Karen Trines (born December 15, 1986, in

Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

as Karen Sagle) is a Canadian curler from

Nepean, Ontario Nepean ( ) is a former municipality and now geographic area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Located west of Ottawa's inner core, it was an independent city until amalgamated with the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton in 2001 to become the ne ...

. She currently plays

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for Team Mann on the

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Career

Trines twice represented Ontario at the

Canadian Junior Curling Championships The Canadian Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best junior-level curling team in Canada. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 21 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament. The even ...

. The first time in 2005 with skip Erin Morrissey, and the second in 2007 with skip

Hollie Nicol Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987 in Toronto, Ontario as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour. Career Juniors As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her Unionville Curling Club rink ...

(now Duncan). During the 2011–12 curling season, Trines skipped her own rink on the

, playing in just one event, the 2011 Royal LePage OVCA Women's Fall Classic, where her team went 4–3 and missed the playoffs. After the season, she joined the

Lisa Farnell Lisa Farnell (born September 23, 1986 in Toronto) is a Canadian-English curler originally from Peterborough, Ontario. She was the skip of the Ontario team at the 2006 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. In 2006, Farnell and her team of Kim ...

rink at second position. She won her first WCT event at the 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau. The Farnell rink dissolved in 2014, with third Erin Morrissey taking over the rink, and Trines moving up to third. Sagle won a provincial mixed title in April 2015, playing lead for Mike McLean. In 2015, it was announced the Trines would be joining the

Jenn Hanna Jennifer Ann Hanna (born January 22, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Nepean, Ontario. She curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the . Career Early competitive career ...

rink. The Team won the

2016 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2016 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 18 to 24 at the Brampton Curling Club in Brampton, Ontario. The winning Jenn Hanna rink represented Ontario at the ...

and represented Ontario at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they missed the playoffs, finishing with a 6–5 record. After the season, it was announced that Hanna was retiring from competitive curling and that Trines would be joining the

Hollie Duncan Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987 in Toronto, Ontario as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour. Career Juniors As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her Unionville Curling Club rink ...

rink, a skip she had previously played for in juniors in 2007. Her new team would win the

2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 10 to 14 at the Whitby Curling Club in Whitby, Ontario. The winning team represented Ontario at the 2018 Scotties To ...

sending them to the

2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from January 27–February 4, 2018 at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, British Columbia. The winning team represented Canada at the 2018 ...

. There, they posted a 4–3 round robin record which qualified them for the tiebreaker against Newfoundland and Labrador's

Stacie Curtis Stacie Curtis (born Devereaux; May 27, 1986) is a curler originally from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a four-time provincial junior champion, three time provincial women's champion and 2007 Canadian Junior champion and World J ...

. Ontario scored three in the ninth end and stole two in the tenth for a 11–8 win and a spot in the Championship Pool. They would not win any more games, finishing the tournament with a 4–7 record. The following season, they failed to qualify for the playoffs at the

2019 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2019 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 28 to February 2 at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira, Ontario. The winning team of skip Rachel Homan, third Em ...

after losing the tiebreaker 10-5 to

Julie Tippin Julie Tippin (born August 16, 1983 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec as Julie Lynne Reddick) is a Canadian curler from Owen Sound, Ontario. Tippin is a three-time provincial junior champion, and a Canadian mixed champion. Career Tippin attended high sch ...

. Team Duncan started the 2019–20 season with a quarterfinal finish at the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic despite qualifying for the playoffs as the number one seed.

Personal life

Trines has a Bachelor of Arts from

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...

and an Event Management Graduate Certificate from

Algonquin College Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is a publicly funded English-language college located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The college serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec, and Upst ...

. She currently works as a Senior Program Analyst at

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, and is the owner of When Sparks Fly Weddings & Events. It is believed that she and former teammate Brit O'Neill were the first ever open

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couple to play at the

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. She is now married to Kat Trines.2018 Scotties Media Guide

References

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* Living people 1986 births Curlers from Ottawa Canadian women curlers Canadian LGBT sportspeople Lesbian sportswomen LGBT curlers Carleton University alumni Algonquin College alumni 21st-century Canadian LGBT people {{canada-curling-bio-stub