The University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's and women's curling teams are off to Regina for the 2014 CIS/CCA curling championship, March 19-23, at Regina Caledonian Curling Club.

Championship Website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/curling/index

Toronto's men are coming off their first OUA banner win since 2001 and fourth in team history one month ago. Led by OUA all-star skip Evan Lilly, the Blues head into their second-ever national bonspiel after going 4-2 and just missing the playoff round at the 2010 event in Edmonton.

The Blues women, skipped by sophomore standout Danielle Bourque (Halifax), claimed the 2014 OUA bronze medal last month, the program's best finish since claiming the title in 2001. 

Eight men's and eight women's team will participate in a round robin, with the first-place teams advancing to their respective finals on Sunday, with the women's at 1:30 p.m. (all times Central) and the men's at 5 p.m. The second- and third-place teams meet in semifinals on Saturday evening to determine the other finalists.

This marks the seventh year of partnership between CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) and the CCA (Canadian Curling Association) to officially sanction and help stage the Canadian University Curling Championships, which began in 2008 in Guelph and have since been held in Montreal, Edmonton, St. John's, Welland, Ontario and last year in Kamloops, B.C.

Six different Universities have won the men's championship (Wilfrid Laurier, Regina, Queen's, Memorial, Alberta and Waterloo) while Wilfrid Laurier has taken four of six women's crowns, with the University of Regina and University of Manitoba also winning.

The winning teams will be invited by the Canadian Curling Association to represent Canada at the FISU 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, Feb. 4-14.

Draw results will be available at www.curling.ca while event information can be found at www.curling.ca/2014university-en.

Men's Schedule

Women's Schedule

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