BRITISH CURLING ANNOUNCES SQUADS FOR THE 2010 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
AND PARALYMPIC GAMES

Eighteen athletes have been named in the first Great Britain squad
selection for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Six men, six women and six wheelchair athletes have been selected for
the squads, they will face a year of intensive training both on and
off the ice over the next year before the final team selection is
made.

The men’s squad, Euan Byers, Ewan MacDonald, David Murdoch, Peter
Smith, Warwick Smith and Craig Wilson, all have a lot of
international experience at European and World level.
Euan Byers, Ewan MacDonald, David Murdoch, Warwick Smith and Craig
Wilson got fourth place at the Winter Olympics in 2006 while Peter
Smith played in 1988 when curling was an exhibition sport at the
Winter Olympics. More recently David Murdoch, Peter Smith and Euan
Byers won gold at the European Curling Championships in December and
less than a month ago the silver medal at the World Men’s Curling
Championship in Grand Forks, North America.

Karen Addison, Lynn Cameron, Jackie Lockhart, Eve Muirhead, Lorna
Vevers and Kelly Wood make up the women’s squad, they too have their
share of European and World Championship medals. Jackie Lockhart is
the most experienced at international level, she’s played in two
Olympic Games, she won a World gold medal in 2002 and got bronze at
the 2007 World Championships and silver at the Europeans in December.
Karen Addison has two World Junior gold medals, a World bronze from
2007 and got European silver in the same year. Lynn Cameron and Kelly
Wood played in the 2006 Winter Olympics, Kelly skipped the bronze
medal team at the 2007 World Championships and silver team at the
Europeans in December 2007.  Eve Muirhead, the youngest member of the
squad has two World Junior Curling Championship gold medals to her
name.

Tom Killin, Rosemary Lenton, Angie Malone, Michael McCreadie, Aileen
Neilsen and Jim Sellar have been selected for the GB Paralympic
Squad.  Tom Killin, Angie Malone and Michael McCreadie were all in
the team which won silver at the 2006 Paralympic Games. All have
experience of the World Wheelchair Curling Championships and have a
haul of gold medals between them.

Derek Brown, High Performance Curling Coach said, “I am delighted to
announce three squads of extremely talented athletes who will give us
an outstanding chance of winning medals in Vancouver in 2010.”

Emyr Roberts, Performance Programme Consultant at UK Sport said ”
All three squads include athletes who have already achieved medal
success at curling world championships during this current Olympic /
Paralympic cycle and it is a positive step taken by British Curling to
identify and confirm these athletes at this early stage as the most
likely players to be representing Great Britain in Vancouver in 2010″

For more information contact:

Derek Brown, High Performance Curling Coach 07793 099668
David Hay, Olympic Coach, Men 07966 162973
Nancy Murdoch, Olympic Coach, Women 07718 872854
Tom Pendreigh, Paralympic Coach, Head Wheelchair Coach, 07720 440040

British Curling is the body recognised by the British Olympic
Association/British Paralympic Association and UK Sport as
responsible for the Great Britain Team. It is bound by the
constitution, Protocols and Regulations of the British Olympic
Association and British Paralympic Association. British Curling is
funded by UK Sport. Partners are sportscotland, Scottish Institute of
Sport, Royal Caledonian Curling Club, English Curling Association and
Welsh Curling Association.