Thursday, February 20, 2014

Curling - Women - 2104 Winter Olympics

Gold Medal
Canada
 Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones (born July 7, 1974) is a Canadian curler. She is a four-time Canadian champion and a former world champion.
 Kaitlyn Lawes
Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a two-time Canadian junior champion (2008, 2009). She is a former silver and bronze medalist at the World Junior Curling Championship. Lawes currently plays third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. They won a gold medal.
 Jill Officer
Jill Officer (born June 2, 1975) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Officer plays second for the 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion teams skipped by Jennifer Jones. The team won a gold medal representing Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Team Jones is the first women’s team to go through an Olympic round-robin campaign undefeated. The latest being their final game (6-3) over Sweden on February 20, 2014.
Officer has played on and off with Jones since she was 15, and has continuously played second for her since 2003. Officer won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1994 with Jones. She won the Scotties Tournament of Hearts with Jones in 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2010. On March 30, 2008 she was a key part of Jones' World Women's Curling Championship winning team.
Officer's Scotties victories put her in an elite group of four to have won four titles. The group includes herself, Jennifer Jones, and Vera Pezer and Lee Morrison of Saskatoon.

 Dawn McEwen
Dawn McEwen (born July 3, 1980 as Dawn Askin) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays lead for the Jennifer Jones rink, who became Olympic champions, winning gold for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
 Kirsten Wall
Kirsten Wall (born November 27, 1975 as Kirsten Harmark) is a Canadian curler from Milton, Ontario. She is currently the alternate player on the Jennifer Jones rink which will represent Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
In 1995 she won the Ontario provincial junior curling championship as a skip earning her team the right to represent Ontario at the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. She lost in the final that year to Kelly MacKenzie (Scott).
A number of years later, Wall joined the Sherry Middaugh team, first as her alternate, and then in 2002 as her third. In 2003, Wall won the Canada Cup of Curling as third for Middaugh. Wall played in her first Tournament of Hearts in 2004 after not having played in two previous trip as Middaugh's alternate. The team lost in the semi-final to Quebec's Marie-France Larouche. In 2008, the team went to the Hearts again, losing in the semi-final to Manitoba's Jennifer Jones.
Wall left the Middaugh team in 2010 to former her own rink with Hollie Nicol, Danielle Inglis and Jill Mouzar. The team lasted for two seasons.
Wall joined the Jennifer Jones team for the first half of the 2012/13 season playing third, as Jones was expecting her first child and sat out until January.

10th Place
USA
 Erika Brown
Erika Brown (born January 25, 1973 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American curler, currently residing in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She started curling in 1980 and throws right-handed.
 Debbie McCormick
Deborah "Debbie" McCormick (born January 8, 1974, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, as Debbie Henry) is an American curler from Rio, Wisconsin. Although born in Canada, McCormick moved to Madison, Wisconsin, when she was very young. Both her parents are Canadian.
 Jessica Schultz
Jessica Schultz (born January 2, 1985 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American curler from Richfield, Minnesota. She currently plays second for Erika Brown.
 Ann Swisshelm
Ann Swisshelm (born March 9, 1968 in Middletown, Ohio) is a curler on the US Olympics Woman's Curling team. She is from Chicago. Ann is representing the United States in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. She has also been known as Ann Swisshelm Silver.
Allison Pottinger
Allison Pottinger /ˈpɒtəndʒər/ is an American curler from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She currently skips her own team, but is best known as having played for Debbie McCormick in multiple Olympics and World Championships. McCormick left the team in 2010. She competed in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in Vancouver, Canada. She was named USA female curling athlete of the year in 2008.

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