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Renee Sonnenberg gets second chance in event final at Olympic curling pre-trials
Former world curling champion Kelly Scott of Kelowna, B.C., became the first team to qualify for the playoffs at the Capital One Road to the Roar Olympic curling pre-trials at Kitchener, Ont. Scott...
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Renee Sonnenberg one win away from Olympic trials berth
Grande Prairie’s Renee Sonnenberg has been the Comeback Kid at the Capital One Road to the Roar Olympic curling pre-trials this week, but what she did Friday morning at Kitchener, Ont., was more along...
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Val Sweeting earns berth in Sunday's qualifier for Olympic curling trials berth
Val Sweeting is one win away from playing in the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Olympic curling trials Dec. 1-9 at Winnipeg. The 26-year-old from Vegreville upset 2010 Olympic silver medallist Cheryl...
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Renee Sonnenberg, John Morris qualify for Olympic curling trials
A few weeks ago, Renee Sonnenberg of Grande Prairie sounded like her competitive curling career was nearing the end. Having put her teaching job on hold and taken lots of time away from her family to...
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Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni edges Ottawa’s Rachel Homan in women’s Tour...
PARADISE, N.L. — Rachel Homan couldn’t extend her perfect run at the Grand Slam of Curling’s Tour Challenge. Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni scored two in the eighth end to edge the Ottawa skip 6-5 in...
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Win in Paradise means Kevin Koe's curling rink guaranteed long season
Curling season just got a lot longer for Kevin Koe’s reigning Alberta men’s championship team. Not only did Koe’s rink of Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing and Ben Hebert play its first bonspiel Sept. 3-7 in...
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Former world junior women's curling champ Kelsey Rocque takes on new challenge
Two-time world junior women’s curling champion Kelsey Rocque is playing in the big leagues now, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Rocque is off to a good start in the women’s ranks with her new team of...
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Edmonton's Kelsey Rocque living every young curler's dream
Curler Kelsey Rocque was a rock star in juniors, becoming only the second female to win back-to-back world championships, albeit with completely different teams. Now the third-year University of...
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Local roundup: Val Sweeting wins HDF Insurance Shoot-Out bonspiel at Saville...
For the first time in three years, Val Sweeting’s curling team is starting out with the same players in the same positions that they finished the previous season. “Nothing crazy going on with this...
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Canada falls to Russia in quarter-final play at world mixed curling playdowns
Berne, Switzerland — Canada was eliminated from the world mixed curling championship on Friday after dropping an 8-3 quarter-final decision to Russia. Skip Max Kirkpatrick of Swift Current, Sask., was...
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Marc Kennedy a full-time third as Alberta champs defend Crestwood bonspiel title
Kevin Koe’s reigning Alberta men’s curling championship team has shuffled the deck again this season, although the same four players remain. St. Albert’s Marc Kennedy, who threw third rocks but...
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Video: Scary incident at Masters as skip Brad Gushue falls and hits head
TRURO, N.S. – There was a scary moment at the Grand Slam of Curling Masters tournament as skip Brad Gushue was taken to hospital after he slipped and fell on the ice. Gushue was helping sweep a rock in...
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Val Sweeting has to step up her curling game to compete with red-hot Rachel...
As Val Sweeting builds toward defending her Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling title at Grande Prairie in early December, she already knows how high her Saville Centre team has to get. Sweeting and...
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Mick Lizmore's Saville Centre rink goes undefeated in Canadian mixed curling...
Mick Lizmore’s Saville Centre rink of Sarah Wilkes, Brad Thiessen and Alison Kotylak extended their winning streak to 21 games on Friday by completing an undefeated sweep through the round-robin...
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Mick Lizmore's Saville Centre team wins Canadian mixed curling championship
Mick Lizmore and his Saville Centre rink of Sarah Wilkes, Brad Thiessen and Alison Kotylak are the Canadian mixed curling champions. Lizmore completed a perfect 12-game run through the 14-team...
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Val Sweeting says consistency key to defending Canada Cup curling crown
As the Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling defending champion, Val Sweeting got a glimpse into an area of curling she doesn’t normally see. Sweeting, 28, visited Grande Prairie in September to help...
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Jennifer Jones defeats Edmonton's Val Sweeting to earn semifinal spot in...
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — Jennifer Jones and her team from Winnipeg rebounded from back-to-back losses to open the 2015 Canada Cup by downing defending champ Val Sweeting of Edmonton 9-3 in Friday’s...
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Life and Times: Avid curler left legacy of love of the sport
Shirley Burch (1935-2015) Shirley Burch was a keen member of Edmonton’s army of sports volunteers, the kind of person who routinely stepped up to make sure special events — big and small — ran smoothly...
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Kristen Streifel has big shoes to fill, Karsten Sturmay has big dreams at...
Two Saville Centre skips have the pressure of trying to repeat at the Alberta junior curling championships, which start Saturday at the Wainwright Curling Club, but only Karsten Sturmay is defending a...
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Northern Alberta women's curling playdown attracts only six teams
Only six teams entered the Northern Alberta Curling Association’s women’s playdown this weekend at the St. Albert Curling Club. It’s the lowest number of teams the playdown has ever had, maybe because...
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