Open (sport) performance standards or eligibility criteria may apply in other sports. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, bowling, badminton, quizbowl, fighting games, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess. Open (sport) An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to contestants regardless of their professional or amateur status, age, ability, gender, sex, or other categorization. In many sports, preliminary qualifying events, open to all entrants, are held to successively reduce the field to a manageable number for participation in a final championship event, which itself may involve elimination rounds (tournaments). The term
Heather Houston team. She received bronze at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 1990 and 1991. She was Champion skip at the 1996 TSN Skins Game. Heather Houston received the Velma Springstead Trophy in 1989. The Houston team was inducted into the Northwestern Sports Hall of Fame in 1994. This same year they were also inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame. Houston works as a Desktops and Graphic Technician in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Heather Houston Heather Houston is a Canadian curler and world champion. She is from Red Rock, Ontario, Canada and curls out of the Fort William Curling Club