Rebecca Morrison (born 22 August 1996) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. She currently skips her own team out of

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. The team won the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships in

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Career

Rebecca Morrison's national curling career has been closely intertwined with that of the Team GB nine-player squad. In being part of this squad, she skipped Team GB to the Euro Super Series championship in 2019. She later formed her current squad, with two of the other three members previous being on the team (the only person not is lead

Sophie Jackson Sophie Jackson (born 22 July 1996, in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler. She currently plays lead on Team Rebecca Morrison. Career Juniors Jackson twice skipped Team Scotland at the World Junior Curling Championships. Her first was in 2016, ...

). Team Morrison, competing with third/vice-skip

Gina Aitken Gina Aitken (born November 17, 1993) is a Scottish curler from Edinburgh. She won a silver medal as skip of the Scottish women's team at the 2015 World Junior Curling Championships and has competed in the World Mixed Doubles Curling Champions ...

, second

Sophie Sinclair Sophie Sinclair (born 5 April 1997) is a Scottish curler. She is currently the alternate on Team Rebecca Morrison. Career Juniors Sinclair won the Scottish Under-17 curling championship in 2013. She joined the Sophie Jackson junior rink in 201 ...

, and lead

, won the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships which qualified them for the

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in Prince George. They were selected over Team Muirhead who did not compete at the 2022 Scottish Championships because of the proximity in time to the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Unfortunately, Team Morrison was forced to withdraw from the 2022 World Championship after four of the five players on the team tested positive for

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leaving only one curler eligible to curl with Morrison and

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testing positive before the start of the tournament, dropping team Morrison down to three players including the alternate and leaving them without their skip. On 20 March 2022, two more members of the team tested positive forcing Team Morrison to withdraw.

Personal life

Morrison is a student athlete and curling coach.

References

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* Living people 1996 births Scottish female curlers Curlers from Glasgow Sportspeople from Bristol Scottish curling coaches {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub