Kendra Lilly (born June 18, 1991) is a Canadian curler from

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. She is a three-time

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junior champion skip. She is also the former skip of the

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women's curling team.

Career

Lilly won the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Northern Ontario Junior Curling Championships. This qualified her for the

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in each of those years. At the

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, she threw fourth rocks for skip

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and finished with a 6–6 record. At the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, she skipped the rink of

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and Kaitlynd Burns to a 9–3 round robin record. The team then lost to British Columbia's Dailene Sivertson in the semi-final to finish third overall. At the

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, Lilly's team of Gates,

Courtney Chenier Courtney Chenier (born October 5, 1992 in New Liskeard, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. She was the alternate for the Tracy Fleury rink at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Career Chenier won the 2011 and 2012 Northern ...

and Curtin went 6–6 and missed the playoffs. At the

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, her team of

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, Chenier and Avery Thomas went 6–6 again, missing the playoffs. Lilly was also the skip of the

curling team. Following her junior career, Lilly formed a women's team with Chenier, Laura Pickering-Forget and Joanne Comé-Forget. Lilly went 4–5 with this team at her first provincial championship in 2013. Lilly served as the alternate for the

Tracy Horgan Tracy Fleury (born June 13, 1986, as Tracy Horgan) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season. In 2021, she led her team to a silver medal at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling T ...

rink at the 2013 Olympic Pre-Trials. The team narrowly missed the playoffs, losing the 'C' final qualifier, finishing with a 4–3 record. Lilly and her team qualified for playoffs at the

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, losing in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game. In 2014, Lilly joined the

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for her first season with new teammates Sarah Potts, Oye-Sem Won Briand and

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. This team played in the inaugural

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, where she lost to Horgan in the final. In 2015, Lilly joined the

Krista McCarville Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curling, curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the Curling at the 2003 Winter Universiade, 2003 Winter Univ ...

rink as

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, and won a silver medal at the

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for Northern Ontario. They also played in the

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, finishing 4–4. In 2018, Lilly substituted at third for Team Rocque (skipped by

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) at the

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. The team lost 8–3 in a tiebreaker to

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. Team McCarville won the

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, sending the team once again to represent Northern Ontario at the Scotties. At the

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, the rink had a 8–3 record, putting her team in fourth place in the round robin, earning them a spot in the playoffs. In the 3 vs. 4 game, team McCarville lost to Team Ontario's

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rink. The team won the championship again the following year at the

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, which qualified them for the

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. Team McCarville lost the 3 vs. 4 game to Ontario and Homan for the second year in a row. The 2021 Northern Ontario provincial playdowns were cancelled due to the

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. As the 2020 provincial champions, Lilly, with McCarville's team, was given an automatic invitation to represent Northern Ontario at the

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in Calgary. However, the team declined the invitation, citing family and work priorities. Team McCarville had enough points to qualify for the

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. There, they went 5–1 through the round robin, qualifying for the playoffs. The team had two impressive come-from-behind wins in their two playoff games. In their first game against the

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rink, they were down 7–3 heading into the tenth end, but scored four points, then stole a point in the extra end to win the match. In their second game against

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, the team gave up five points in the second end to trail 5–1, but rallied back to win the game 9–6. With the win, they qualified for the

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, held November 20 to 28 in

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. At the Trials, the team went through the round robin with a 4–4 record. This earned them a spot in the second tiebreaker where they defeated

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4–3. In the semifinal, they lost 8–3 to

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, eliminating them from contention. The 2022

was cancelled due to the pandemic and Team McCarville were selected to represent their province at the national women's championship. At the

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, 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. They wrapped up their season at the

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where they missed the playoffs.

Personal life

Lilly is employed an operations manager at DKB Financial Services Group Inc. Her brother is curler

Evan Lilly Evan Lilly (born March 26, 1989, in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Sarnia, Ontario. He is currently the alternate on Team Pat Ferris. Career Lilly won the 2005 Northern Ontario bantam championships and the 2007 Ontario high school ...

References

Laurentian University profile"Local Curlers Show Well on National Stage" - Sudbury Star

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lilly, Kendra 1991 births Canadian women curlers Curlers from Northern Ontario Living people Sportspeople from Greater Sudbury