A capsule take a look at the 18 groups competing within the 2023 Canadian ladies’s curling championship Feb. 17-26 in Kamloops, B.C.
Groups listed by seeding of their swimming pools, athletes from skip to steer.
POOL A
Canada
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris (Gimli Curling Membership).
Einarson’s Manitoban workforce can turn into the primary since Colleen Jones (2001-2004) and solely the second in historical past to win 4 consecutive nationwide ladies’s curling championships. In contrast to Jennifer Jones and Rachel Homan within the Massive Three of Canadian ladies’s curling, Einarson’s lineup is unchanged this 12 months.
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Wild Card 1
Kaitlyn Lawes, Laura Walker, Jocelyn Peterman, Kristin MacCuish (Fort Rouge Curling Membership, Winnipeg).
Jennifer Jones’ longtime vice Lawes, an Olympic gold medallist in each ladies’s workforce and combined doubles, makes her Scotties Match of Hearts debut as a skip. Common third Selena Njegovan is anticipating a child in March, so skilled skip Walker attracts in at third.
B.C.
Clancy Grandy, Kayla MacMillan, Lindsay Dubue, Sarah Loken (Vancouver Curling Membership).
Grandy’s workforce was new this season after the skip’s transfer from Ontario to B.C. Grandy’s earlier Hearts expertise is proscribed to at least one finish as an alternate in Calgary’s bubble in 2021, though she’s performed combined doubles on the nationwide stage. Her teammates are Hearts rookies.
Nova Scotia
Christina Black, Jenn Baxter, Karlee Everist, Shelley Barker (Dartmouth Curling Membership).
Black reached the playoffs and misplaced within the championship spherical semifinals in her skipping debut final 12 months in Thunder Bay, Ont. She brings the identical workforce to Kamloops.
Alberta
Kayla Skrlik, Brittany Tran, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Ashton Skrlik (Garrison Curling Membership, Calgary).
The Skrlik sisters make their Hearts debuts. Ramsay performed for P.E.I. in 2010 and Tran for each Northwest Territories (2019) and for a wild-card workforce (2021). Kayla Skrlik’s difficult double takeout for the win over Casey Scheidegger in Alberta’s ultimate is an indicator she will deal with stress photographs.
Prince Edward Island
Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Michelle Shea, Meaghan Hughes (Cornwall Curling Membership).
Birt returns for a 14th Hearts with a tweak within the lineup. She throws fourth stones, however Christianson calls the photographs at vice. Birt reached the championship spherical in 2019.
Saskatchewan
Robyn Silvernagle, Kelly Schafer, Sherry Simply, Kara Thevenot (Twin Rivers Curling Membership, North Battleford).
Silvernagle cobbled a workforce collectively simply earlier than playdowns and reached the provincial championship through a last-chance qualifier. She skipped Saskatchewan to 3rd in 2019 and reached the championship pool in 2020.
Quebec
Laurie St-Georges, Alanna Routledge, Emily Riley, Kelly Middaugh (Laval-Sur-Le-Lac and Glenmore curling golf equipment, Montreal).
St-Georges returns to a 3rd straight Hearts a provincial champion for the primary time. Her groups have been hand-picked for the final two due to COVID-19 restrictions in Quebec. St-George and Riley received the Canadian combined championship with skip Felix Asselin in November. Middaugh is the daughter of embellished Ontario curlers Wayne and Sherry Middaugh.
Nunavut
Brigitte MacPhail, Sadie Pinksen, Kaitlin MacDonald, Alison Taylor (Iqaluit Curling Membership).
MacPhail went 0-8 in Thunder Bay final 12 months. Pinksen is probably the most skilled in nationwide ladies’s championships competing in her fifth in Kamloops.
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POOL B
Ontario
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes (Ottawa Curling Membership).
Three-time nationwide champion Homan returns with a revamped lineup. Longtime vice Miskew shifted to second so as to add Fleury throwing third stones and calling photographs, and Homan throwing fourth stones. Homan’s lineup could also be altered, however packs loads of big-game expertise.
Manitoba
Jennifer Jones, Karlee Burgess, Mackenzie Zacharias, Lauren Lenentine, Emily Zacharias (St. Important, Winnipeg, and Altona curling golf equipment).
Six-time champion Jones employs a five-curler rotation with teammates all beneath the age of 25. Emily Zacharias and Lenentine swap out and in at lead. Vice Mackenzie Zacharias skips when Jones takes a breather, however in any other case throws second stones. No lady has received seven nationwide ladies’s championships. Jones could possibly be the primary. They’re coached by embellished veteran roller Glenn Howard.
Wild Card 2
Casey Scheidegger, Kate Cameron, Jessie Haughian, Taylor McDonald (Lethbridge Curling Membership).
Scheidegger’s groups made the playoffs in 2019 to complete fifth and have been simply exterior the playoffs in 2018. She additionally brings the expertise of skipping in two Olympic trials. Each Scheidegger and her sister Jessie will curl pregnant with June due dates.
Wild Card 3
Meghan Walter, Abby Ackland, Sara Oliver, Mackenzie Elias (East St. Paul Curling Membership).
Ackland handed the skipping and fourth-stone reins to 20-year-old Walter halfway by means of the season. They upset Lawes in Manitoba’s semifinal earlier than falling 10-5 to Jones. The 4 ladies will make their Hearts debuts.
New Brunswick
Andrea Kelly, Sylvie Quillian, Jill Brothers, Katie Ahead (Capital Winter Membership, Fredericton).
Kelly was Andrea Crawford final 12 months when she skipped New Brunswick to the playoffs and a bronze medal in Thunder Bay. She returns with the identical foursome and brings the expertise of throwing fourth stones for her province in 10 earlier Hearts.
Northwest Territories
Kerry Galusha, Jo-Ann Rizzo, Sarah Koltun, Margot Flemming (Yellowknife Curling Membership).
Galusha skipped the primary all-N. W. T. workforce to make the playoffs final 12 months in Thunder Bay. The skip is again for her sixteenth Hearts. Her workforce’s efficiency could issue into whether or not Galusha, who throws lead stones, retires or not after this season.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Stacie Curtis, Erica Curtis, Julie Hynes, Camille Burt (St. John’s Curling Membership).
Curtis returns after skipping her province on the Hearts three straight years from 2016 to 2018 and 5 instances general (2011, 2013). Her greatest document was 5-6 in 2017.
Northern Ontario
Krista McCarville, Kendra Lilly, Ashley Sippala, Sarah Potts (Fort William Curling Membership, Thunder Bay).
A perennial playoff workforce, few lineups have stayed collectively so long as McCarville’s. Her workforce reached final 12 months’s ultimate in her hometown, however misplaced 9-6 to Einarson. McCarville was additionally a finalist in 2016.
Yukon
Hailey Birnie, Chelsea Jarvis, Kerry Campbell, Kimberly Tuor (Whitehorse Curling Membership).
In contrast to her male counterparts, Birnie was uncontested for Yukon’s territorial championship. She’s nonetheless in search of her first victory as skip after winless Hearts in 2020 and 2022.
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