Hall of Famers: 2025

Carey, Dan
CURLER
Inducted 2025

Dan Carey, in the years between 1981 and 1998, made 13 Labatt Tankard and Safeway Select appearances, six with his brother Bill Carey, six with Vic Peters, and one with Dale Duguid – almost always at the third position. On most of those teams, Don Rudd was either lead or second.

He had a winning record of 51 wins & 25 losses at provincial men’s championships, won three Manitoba titles, an MCA Bonspiel Grand Aggregate, a Canadian championship, and a bronze medal at the World Championship. He also played in one Manitoba Mixed championship, in 1983 with Bill Carey, and was undefeated in winning his first Manitoba championship.

When Dan Carey and Don Rudd joined forces with Vic Peters and Chris Neufeld for the 1991-92 season, they had instant success – winning the first two Manitoba championships they played in with identical 7W-1L records. They won the 1992 Brier with a 10W-2L record and, despite having to adapt to the new free-guard zone rule, they posted a 7W-3L record to win their World Championship Bronze medal.

The 1992 & 1993 team of Peters, Carey, Neufeld, and Rudd was only the second in Manitoba Men’s curling history to win back-to-back titles with the same line-up, joining the Duguid 1970 & 1971 team. They were previously inducted, as a team in 2005, into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame.

In a year off from the Peters team, Dan Carey played in the 1996 Safeway Select, at third for Dale Duguid. They compiled a 7W-3L record in losing the final to Jeff Stoughton.

With Scott Grant replacing Don Rudd, he reunited with Peters and Neufeld to win a third Manitoba title in 1997 with a 9W-2L record. The team posted a perfect 11W-0L Brier round-robin record, lost and won playoff games by identical 6-5 extra end scores, and then lost the final to Kevin Martin.

After his final Safeway Select appearance in 1998, Dan Carey turned to coaching. Over the years between 2000 and 2018, he coached teams in the Manitoba Junior Women’s (6), Scotties (8), Mixed (1), and Viterra (3) championships. He coached his daughter Chelsea’s team at the 2013 Canadian Curling Trials, as Team Manitoba at the 2014 national Scotties, and as Team Alberta/Canada at the Worlds in 2019. He also coached Reid Carruthers’ 2018 Manitoba champions at the 2018 Brier and the 2017 Trials.

He was previously inducted with the Peters team, in 2005, into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame.

Darren Oryniak‘s volunteer service and leadership in the sport of curling has included nearly all aspects of the game from the curling ice, as a junior curling instructor and coach, to various capacities with many major events committees, to the board rooms of CurlManitoba & Curling Canada, and with international service as a Canadian delegate to World Curling meetings.

In his youth curling contributions, Darren is an NCCP certified coach/instructor, achieving Level 3 certification in 2008, and coach of numerous teams at regional & provincial and Manitoba Games competitions. At the club level, he instructed 100+ volunteer clinics at many clubs over several decades. At East St. Paul, he was the Junior Curling Program Co-ordinator for over a decade from 1999 to 2011, overseeing a program which included young curlers at the little rock, bantam and junior levels.

His involvement with the many national and international events hosted in Winnipeg began as a Stats Committee volunteer for the 1989 Pepsi Juniors at Heather and the 1991 Men’s World Championship.  At the 1998 Tim Hortons Brier, he was the volunteer driver for the champion Ontario (Middaugh) team. At the 2013 Roar of the Rings Curling Trials, he was the Facilities Vice Chair, responsible for the Ice & Rocks, Media, Communications, Construction and Stats committees.

Shortly after the conclusion of the Trials, Darren was elected to the Board of Directors of CurlManitoba. Including his final two years as President, he provided leadership for Manitoba curling for six years (from 2014-15 through 2019-20). His leadership continued as a member of the Curling Canada Board of Governors for the next four years. His professional background in the area of Risk Management and Human Resources were particular assets to the Board during long-term strategic planning and staffing discussions. At both Boards and as member of committees, his quite demeanour was always considered a steadying influence.

Among myriad other duties during his Curling Canada tenure, Darren was one of Curling Canada’s delegates to WCF international meetings where he worked at balancing the interests of curling in Canada with the best interests of our sport worldwide.

Oryniak, Darren
BUILDER
Inducted 2025

McEwen, Dawn
CURLER
Inducted 2025

Dawn McEwen (Askin) moved to Manitoba from Ontario to join the Jennifer Jones team for the 2007-08 curling season.

In the 15 years from 2008 to 2022, as lead for the Jones team, she played in a remarkable 19 final games in a total of 28 Olympic Games, Olympic Trials, and Manitoba, Canadian, & World championships. Her win/loss record in those gold medal/championship games was 15W-4L. The team also won four bronze medals in that span. That winning record also includes 16 Grand Slam event titles.

Being from Ontario, her Manitoba record includes no junior curling accomplishments and no early Scotties accomplishments. However, her Ontario record includes one Scotties championship, two finalist and one semi-finalist finish and the Canadian Scotties finalist finish to the Jones team in 2005.

In seven Manitoba Women’s Championships, a 55W-11L record was limited by the fact that she and her teammates were ineligible many times due to them being Team Canada and/or the Canadian Olympic team. They played in six Manitoba finals and won five of them (2008, 2012, 2013, 2015 & 2018).

In 12 Canadian Championship appearances (including the one as Team Ontario), her Canadian championship medal count includes five gold (2008, 2012, 2013, 2015 & 2018), three silver and three bronze. Her world championship medal count includes two gold (2008 & 2018), one silver and one bronze along with 2014 Olympic gold medal.

Unquestionably one of the greatest leads in Canadian women’s curling history, Dawn McEwen was in fact so-named in a 2019 TSN listing by a panel of broadcasters, journalists and elite-level curlers. She was the all-star lead six times at the Manitoba championship as well as being the second team all-star lead once and the first team all-star lead six times at Canadian championships.

Dawn McEwen was previously inducted into the Manitoba Curing Hall of Fame in 2015 with the Jennifer Jones Olympic Gold Medal winning team.

Raunora Westcott played in six final games, winning three and losing four and compiling an impressive 94 wins – 44 losses record, in her sixteen appearances at the Manitoba Women’s championship.

She was always the lead, usually (13 times) partnered with second Leslie Wilson, as the reliable foundation for strong, competitive teams.  In 15 of her 16 Manitoba Scotties appearances, Raunora Westcott’s teams had positive win-loss records. Three times; in 2006, 2011, and 2016 she was named the All-star lead at the Manitoba championship.

In only one appearance at the Manitoba Junior Championship, at lead for Kristy Jenion, they won the 1996 Manitoba championship. Half of her Scotties appearances were as lead for her junior skip but they were unable to match that junior glory together. In eight Scotties appearance as lead for Jenion, they reached three finals, losing to Jennifer Jones in 2005, Janet Harvey in 2006 and to Kerri Einarson in 2016.

She teamed up with Jill Thurston to win the Manitoba Scotties in 2010 and won it again in 2011 playing lead for Cathy Overton-Clapham. In a three-year run with Barb Spencer, she came close again, with another finalist finish in 2013.

Her third Manitoba Scotties win came in 2017 at lead for Michelle Englot. That team finished the Canadian Scotties round robin with an 10W-1L record, tied with Rachel Homan. They beat Homan in the Page 1—2 game and met her again in the final, losing on an extra end. The Englot team earned a 2017 Canadian Trials berth and played as a replacement Team Canada at the 2018 national Scotties. At that 2018 Canadian championship, she was the second team All-star lead.

Westcott, Raunora
CURLER
Inducted 2025

McEwen – 2008-2018 TEAM
Inducted 2025

Mike McEwen’s Fort Rouge team (BJ Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld) were a remarkable ‘first-ever’ in the 100-year history of the Manitoba Men’s championship dating back to 1925 when they reached the final of the 2017 Viterra Championship. While legendary skips like Ken Watson and Bruce Hudson had played in four consecutive finals, it was never with the same line-up. Team McEwen added a fifth to their record when they reached the final again in 2018.

While the Fort Rouge foursome coached by Chris Neufeld fell short of their ultimate goal, their record of success between 2008 and 2018 is unquestionably that of a Hall of Fame team.

During those years, Team McEwen qualified every year for the Safeway, and then Viterra, Championships. Every year, 11 years consecutively, they qualified for the final four playoff. In all, including their record five year run from 20-14 to 2018, they appeared in eight provincial final games. They won the championship and represented Manitoba at the Brier in 2016 and again in 2017. They also had a Brier trip as a ‘wild card’ entry in 2018. They earned the Brier Bronze medal in 2017 and had fourth and fifth place finishes in their other two Briers.

The team was the Silver Medalist at the 2017 Canadian Curling Trials, after finishing fourth in their first Trials appearance in 2013. In their years competing together, they won seven Grand Slam events.

For ten consecutive years, the team finished the season in the top seven of the Canadian Team Ranking System ranking. At the conclusion of the 2014-15 season, they were in fact ranked the #1 team in Canada.

It is the first Hall of Fame induction for the four players. Coach Chris Neufeld was previously inducted as a curler in 2020 and with the Vic Peters 1992 Canadian Champion team in 2005.

La Salle’s Team Neufeld (Randy Neufeld, Dean Moxham, Peter Nicholls, Dale Michie) induction formally recognizes their 2015 Manitoba and Canadian championships and their World Seniors Silver medal the next year.

Less formally, it recognizes one of the greatest ten year runs by any team in Manitoba curling history, including this year’s Manitoba Senior Men’s finalist finish and Manitoba & Canadian Masters championships.

The team formed in 2015 with the instant success of winning that year’s Manitoba and Canadian titles. They defended the Manitoba championship in 2016 with their second consecutive undefeated 9W-0L record in the Strathcona Trust Senior Men’s. As a tune-up for the Worlds (earned in 2015), they returned to the Canadian Seniors and earned a finalist finish – matched by their Silver Medal at the World Seniors.

In the subsequent years, Team Neufeld has qualified annually for the Manitoba Seniors with three more championships (2021, 2022, 2024) and five finalist finishes (2017, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2025). The remarkable accomplishment of ten finals appearances in 11 years, without a change of personnel, is unmatched by any team of any era in Manitoba curling.  Equally remarkable is their 11-year record of 81 wins and 19 losses in the Strathcona Senior Men’s. 

Along with their Canadian title and the 2016 Silver Medal, they also earned the Bronze Medal at the Canadian Championship in 2022.

The Team Neufeld list of accomplishments expands to include consecutive Manitoba Masters championships in 2023 and 2024, with Darren Oryniak subbing for the “too-young’ Dean Moxham, and in 2025 with Moxham finally eligible.  In early April this year, they won the Canadian Masters championships.

Neufeld – 2015
World Senior Silver Medalist TEAM
Inducted 2025

Westcott – 2015
Canadian Masters Champion TEAM
Inducted 2025

Ron Westcott and his Fort Rouge team win at the 2015 Canadian Masters Championship was special for two reasons. The record book reason is obvious – a first Canadian championship for all four players Ken Dusablon, Bob Boughey, Howard Restall). However, it was made more special by the fact the 70-year Westcott won with his 104-year-old mother, Mime Westcott, watching in Whitehorse, Yukon – a very long way from Douglas, Manitoba where he had learned to curl.

Westcott and his longtime second, Bob Boughey, had won Masters titles in 2010 and 2012 and fell just short, winning Canadian silver and bronze medals those two years.

In 2014, the two joined forces with Ken Dusablon and Ron Toews to win the Manitoba Masters. They fell short of the medals at the Canadian event.

For the 2015 season, Howard Restall replaced Toews on the Masters team. Westcott, Dusablon and Boughey with Don Shiach at lead played in the Seniors where they lost the final to Randy Neufeld and his team.

That was just prior to the Masters championship in Swan River where Westcott, Dusablon, Boughey and Restall complied a 6W-3L record and won playoff games over Jim Renwick and Carl German to reach the final against Doug Armour. Down 6-4 coming home, they scored three to win 7-6 and finish with a 9W-3L record.

They were perfect at the Canadian Championship, compiling an 11W-0L record by winning the final game 6-3 over Northern Ontario.

The odds were against them in 2016 when they tried to defend the Manitoba title as, to that time, no skip had ever won three in a row. They couldn’t overcome the odds and missed the playoffs.

Westcott was previously inducted into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame as a Curler in 2016 and with the Carl German Senior Champion team in 2022. Boughey was previously inducted as a Curler-Builder, also in 2016.