It’s down to 15 men’s and 15 women’s teams still in the race to represent Canada in four-player curling in 2026, it was confirmed today by Curling Canada.
Seven teams in each gender have qualified directly for the 2025 Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials, which take place Nov. 22-30 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax and determine the women’s and men’s teams that will be nominated to the Canadian Olympic Committee to be part of the Canadian team for the 2026 Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy next February.
One more team of each gender will get a trials invite by winning their berth at the 2025 Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trial, Oct. 20-26, at the Andrew H. McCain Arena in Wolfville, N.S.
The Home Hardware Pre-Trials and Montana’s Trials will have identical formats — eight-team round robins, with three teams making the playoffs. The first-place team earns a bye to the final, while the second- and third-place teams will meet in the semifinal.
For the first time in trials and pre-trials history, both events will feature best-of-three finals.
The qualifying period for both events concluded after the Grand Slam AMJ Players’ Championship earlier this month in Toronto.
To be eligible for the berths, teams had to meet various qualifying standards, as well as maintaining the standard three-of-four player rule (with potential exceptions in the case of medical exemptions).
Here are the qualifying teams, and the order and method in which they qualified, for the Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials:
Women
Men
The eight women’s and eight men’s teams competing in the Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trials qualified based on their ranking on the 2024-25 CTRS standings, and had to meet the same eligibility requirements as those who qualified for the Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials.
Here are the teams that qualified and accepted invitations for the Home Hardware Canadian Curling Pre-Trials (in some cases, teams turned down invitations because of lineup changes or other commitments for the 2025-26 curling season):
Women
1. Team Beth Peterson (Winnipeg)
2. Team Kayla MacMillan (Victoria)
3. Team Danielle Inglis (Ottawa)
4. Team Selena Sturmay (Edmonton)
5. Team Ashley Thevenot (Saskatoon)
6. Team Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, Ont.)
7. Team Myla Plett (Edmonton)
8. Team Nancy Martin (Saskatoon)
Men
1. Team Jordon McDonald (Winnipeg)
2. Team Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg)
3. Team Sam Mooibroek (Whitby, Ont.)
4. Team Scott Howard (Navan, Ont.)
5. Team Braden Calvert (Winnipeg)
6. Team Mark Kean (Woodstock, Ont.)
7. Team Owen Purcell (Halifax)
8. Team Félix Asselin (Montreal)