'A bit of a wild card': Team Muyres ready to make Tankard debut in Estevan

The SaskTel Tankard Provincial Men's Curling Championships kicks off in Estevan this week and newly formed Team Muyres is ready to make their mark.

The SaskTel Tankard Provincial Men’s Curling Championships kicks off in Estevan this week and newly formed Team Muyres is ready to make their mark.

“I think we’re a bit of a wild card, right? On paper, we’d be ranked quite low but if you look at our skill set we’ve been competitive curlers for a really long time,” Dallan Muyres, the team’s skip said.

Muyres, who is a six-time Saskatchewan Men’s Provincial Champion, is leading his team of experienced curlers; Third, Garrett Springer, Second, Jordan Tardi, and Lead, Dustin Mikush.

“Me, Dustin, and Garrett played a little bit together last year on the Deis Team and then you know I got a taste of skipping, loved it, loved the pressure, the environment back there and really wanted to increase my skill set,” Muyres explained, on how he began to build his team.

Tardi hails from Langley, B.C. and has played with Muyres in the past. However, both Springer and Mikush had never met before attending the qualifying tournaments for the Tankard.

However Tardi comes to the team with loads of experience, having a World and Canadian championship under his belt.

“The competitive curling community is somewhat small, sometimes you have to go out of province [to build a team],” Muyres explained.