A couple of young Southwestern Ontario curlers just returned from Sweden with gold medals around their necks.
21-year-old Sam Steep started curling fifteen years ago in his home town of Seaforth and 17-year-old McKenna McGovern started curling nine years ago in Forest. They have both been curling as a mixed doubles team for the last year out of the Forest Curling Club.
They were competing in the Under-21 Northern Junior Curling Tour event in Sweden, as winners of the Canadian Junior Slam series.
McKenna admits after the quarter-final, semi-final and then the final, as she walked off the ice and everyone was cheering for them, that's when it sunk in for her that they had won the gold.
"Our main goal was try not to focus on the pressure and just curl and be ourselves on the ice and I think that's what we did and I think that's one of the main reasons why we had success."
Sam says the key for him was just both of them being themselves and curling the way they at their home club in Forest.
Both Sam and McKenna says they hope to one day represent Ontario and then Canada as a team.