On April 12-14, 2024, Aksarben Curling hosted its Season Championship bonspiel at Baxter Arena. The event featured sixteen teams including the champions of our 10 fall and winter leagues, our top college league team, the 2022-2023 defending champs, and four wild card lottery teams.
Teams played in 4-team groups that broke into semi-finals and finals. Participating teams included:
Group A Naughty or Ice (Winter Sunday 6:45pm) Wire Wombats (Winter Tuesday 8pm) Stone Cold (Team Aksarben - defending champs) Cobra Kai Curling (Wild Card)
Group B Team Anderson (Winter Sunday 2:15pm) Sixteen Stones (Fall Friday 7pm) Taken for Granite (Fall Tuesday 8pm) Little Raise of Sunshine (Wild Card)
Group C No Stone Left Unturned (Wild Card) Buff N Stuff (Fall Sunday 2:15pm) The Bee's Knees (Wild Card) Moore Trash (Fall Sunday 6:45pm)
Group D UNO Curling (College League) RockSteady (Fall Sunday 4:30pm) The Ice Is Right (Winter Friday 7pm) Hollaback Curls (Winter Sunday 4:30pm)
Congratulations to our season champions!
2023-2024 Season Champions Buff N Stuff Steve Jaixen (second), Buffy Linke (skip), Chris Becher (vice), Scott Jordan (lead)
2023-2024 Season Championship Runners-Up Naughty or Ice Alex Wilson (lead), Amanda Wilson (skip), Nic Ridder (second), Meredith Daniels (vice)
2023-2024 Season Championship Third Place Taken for Granite Sean Morrison (lead - subbing for Mo Shukry), Matt Suder (skip), Jeff Friesen (vice), Doug Johnson (lead)
2023-2024 Season Championship Semi-Finalist RockSteady CaSandra Johnson (vice), Steve Kraft (skip), Rob Latimer (second), Kristen Peterson (lead)
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We facilitated six leagues in the winter of 2024: three 9-week Sunday Leagues, a 10-week Tuesday League, an 8-week Friday League, and a 5-week Saturday Doubles League.
Let’s have a round of applause for all of our 2024 Winter League champs! Each of the champions (outside of the Doubles league) qualified for our 2023-2024 Season Championship on April 12-14, 2024.
2024 Winter Sunday 2:15pm League champ BuffNStuff Chris Becher, Steve Jaixen, Scott Jordan, Jenn Becher, Buffy Linke (not pictured)
2024 Winter Sunday 4:30pm League champ Hollaback Curls Matt Manderfeld, Aaron Adams, Doug Michel, Lois Imig
2024 Winter Sunday 6:45pm League champ Naughty or Ice Alex Wilson, Amanda Wilson, Meredith Daniels, Nic Ridder
2024 Winter Tuesday 8pm League champ Taken for Granite Nicholas Bjornson, Jeff Friesen, Matt Suder, Doug Johnson
2024 Winter Friday 7pm League champ The Ice Is Right Blake Anderson (sub), Michael Feit, Greg Tunink, Ray Koza, Randy Brodner (not pictured)
2024 Winter Saturday Doubles 4:15pm League champ McCright? More Like McWrong! Jay Dykes and Joe McCright
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