Christine "Chris" Jurgenson ( Bodogh; born c. 1953) is a
Canadian
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curler from British Columbia. She is a former World Champion, and was lead for the championship team at the World Senior Curling Championship in 2009 and skip for the 2011
World Senior Curling Championships
The World Senior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring curlers from around the world who are at least 50 years old. Matches at the World Senior Championships are played in 8 ends played instead of the 10 played in most in ...
.
Jurgenson grew up in Ontario, where she played with her sister,
Marilyn Bodogh
Marilyn C. Bodogh (also known as Marilyn Darte) (born March 9, 1955) is a Canadian curler, colour commentator and political candidate. Bodogh is best known for her two World Curling Championships in 1986 and 1996 and her two Tournament of Heart ...
Cathy Shaw
Catherine "Cathy" Shaw (née Pidzarko; born c. 1953) is a Canadians, Canadian curling, curler, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
While attending Miles Macdonell Collegiate, Shaw and her twin sister, Chris Scalena, Chris won three straigh ...
Penny LaRocque
Penny LaRocque (born ca. 1943 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian retired curling, curler from Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a former Canadian champion skip, and world championship bronze medallist. She ...
.
In 1986, she was back playing with her sister in Ontario, playing second for her. They would end up winning the 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts, defeating the defending champion
Linda Moore
Linda Moore (born February 24, 1954 in Vancouver, British Columbia as Linda J. Tweedie) is a Canadian world champion curler. From 1989 until 2014, she was a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and formerly Ra ...
rink 7-4 in the final. They won the
1986 World Women's Curling Championship
The 1986 World Women's Curling Championship, the women's world curling championship, was held from March 23–29 at the Kelowna Memorial Arena in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Canada, skipped by Marilyn Darte (also known as Marilyn Bodogh ...
as Team Canada, defeating Germany's
Andrea Schöpp
Andrea Schöpp (born 27 February 1965) is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She lectures part-time in statistics at the University of Munich.
Career
Schöpp is a two-time World champion ( and ), seven-time European champion (, , , ...
12–5 in the final.
The following season, the team represented Team Canada at the
1987 Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 1987 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's curling championship, was held from February 28 to March 7, 1987 at the Lethbridge Sportsplex in Lethbridge, Alberta. The total attendance for the week was a then-record 34,277, which shat ...
, finishing 4–7.
Jurgenson moved to British Columbia, and won her first B.C. provincial title there in 1995. At the
1995 Scott Tournament of Hearts The 1995 Scott Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's national curling championship, was played February 18 to 26 at the Max Bell Centre in Calgary, Alberta. It was the first time the page-playoff system would be used at the Scott.
Teams
Standin ...
, she played lead for Marla Geiger, and finished with a 6–5 record. She won her second B.C. provincial title, this time playing lead for Kelley Owen. The team finished with a 3–8 record, in last place. It would be her final trip to the Hearts.
Jurgenson won two provincial senior titles, in 2008 (playing lead for
Pat Sanders
Pat Sanders (born c. 1954 in Neepawa, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler and world champion from Victoria, British Columbia.
Championships
Sanders became world champion in 1987 with the Canadian team.Canadian Senior Curling Championships. Her 2008 and 2010 senior titles qualified her for the 2009 and 2011
World Senior Curling Championships
The World Senior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring curlers from around the world who are at least 50 years old. Matches at the World Senior Championships are played in 8 ends played instead of the 10 played in most in ...
. At the 2009 championship, the team won gold for Canada, defeating Switzerland's Renate Nedkoff 10-1. In 2011, Jugenson skipped her team to another gold medal, defeating Sweden's Ingrid Meldahl.
Personal life
At the time of the 1986 World Championships, she worked for her father's lumber company in St. Catharines, Ontario.