The 2025 Montana’s Brier will commence on Friday from Prospera Place in Kelowna, British Columbia. In all, there are 18 teams, with two pools of nine.
Pool A will be headlined by Canadian Olympic gold medalist Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Gushue, who won Olympic gold for Canada at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, has won six Brier titles since 2017, and has won the last three Briers. Gushue also won the gold medal at the 2017 World Men’s Curling Championships in Edmonton, Alberta. Meanwhile, there is also a two-time world champion and four time Brier Champion in the field as Alberta is being represented by Calgary’s Kevin Koe, the provincial champion. The other seven teams are Manitoba’s Reid Carruthers (the Manitoba provincial champion) and Matt Dunstone, British Columbia’s Cameron de Jong, New Brunswick’s James Gratton, Newfoundland’s Ty Dilello, Northern Ontario’s John Epping, and Nunavut’s Shane Latimer.
Pool B will be headlined by Alberta’s Brad Jacobs, the 2013 Brier champion, and gold medalist at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. He will be joined by two Saskatchewan teams skipped by Mike McEwen and provincial champion Rylan Kleiter, Northwest Territories’s Aaron Bartling, Nova Scotia’s Owen Purcell, Ontario’s Sam Mooibroek, Prince Edward Island’s Tyler Smith, Quebec’s Felix Asselin, and Yukon’s Thomas Scoffin.
