Dominique Vivier has won her second provincial curling championship in as many years. The Navan native combined with third Brooklyn Ideson, second Scotia Maltman and lead Clara Dissanayake to win the Ontario U20 Junior Women’s curling championship in Kingston last month.

Left to right, Skip Dominique Vivier, third Brooklyn Ideson, second Scotia Maltman and lead Clara Dissanayake. PHOTO SUPPLIED

The foursome will now play for the national junior title in Summerside, PEI,
from March 22-30.

Vivier and Ideson won the Ontario U18 championship last year with a totally differ-ent front end. The pair, along with lead Sydney Anderson and Toula Pappas, were perfect in pool play at the U18 Canadian championships before being upset in the quarterfinals.

In winning the U18 and U20 provincial championships, Vivier is following in the slider of fellow east end native Rachel Homan.

Homan won the U18 provincial champ-ionship four consecutive times from 2003-2006 and the Ontario junior championship in 2009 and 2010 before going on to become a four-time Canadian women’s champion and a two time world champion.

Two other curlers who learned the sport at the Navan Curling have also won provincial titles in two different age groups. They are brothers Matt and Jason Camm.

Matt won the U16 provincial champion-ship as a skip in 2008. He then went on to win the 2011 junior title. That same year, Jason followed in his older brother’s footsteps by also winning the U16 championship. He would then go on to win the junior title twice as a third in 2013 and 2016.

Last but by no means least, Cairine Wilson alum, John Morris, won the provincial junior title three times from 1996 to 1999, along with the Canadian and World Junior Championships in 1998 and 1999.

All of which means Vivier is following in some pretty impressive footsteps. The 19-year-old Collège Mer-Bleue grad began curling when she was eight years old after her dad signed her up for the Little Rocks program at the Navan Curling Club.

It took a while for Vivier to warm up to the game. In fact, it wasn’t until she was recruited to play on the Little Rocks competitive team that she began to enjoy it more.

“I had a competitive streak in me even back then,” says Vivier, who first teamed up with Ideson prior to last year’s U18 pro-vincial championships.

The pair, who met through competitive curling, had been talking about putting a team together for the better part of a year. The fact that Vivier goes to Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo and Ideson goes to Western University in London, made joining forces a lot easier.

Prior to the start of the current season they recruited Maltman, who plays on Vivier’s university team, and Dissanayake who goes to McMaster University.

Even though they weren’t able to practice together on a regular basis, they managed to earn enough points in the early season bonspiels to get a direct berth in the U21 provincial championships, where they went undefeated through seven round robin games and the final.

The Vivier foursome found themselves tied with their opponents heading into the seventh end of the championship game without the benefit of last rock when they managed to steal a point in both the seventh and eighth ends to take a 4-2 lead.

After holding their counterparts to single in the ninth end, they sealed the win with a single in the 10th.