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ISSUE 8 | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2018 AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF CURLING CANADA

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Einarson,Jones boundfor 1-2 game

IT’S THE END OF THE ROAD FOR TEAM CANADA

Manitoba’s Kerri Einarson and Jennifer Jones (left) continued their solid play Friday at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts to finish 1-2 after the Championship Pool and will meet in the 1-2 Game of the Page Playoffs tonight.

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2018 Scotties TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS

‘Goosebumps all over’Kerri Einarson and her Wild Card

team continued their run through the Scotties Tournament of Hearts

Friday, beating Casey Scheidegger of Alberta 7-4 to finish first in the Championship Pool standings and secure their spot in today’s Page Playoff 1-2 game.

They will meet five-time Scotties champion Jennifer Jones of Manitoba who earned second place with a 10-4 win over Team Canada that knocked Michelle Englot and her Winnipeg-based team out of the playoffs.

The Page 3-4 game will have Tracy Fleury of Northern Ontario playing the surprise team of the tournament, Mary-Anne Arsenault of Nova Scotia. Fleury got by Kesa Van Osch of British Columbia 6-5 while Arsenault used a last-rock takeout to score one in the 11th for a 9-8 win over Hollie Duncan of Ontario.

The results left Team Wild Card, Manitoba and Nova Scotia with 9-2 records, Northern Ontario at 8-3, Alberta at 7-4, Team Canada at 6-5 and Ontario and British Columbia at 4-7.

Einarson was in tough against Scheidegger but the Alberta skip’s final draw in the 10th end was a touch heavy and left Einarson a steal of one for the victory.

“Got myself into the one versus two

game, so I’m ecstatic, I’m so excited and I have goosebumps all over,” said an overjoyed Einarson who had to win a wild card game the previous Friday night to get into the Scotties.

“I knew (Scheidegger) was heavy out of her hand (with her final stone) and I was

like, oh please, don’t curl.”Einarson, third Selena Kaatz, second

Liz Fyfe and lead Kristin MacCuish from East St. Paul, Man., scored singles in six ends while giving up deuces in the third and seventh ends. The skip said the tight game would be a good prep for their game

against Manitoba whom they beat 9-4 in the initial round-robin tournament.

“Oh for sure,” she said “But we have to be sharper than we were today. We had a couple of misses and can’t afford that against Jones tomorrow.”

Jones, third Shannon Birchard, second Jill Officer, lead Dawn McEwen and coach Wendy Morgan stole three in the second end and scored two in the fifth to roll past Englot, ending her brief rein as Team Canada.

“That steal of three early kind of swayed the game in our favour,” said Jones. “We’re pretty happy with where we’re at. We played well the last couple of days so it’s a nice feeling heading into the playoffs.”

For the 54-year-old Englot, who finished second to Rachel Homan in last year’s Scotties, it was the end of her competitive curling career.

“Yep, probably effective today,” the Regina native said after the loss that ended her all-to-brief rein as Team Canada, a jersey she got when Homan won the right to represent Canada in this month’s Winter Olympic Games. “I’m fine, actually. Kind of relieved, just to be done with all the stress.”

So what now? “Well, I’m going to have wine.”

She said the Team Canada jersey will just in the same as the rest of her many curling jerseys earned over her career.

“It’s not as meaningful as many of the others.”

By JOHN KOROBANIKHeartChart Writer

Third Shannon Birchard of Team Manitoba waves off the sweepers Friday. The Manitobans are headed for the Page Playoffs today.

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Arsenault’s ‘sneak attack’

Hands up those who thought Nova Scotia and Mary-Anne Arsenault would be around for the final weekend of the 2018

Scotties Tournament of Hearts.Anyone?Thought so.But the Page Playoffs is where she’ll be.Hands up those who think they’ll be in North

Bay as Team Canada at the 2018 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship.

Oh, there are a few believers now.Who’d a thunk it?Nova Scotia lost two of its first three games,

allowing the team to do what Arsenault called a ’sneak attack.’ They racked up win after win after win and put themselves into contention. But now they can’t afford to lose. Even though they’ve won eight straight, they’re at the one-and-done stage playing in the Page Playoff 3-4 game against Tracy Fleury of Northern Ontario this afternoon.

Arsenault’s army of broom holders look relaxed and throwing well. The 49-year-old Arsenault attributed their success to the hard work they’ve put in the last couple of years. Arsenault also admitted the new schedule may — emphasis on the word may –—have helped,

too. The first five or six days of the Scotties used to be a grind, she said. Back-to-back games, even back-to-back-to-back were normal. This year, they played a leisurely pace of a game every second draw over the first five days, and on three of those days they only had one game.

Arsenault is playing in her 13th Scotties. She’s won five of them, all playing for the woman, the myth, the legend Colleen Jones. But the last came in 2004. Arsenault is looking to join Jones, who keeps in constant touch with Arsenault, by winning for a record tying sixth time.

To do it, though, at some point they’ll have to go through a few tough teams, including another highly decorated skip named Jones, who’s looking to tie Colleen Jones as well.

As a five-time Canadian champion, a world champion and 2014 Olympic gold medallist, Jennifer Jones and Manitoba were the pre-event favourites. They still are. Except for a blip on Wednesday when they lost their final two preliminary round-robin games, J. Jones, has been back to her dominant self, including sweeping all four of the team’s Championship Pool games. They certainly summarily dispatched Team Canada to the sidelines and skip Michelle Englot into retirement with a 10-4 thumping.

Until the Championship Pool started play on Thursday, Alberta and skip Casey Scheidegger were looking like contenders. Maybe even Jones’s most feared foe. But they lost their final three games, sliding right out of the tournament. Their fall was precipitous and painful. They sure were looking good, though.

Not looking good to begin with was Fleury. She is now. Northern Ontario dropped its first two games. Since then the Sudbury squad has

won eight of nine, including being the first to beat Jones on Wednesday.

Fleury and her team have shown flashes of brilliance in the past but never extended their reach to the top. They’ve got a steep curve to conquer if they hope to climb there this weekend.

Team Wild Card remains a wild card in the mix for claiming the coveted curling crown. In fact, as the HeartChart headline declared earlier this week, she’s become The Ace of Hearts, although there were three teams tied at 9-2 they finished first heading into the Page Playoff.

Kerri Einarson and her squad from Manitoba snuck into this curling party at the last minute, but have proven to be as good as anybody here.

Except for Jones. The good news is Team Wild Card defeated Manitoba Wednesday night. And it wasn’t even close. It was a rout. The bad news? Well, it’s the fact she was 0-17 against Jones before that game. And guess who she plays in the Page 1-2 playoff game. Jones, her nemesis, of course.

More bad news: To win it all she’ll likely have to beat Jones twice. Good luck.

The real good news is there should be lots of drama all weekend long. Expect Jones to play a starring role. But wouldn’t the plot have an interesting twist if the other Jones played an inspiring supporting role for her old teammate?

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To see how seamlessly Shannon Birchard has slid into her role as the temporary third for Jennifer

Jones and her Manitoba team, one has only to look at the statistics and watch the easy interaction on the ice.

Birchard, 23-year-old two-time Manitoba junior champion, and Jones, a five-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion and 2014 Olympic gold medallist, are constantly discussing shots and strategy. And when she comes out of the hack, Birchard has done so with accuracy and efficiency that hides the fact she’s a rookie at the Scotties.

Through the first 10 games, eight of them Manitoba victories, Birchard was second among thirds in shooting percentage at a cumulative 87 per cent. It’s like the youngster has been with the veteran team forever, and wasn’t, in fact, recruited just weeks ago to fill in for Kaithlyn Lawes who won a berth in the Olympic curling mixed doubles with John Morris.

“It really was that way,” Birchard said of how easily she has meshed with Jones, second Jill Officer and lead Dawn

McEwen. “They are such a tight unit and know what works for them really well, so they were very prepared to have someone fit in.

“I asked them a ton of questions before we got going, to get a sense of what they wanted from me, how they needed me to be on the ice and I think I was able to do that and blend in with what they’ve got very well.”

Jones had her pick of anyone in the powerful Manitoba curling scene but chose Birchard and is glad she did.

“Shannon’s been such a joy to play with,” Jones said “It’s just fun to see her, she’s just lighting it up out there. She’s playing great and just having a ton of fun.”

Skip of her own team back home, with third Sheyna Andries, second Nicole Sigvaldason and lead Mariah Mondo, Birchard played three games with Jones before they arrived here. Those certainly appear to have been more than enough for the second-year science major (University of Winnipeg) to fit in.

“We felt that Shannon had the ‘it’ factor,” Officer said of the decision to pick her up. “She has the ability to show up under the lights in a big show that she has never been part of. We knew that she would embrace it, be confident and make shots.”

And, added coach Wendy Morgan, there was never any concern that Birchard might upset the team dynamics.

“No, I don’t think so. You never know for sure but that wasn’t a concern,” she said.

“I didn’t know her at all … but I knew from what I heard that she was a good choice. We wanted someone to fit in at third, which was where that person would be slotted. She has been fantastic. She’s been open, she’s been confident, and she’s played well.

“It’s quite a remarkable story, really.”

And it didn’t take long for Jones and crew to figure out Birchard’s game — how she throws, how her rocks perform, how she sweeps.

“They just know and can recognize a lot of different throws,” said Birchard. “They’ve just been around the game so long that I think they were able to pick up on my throws really easily and read my rocks really well.”

If the Manitoba foursome go on to win a sixth Scotties championship and a berth in

the women’s world championship in North Bay, Ont., later this spring, Lawes will be back in the lineup and Birchard will go as the team’s alternate.

As for next season, Birchard said nothing has been settled in terms of who she will be playing with.


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TEAM CANADA AT THE SCOTTIESLast five years:2017: Chelsea Carey (9-2, Bronze)2016: Jennifer Jones (9-2 Bronze)2015: Rachel Homan (7-4)2014: Rachel Holman (11-0 Gold)2013: Heather Nedohin (7-4)Last championship — Rachel Holman (2014)Canadian titles — 9

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What is the one thing you wish you could do if given the chance? Travel around the world.

Who’s your hero? My mom. The best human being I know.

What’s playing on your iPod right now? EminemIf you could see one concert, what would it be?

Eminem.What’s your fast-food guilty pleasure? French fries.What’s your favourite vacation destination? Hawaii.If you could meet anyone, who would that be? Aaron

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weekend at home with nothing planned.What is your favourite day of the week? Friday.Any tattoos? Of what? Three: tiger butterfly, shooting

star with sun, moon, curling rock, and Chinese energy symbol Hawaiian hibiscus.

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the morning? Shower.If we’re buying, you’re having . . . ? You can buy me

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Hearing the cheers of loyal fans, being on the same ice as Jennifer Jones, getting

praise from Michelle Englot and, of course, visiting wineries … it was all part of the experience enjoyed by rookies playing in this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

The wins and losses on the ice were taken to heart, but for many of the first-time players it was the overall experience that will leave them determined to return to the women’s national curling championship

“Oh my gosh, I enjoyed it soooo much,” said Christianne West, who came here listed as the alternate for Amie Shackleton’s Nunavut team (0-7, Iqaluit) and ended up playing almost as much as anyone. “I had just come from the juniors and went back to school (Carleton University in Ottawa) for about three days and then came here.

“My parents were like, don’t worry if you’re tired or anything. And I’m like, I’m not going to be tired,

I’m going to be so excited.”West celebrated her 19th birthday

on Thursday – quietly –and ended her on-ice experience Friday morning throwing fourth stones in Nunavut’s 9-4 loss to the Yukon in the seeding draw. That wasn’t going to dampen her memories.

“It was such a thrill to come here and be a part of the whole event and to play against these amazing curlers who I’ve looked up since I was a toddler,” she said. “After our Team Canada game, Michelle Englot came up to me and told me I throw a really nice rock. That was something I’m never going to forget, and it was really, really nice to hear that.”

Kourtney Fesser, a 23-year-old University of Saskatchewan education student, found her first Scotties a “ton of fun” although the Saskatoon team finished a disappointing 2-5.

Scotties rookies hadthe time of their lives

‘Enjoyed it soooo much’

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“Obviously we would have liked things to go a little different, but it was a just couple of shots here, couple of shots there, but that’s sports so it was awesome. We got a little bit of time to go see some of the local stuff. Now that we’re not playing anymore we’re going to see some of the wineries, maybe some of the local pubs and enjoy Penticton.”

Yukon second Kara Price was making her first Scotties appearance at the age of 38 and found the whole experience “pretty special.”

“Our expectations were really to have fun and have a good experience here,” she said after the final game for the Whitehorse team that finished 0-7 in the round-robin but won their seeding game Friday morning. “We pulled off one win so we’re happy with that. That was important to us.

“We worked as hard as we could to get here with not a whole lot of notice, so all we could do was do our very best. I would think other women and young girls should be inspired that, yes you can come from the Yukon and still compete. We didn’t have any major blowouts and we gained a lot of experience, so I think it’ll help keep the interest.”

Fesser, who was here with her

sister Krista playing with veteran Sherry Anderson, said she won’t soon forget the reception the team got when they walked out onto the ice.

“We have a huge fan group that came out with us. I think walking out before every game, those first three or four games, and having like 25 people cheering you on and screaming your name was a moment I’ll never forget.”

For Price, her magical moment came early in the event, on Sunday, when Team Yukon took on five-time Scotties champion Jennifer Jones and her Manitoba team.

“I think in all honesty, probably playing against Jennifer Jones. A year ago, if anyone had said I would be playing on the same ice as her I wouldn’t have believed them. So that was pretty special … it’s pretty neat to see that. It was really special.”

The Okanagan Valley is home to dozens of wineries that produce some of Canada’s finest wines and teams here for the Scotties took advantage of that. Along with getting out and finding fun bars and top-notch restaurants.

“They have a lot of really nice restaurants here so we got to go to quite a few different places to eat,” said Price. “Yesterday we had a day off so we went on a wine tour. Maybe that was the key to our game because we didn’t play too bad today. We went to five and four of them opened up just for us.”

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Betcha five bucks you won’t believe this story?

Save your money. Don’t bet. Kevin Kelly’s story about his ‘fiver’ stretches credibility, but it’s all true.

How do you figure this?Kelly got change from a round

of drinks in the Williams Lake, B.C., Curling Club in 2010 and noticed something odd about the bill. There were several signatures on it, the date 2006, and a message: Love Curling.

“I immediately saw all the writing on it,” said Kelly, “and said, ‘this is cool, I wondered what’s this all about?’”

Kelly, a volunteer driver at this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts, figured the bill was signed by a bunch of curlers and decided to hang on to it.

“Curling’s a small world,” he said. “Sooner or later I’m

going to meet these people and they’ll tell me why they did this and how it got to Williams Lake.”

This week he did. Kelly discovered that two of the people who signed the ‘fiver’ 12 years ago, Denise Hutchings and Robyn Mackey, were in the building, playing right under his nose for Team Nunavut.

“I kind of forgot about it (the bill) until the Scotties,” said Kelly. “I got up one morning and looked at it and saw Denise’s name. I was excited. Then I looked and I saw Robin’s name. There were two of them here! I couldn’t wait to see their faces when I showed it to them.”

Which is exactly what he did. Kelly approached them when they entered the building for a mid-week draw and the story of his bill unfolded.

“The shock on their faces was unbelieveable,” he said. “They were stunned. But they thought it was the neatest thing.”

What Kelly wanted to know was where they signed the bill.

After scratching their heads for a few minutes, they remembered. They were playing in the Arctic Winter Games in Homer, Alaska, and signed the bill in the Salty Dog Saloon, then pinned it on the wall of bills.

How it got into Kelly’s hands in Williams Lake is anybody’s guess, but it’s clear somebody — probably a curler — took the bill and put it back into circulation.

The bill has been Kelly’s ‘good luck charm’ over the years. He got the flip side of it signed in 2010 at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver by Canadian skip Kevin Martin.

Kelly, who runs the local deli at the Save on Foods in Penticton, says he loves curling because “it’s such an easy way to meet people in Canada.”

And the five bucks he put in his pocket 12 years ago has certainly helped him do that this week.

Twelve yearslater, bill backin their hands

By DAVE KOMOSKYHeartChart Editor

Denise Hutchings, Kevin Kelly and Robyn Mackey together with the bill.


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The shy teenagers from deep French-speaking Quebec came to compete against seasoned women

curlers. Many were twice, and in some cases, three times their age. Some have been playing at the Scotties since before they were born.

They leave the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, however, with a fantastic learning experience, three wins and the respect of their competitors.

Skip Émilia Gagné is 18. Third Mélina Perron and second Marie-Pier Harvey are 17. Lead Chloé Arnaud, 19, is the old lady of the quartet. They are from Alma, Quebec which is 225 kilometres north of Quebec City.

Their journey to Penticton, where teenagers frequently travel long distances to party on the beach and not to curl in a high-profile national event, was an unex-pected, but pleasant, detour.

The original destination they planned on was Shawinigan, Que., for the Canadian junior championships. But that didn’t hap-pen after they lost out in their provincials. So they entered the women’s playdowns and shocked a lot of people, including them-selves, by winning Quebec.

They defeated Nunavut 9-2, Prince Edward Island 9-3 and Newfoundland/Labrador 9-7 in an upset that may have cost Stacie Curtis’s squad (4-3) a Championship Pool berth. They lost 6-5 to Team Canada in an extra end. In fact, they were within a 10th end measurement away from winning that game. Friday morning, they battled Scotties vet Sherry Anderson of Saskatche-wan, including putting five on the board in the second end, before falling 9-7.

Not bad for a quartet of turn-of-the-mil-lennium babies.

“We had an amazing week,” said Gagné. “It was a dream come true. We need to be proud of what we’ve done this week. Three

wins, five losses, I think even before the week we couldn’t have even imagined being three wins, so we’re very proud.”

Although new to the Scotties, nothing about it surprised them. They just basked in the glow of it all.

“I loved the way everybody was there for us, the volunteers, even the other teams having fun. We met great curlers and great persons, and the officials and the volunteers were great,” said Gagné.

They weren’t the only ones impressed. So were the other curlers, including the oldest one here.

“That’s great to see that, especially from Quebec because Quebec, I don’t think,

has a lot of teams playing,” said Anderson. “Although there is a couple of very good players (Marie-France Larouche, Eve Be-lisle), they don’t always play every year. And some of them don’t play on the circuit. So I hope these girls stick with it and I hope to see them on some curling tour events.”

Gagné’s strategic capabilities had the likes of Team Canada skip Michelle Englot and Anderson singing Gagné’s praises

“She called a very good game. She’s much more advanced than her 18, or whatever age she is,” Anderson said.

The youngsters soaked up the learning experience and tucked them away for their future rock-throwing endeavours. They got

a taste of elite curling and they liked it.“The work is so hard to get better and

better so that we’ll be able to come back and improve our ranking,” she said.

Perron, with Gagné acting as interpret-er, said despite being the youngest Scotties participant she felt there was no difference between herself and the other curlers, and was accepted by all of them as being at the same level as them.

The team plans to continue in junior play and chase a Canadian junior title next year.

“Maybe we have more chance to have a medal at the juniors. But next year we play in both the women’s and the juniors, for sure,” said Gagné.

Youngstersfrom Quebecsoaked upthe experienceat Scotties

TEENQUEENS!

By GRANT GRANGERHeartChart Writer

The young ladies from Quebec opened some eyes with their talent this week.


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LINESCORESDraw 189 a.m.

Placement Draw 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Yukon (Duncan) *3 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 x — 9Nunvut (Shackleton) 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 x — 4

N.B. (Robichaud) *0 1 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 — 8NL (Curtis) 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 — 4

Quebec (Gagné) 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 x — 7Sask. (Anderson) *2 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 1 x — 9

PEI (MacPhee) *1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 — 7NWT (Galusha) 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 — 9

Draw 192 p.m.

Manitoba (Jones) *1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 x x — 6Alberta (Scheidegger) 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 x x — 2

Wild Card (Einarson) 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 — 5Canada (Englot) *1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 — 8

N. Ontario (Fleury) *2 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 — 8Ontario (Duncan) 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 — 6

Nova Scotia (Duncan) *2 0 3 0 1 0 1 3 x x — 10B.C. (Van Osch) 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 x x — 4

Draw 207 p.m.

N. Ontario (Fleury) *0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 — 7B.C. (Van Osch) 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 — 5

Nova Scotia (Arsenault) 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 — 9Ontario (Duncan) *1 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 — 8

Manitoba (Jones) 1 3 0 2 1 0 3 0 x x — 10Canada (Englot) *0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 x x — 4

Wild Card (Einarson) 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 — 6Alberta (Scheidegger) 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 — 4

* — Last rock

SCHEDULETODAY

PAGE PLAYOFFS2 p.m.

3 vs. 4 GameNova Scotia (Arsenault) vs. Northern Ontario (Fleury)

7 p.m. 1 vs. 2 Game

Wild Card (Einarson) vs. Manitoba (Jones)

STANDINGSC H A M P I O N S H I P P O O L

W LW i l d C a r d ( E i n a r s o n ) 9 2M a n i t o b a ( J o n e s ) 9 2Nova Scot ia (Arsenau l t ) 9 2N . O n t a r i o ( F l e u r y ) 8 3A l b e r t a ( S c h e i d e g g e r ) 7 4C a n a d a ( E n g l o t ) 6 5B . C . ( Va n O s c h ) 4 7O n t a r i o ( D u n c a n ) 4 7

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Nova Scotia skip Mary-Anne Arsenault.


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Curling fans can double their pleasure Sunday: they can follow the Scotties Tournament of Hearts gold-medal final AND the Super Bowl simultaneously at the HeartStop Lounge on the Penticton Convention Centre’s Jumbotron-sized screens.

The two events collide because this is an Olympics year and the Scotties has been moved up the calendar to

accommodate the Games. And whenever that happens, the Scotties run up against the Big Game.

But no problem. Scotties organizers decided to invite devotees of both sports to simultaneously watch the Super Bowl and the Scotties gold-medal game.

And the best part? No ticket required.So come on down and enjoy the best of

both worlds — football and curling.

IT’S A SUPER, SUPER SUNDAY


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ALBERTA AT THE SCOTTIESLast five years:2017: Shannon Kleibrink (5-6)2016: Chelsea Carey (9-2 Gold)2015: Val Sweeting (9-2 Silver)2014: Val Sweeting (8-3 Silver)2013: Kristie Moore (1-10)Last championship — Chelsea Carey (2016)Canadian titles — 6World titles — NoneOther prominent women curlers from Alberta — Cathy King.

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What would you do if you won the lottery? Build a dream house, travel, and share some

Which sitcom character do you relate to? Elaine from Seinfeld. I get a little violent when I am excited

What was your most embarrassing moment? Buy me a drink and I’ll share

Who’s your hero? My dad!Last book you couldn’t put down: The Woman Next

Door by Ruth WareWhat’s playing on your iPod right now? Thunder by

Imagine Dragons, Whatever it Takes by Imagine Drag-ons, and One Foot by Walk the Moon

If you could see one concert, what would it be? Ed Sheeran

What’s your weirdest habit? Ask my husband or teammates, I am sure they could name lots!

What’s your biggest pet peeve? Loud chewing or breathing

What’s your fast-food guilty pleasure? A Turtle Blizzard!

What’s your favourite vacation destination? A vaca-tion- what’s that?

What is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten? Frog legs

What is your definition of an incredible weekend? Winning a curling event

What is your favourite day of the week? Fri-yay Any tattoos? Of what? Two. One is a symbol for hope

and the other is Aquarius Are you a cat/dog person? DOG! What is your favorite breakfast meal? Breakfast

itself is my favourite meal so I’ll eat anything — and COFFEE

Who or what inspires you? There are lots of things: seeing other athletes accomplish a goal, my parents, my sister, my students, songs. I can find a little inspiration from anything.

Describe your life in one word: Fun! Have you changed much since high school? Yes! I

am much more responsible now. What is the first thing you do when you get up in

the morning? Check to see if I have any new wrinkles Where would you go if you where invisible? One of

my students suggested I go to a bunch of banks and steal only a little bit of money so it wouldn’t be too obvious. We had a long discussion and basically we came to the conclusion that we need more details to answer fully.

What is your favourite TV show? Brooklyn 99 If we’re buying, you’re having . . . ? Spiced White

Owl Whisky...of course Beer or wine? That’s a hard one- depends on the day If you could go anywhere in the world, where would

you go and why? Germany- my dad was stationed there for five years with the military and talks about all the great cities there so I would love to go and see them

Favourite musician(s)/bands you’ve seen in concert? Garth Brooks!

What was your favorite toy as a kid? An electronic mirror from Beauty and the Beast. It talked and said lines from the movie.

Strength training or cardio? Cardio Favourite accent? South African, of course (my hus-

band is South African) Do you have a special talent? I teachWho was your first crush? The Backstreet Boys- I

grew up in the 90s! What was the happiest moment in your life? The

birth of my son, Kayden (my wedding day and winning Alberta provincials are close second and thirds)

If you knew that this was your last day on earth, how would you spend it? With my family

Favourite board game? Sequence

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