\u0027I\u0027d like to think the team that wins at River Cree is going to have at least one Golden Bear on it. That\u0027s my hope\u0027
Nineteen of the 48 competitors gathered for this year’s event — a full 40% of the field — are either current or former members of what is, hands down, the top curling program in all of U Sports. And the same goes for the women’s side, where 13 of the 32 competitors in last month’s Alberta Scotties had been part of U of A Pandas curling.Article content
“Well, it is,” Krepps said. “I think our guys have to take pride in the fact they’re playing in something like that.”For the first time — or second, if you count qualifying for a 2022 provincial championship in Grande Prairie only to pull out due to COVID-19 — the Alberta BP Cup features both the Golden Bears Selects and a Golden Bears Junior squad of U20-eligible players, skipped by Johnson Tao and coached by Skip Wilson.
Even if it meant becoming a victim of his own success, having lost a pair of provincial finals to a previous graduate of the program in Bottcher, back when Karsten Sturmay — another Bears alumnus in this week’s tournament — skipped the Selects.
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