Alberta skip Selena Sturmay delivers a rock during Scotties Tournament of Hearts action against Northern Ontario in Thunder Bay, Ont. on Sunday, February 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

By The Canadian Press

Selena Sturmay surges in Olympic curling pre-trials with a double-win day

Oct 22, 2025 | 5:31 PM

WOLFVILLE — Selena Sturmay’s team surged to the top of the women’s leaderboard Wednesday in the Home Hardware Curling Pre-Trials with a pair of victories.

Sturmay (4-1) earned a 7-6 victory over Saskatchewan’s Nancy Martin in the morning draw before capturing an 11-5 decision over Saskatoon’s Ashley Thevenot in the afternoon draw.

After winning four in a row, Kayla MacMillan lost 5-4 in an extra end to Myla Plett in the evening to fall into a tie at 4-1 atop the women’s standings with Sturmay.

On the men’s side, Jean-Michel Ménard dumped Mark Kean 8-5 at night to get to a 4-2 record.

Scott Howard, who had the evening off, was 4-1. Braden Calvert, Jordan McDonald and Sam Mooibroek were all 3-2 with the night off.

Riderville

Now for the Hard Part

Dec 10, 2025

Grey Cup!!!

Everything you wanted and more

Nov 21, 2025

Ferland earns Grey Cup ring

'A wonderful human being': High school coach thrilled Logan Ferland is a Grey Cup champion

Nov 17, 2025

The top men’s and women’s teams at the end of the round robin advance directly to best-of-three finals starting Saturday. The second and third seeds meet in semifinals.

The men’s and women’s winners of the pre-trials join the Montana’s Curling Trials fields Nov. 22-30 in Halifax.

The trials determines Canada’s teams for February’s Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy.

Plett’s victory gave her team a 3-2 record ahead of a logjam of four teams at 2-3.

In other games Wednesday evening, Krista Scharf edged Beth Peterson 7-6, Danielle Inglis beat Nancy Martin 8-5 and Jayden King defeated Owen Purcell 8-3.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct, 22, 2025.

The Canadian Press