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This article was published 21/03/2012 (5176 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
RANDY Ferbey hit curling’s heights, winning national and world titles with regularity.
His Alberta team of Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer and Marcel Rocque was a powerhouse, winning the national championship in 2001 to kick off a run of four titles in five years.
Ferbey thought about the possibility of getting that lineup back together to take a run at reaching the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier. When those plans didn’t materialize, he knew the time was right to retire from competitive curling.
“I’m leaving the sport that I’ve loved,” Ferbey said Tuesday. “I’ve loved competing, I’ve loved the years that I’ve competed. It’s very, very difficult.”
Ferbey, 52, leaves the sport as one of its most dominant competitors. In all, he won six national titles and four world championships.
“The run that the Ferbey team did in the early 2000’s was just remarkable,” said Ontario skip Glenn Howard. “They basically bulldozed everybody over for five to six years.”
The idea of playing for a national title on home ice in Edmonton next year was appealing to Ferbey. He said he had discussed the idea with his good friend Nedohin, who told him earlier this month he was going with a younger team.
“So that was it right there,” Ferbey said. “I wasn’t prepared to play with anybody else. I knew if I wasn’t going to play with Dave, I wasn’t going to play.”
Ferbey won his first Brier in 1988 as a third on skip Pat Ryan’s team. The Alberta rink repeated as champs a year later and went on to win the world title.
Ferbey won his first world championship as a skip in 2002 and added victories in 2003 and 2005.
“Playing with Dave, Scott and Marcel — it was unbelievable,” Ferbey said. “I’ve gone on record as saying that I believe that we were the greatest team. Not from accomplishments but from a team perspective, I think we were the greatest team ever to play the game.
“We played together for 12 years and I don’t think anybody’s been better — four individuals — over that period of time.”
— The Canadian Press
