Wikipedia / Bunge Prairie Pinnacle
Wikipedia / Bunge Prairie Pinnacle
The Bunge Prairie Pinnacle, formerly the Viterra Prairie Pinnacle and Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the annual provincial women's curling championship for the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The winning team represents Saskatchewan at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the national women's championship. The bonspiel is organized by CURLSASK, the provincial curling association.
Format
The number of teams participating and the format of the tournament has varied over the years. In the most recent edition, in 2025, the bonspiel included 9 teams involved in a single round-robin leading to a four-team page playoff. Three teams qualified based on their national CTRS ranking; another three qualified based on their rank on the Saskatchewan Women's Curling Tour (SWCT); and the final three teams qualified via direct events, called the Women's Last Chance.
Champions
The championship has been contested annually since 1948, with the event cancelled only once, in 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 1953, the Janet Perkin rink from Regina won the provincial title and the Western Canadian Ladies' Championship, the first organized competition for women that went beyond the province's borders, and which was hosted in Regina. Saskatoon's Joyce McKee established an early run of dominance in the province, winning a record eight titles between 1954 and 1973, including five as skip. McKee won the first invitational national title in 1960 and the first official Canadian women's championship the following year, capturing the 1961 Diamond D Championship. She won another national title in 1969 before teaming up with Vera Pezer for a then-record three consecutive provincial and national titles from 1971 to 1973, including the 1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship in Saskatoon. Pezer's three straight titles were part of a run of six straight for Team Saskatchewan. In 2019, the Pezer rink would be ranked fifth in a national ranking of the greatest women's curling teams. The top-ranked team was Sandra Schmirler's Regina rink, which won three provincial, national, and world titles in the 1990s, along with a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Other Saskatchewan champions who went on to secure national titles include Dorenda Schoenhals, Emily Farnham, Marj Mitchell—whose rink also won Canada's first women's world championship in 1980—and Amber Holland. Sherry Anderson has won seven provincial titles, matching McKee's mark of five wins as a skip, with her first win coming in 1994 and her last in 2018. Although Anderson has not won a national Tournament of Hearts, her rink did capture a record five straight Canadian senior championships between 2017 and 2022, and world seniors titles in 2018, 2019, and 2023. The most recent provincial champion is Nancy Martin, whose rink won its first title at the 2025 Viterra Prairie Pinnacle.
List of champions
Teams in bold denote national championships. Western Canada champions (1953–1960) in italics.
Year | Host | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Winning club |
Robyn Silvernagle | ||||||
2021 | N/A | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan.Team Sherry Anderson (Anderson, Nancy Martin, Chaelynn Kitz, Breanne Knapp) invited to represent Saskatchewan at Scotties. | ||||
Melville | Robyn Silvernagle | Kara Thevenot | Twin Rivers Curling Club | |||
Robyn Silvernagle | Stefanie Lawton | Jessie Hunkin | Kara Thevenot | Twin Rivers Curling Club | ||
Sherry Anderson | Kourtney Fesser | Krista Fesser | Karlee Korchinski | Nutana Curling Club | ||
Melville | Penny Barker | Danielle Sicinski | Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre | |||
Jolene Campbell | ||||||
Assiniboia | Stefanie Lawton | Sherry Anderson | Nutana Curling Club | |||
Stefanie Lawton | Sherry Anderson | Marliese Kasner | Nutana Curling Club | |||
Maidstone Curling Club | ||||||
Humboldt | ||||||
Amber Holland | Kim Schneider | Tammy Schneider | Heather Kalenchuk | Kronau Curling Club | ||
Stefanie Lawton | Marliese Kasner | Sherri Singler | Lana Vey | |||
Michelle Englot | Roberta Materi | Tartan Curling Club | ||||
Balgonie | Lana Vey | |||||
Assiniboia | Stefanie Lawton | Sherri Singler | CN Curling Club | |||
Sherry Anderson | ||||||
Balgonie | Jan Betker | Marcia Gudereit | Caledonian Curling Club | |||
Melfort | Sherry Anderson | Kim Hodson | Sandra Mulroney | Donna Gignac | Delisle | |
Estevan | Roberta Materi | Caledonian Curling Club | ||||
Humboldt | Caledonian Curling Club | |||||
Daren Daku | Caledonian Curling Club | |||||
Swift Current | Jan Betker | Joan McCusker | Marcia Gudereit | Caledonian Curling Club | ||
1996 | Tisdale | Granite Curling Club | ||||
1995 | Sherry Anderson | Donna Gignac | ||||
1994 | Sherry Anderson | Kay Montgomery | Donna Gignac | Elaine McCloy | Prince Albert | |
1993 | Jan Betker | Joan McCusker | Marcia Gudereit | Caledonian Curling Club | ||
1992 | Yorkton | Joan Stricker | Lorie Kehler | Tartan Curling Club | ||
1991 | Regina | Sandra Peterson | Jan Betker | Caledonian Curling Club | ||
1990 | Humboldt | Michelle Schneider | Kathy Fahlman | Joan Stricker | Lorie Kehler | Tartan Curling Club |
1989 | Regina | Michelle Schneider | Joan Stricker | Lorie Kehler | Tartan Curling Club | |
1988 | Weyburn | Michelle Schneider | Lorie Kehler | Tartan Curling Club | ||
1987 | Sandra Schmirler | Jan Betker | Tartan Curling Club | |||
1986 | Regina | |||||
1985 | Tisdale | Nutana Curling Club | ||||
1984 | Swift Current | Lori McGeary | Gillian Thompson | Christine Gervais | ||
1983 | Sheila Rowan | Jean MacLean | Nutana Curling Club | |||
1982 | Melville | Caledonian Curling Club | ||||
1981 | Prince Albert | |||||
1980 | Estevan | Shirley McKendry | Caledonian Curling Club | |||
1979 | Melfort | Granite Curling Club | ||||
1978 | Hub City Curling Club | |||||
1977 | North Battleford | Prince Albert | ||||
1976 | Weyburn | |||||
1975 | Yorkton | Marj Mitchell | Nancy Kerr | Caledonian Curling Club | ||
1974 | Regina | Nutana Curling Club | ||||
1973 | Saskatoon | Sheila Rowan | Sutherland Curling Club | |||
1972 | Vera Pezer | Sheila Rowan | Joyce McKee | Lee Morrison | Sutherland Curling Club | |
1971 | Tisdale | Vera Pezer | Sheila Rowan | Joyce McKee | Lee Morrison | Sutherland Curling Club |
1970 | Swift Current | Nutana Curling Club | ||||
1969 | Nipawin | Joyce McKee | Vera Pezer | Lenore Morrison | Hub City Curling Club | |
1968 | Estevan | Delisle | ||||
1967 | Prince Albert | Caledonian Curling Club | ||||
1966 | Moose Jaw | Barbara MacNevin | Fay Coben | Florence Hill | Avis Carr | Delisle |
1965 | Melfort | Barbara MacNevin | Fay Coben | Florence Hill | Avis Carr | Delisle |
1964 | Weyburn | Caledonian Curling Club | ||||
1963 | Saskatoon | Moose Jaw | ||||
1962 | Yorkton | Joyce McKee | Barbara MacNevin | Hub City Curling Club | ||
1961 | North Battleford | Joyce McKee | Sylvia Fedoruk | Barbara MacNevin | Rosa McFee | Hub City Curling Club |
1960 | Regina | Joyce McKee | Sylvia Fedoruk | Hub City Curling Club | ||
1959 | Prince Albert | Janet Perkin | Joyce Miller | Betty Malesh | Caledonian Curling Club | |
1958 | Swift Current | |||||
1957 | Saskatoon | Y. Lindberg | E. Schwanbeck | D. England | ||
1956 | Estevan | Moose Jaw | ||||
1955 | Melfort | Prince Albert | ||||
1954 | Yorkton & Regina | Joyce McKee | Muriel Coben | Hub City Curling Club | ||
1953 | North Battleford | Janet Perkin | Joyce Miller | Caledonian Curling Club | ||
1952 | Weyburn | Nutana Curling Club | ||||
1951 | Prince Albert | Marj Olson | B. McQuarrie | S. Johnstone | J. Jackson | Prince Albert |
1950 | Moose Jaw | C. Jones | S. Cavil | Granite Curling Club | ||
1949 | Saskatoon | Granite Curling Club | ||||
1948 | Regina | J. Roberston |
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