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2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 10 to 14 at the Whitby Curling Club in Whitby, Ontario. The winning team represented Ontario at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia. The defending champion Rachel Homan rink from Ottawa represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and thus will not have the opportunity to defend their provincial crown. Had they not qualified for the Olympics, they still would not have had a chance to defend their title, as they would have represented Team Canada at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The event had a triple knock out format, rather than the traditional round robin event as was done in previous years. The number of qualified teams increased from 8 to 12. Qualification Process 12 teams qualified from two regional qualifiers (three each), a challenge round (three teams), the winner of the Trophy competition, plus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitby, Ontario
Whitby is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Ajax and west of Oshawa, on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region. It had a population of 138,501 at the 2021 census. It is approximately east of Scarborough, and it is known as a commuter suburb in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area. While the southern portion of Whitby is predominantly urban and an economic hub, the northern part of the municipality is more rural and includes the communities of Ashburn, Brooklin, Myrtle, Myrtle Station, and Macedonian Village. History Whitby Township (now the Town of Whitby) was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. When the township was originally surveyed in 1792, the surveyor, from the northern part of England, named the townships east of Toronto after towns in northeastern England: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington. The original name of "Whitby" is Danish, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Homan
Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curler. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a three-time Canadian national champion, and the 2017 world champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. During her junior career, Homan competed in two Canadian Junior Curling Championships, placing second in 2009 and winning the championship in 2010. She also won a silver medal at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships. Throughout her women's career, Homan has medalled at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championships, seven times, winning gold three times (2013, 2014, and 2017), silver three times (2019, 2020, and 2021), and bronze once (2015). She has competed in three World Women's Curling Championships, winning gold in 2017, silver in 2014, and bronze in 2013. She has also competed in two Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rideau Curling Club
The Rideau Curling Club is a curling facility and organization located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1888, the Rideau Curling Club maintains a rivalry with the Ottawa Curling Club. History The original club began operation in November, 1888 as the Rideau Skating and Curling Club. The first facility of the club was the Rideau Skating Rink located on Waller Street, which opened in February 1889. The club's original president was Sandford Fleming, Sir Sandford Fleming, and Governor General Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley as patron. Fleming, who had been a member of the Ottawa Curling Club started the club because the Ottawa would not serve alcoholic beverages after matches. The club was moved from their Waller St. home in 1916, when their land was requisitioned for World War I, war purposes. Their second home (1916–1930) was approximately the present site of the Supreme Court of Canada. From 1931 until 1949 the club was located at 277 Laurier Av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrissy Cadorin
Christina "Chrissy" Cadorin (born October 19, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Thornhill, Ontario. She currently plays third on Team Cathy Auld. Career Cadorin was born in North York, Ontario. As a junior curler, Cadorin won two Junior Mixed junior mixed titles, in 1999 playing lead on a team skipped by John Morris and in 2001 playing third on a team skipped by Sean St. Amand. In university, Cadorin was a member of the Laurier Golden Hawks curling team. In 2006, Cadorin joined Team Jenn Hanna, playing third on the team. The team played in one Grand Slam event that season, Cardorin's first, the 2006 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic. The team missed the playoffs. Cadorin remained on the team for one more season before forming her own rink in 2008 with Colleen Madonia, Janet Murphy and Kate Hamer. In the 2008-09 season, Cadorin's new team entered four Grand Slam events, the 2008 Trail Appliances Curling Classic, the 2008 Casinos of Winnipeg Classic, the Wayden Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Heggestad
Heather Heggestad (previously Heather Marshall and Heather Graham) is a Canadian curler from Barrie, Ontario. She currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour. Heggestad is originally from Gore Bay, Ontario. Heggestad won two straight provincial mixed curling, mixed championships playing third for her then-boyfriend Cory Heggestad (2013 and 2014 events) and won the 2013 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship as a member of Team Ontario. She also played on the Ontario team at the 2014 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, finishing second. On the World Curling Tour, she has won two career bonspiels, the 2013 Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel and the 2016 CookstownCash presented by Comco Canada Inc. She qualified for her first Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the Ontario provincial curling championship for women's curling. The tournament is run by CurlON, the curling association for Southern Ontario. The winning team represents Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katelyn Wasylkiw
Katelyn Wasylkiw (; born 1993) is a Canadian curler from Kleinburg, Ontario. Career In 2010, she was third on Chantal Duhaime's team, before becoming lead on Caitlin Romain's team in 2011 and then lead on Jamie Sinclair's team in 2012. Then third on Jaimee Gardner's team in 2013, second on Jacqueline Harrison's team in 2014 and then second on Brenda Holloway's team in 2016. From 2017–present she has been skip of Team Wasylkiw which consists of her sister Lauren Wasylkiw as third, Stephanie Thompson as second and Erin Way, formerly Katrina Sale as lead. The team came runner-up in the Listowel Women's Classic in 2017, losing to Cathy Auld's team. The team competed in the 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, in which they lost all three matches. In 2019, the team won the Part II Bistro Ladies Classic. Wasylkiw didn't make it to provincials again until 2022, where her team was selected to play, replacing Team Jacqueline Harrison, which dropped out from the postponed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Auld
Catherine "Cathy" Auld (born December 3, 1971) is a Canadian curler from Toronto. She currently skips her own team out of Thornhill, Ontario. Career Auld was a longtime member of the Alison Goring rink. Auld played third for the team until 2006 when she was promoted to last rock thrower when Goring moved to throwing lead rocks. The team found success together with this lineup modification. At the 2007 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, they finished the round robin with a 7-2 record. This was enough to secure a playoff spot and they faced Sherry Middaugh in the 3-4 game. However, they lost the game. The team qualified for the 2008 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they completed the round robin with a 6-3 record. They made it to the playoffs, winning the 3-4 game over Janet McGhee and took on Middaugh in the semifinal, again suffering a loss. The team's success was capped at the 2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they finished the round robin with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Harrison
Jacqueline Harrison (born July 28, 1978 in Niagara Falls, Ontario as Jacqueline Smith) is a Canadian curler from Waterdown, Ontario. Harrison currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour. Career Harrison's junior career involved reaching the semi-finals of the 1999 Ontario Juniors, winning the 1999 Ontario University championship and the provincial junior mixed championship playing third for future Olympic champion John Morris. After juniors, Harrison would win the Ontario Curling Association Tim Hortons Trophy with skip Vicky Hysop. She has also played in two mixed provincials (2008 and 2009). Harrison has played in eight provincial women's championships. In 2010, her Alliston Curling Club rink finished the round robin with a 5-4 record, and won a tie-breaker match to make the playoffs. In the playoffs, she won the 3 vs. 4 game, but lost in the semi-final to Tracy Horgan. Harrison would not return to the provincials until 2013, where her team finished with a 3–6 rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hailey Armstrong
Hailey Breyanne Armstrong (born March 8, 1996) is a Canadian curler from Carleton Place, Ontario. She currently skips her own team out of Waterloo, Ontario. Career After winning the 2017 Ontario Junior Curling Championships, Armstrong competed in her lone Canadian Junior Curling Championships of her junior career at the 2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. She represented Ontario with teammates Grace Holyoke at third, Lindsay Dubue at second and Marcia Richardson at lead. They finished the round robin and championship pools with an unblemished 10–0 record, qualifying directly for the final where they faced Alberta's Kristen Streifel. Tied 3–3 with hammer in the tenth end, Armstrong was heavy on her final draw, giving Alberta a steal of two and the 5–3 win. Armstrong aged out of juniors the following season and began skipping her own team on the World Curling Tour. Her team qualified for the 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they went 0–3 in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Flaxey
Allison "Alli" Flaxey ( Nimik; born February 13, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Caledon, Ontario. She currently plays third on Team Carly Howard. She is a former Canadian Mixed champion, and World Mixed Doubles bronze medallist. Career Flaxey is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a junior, she won the Manitoba Junior championships at the age of 15 in 2001 with teammates Kristin Loder, Lindsay Titheridge and Elisabeth Peters. The team finished with a 4–8 record at the 2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Flaxey began curling competitively playing second for Shauna Streich. As a resident of Manitoba, she won the 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship (held in Autumn 2008), playing third for Sean Grassie. This qualified the two for the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they won a bronze medal. In 2008, Flaxey moved to Alberta where she played competitively as third for Leslie Rogers in 2009 and 2010 and then as third for Casey Scheidegge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Tippin
Julie Tippin (born August 16, 1983 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec as Julie Lynne Reddick) is a Canadian curler from Owen Sound, Ontario. Tippin is a three-time provincial junior champion, and a Canadian mixed champion. Career Tippin attended high school in Beaconsfield, Quebec where she was on her high school curling team. Tippin began her successful curling career by winning the 1999 Ontario provincial junior championships. At the 1999 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Tippin skipped Ontario to an 8-4 record, just out of the playoffs. Tippin was still eligible for Bantams that year, and she won the 1999 Bantam Girls provincial championship as well. Tippin won another provincial junior championship in 2000 to qualify her for the 2000 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Again, her Ontario team finished with an 8-4 record, and once again it would not be good enough to make the playoffs. Tippin won her third provincial junior championship in 2002. At the 2002 Canadian Junior Cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherry Middaugh
Sherry L. Middaugh (née Hamel, born October 11, 1966 in Rosetown, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich. She is a five-time Ontario champion and a one-time Saskatchewan curling champion. She is currently the coach of Team Tracy Fleury. Career Middaugh, originally from Saskatchewan, won the 1986 Saskatchewan Junior Women's Championship. She represented Saskatchewan at the 1986 Canadian Junior Women's Curling Championship, where she tied for fourth with a 6–4 record. Her lone Saskatchewan Hearts victory came in 1996, when she defeated Sandra Peterson (Schmirler) in the provincial final, 8–5. She represented Saskatchewan at her first Scott Tournament of Hearts in 1996, and finished with a 7–5 record. In her new province of Ontario at the 1999 Scott Tournament of Hearts, she played third for Kim Gellard, but finished 4–7. She played at the 2001 Scott Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
