British Curling has selected its teams for the 2025-26 season, with its immediate focus on the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, but also looking towards building for the longer term future.
Reigning World Champions Team Mouat will start the new season as the top ranked men’s team in the world, with fellow 2024/25 Grand Slam tournament winners Team Whyte close behind, while in the women’s game Teams Morrison and Henderson are also selected on the Olympic programme.
Team Henderson will once again operate on a five player basis, with one change in personnel as Laura Watt replaces Robyn Munro, who has decided to leave the professional game.
“I’ve decided to step away from the British Curling programme at this time, as I age out of juniors and graduate university, to pursue other personal and professional opportunities,” explained Munro, a former World Junior champion, who won the World University Games mixed doubles title with Orrin Carson earlier this year and will graduate from the University of Strathclyde with a first class honours degree in Politics and International Relations in July.
“I’m grateful for everything the sport has given me so far and am looking forward to taking those experiences forward into my next chapter.”
At Performance Foundation level seven new athletes are brought into the programme, including all four members of Team Soutar – skip Callie Soutar, who won a mixed doubles gold medal with Ethan Brewster at last year’s Winter Youth Olympics, Eva Hare, Holly Clemie and Alison Hamilton.
The three newcomers in the men’s game are Jake MacDonald, son of Olympic Champion Fiona and two-time World Champion Ewan, Fraser Swanston and Rory Macnair, who will form a new team under 2022 World Junior Championship winning skip James Craik. 
Craik’s former colleagues Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell and Mark Watt, meanwhile join forces with Waddell brothers Kyle and Craig.
“I’m excited by the potential of this team,” said 2018 Olympian Kyle Waddell, who will skip that five player line-up.
“There have been a lot of conversations over the last few months amongst ourselves and British Curling, with British Curling ultimately selecting the teams, but I think they liked our proposal.
“There were a lot of discussions in terms of why we wanted to create this team and I’m glad it’s happened.
“We already have a clear set of goals for this season and beyond, have already started planning next season and will be back on ice in July to start preparing.”
All programme teams return to training at the National Curling Academy in Stirling on July 7th.
Olympic Programme Teams
Women
| Team Morrison | Team Henderson | |
| Rebecca Morrison | Fay Henderson | |
| Jennifer Dodds | Hailey Duff | |
| Sophie Sinclair | Lisa Davie | |
| Sophie Jackson | Katie McMillan | |
| Laura Watt | ||
| Men | ||
| Team Mouat | Team Whyte | |
| Bruce Mouat | Ross Whyte | |
| Grant Hardie | Robin Brydone | |
| Bobby Lammie | Duncan MacFadzean | |
| Hammy McMillan | Euan Kyle | |
| Performance Foundation Teams | ||
| Women | ||
| Team Laurie | Team Soutar | |
| Tia Laurie | Callie Soutar* | |
| Cara Davidson | Eva Hare* | |
| Kirsty Gallacher | Holly Clemie* | |
| Holly Burke | Allison Hamilton* | |
| Amy Mitchell | ||
| Men | ||
| Team Waddell | Team Carson | Team Craik |
| Kyle Waddell | Orrin Carson | James Craik |
| Craig Waddell | Logan Carson | Jake MacDonald* |
| Angus Bryce | Archie Hyslop | Fraser Swanston* |
| Blair Haswell | Charlie Gibb | Rory MacNair* |
| Mark Watt |
*Athletes new to the British Curling Performance Foundation Programme
Images: PPA/Graeme Hart
