Alison Goring (born November 15, 1963) is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
curler.
Career
1990–1997
Goring is a former Canadian champion skip, having won the 1990
Scott Tournament of Hearts
The Scotties Tournament of Hearts (''french: Le Tournoi des Cœurs Scotties''; commonly referred to as the Scotties) is the annual Canadian women's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada, formerly called the Canadian Curling Associat ...
. She was also a successful junior curler, having won the 1983
Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The Canadian Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best junior-level curling team in Canada. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 21 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament.
The even ...
.
Goring won her first
provincial championship in 1990. Her Ontario rink would with that years' Scott Tournament of Hearts, defeating the Nova Scotia team, skipped by
Heather Rankin. Her win gave her the right to represent Canada at the 1990 World Championships. At the 1990 Worlds, they lost to Norway's
Dordi Nordby
Dordi Agate Nordby (born 8 April 1964 in Bærum) is a retired Norwegian curler from Snarøya. Nordby has amassed an array of medals in major international competitions over a career spanning three decades, including two world championship gol ...
in the semi-final.
Her Hearts win in 1990 gave her team the right to represent team Canada at the 1991 Scott Tournament of Hearts. At that tournament, her team finished with 6 wins and 5 losses. She returned to the Hearts in 1995, finishing with a 7–4 record, just missing the playoffs. The
1997 Scott Tournament of Hearts was her last to date, losing to
Sandra Schmirler
Sandra Marie Schmirler, (June 11, 1963 – March 2, 2000) was a Canadian curler who captured three Canadian Curling Championships (Scott Tournament of Hearts) and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler also skipped (captained) her Cana ...
's Saskatchewan rink in the final.
Goring's team participated in the
1997 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials
The 1997 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials were held from November 22 to 30, 1997 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba. They were held to determine the Canadian National men's and women's Teams for the 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Wi ...
, but finished with a 3–6 record.
2007–current
Goring still continues to competitively curl. Most recently she has qualified for the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts. At the
2007 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts Goring's team would finish round robin with a 7–2 record, however lost to
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 Ont ...
in the quarter final game. At the
2008 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Goring and her team would finish with a 6–3 record, and advance to the semifinal, where she once again would lose to
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 Ont ...
. At the
2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Goring would finish round robin play with a 5–4 record, winning two tiebreakers, the 3 vs. 4 game and the semifinal. Her team's winning streak would come to an end in the final, where she lost to
Krista McCarville
Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curling, curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the Curling at the 2003 Winter Universiade, 2003 Winter Univ ...
. Goring's team would not qualify for the provincials in 2010, however she would qualify out of the A side in Regionals advancing to the
2011 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Her team would not find success there, finishing round robin with a 2–7 record.
References
External links
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Ontario Curling Tour profile
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1963 births
Canadian women curlers
Canadian women's curling champions
Living people
Curlers from Toronto