Jennifer Gates (born April 22, 1990) is a Canadian curler from

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. Gates is a two-time

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champion and a two-time Northern Ontario provincial champion.

Career

Bantam and junior curling

During her bantam and junior curling years, Gates played on Team Lilly (formerly Team Maloney) out of the Idylwylde Curling Club in

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. The team represented

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at the 2004

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in London, Ontario. The team also represented Northern Ontario at the

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, and

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, where Gates played

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. The team's best finish was in 2010 in

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, where they finished the round robin with a 9–3 record and went on to take a bronze medal.

University

In 2009, Gates played second for the

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team, skipped by

Amanda Gates Amanda Gates (born March 26, 1986, in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian curler who currently coaches the Abby Deschene rinks on the World Curling Tour. Gates used to play with Team Tracy Fleury (née Horgan) and in 2015, Team Horgan became the fir ...

, and won a bronze medal at the CIS Canadian Curling Championship in

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, Quebec. Gates played second for the

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, winning two consecutive national university titles (

and

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). The team's win in 2011 gave them the opportunity to represent Canada at the

2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship The 2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship was held from January 25 to 29 at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Karuizawa, Japan. The bonspiel featured eight teams from each gender (five foreign teams and three Japanese teams) that played ...

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, Japan, which they won, defeating Switzerland's Team Tirinzoni in the final. In 2012, they represented Canada at the

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, Italy, where they finished with a 4–5 record and out of the playoffs.

Women's curling (2012–2018)

Gates, together with teammates

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and

Sarah Wilkes Sarah Wilkes (born August 4, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from London, Ontario. She won the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with Team Chelsea Carey and is currently the second for Team Rachel Homan. Career Juniors As a juni ...

, moved to

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and began training out of the

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. With the addition of Rebecca Pattison, Team Crocker was formed. They had a successful 2012–2013 season, finishing eighth on the

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(CTRS). Team Crocker's CTRS ranking gave them a spot at the

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, where they finished with a 2–3 record and out of the playoffs. The team made player changes in both the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons, with

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replacing Wilkes in 2013 and

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skipping in 2014, moving Crocker up to

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and bringing in

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at second, replacing Pattison. In the 2015–16 season,

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replaced Carey as the team's skip. On the

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, Team Rocque won the Red Deer Classic, defeating Switzerland's

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in the final, and defeated Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni to win the CCT Uiseong Masters in Korea. On the

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tour, Team Rocque qualified for play-offs at the

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Tier 1, the 2015 National, the 2016 Players' Championship, and the

2016 Humpty's Champions Cup The 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup was held from April 26 to May 1 at the Sherwood Park Arena Sports Centre in Sherwood Park, Alberta. This was the final Grand Slam event of the 2015–16 curling season and is the seventh men's Grand Slam and the ...

. They participated in the

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but failed to qualify. The team's performance in the previous season qualified them for a spot at the 2015 Canada Cup of Curling in

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, where they finished with a 2–4 record. During the

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, the team lost in the quarterfinals of the

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and failed to qualify for the playoffs at the

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, the

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and the 2017 Meridian Canadian Open. At the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling, they went 2–4 again. The team qualified for the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, making it to the B semi-final, where they lost to

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. On the Grand Slam tour in 2017–18, the team missed the playoffs at the

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, but followed up by making it to the quarterfinals of the 2018 Meridian Canadian Open. With Crocker as skip, the team missed the playoffs at the

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Women's curling (2018–present)

In 2018, Gates moved back to Sudbury and joined the Krista McCarville rink at second. The team won the 2019 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts and represented Northern Ontario at the

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, where they placed fourth, losing to

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in the 3 vs. 4

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game. Gates was on the First All-Star team for being the best second during the round robin portion of the tournament, curling an 83% average. The team once again the Northern Ontario championship the following year at the 2020 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, going undefeated in round robin play and beating Camille Daly, Laura Johnston, Krysta Burns, Amanda Gebhardt, Bella Croisier, and Abby Deschene, before beating Krysta Burns again in the final, which qualified them for the

2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from February 15 to 23 at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The winning team was scheduled to represent Canada at the 2020 World Women's Curli ...

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. Team McCarville once again lost the 3 vs. 4 game to Ontario and Homan for the second year in a row. Team McCarville was selected to represent Northern Ontario at the

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and Gates joined them once again as their alternate. At the championship, the team went 5–3 through the round robin, enough to qualify for the playoffs. The team then won both of their seeding round games and defeated New Brunswick's

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in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game to qualify for the final where they faced the Einarson rink. There, they could not keep their momentum going, losing the Scotties final 9–6.

Personal life

Gates is a curling and communications manager at the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club. She is in a relationship with Brett Burke. Her sister is

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gates, Jennifer Curlers from Northern Ontario 1990 births Canadian women curlers Living people Sportspeople from Greater Sudbury Curlers from Edmonton Canada Cup (curling) participants