Corinne "Cori" Morris (born June 21, 1971
as Corinne Bartel) 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 from
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
,
Alberta
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. She played lead for the Olympic silver medal-winning
Cheryl Bernard
Cheryl Bernard (born June 30, 1966) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final. Her fi ...
rink from 2005 to 2011. Currently, she plays lead for
Susan O'Connor
Susan O'Connor (born May 3, 1977) is a Canadians, Canadian curling, curler from Calgary, Alberta. She is an Olympic silver medallist.
Career
In 2000, O'Connor played third for Kevin Koe at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. The team, which ...
, another member of that team.
Morris grew up in
Lanigan, Saskatchewan
Lanigan (pop. 1300) is a town in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada, at the intersection of TransCanada Yellowhead Highway 16 and Highway 20, approximately 117 km east of Saskatoon and 170 km north of Regina.
Lanigan is surroun ...
. In 1998, Morris played in Ontario, and played in the
provincial Scott Tournament of Hearts, as an alternate player for the
Cheryl McBain team. She would later move to Alberta. Morris joined Bernard in 2005 after playing for
Heather Rankin. She has since been to the 2007 and 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts as a member of that team. At the 2009 Tournament of Hearts, Morris was presented with the
Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award
The Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award is the sportsmanship award at the annual Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held to crown the Canadian women's curling championship. When Scott Paper took over sponsorship of the Canadian Women's Curling Champio ...
.
Morris and her team represented Canada in the
2010 Winter Olympics
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, athletes = 2,626
, events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
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, closing = February 28, 2010
, opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean
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,
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at Vancouver2010.com and won
silver medal
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s at the tournament.
Morris is a graduate from the
University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...
and is employed as a professional recruiter. She married 1994 World Junior Champion
Sean Morris
Sean Paul Morris (born September 10, 1983, in Marshfield, Massachusetts) is a professional lacrosse player with the Boston Cannons of the Major League Lacrosse, and the Boston Blazers in the National Lacrosse League. He founded Laxachusetts, ...
in 2010.
On February 8, 2011, it was announced that the Bernard team would disband at the end of the
2010–11 curling season. Morris joined a new team for the
2011–12 curling season, playing as lead under
Dana Ferguson
Dana Ferguson (born February 25, 1987 in St. Albert, Alberta) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. She currently plays second on Team Kelsey Rocque.
Career
Ferguson was a member of the University of Alberta team that lost in the tie-br ...
.
She currently coaches the Kayla Skrlik team
and works as a Talent Acquisition Partner for
ATB Financial
ATB Financial is a financial institution and Crown corporation wholly owned by the province of Alberta, the only province in Canada with such a financial institution under its exclusive ownership.
Originally established as Alberta Treasury Br ...
.
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Curlers from Ontario
Curlers from Calgary
Sportspeople from Humboldt, Saskatchewan
1971 births
Living people
Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
University of Ottawa alumni
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Olympic curlers of Canada
Olympic medalists in curling
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
People from Lanigan, Saskatchewan
Canadian women curlers
Canada Cup (curling) participants
Canadian curling coaches