Mallory Kean (née Buist) is a

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curler from

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. She currently plays

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for the

Chrissy Cadorin Christina "Chrissy" Cadorin (born October 19, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Thornhill, Ontario. She currently plays third on Team Cathy Auld. Career Cadorin was born in North York, Ontario. As a junior curler, Cadorin won two Junior Mixed ju ...

rink on the

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Career

Kean began curling at age 7 at the Glendale Golf and Country Club in

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. As a junior career, Kean made it to the finals of the Ontario Bantam championship in 2004 (losing to

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) and played in the 2004

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. After juniors, Kean joined the

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rink, throwing

rocks for the 2011-12 season. She then joined the Brit O'Neill rink for the 2012-13 season, playing

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, then the Ashley Waye for the 2013-14 season and then 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 for the 2014-15 season, playing third again. In 2015, Kean would form her own rink with

Carly Howard Carly Howard (born October 7, 1993 in Midland, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Tiny, Ontario. She is the daughter of four-time World curling champion and four-time Brier champion Glenn Howard. Curling career After winning the 2010 Ontario Ban ...

, Kerilynn Mathers and

Cheryl Kreviazuk Cheryl Kreviazuk (born September 25, 1992) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. She currently plays second on Team Danielle Inglis. She is better known as the alternate for the Rachel Homan rink in 2015, when the team won bronze at the 2 ...

. The rink would find immediate success in their first season together, making it to two WCT finals (the Oakville OCT Fall Classic and the

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). The team would also qualify for the

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, Kean's first. Outside of the World Curling Tour, Kean has played in two

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, both times with husband

Mark Kean Mark Kean (born June 22, 1988 in Innerkip, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Woodstock, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Ottawa. Career Kean's junior career involved winning the provincial junior mixed title in 2009. Kean made ...

. At the

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, the pair made it to the quarterfinals, before losing to Mike Armstrong and Ashley Quick of Saskatchewan. At the 2015 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials, the pair missed the playoffs.

Personal life

Kean married

2015 Ontario Tankard The 2015 Ontario Tankard, the Southern Ontario men's provincial curling championship, was held from February 2 to 8 at the Dorchester Flight Exec Centre in Dorchester, Ontario. The winning Mark Kean rink represented Ontario at the 2015 Tim Horto ...

champion

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kean, Mallory Living people Canadian women curlers People from Woodstock, Ontario Sportspeople from Oxford County, Ontario Curlers from Hamilton, Ontario Year of birth missing (living people)