The Shoot-Out
The Saville Shootout is an annual curling tournament, held in September at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the women's tour since 2006 and is one of the first events of the year. The men's event was discontinued after 2015 but was brought back in 2023. It had been running since 2004. Event names *2004: Shamrock Classic Bonspiel *2006: Saville Sports Centre Sept. Shoot-Out *2007: Boston Pizza Boston Pizza (BP), known as Boston's The Gourmet Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar outside of Canada, is a Canadian multinational restaurant chain that owns and franchises locations in Canada, the United States and Mexico. History Boston Pizza ... September Shoot-Out *2008: Boston Pizza Shootout *2009: September Shoot-Out *2010-2011: The Shoot-Out *2012-2013: The Shoot-Out @ the Saville Centre *2014-2018: HDF Insurance Shoot-Out *2019: Booster Juice Shoot-Out *2021: Alberta Curling Series: Saville Shoot-Out *2022: Saville Shoot-Out *2023: Savill ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anchors the north end of what Statistics Canada defines as the " Calgary–Edmonton Corridor". As of 2021, Edmonton had a city population of 1,010,899 and a metropolitan population of 1,418,118, making it the fifth-largest city and sixth-largest metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada. Edmonton is North America's northernmost large city and metropolitan area comprising over one million people each. A resident of Edmonton is known as an ''Edmontonian''. Edmonton's historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities ( Strathcona, North Edmonton, West Edmonton, Beverly and Jasper Place) hus Edmonton is said to be a combination of two cities, two towns and two villages./ref> in addition to a series ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liu Yin (curler)
Liu Yin (; born August 19, 1981 in Harbin, Heilongjiang; usually referred to in the media as Yin Liu) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. For many years she played third on the Chinese national team skipped by Wang Bingyu. Curling career 2002–2009 Liu has played internationally for China since 2002, when she was an alternate on the team at the when she had only been curling for two years. In 2004, she was a full member of the team. She played third for the team at the , and then second at the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship, her first experience at World's. The team finished 7th. The following season, Liu was playing lead for the team for the , and then she played third once again at the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, where the team finished 5th. For the 2006–07 season, Liu threw last rocks for the team while Wang held the broom as skip. The season included their first Pacific Championship, an Asian Winter Games bronze medal and a disappointing ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tracy Bush
Tracy, Tracey, or Tracie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tracy (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname, also encompassing spelling variations Places United States * Tracy, California ** Tracy Municipal Airport (California), airport owned by the City of Tracy ** Deuel Vocational Institution, a California state prison sometimes referred to as "Tracy" ** Tracy station, a train station in southern Tracy, California * Tracy, a neighborhood in Wallingford, Connecticut * Tracy, Illinois * Tracy, Indiana * Tracy, Iowa * Tracy, Kentucky * Tracy, Minnesota * Tracy, Missouri * Tracy, Montana * Tracy, New Jersey * Tracy, Oklahoma * Tracy City, Tennessee Elsewhere * Tracy, New Brunswick, Canada * Tracy Glacier (Greenland) Music * Tracie (singer) (Tracie Young, born 1965), British singer * ''Tracie'' (album), a 1999 album by Tracie Spencer * "Tracy" (The Cuff Links song), by The Cuff Links on their first album ''T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kaitlyn Lawes
Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to go through the Olympics undefeated and the first Manitoba based curling team to win at the Olympics. Lawes curled with John Morris in the mixed doubles event at the 2018 Winter Olympics where they won gold. This win made her and Morris the first Canadian curlers to win two Olympic gold medals, and Lawes was the first to win gold in two consecutive Olympics. Lawes was a member of the world champion team as a third at the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, where the team went through the event undefeated. She also won a silver medal at the 2015 World Championships. Lawes was a winner of the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts and has had two runner-up results at the Scotties in 2011 and 2013. Lawes is a two-time Canadian junio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Janine Greiner
Janine Greiner (born 13 February 1981) is a Swiss curler. Greiner started curling in 1989. She plays lead for Mirjam Ott and is right-handed. ecc.curlit.com Teammates 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games , ''Skip'' Carmen Schäfer, ''Third'' , ''Second''[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valeria Spälty
Valeria Spälty (born 24 June 1983 in Glarus) is a Switzerland, Swiss curling, curler. Spälty started curling in 1992. She plays second for Mirjam Ott and is right-handed. ecc.curlit.com She won the silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games 2006 in Turin with Mirjam Ott, Binia Beeli, Manuela Kormann, and Michele Moser. She is the youngest Curling Olympic medal winner in the world. Since 2007 Spälty and Mirjam Ott have been playing for the Curling Club Davos with two other players. With this team Spälty won the bronze medal in 2006 at the Europeans in Basel, SUI and finished in fourth place at the 2007 European Curling Championships. In March 2008 they won the bronze medal at the 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, 2008 Vernon World Championships. Spälty has played in 86 Games at Junior Worlds, W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Carmen Schäfer (curler)
Carmen Schäfer (born 8 January 1981 in Davos) is a Swiss curler. She plays third for Mirjam Ott. Schäfer had a fairly successful Junior career. She was the alternate on the Swiss team (skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni) that won the 1999 World Junior Championships, but she did not play any games. Schäfer skipped the Swiss team at the 2000 and 2001 World Juniors, finishing fourth and winning the bronze medal respectively. In 2000, she lost to the U.S. team (skipped by Laura Delaney) in the bronze medal game, 8–5. She had to beat Moe Meguro's Japanese team to capture the bronze in 2001, winning the game 5–4. In 2007, Schäfer joined Ott's team. They finished in fourth place at the 2007 European Curling Championships. They avenged their defeat at the 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship when they won the bronze medal; once again she had to beat Japan and their skip, Meguro. The Japanese had beaten them in the 3–4 game, but in the bronze medal rematch, ha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mirjam Ott
Mirjam Ott (born 27 January 1972 in Bern, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss curler who lives in Laax, Switzerland. She is the 2012 World Curling Champion skip. She is the skip (captain) of the Swiss Olympic Curling Team. She has participated in several Olympic Games contests and has won numerous awards in many other curling events worldwide. Career Ott won the Olympic silver medal twice; in the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (with skip Luzia Ebnöther) and 2006 in Turin (as skip herself), making her the first woman with two Olympic medals in curling. In 2008 the team won the European Championship in Sweden. At the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, her team finished a disappointing fourth place, as Ott's touch completely deserted her late in the semi-final and bronze medal matches. Ott won the 2012 Ford World Women's Curling Championship after defeating Sweden's Margaretha Sigfridsson Margaretha Sigfridsson (born 28 January 1976) is a Swedish curler who in 2009 was inducted i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alison Earl
Alison may refer to: People * Alison (given name), including a list of people with the name * Alison (surname) Music * ''Alison'' (album), aka ''Excuse Me'', a 1975 album by Australian singer Alison MacCallum * "Alison" (song), song by Elvis Costello * "Alison (C'est ma copine à moi)", a 1993 single by Jordy * "Alison", 1994 single by Slowdive Places * Alison, New South Wales, suburb of the Central Coast region in NSW, Australia * Alison Sound, an inlet on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada * Point Alison, Alberta, a summer village in Alberta, Canada Other uses * ''Alison'' (film), a South African documentary film * ALISON (company), an educational technology company * Alison, common name for plants of the genus ''Alyssum'', including: ** Sweet alison, a decorative plant * ''Alison'' (katydid) a genus in the Hexacentrinae subfamily of bush crickets See also * Alisoun (other) * Alisson (other) * Allison (other) * Allisson (disambig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shannon Nimmo
Shannon may refer to: People * Shannon (given name) * Shannon (surname) * Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene (born 1958) * Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998) * Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde (born 1939) * Claude Shannon (1916-2001) was American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory" Places Australia * Shannon, Tasmania, a locality * Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Shannon, a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916 * Shannon River (Western Australia) Canada * Shannon, New Brunswick, a community * Shannon, Quebec, a city * Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia * Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia Ireland * River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland ** Shannon Cave, a subterranean section of th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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June Campbell
June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. June contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases). June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern Hemisphere, the beginning of the traditional astronomical summer is 21 June (meteorological summer begins on 1 June). In the Southern Hemisphere, meteorological winter begins on 1 June. At the start of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Taurus; at the end of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Glenys Bakker
Glenys Bakker (born August 27, 1962 in High River, Alberta) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. Bakker played second for Shannon Kleibrink's bronze medal winning team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Bakker played for Shannon Kleibrink for most of her curling career. At the 1993 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Bakker was Kleibrink's Alternate. She was Kleibrink's third at the 1997 Canadian Olympic Trials where the team lost to Sandra Schmirler in the final. In 2004, she was Kleibrink's second at the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts where they finished with a 6–5 record. Also as Kleibrink's second, the team won the 2005 Canada Cup of Curling and won the 2005 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials The 2005 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials were held from December 3 to 11 at the Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Men Teams Round-robin standings ''Fi ... getting a berth at the 2006 Olympi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |