17 Facts About Vic Peters

Victor Alvin Peters was a Canadian curler who was a three-time Manitoba curling champion, and one-time national champion as winner of the 1992 Labatt Brier.

Vic Peters was noted for his tuck delivery alongside Burtnyk and Stoughton.

Vic Peters won his first and only national championship on his first visit to the Brier in 1992.

Vic Peters team won the national championship under the traditional curling rules, but in Europe they played under the 4-rock free guard zone rule.

Vic Peters returned to the Brier again the next year in 1993 but did not reach the final.

Vic Peters won the Ross Harstone Trophy in 1997 as the curler with who best represents sportsmanship, observance of the rules, exemplary conduct and curling ability.

Vic Peters went on to curl with his son Daley Peters and later in the senior division.

Vic Peters won the 2008 Manitoba Senior Curling Championships with Chris Neufeld and played in the Canadian Senior Curling Championships but did not win.

Vic Peters was named as an all-star for the tournament in the third position.

Vic Peters played his entire career with fellow hometown curler Chris Neufeld.

Vic Peters was the son of Jacob Vic Peters, a school superintendent and Margaret Klassen, a seamstress.

Vic Peters played for the Steinbach Millers junior hockey team until an eye injury ended his career at age 19.

Vic Peters's daughter Liz Fyfe is a curler and won the 2008 Canadian Junior Curling Championships as a second on the Kaitlyn Lawes team.

Vic Peters would make three Hearts appearances in 2016,2018 and 2019.

Vic Peters was diagnosed with cancer in his lymph nodes, known as lymphoma in 2011.

Vic Peters had a node removed 30 years earlier before noticing the cancer again in his fifties.

Vic Peters died of the cancer on March 27,2016, at the age of 61 and three days after his birthday.