Karen Hennigar (born February 28, 1953) is a

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curler. She played

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on the team that won the World Senior Women's Championship in 2010.

Curling career

In 1988, Hennigar played in her first

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, playing

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for

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Judy Burgess. She would not return to the national championship until

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, when she was the fifth player for skip

Nancy McConnery Nancy McConnery (born Nancy Horne on February 26, 1963) is a Canadian curler from Blockhouse, Nova Scotia. She currently skips her own team out of the Windsor Curling Club in Windsor, Nova Scotia. McConnery has represented both New Brunswick a ...

. Two other times, in 1985 and 2007, Hennigar came very close to gaining entry into the Hearts tournament, finishing second in the Nova Scotia Tournament of Hearts. In

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and

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Hennigar played second for Team Nova Scotia at the Canadian Senior Championships with skip

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. Both times Team Nova Scotia just barely missed the playoffs, in 2004 being one win shy of forcing a tiebreaker and in 2005 losing a tiebreaker to Northern Ontario. Hennigar again played second, this time for skip

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, at the

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. After only losing one game in the round robin Hennigar and Team Nova Scotia defeated British Columbia 6-4 in the final to win the gold medal. Hennigar and her team then went on to represent Canada at the

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where they beat

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in the final to take home Canada's 6th World Senior Curling Championship title.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hennigar, Karen 1953 births Canadian women curlers Living people Sportspeople from Truro, Nova Scotia Curlers from Halifax, Nova Scotia