Desirée Owen (née Robertson) is a curler from

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) ...

Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...

Career

Owen won two provincial junior titles- in 2003 and in 2005. At the 2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, her Alberta team lost to Saskatchewan's

Marliese Kasner Marliese Kasner ( Miller; born January 8, 1982, in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. She is a former member of her sister Stefanie Lawton's team. Career Kasner is a two-time Canadian Junior Cham ...

(then Miller) in the semi-fina

2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, In 2005, her team posted an undefeated record after the round robin, but ended up losing to New Brunswick's Andrea Kelly in the fina

Owen played third for

Crystal Webster Crystal Rumberg, better known as Crystal Webster (born February 26, 1975, in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently coaches and is the alternate on Team Kayla Skrlik. Career Juniors Webster made her n ...

until she took the 2009-10 curling season off to have a baby. She did however play for the team as an alternate at the

2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials The 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials were held December 6–13, 2009 at Rexall Place in Edmonton. The event is also known and advertised as ''Roar of the Rings''. The winner of the men's and women's events represented Canada at the 2010 Wint ...

Owen now skips her own team. While Owen has never played at the Tournament of Hearts, she has had some success on the Women's

World Curling Tour The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and Doubles curling, mixed doubles curlers in the world. History The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later ass ...

. Her first bonspiel win was the DEKALB Superspiel in 2009 with Webster. She has made it to two Grand Slam finals. In 2006, she lost to

Kelly Scott Kelly Scott (born June 1, 1977 in Winnipeg, Manitoba as Kelly Lynn Mackenzie) is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia. Career 1995–2005 Scott won the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships and the 1995 World Junior Curling ...

at the 2006 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic. She made it to the final at the same event in 2010 as a skip, but lost again, this time to China's

Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu (; ; born October 7, 1984, in Harbin, Heilongjiang; usually referred to in the media as Bingyu "Betty" Wang) is a People's Republic of China, Chinese curling, curler. In 2009, she became the first non Northern American or European ...

External links

Team Website
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