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Brenda Nicholls
Brenda Nicholls (born August 9, 1972 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian curler. Career 1991–1999 Nicholls made her national curling debut at the 1991 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. She was playing fourth stones for skip Katie Arsenault. The team would finish 6-5 in round robin play. Nicholls would not return to a national championship until 1996, when her team skipped by Stephanie Marchand, earned the right to represent Quebec at the 1996 Scott Tournament of Hearts. The team would only finish round robin with a 4-7 record. 2000–2011 Nine years after making her first Scott appearance, Nicholls would get the chance to represent Quebec at the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts, this time skipping her own team. She would fail to improve on her previous record, finish round robin with a 4-7 record. Nicholls would return to the national scene at the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, this time as a fifth for Chantal Osborne. The Osborne team would finish round robin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventhList of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, -largest city and the seventhList of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, -largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the List of towns in Quebec, second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. The Algonquian people had originally named the area , an Algonquin language, AlgonquinThe Algonquin language is a distinct language of the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language family, and is not a misspelling. word meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Quebec Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2012 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from January 25 to 29 at the Club de Curling Kénogami in Jonquière, Quebec. The winning team of Marie-France Larouche, represented Quebec at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, Alberta, where she finished round robin with a 7-4 record. This was enough to clinch a spot in the playoffs in the 3-4 game. Larouche and team would lose both the 3-4 game and the bronze medal game. Format Changes The 2011-12 season will see a new format for both the men and women's provincial playdowns. The women's tournament will now consist of eight teams playing in a triple knockout format, and a page playoff consisting of three teams. Four teams will qualify from the four Quebec regions, and four teams will qualify through the points system. This change means that the defending champions from the previous season will no longer receive a berth into the provincial playdowns and that two fewer teams will compete in the provincial pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Women Curlers
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1972 Births
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time he legal time scale its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 - The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. * January 11 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares a new constitutional governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
The 2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held from November 3 to 9, 2019 at the Foyer des loisirs et de la culture in Jonquière, Saguenay, Quebec. Quebec won the event, having gone undefeated throughout the tournament. It was only the second championship for ''La Belle Province''. Quebec skip Jean-Sébastien Roy had home ice advantage as a native of Jonquière. Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round robin standings ''Final Round robin standings'' Round robin results All draws are listed in Eastern Time ( UTC−04:00). Draw 1 ''Sunday, November 3, 6:30 pm'' Draw 2 ''Monday, November 4, 2:00 pm'' Draw 3 ''Monday, November 4, 7:00 pm'' Draw 4 ''Tuesday, November 5, 9:30 am'' Draw 5 ''Tuesday, November 5, 2:00 pm'' Draw 6 ''Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm'' Draw 7 ''Wednesday, November 6, 9:30 am'' Draw 8 ''Wednesday, November 6, 2:00 pm'' Draw 9 ''Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 pm'' Placement round Seeding pool S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Sébastien Roy
Jean-Sébastien Roy (born August 14, 1977) is a Canadian curler from Gatineau, Quebec. Career Roy is a two time provincial junior champion, winning in 1995 as the third for Yanick Gaudreault and in 1997 as the third for Philippe Lemay. At the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Quebec finished with a 5–6 record. At the 1997 Canadian Juniors, the team finished the round robin with a 7–5 record, in a 5-way tie for 3rd place. They ended up losing their tiebreaker match to the Yukon team, skipped by Wyatt Redlin. Roy won his first provincial men's championship in 2004 as the second for Daniel Lafleur. At the 2004 Nokia Brier, Quebec finished with a 3–8 record. He won his second provincial championship in 2012 with Desjardins. In 2019, Roy and teammates Amélie Blais, Dan deWaard and Brenda Nicholls won the 2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship The 2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held from November 3 to 9, 2019 at the Foyer des loisirs et de l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Quebec Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2018 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of Quebec, was held from January 9 to 14 at the Club de curling Etchemin in Saint-Romuald, Quebec. The winning Émilia Gagné team represented Quebec at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Teams The teams are listed as follows: Standings ''Final round-robin standings'' Scores Draw 1 ''January 9, 8:00 pm'' Draw 2 ''January 10, 11:00 am'' Draw 3 ''January 10, 4:00 pm'' Draw 4 ''January 11, 1:00 pm'' Draw 5 ''January 11, 7:00 pm'' Draw 6 ''January 12, 1:00 pm'' Draw 7 ''January 12, 7:00 pm'' Tiebreaker ''Saturday, January 13, 14:30'' Playoffs Semifinal ''Saturday, January 13, 19:00'' Final ''Sunday, January 14, 11:00'' References {{reflist Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from February 20 to 28 at Revolution Place in Grande Prairie, Alberta. The winning team represented Canada at the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship held from March 19 to 27 at the Credit Union iPlex in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Teams The 2016 Scotties is as notable for who did not qualify for the event as who did. Notably absent is the #1 ranked team in the world, Rachel Homan, who was defeated in the Ontario final by her club-mates, 2005 Hearts runner-up Jenn Hanna, who is representing Ontario. The 2015 runner up Val Sweeting rink lost in the Alberta final to the Chelsea Carey rink, the #5 ranked Tracy Fleury lost in the Northern Ontario final to 2010 Scotties bronze medalist Krista McCarville and the #8 ranked Stefanie Lawton rink lost in the Saskatchewan final to Jolene Campbell. The headline team for the 2016 Scotties is the defending Scotties and Olympic champion, Jennifer Jones who is representing Team Canada. Also r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Quebec Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2016 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of Quebec, was held from January 17 to 24 at Aréna Salaberry in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec. The winning Marie-France Larouche rink will represent Quebec at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from February 20 to 28 at Revolution Place in Grande Prairie, Alberta. The winning team represented Canada at the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship held from March 19 to 27 at the Credit Uni .... The event was held in conjunction with the 2016 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship. Teams The teams are listed as follows: Standings Scores January 18 Draw 2 ''Monday, January 18, 8:15 am'' Draw 4 ''Monday, January 18, 15:45 am'' January 19 Draw 6 ''Tuesday, January 18, 08:15 am'' Draw 8 ''Tuesday, January 18, 15:45 pm'' January 20 Draw 11 ''Wednesday, January 19, 08:15 am'' Draw 13 ''Wednesday, January 19, 19: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from February 14 to 22 at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The winners represented Canada at the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship held from March 14 to 22 at the Tsukisamu Gymnasium in Sapporo, Japan. Changes to competition format For the first time, the event was to be expanded to include entries from Nunavut, which has never participated in the Scotties, and Northern Ontario, which will now have a berth separate from (Southern) Ontario, as well as separate entries from the Yukon and Northwest Territories, which have historically competed as a single entry. The Nunavut Curling Association decided they were not ready to send teams to either the Scotties or the Brier, so will be sitting out this year's events. Starting with the 2015 tournament, the top eleven teams will automatically qualify to the main tournament, which will be a competition between twelve teams, as in years past. The remaining teams will play in a pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Mann
Lauren Mann (born January 27, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Aylmer, Quebec. She currently skips her own team out of Ottawa, Ontario. Career As a junior curler, Mann was the 2002 Ontario Winter Games championship playing third for Laura Payne, and won a silver medal for Ontario at the 2003 Canada Winter Games. Also in 2003, she won the Ontario Junior Mixed Championship playing third for Chris Gardner. In 2005, she lost in the final of the Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships to Erin Morrissey. She was also the runner-up in 2006, losing to Lisa Farnell. In 2014, Mann moved to Quebec and entered the 2015 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts with teammates Amelie Blais, Brittany O'Rourke and Anne-Marie Filteau. She would win the event after posting an 8–2 round robin record, and defeating Roxane Perron in the final. With the win, Mann would go on to represent Quebec at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, leading her province to a 3–8 record. For the next season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
