Sophie Sinclair (born 5 April 1997) is a Scottish curler. She is currently the alternate on Team

Rebecca Morrison Rebecca Morrison (born 22 August 1996) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. She currently skips her own team out of Stirling. The team won the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships in Dumfries. Career Rebecca Morrison's national curling career ...

Career

Juniors

Sinclair won the Scottish Under-17 curling championship in 2013. She joined the

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, ...

junior rink in 2016. In 2017, the Jackson team won the World Junior B championships, earning the right to represent Scotland at the

2017 World Junior Curling Championships The 2017 World Junior Curling Championships (branded as the 2017 VoIP Defender World Junior Curling Championships for sponsorship reasons) was held from February 16 to 26 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. The tournament ...

. At the World Juniors, the team won the silver medal.

Women's

The Jackson junior team continued to play together following their junior career. In 2019, the team was invited to play in the third leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup, where they finished with a 2-4 record. Two weeks later, the team won the 2019

Scottish championship The Scottish Championship, known as the cinch Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottish Champio ...

, defeating perennial winners

Eve Muirhead Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the br ...

in the final. Team Jackson had committed to play in the

2019 Winter Universiade The 2019 Winter Universiade (russian: Зимняя Универсиада 2019), the XXIX Universiade, was a multi-sport event for student and youth athletes which took place from 2 to 12 March 2019 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. The 2019 W ...

(which ended just before the World Championships), so Scottish Curling initially wanted to send Muirhead to the

2019 World Women's Curling Championship The 2019 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2019 LGT World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from 16 to 24 March at the Silkeborg Sportscenter in Silkeborg, Denmark. Qualification The following nat ...

as Scotland's representative. However, Team Jackson asked for a review of the rules, which stated the winner of the Scottish championship gets to represent the country at the World Championships. The review was successful, and Team Jackson went on to represent Scotland at the 2019 Worlds. They also played in the Universiade, where they finished fourth. At the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship, Team Jackson finished in 10th place with a 4-8 record.

Personal life

She attended

Edinburgh Napier University , mottoeng = Without knowledge, everything is in vain , established = 1992 – granted University status 1964 – Napier Technical College , type = Public , academic_staff = 802 , administrative_staff = 562 , chancellor = Will Whitehorn , ...

where she studied Business and Enterprise in Sport. She currently works as a personal trainer.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sinclair, Sophie Living people 1997 births Scottish female curlers Alumni of Edinburgh Napier University Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade Curlers from Edinburgh