Veteran skip Carruthers pulls out of Olympic curling pre-trials to focus on coaching

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 1:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Team Reid Carruthers has pulled retired of the Olympic pre-trials successful October and has been replaced by Team Jayden King, Curling Canada said Wednesday.

Carruthers, from Winnipeg, plans to absorption connected his coaching commitments with Team Kerri Einarson, the athletics enactment said successful a statement.

It wasn't instantly wide whether the 40-year-old skip, who won nationalist and satellite titles successful 2011 with Jeff Stoughton, planned to proceed curling adjacent season.

Carruthers guided his squad to a Manitoba rubric past wintertime and an quality successful the Page Playoff 3-4 crippled astatine the Montana's Brier successful Kelowna, B.C.

He was eliminated aft dropping a 6-5 determination to Alberta's Brad Jacobs, who went connected to triumph the title.

A connection near with Carruthers wasn't instantly returned. He has served arsenic the Team Einarson manager passim the existent quadrennial.

King, from London, Ont., filled the vacancy successful the eight-team Pre-Trials men's tract arsenic the highest-ranked rink that had yet to qualify.

Curling Canada announced the gully schedules for some the pre-trials and the Canadian Curling Trials connected Wednesday.

The winners of the Oct. 20-26 pre-trials successful Wolfville, N.S., volition unafraid the last berths successful the eight-team fields for the Nov. 22-30 Trials successful Halifax.

The Trials volition find Canada's representatives successful four-player men's and women's curling astatine the 2026 Milan Olympics.