Sarah Pyke (born January 13, 1987 in

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as Sarah Wazney) is a

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curler. She currently plays

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on Team Kristy Watling. She is a former Canadian junior champion and World junior bronze medallist.

Curling career

Juniors

Pyke's junior career involved winning a number of provincial titles. She played for Manitoba at the 2003

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, she won the 2001 and 2003 Manitoba Under 16 championships, was a silver medallist at the 2004 U18 Optimist International event. She was also a CIS/CCA Canadian University Gold Medallist in 2008. In 2007 Pyke won the 2008 Manitoba mixed title playing lead for

Reid Carruthers Reid Carruthers (born December 30, 1984) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Carruthers was the 2011 world champion—winning gold as a second on Jeff Stoughton's team—as well as a six-time provincial champion, the 2003 junior prov ...

. The team represented Manitoba at the

2008 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship The 2008 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held from 10–16 November 2007, at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. Two members of the winning team represented Canada at the 2008 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Teams St ...

where they finished with a 5-6 record. In 2008, Pyke played

for the Manitoba junior provincial championship rink skipped by

Kaitlyn Lawes Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to ...

. The team represented Manitoba at the

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where they won the championship. The team then represented Canada at the

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where they won a bronze medal.

Women's

After her 2008 junior run, Pyke was too old to continue playing with the Lawes junior team, and began women's play as the lead for the

Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born October 3, 1987 as Kerri Flett) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is the three-time reigning women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to vic ...

rink. The following season (2009–10) she moved to play second for the

Jenna Loder Jenna Loder (born July 11, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays third on Team Beth Peterson. She is a two-time Canadian junior champion and two-time world junior medallist (2008, 2009), playing third for Kaitl ...

rink. The next season (2010–11), she moved back to lead with the

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team, and then the next season (2011–12) she moved to play lead for the

Jill Thurston Jill Thurston (born December 2, 1971) is a Canadian curler. She skipped her own team out of the Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Career Juniors Thurston would represent Manitoba at the 1991 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. H ...

rink. In 2012, Pyke moved from her native province of Manitoba to

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, BC to play lead for the

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team. On the

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, Pyke played in her first

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event playing with Loder at the

2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic The 2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic was held October 23-26 at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2009-2010 women's World Curling Tour The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a ...

. However, the team was eliminated without winning a game. Pyke played in two Grand Slams with Thurston. At the

2011 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic The 2011 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 7 to 10 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. It was the first women's Grand Slam event of the 2011–12 curling season and the twenty-sixth time the tournament ...

the team was eliminated with a 2-3 record. At the

2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic The 2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic was held October 21 to 24 at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the second women's Grand Slam (curling), Grand Slam event of the 2011–12 curling season and the eighth tim ...

the team was also eliminated with a 2-3 record. With Scott, Pyke would play in four Grand Slams. At the

2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic The 2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 5 to 8 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta as part of the 2012–13 World Curling Tour. It was the first women's Grand Slam event of the 2012–13 curling se ...

, the team lost in the semi-final to

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. At the

2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic The 2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic was held October 19 to 22 at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the second women's Grand Slam event of the 2012–13 curling season, and this edition of the event marked ...

the team was eliminated with a 3-3 record. At the

the team was eliminated with a 1-3 record and at the

2012 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling The 2012 Masters Grand Slam of Curling was held from November 14 to 18 at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre, the Brantford Golf & Curling Club, the Paris Curling Club, and the Brant Curling Club in Brantford and Paris, Ontario as part of the 201 ...

team finished pool play with a 2-3 record. Pyke played in her first Manitoba provincial championship with Thurston in

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. That team finished 5-2 in pool play but lost in a tie-breaker against

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. After moving to play with Kelly Scott, Pyke played in her first

British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts The British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the British Columbia provincial women's curling tournament. The tournament is run by Curl BC, the provincial curling association. The winning team represents British Columbia at the Scotties T ...

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which they won, sending Pyke to her first

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. At the

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, the team would end up winning a bronze medal. The following season, the team was less successful, losing in the final of the

2014 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2014 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for British Columbia, was held January 6 to 12 at the Prince George Golf & Curling Club in Prince George. The winning team represented the provin ...

Kesa Van Osch Kesa Van Osch (born December 12, 1991, in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian curler from Parksville, British Columbia. She was the skip of the winning team at the 2014 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and finished 5th in the ...

References

External links

Team Scott profilesWCT player profileWCF player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pyke, Sarah 1987 births Canadian women curlers Curlers from British Columbia Living people Sportspeople from Kelowna Curlers from Winnipeg