{"id":35437,"date":"2024-11-21T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=35437"},"modified":"2024-11-21T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:03:04","slug":"auroras-jordan-keon-skips-his-team-to-the-2024-ontario-curling-club-championship-in-whitby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/auroras-jordan-keon-skips-his-team-to-the-2024-ontario-curling-club-championship-in-whitby\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora\u2019s Jordan Keon skips his team to the 2024 Ontario Curling Club Championship in Whitby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aurora resident Jordan Keon\u2019s magic on the curling rink has continued this Fall and the skip has his eyes on the national prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keon, along with teammates Ryan Werenich, Curtis Samoy, and Trevor Talbott, captured the Ontario Curling Club Provincial title on Sunday by defeating Team Dupuis 8-2 in the championship final at the Whitby Curling Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Keon\u2014affiliated for decades with the Richmond Hill Curling Club \u2013 dashed the title hopes of Team Dupuis. The squad from Cornwall has been the second-place finisher at the Provincials for two years in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keon described this year\u2019s pathway to the provincial title and expressed a degree of satisfaction with his newly-configured team\u2019s high-caliber performance in Whitby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was pretty cool. We brought in Ryan Werenich this year. I\u2019ve known Ryan for over twenty years. We made some changes to last year\u2019s team. I was the skip for the first time and even with that big change and integrating a new teammate, we were still successful. We went through our qualifiers undefeated and lost only once in the championships.  We\u2019re not getting any younger \u2013 and we\u2019ve been competing nationally since 2011 \u2013 so to win again at this level was very satisfying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success at the provincial and national championships is old hat for Keon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur team has qualified five times for the Canadian club championship. The first time we competed for a national title was thirteen years ago and we finished second. We won it in 2022 in Alberta at the West Edmonton Mall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keon reflected with great fondness on the uniqueness of competing in and winning a Canadian curling championship at the West Edmonton Mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was an amazing experience.  The venue was incredible\u2014we didn\u2019t leave the Mall for nine days. The hotel was there. There was a grocery store right there. They made the Mall\u2019s skating rink into a curling rink and the organizers brought in one of the best icemakers in Canada, so the ice quality was great, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the convenience of the Mall and the ideal ice conditions, Keon also remembers the big crowds that watched the event: \u201cThe curling rink was smack dab in the middle of the Mall and it was rammed due to Black Friday sales events that were running that weekend.  There were so many people watching the championship.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buoyed by great memories in Edmonton in 2022 and an excellent performance last weekend at the provincial championship in Whitby, Keon\u2019s team qualified for the 2024 Everest Canadian Curling Club National Championship being hosted by the Barrie Curling Club from November 18-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keon, who has also distinguished himself as a Provincial Baseball Championship Head Coach with the Aurora-King Jays Major Mosquito squad in 2016, knows the pressures of Provincial and National Championships and believes his team has the right stuff to re-capture the Canadian title in Barrie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope so.  We\u2019re attending to our logistics this week so we can be away from our families for a week. We looked at the field\u2014many of the teams we competed against in Edmonton\u2014and we know the teams from big curling provinces like Manitoba and Alberta will be very good.  They are club curlers, too, but we have the experience and success at the national level working for us.  It will also be nice to have our family and friends in the stands in Barrie as well as members from our curling club in a more traditional arena setting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Keon\u2019s own successes on the rink and on the diamond, his quartet has much championship pedigree. Ryan Werenich is the son of legendary Canadian curler Ed \u201cThe Wrench\u201d Werenich.  Samoy and Talbott have invaluable experience in the crucible of national competition. Keon also noted a big factor in his team\u2019s favor is their long connection to the Richmond Hill Curling Club.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lifelong resident of Aurora has been affiliated with the Richmond Hill Curling Club for over twenty years and discussed the attributes of the recreational facility located on Elgin Mills Road East: \u201cI started curling there when I was in high school. It\u2019s a great community that has so many personal connections for me. Curtis and I have been curling together there for fifteen years.  The club also has a very competitive league\u2014one of the best in Ontario. It really provides the best of both worlds\u2014a good balance of community recreation where we can have a beer afterwards with friends and family and high-level competition that prepares the club winner well for the provincial championships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurora resident Jordan Keon\u2019s magic on the curling rink has continued this Fall and the skip has his eyes on the national prize.  Keon, along with teammates Ryan Werenich, Curtis Samoy, and Trevor Talbott, captured the Ontario Curling Club Provincial title on Sunday by defeating Team Dupuis 8-2 in the championship final at the Whitby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-9dz","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 22:17:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35438,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35437\/revisions\/35438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}