Desirée Owen (née Robertson) is a curler from

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Career

Owen won two provincial junior titles- in 2003 and in 2005. At the

2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championships The 2003 Kärcher Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held February 1–9 at the Rideau and Ottawa Curling Clubs in Ottawa. Teams from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan won both the men's and women's event. Both teams would go on to win gold medals ...

, her Alberta team lost to Saskatchewan's

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(then Miller) in the semi-fina

2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, In 2005, her team posted an undefeated record after the round robin, but ended up losing to New Brunswick's

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in the fina

Owen played third for

Crystal Webster Crystal Webster (born as Crystal Rumberg on February 26, 1975, in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. Career Juniors Webster made her national curling debut at the 1994 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. This ...

until she took the 2009-10 curling season off to have a baby. She did however play for the team as an alternate at the

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Owen now skips her own team. While Owen has never played at the

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, she has had some success on the Women's

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. Her first bonspiel win was the

DEKALB Superspiel The DeKalb Superspiel is a curling bonspiel that takes place at the Morris Curling Club in Morris, Manitoba. It was an event on the World Curling Tour until 2019 and the Manitoba Curling Tour, and also takes part in the Canadian Team Ranking ...

in 2009 with Webster. She has made it to two

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finals. In 2006, she lost to

Kelly Scott Kelly Scott (born June 1, 1977 in Winnipeg, Manitoba as Kelly Lynn Mackenzie) is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia. Career 1995–2005 Scott won the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships and the 1995 World Junior Curling C ...

at the

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. She made it to the final at the same event in 2010 as a skip, but lost again, this time to China's

Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu (; ; born October 7, 1984 in Harbin, Heilongjiang; usually referred to in the media as Bingyu "Betty" Wang) is a Chinese curler. In 2009, she became the first non Northern American or European skip to win a World Championship. Cu ...

External links

Team Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Owen, Desiree Curlers from Alberta Living people People from Grande Prairie 1984 births Canadian women curlers Canada Cup (curling) participants