 Scotland's Bruce Mouat (photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) among five Scottish teams playing this weekend at the Baden Masters in Switzerland. Former World Champions Team Mouat and reigning Scottish Champions Team Whyte, along with Teams Craik, Bryce, and Waddell, all finished last season in the top 20 spots in the world rankings. This highlights the quality of domestic competition that can be expected in the last full season before the selection of the 2026 Winter Olympic line-ups. For Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan, the off-season provided a chance to re-group after the rare disappointment of missing out on a medal at a major championship when they defended their world title at the end of the season. "It's been a really nice summer for all four of us," said Mouat. "We have all had nice holidays and spent as much time as possible with friends and family, but the last month back on ice has been good, and we have been working hard to get off to a good start when we get out to Baden. "It has also been a good summer in terms of the strength and conditioning goals we set ourselves and we are looking to see if that gives us a good boost at our first event of the season." In seeking to earn a return to the Olympic arena, where they won a silver medal in Beijing in 2022, the quartet, who finished a second successive season at the second spot in the world rankings, are aware of the benefit of putting down an early marker. Mouat opens play against Waddell on Thursday evening. "It would be great to get us off to a good start given that this is an important season with Olympic selections taking place during the middle of next year, so it will be important to start off this season well," Mouat continued. "It looks like a really good field out in Baden, and it is nice to always put yourselves up against the top teams in Europe. "There are also some Americans coming over, I believe, and maybe some Canadians as well, so we are really looking forward to getting going and seeing where the boys and I are at, and we are all feeling good and quite excited to get going, really looking forward to it." |
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Sault Ste Marie's Brad Jacobs (photo: Anil Mungal, GSOC) debuts at the ATB Okotoks Classic today with his new based out of Calgary.
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