It’s November 2024 in Nisku, Alberta, and Scottish curler Bruce Mouat is having an important hotel meeting.
Mention curling and Mouat, 30, is often brought up. He’s the world No. 1 in the men’s rankings. A two-time world champion and a silver medalist at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. These accomplishments have Mouat seated across from Canadian Olympic gold medalist curlers John Morris and Jennifer Jones, discussing a historic moment for the sport.
Mouat will be one of the inaugural team captains in the world’s first professional curling league, called Rock League. It sounded “almost too good to be true,” according to Mouat. But on Thursday, Rock League launched to the world.
Mouat will captain one of six global franchise teams, with an equal gender split (five men, five women). The other five captains are three-time world champion Rachel Homan (Canada), 2014 Olympic gold medalist Brad Jacobs (Canada), six-time world champion Alina Pätz (Switzerland), 2022 Olympic silver medalist Chinami Yoshida (Japan), and 2023 world mixed doubles champion Korey Dropkin (United States).
The league is scheduled to begin in April 2026, two months after the Milan-Cortina Olympics. The season will span six weeks, consisting of multiformat curling bonspiels — the term for a curling…
