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TFIS - Muirhead family take on Europe at Mixed Curling Championship
The family's combined international achievements are considerable. Eve (17) was part of the Scottish girls' team which won the World Junior Championships this spring. Glen (18) has been to the last two Junior World Championships, winning the bronze medal in 2006. Still, the siblings have a healthy respect for their father, Gordon, the team's third player.
My father has been World Championships runner up twice and has won the World Championships as a coach and fifth man, so he's still done more than us yet, admits Glen, the skip of the team whose fourth player is Anna Sloan from Lockerbie.
This will be the third time a Euro Mixed Championship has been held. The first was in Andorra two years ago and was won by Finland's Markku Uusipaavalniemi with Kirsi Nykänen, Teemu Salo and Tiina Kautonen. In Claut, Italy, last year, Tom Brewster, Jackie Lockhart, David Hay and Kim Brewster won the title for Scotland.
Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales have all signed up.
Scotland's team qualified for the tournament having won the Scottish Mixed Championship in Aberdeen last season.
Before that we'd never played together, said Glen, an Edinburgh University first year Agriculture student, who is supported by the Tayside & Fife Institute of Sport (sister Eve is supported by the Scottish Institute of Sport).
There's not been much time for practice because there aren't many ice rinks open yet in Scotland but we've been to Greenacres and also Hamilton for training. We don't know what to expect but the aim is to win it.
Winning features strongly in the Muirhead make up. Glen, who will skip a newly assembled rink this season, has his sights firmly set on replicating his sister's achievement by bringing home the Boys title at the World Junior Championships in Sweden next March.
Meanwhile, the Madrid competition will be played in four sections, with Scotland in Section A alongside the Czech Republic, Latvia, Norway, France and England. The first match for the Scots will be against the Czechs at 12.30 on Tuesday 25 September.