Curling associations across the country are struggling to retain members — and then there’s the Keystone Rainbow Curling League.

Manitoba’s 2SLGBTQ+ curling league officially celebrated its 20th anniversary on Sunday inside its home at the Granite Curling Club.

They started two decades ago with 18 teams, and today that number has exploded to a record-high 45.

“If we were at 47 teams, we would be at capacity for our league at the curling club,” said Brett Nickol, Keystone Rainbow Curling’s director of communications.

“We would have to reconfigure our draw times, which would be a good issue to have.”

Everett Hopfner moved to Winnipeg from Brandon in 2023 and joined the league that winter. He grew up playing the sport in The Wheat City, and always found it to be friendly and inviting, so

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