From the Hack

In the 3rd episode of the Behind the Hack series, Cheryl Bernard interviews Gerry Peckham, the Director of High Performance with Curling Canada. Peckham has been an influential, behind the scenes force in helping Canadian teams on the national and international levels for well over 25 years.

On this week's From the Hack podcast - We recap Week 4 action, including an interview with Colin Hodgson fresh off his victory at the Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Classic and look ahead to Week 5, specifically the Tour Challenge. We have interviews with Pierre Charette of the Grand Slam of Curling and Casey Scheidegger, skip of the 9th ranked team in the world, who will be looking for her 2nd career Slam victory in Regina.

In the first of our "Road to Summerside" features leading up to the Olympic Pre-Trials, we interview Tracy Fleury and Brianne Meilleiur.

We also preview the first episode of Kristen Streifel's "Next Step with Kristen" with Kirk Muyres as her first guest and we also have a clip from the 3rd episode of Cheryl Bernard's "Behind the Hack" interview with Gerry Peckham of Curling Canada.

On this episode, we recap Week 3 on the World Curling Tour, we preview the events scheduled for Week 4, we share news and notes from the world of curling in our Fresh Pebble Report and we introduce From the Hack's new "Business of Curling" Series.

In the second half of our season preview the focus shifts to Europe and Pacific-Asia. We interview David Murdoch of British Curling, Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland and Peter Gallant, coach of Korea's Team EunJung Kim and father of World Champion Brett Gallant.

From the Hack presents the first episode of a new series focused on the business of curling. During this series we will discuss best practices and strategies in the areas of club operations, event management, ice-making, memberships, coaching, marketing and sponsorship.

Our first guest is Danny Lamoureux, the Director of Club Development and Championship Services for Curling Canada and a former curling club manager himself.

In the first U.S. Curling Report of the season we discuss the progress of the top team's in the U.S. High Performance Program with USA Curling's Phil Drobnick, we chat with 2006 Olympic bronze medalist and reigning U.S. Champion John Shuster and we preview the 2017-18 curling season from an American perspective with Joe Calabrese of 12th End Sports.

In the first half of our 2017-18 season preview, we interview Al Cameron of Curling Canada and Gerry Guerts of the World Curling Tour to get updates on some changes and announcements from this past off-season. We also present our first panel discussion of the season with Cheryl Bernard of TSN and Mike Harris of Sportsnet who preview this important Olympic season.

We also introduce new exclusive features that will be produced by From the Hack this season.

This week, 2014 Olympic gold medalist Brad Jacobs joins Cheryl to look back at the journey that led to his team's victory in Sochi, reveals how his team has changed during this Olympic cycle and discusses how Team Jacobs is preparing to defend their titles at the Roar of the Rings and returning to the Olympics.