{"id":540736,"date":"2026-03-16T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:37:10","slug":"brendan-bottcher-returns-to-skipping-new-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540736\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Bottcher returns to skipping new team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brendan Bottcher has a new team. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 New Team Announcement \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Bottcher, Jacob Horgan, Tanner Horgan, and Geoff Walker are joining forces. We\u2019re excited to get to work.<\/p>\n<p>Full details \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HqhmWC4Wfe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HqhmWC4Wfe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team Bottcher (@TeamBottcher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamBottcher\/status\/2033558311782805822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After playing second for the now-retired Brad Gushue for the past two seasons in Newfoundland and Labrador, Bottcher will return to the skip position, leading an Alberta-based team of third Jacob Horgan, second Tanner Horgan, and lead Geoff Walker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Full all of the lineup news in curling with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/curling\/article\/curling-roster-tracker-following-the-latest-lineup-news-in-curling\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/curling\/article\/curling-roster-tracker-following-the-latest-lineup-news-in-curling\/\">TSN.ca\u2019s roster tracker.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWith talent throughout the lineup and no shortage of big-game experience, this is a team that brings together championship pedigree, elite shot-making, front-end excellence, and a serious competitive drive,\u201d read the team\u2019s release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 34-year-old Bottcher began this Olympic quadrennial as the skip of a highly touted rink featuring Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, but was cut from that squad following the 2023-24 season and replaced by Brad Jacobs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bottcher, who won the 2021 Brier in his fourth straight final appearance, joined Team Gushue in the early portion of last season as a second, playing alongside Walker. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walker, 40, lives in Edmonton and has spent the past 15 seasons playing for Gushue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over 15 appearances at the Brier, Walker has won six Brier Tankards in addition to a gold medal at the World Men\u2019s Curling Championship in 2017 and bronze at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Horgan brothers &#8211; 28-year-old Tanner and 25-year-old Jacob &#8211; have spent their elite-level curling careers in Sudbury, representing Northern Ontario at the Brier on three occasions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They played for John Epping this season, but lost the Northern Ontario final. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Bottcher has a new team. \ud83d\udea8 New Team Announcement \ud83d\udea8 Brendan Bottcher, Jacob Horgan, Tanner Horgan, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-540736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}