.
In the playoff round they had a 7-3 win over Kevin Paramor (Arden) and then defeated Grassie 6-3 in the semi-final and Calvert 4-3 in the final.
The Fort Rouge team will represent Manitoba at the Canadian Mixed in November of 2024.
Prior to winning her third championship of the season, Hayward had been one of only 20 Manitoba curlers to have won a pair of titles in a single season. The first to accomplish the feat was Lloyd Gunnlaugson who won the Men’s and Seniors Men’s in 1983. Most recent to do it was Rylan Campbell who won this year’s U-20 Mixed Doubles after earlier winning the U-18 Men’s.
The complete list includes:
1983 Lloyd Gunnlaugson (Men, Senior Men)
1986 Barb Spencer (Women, Mixed)
1986 Darcy Robertson (Women, Mixed)
1991 Jeff Stoughton (Men, Mixed)
2001 Winston Warren (Sr. Men, Masters)
2002 Elaine Jones (Sr. Women, Masters)
2003 Elaine Jones (Sr. Women, Masters)
2003 Ruth Wiebe (Sr. Women, Masters)
2014 Kyle Kurz (Jr. Men, Mixed Doubles)
2017 Gwen Wooley (Sr. Women, Masters)
2022 Elias Huminicki (U18, Jr. Men)
2022 Jordon McDonald (U18, Jr. Men)
2023 Colton Lott (Men, Mixed Doubles)
2023 Deb McCreanor (Sr. Women, Masters)
2023 Elias Huminicki (U18, Jr. Men)
2024 Shaela Hayward (U18, Jr. Women, Mixed)
2024 Keira Krahn (U18, Jr. Women)
2024 India Young (U18, Jr. Women)
2024 Rylie Cox (U18, Jr. Women)
2024 Rylan Campbell (U18, U20 Mixed Doubles)
