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team meeting between draws helped re-ignite Team Canada when it needed a spark the most. Canadian Athird credited “Auntie Lau- rie” for getting the team back on track. Facing elimination on the final draw of the round-robin at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship, presented by Me- ridian Manufacturing, Canada’s defeated of 9-4. With the victory, Canada advances to the playoffs, while Muirhead is going home without a shot at her second world title. After taking an 11-2 drubbing from Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa hours before, Team Canada gathered in Carey’s hotel room. Among those at the meeting was “Auntie Laurie,” who is really Laurie Hillis, a corporate team dynamics per- son and the best friend of Carey’s mother, Mary. “We had some powerful moments and some swear words and some high-fives and some tears and everything around the block,” Nixon Amy Nixon said. “It was a very powerful moment for our team. Honestly, she (Hillis) made all the dif- ference for us between that game … and showed a ton of leadership in that meet- ing. She basically said, ‘You know what, let’s “Obviously we’d like to be on the podium, the ninth and a runback with her second garbage that, we’re doing this and let’s go out so we will see if we can string together a few to count four and send Scotland packing. and do it.’ She really started turning the tide.” more wins and take care of that. Goal No. 1 “I was thinking I missed it the last end The playoffs are now set. ’s is checked off the list, so it’s a nice feeling.” and I’m not going to miss it again,” Carey Binia Feltscher and Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa Canada controlled play early. Muirhead said. “I had just thrown it so it was the same will meet in the Page 1-2 game tonight at 7 p.m. had to make a delicate double tapback to throw with lots of deep breaths and let your Canada and ’s will play in score one in the second end. A miss would body do what you train it to do when I am at We had some the Page 3-4 game Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. have put Canada up 3-0. In the third end, the rink throwing hundreds of rocks a week.” Feltscher defeated ’s Un Canada had four rocks in the house, forcing It was a disappointing ending for Muir- powerful Chi Gim (5-6) 7-4 Thursday night, while Ja- Muirhead to protect her shot rock as best she head, who lost her last three games, including moments and pan and Russia had byes on the final draw. could. She escaped with Carey counting one. a 10-4 drubbing to Fujisawa earlier Thursday. Both Switzerland and Japan finished with With the score 2-2 playing the sixth end, “It’s hard because we played pretty some swear 9-2 records. Canada and Russia finished at 8-3. Canada made textbook shots around a corner well at the start of the week and we got a Two hours after suffering an 11-2 drub- guard. With her final rock, Muirhead was un- lot of good play going,” Muirhead said. “ words and some bing to Fujisawa, Canada played arguably able to eliminate either Canadian stone, giving “It’s hard to take that we’re out, but we its best game of the week. It couldn’t have Carey a draw for three and ultimately a 5-2 lead. lost the last three games, and at ma- high-fives and come at a better time. Canada hasn’t won the That was the turning point although, as one jor championships you just can’t do that. title since 2008 and hasn’t missed the play- would expect, there was no quit in the Scots. “I missed my last shot in the sixth (when Car- some tears. offs since 1999 in Saint John, N.B., when Muirhead scored one in the seventh with the ey scored three). It comes down to ’s shot didn’t make the top four. hammer and stole one in eighth when Carey’s and it makes you look a bit of a fool. You get ­— Amy Nixon Carey is happy to be in the playoffs. double attempt missed by a millimetre or two. the glory when you win, but when you lose you “That was goal No. 1 for sure,” she said. Carey made a double with her first rock in get the sack because you don’t make the shots.” Guide to the playoffs

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RUSSIA Saturday 3 7 p.m. BRONZE Saturday MEDAL 2 p.m. GAME Sunday CANADA 10 a.m. 4 Eve Muirhead of Scotland goes home empty-handed. Friday, March 25, 2016 Page 3 Going with the flow in Speedy Creek andom thoughts after a week of curling in hospitable ice, still hard at work. They might be at the bottom of the Swift Current. standings, but they have an impact on the final results. n Celebrity sighting on the media bench: broadcaster Mike Rn The final day of round-robin play is sad. It’s always Harris. Can we say where he works, given this is a TSN tough to say goodbye to so many teams. The building seems event? much more alive when all four sheets are being used. n When you stop to think about it, the talent pool in n The Americans women’s curling in Canada gets a bit shallow after Jennifer Japan’s had a slow start, Jones, and Val Sweeting. Chelsea Carey, Satsuki Fujisawa but by the end of who beat Sweeting in the Alberta final, is inching her way is top skip the week, they were toward that group. playing about as n Directional sweeping is bad for the game. at 87 per cent. good as anyone. The n Homan made history last week when she defeated a top- « same can be said ranked men’s team at a Grand Slam event. Homan defeated gets to compete at the worlds. One-game showdowns are a CAM about South Korea. Charley Thomas one-up in a format where games were son of a gun, but they are great television. HutcHinson n Some experts decided on the number of ends won. Thomas is coaching n As the old saying goes, statistics are for losers, but they do picked South Korea Canada at this event. make for interesting reading. The top skip after the 15th draw to be a top-four n A year ago, Jones was asked about playing in a men’s was Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa at 87 per cent. The top third was team. Maybe they event. She dismissed the idea in a heartbeat. Homan’s up- Chinami Yoshida of Japan (90 per cent), the top second was meant Japan. weight game is more suited to play against men’s teams. Victoria Adams of Scotland at 88 per cent and the top lead was n In curling, nice people do finish last. They also finish And it helps that she has the best sweeping combo in the Ji Sun Kim of South Korea at 89 per cent. Not surprisingly, first. That has always been the beauty of the game. women’s game. Japan has the top team score at 87 per cent. Canada was n A person on the media bench, where all world problems n Coaching is clearly having an impact on the game. You shooting 84 per cent as of Thursday afternoon. are solved daily, suggested it might be time to give Asia can get a fairly good sense which teams have full-time n Celebrity sighting No. 2 on the media bench: broadcaster three spots at the worlds and cut Europe back to seven. coaches. It has turned the once have-not curling countries Joan McCusker. Can we say where she works, given this is Food for thought? into haves. Japan and Russia are prime examples here a TSN event? n Coaching is sure different than it was in the olden days. this week. These countries are spending bags of money n One day on the bench, we broke the rule about not After the fans go home, coaches and team alternates are on curling and it’s showing. South Korea has also opened talking politics. It was fun asking a member of the back on the ice with stop watches and clipboards. Everyone a vault in preparation for hosting the Winter Olympics in American delegation about Donald Trump and the rest of is looking for pieces of information, however minute, that 2018. gang running for president. Let’s leave it at that. might give its team an edge. n Erika Brown, skip of the , made a good n Playing 11 games in six days is a grind. It must be n Another impressive thing about late-night practices is point before these worlds began. She said Canada has the difficult to stay sharp mentally. For teams in the playoffs, teams that have been eliminated from play are out on the vast majority of the top teams in the world, but only one the real stressers are about to begin.

We had some powerful mo- ments and some swear words and some high-fives and some tears and everything around the block Page 4 2016 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship Aye, she’s a curler! But there’s lots more going on in Scottish skip Muirhead’s life week at the Credit Union iplex. Muirhead, who was born in Perth, was dripping with potential from the day she first stepped on the ice as a child. And for good reason. She has curling in her blood. Her father Gordon competed for Great Britain at « the 1992 Albertville Olympics in France, when DAVE curling was a demonstration sport, and won KOMOSKY a gold medal for Scotland at the 1999 world championships. Wee Eve picked up her father’s brush. he sports world often presents us with Soon, the championships and accolades began world-class ability, beauty and dogged to follow as she cut a wide swath through the determination. But rarely does it come all game in Scotland. Tin one package. She first burst onto the international scene Then there’s Scottish curler Eve Muirhead, as a precocious 16-year-old in 2007 when she who has perfectly meshed her performance on the claimed the first of her four world junior titles. ice with her wide-ranging talents away from it. Today, she skips one of the best women’s They say you can’t have it all in this world. teams in the world, and proved it by winning Muirhead may not — yet — but she’s pretty a bronze medal for Great Britain at the darn close as she forges ahead with her exciting Olympics in Russia in 2014. life, still only into its 25th year. “Winning bronze has changed my life “My life is crazy busy, but I’d complain if it hugely,” she admits. “I’m able to continue to wasn’t,” says Muirhead, who has brought her be a full-time athlete and train hard. I’ve been Olympic bronze-medal Scottish team (third lucky enough to attend many nice awards , second Vicki Adams and lead Sarah (dinners) and lots of media interest.” Reid) from Scotland to Swift Current for the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship, Continued presented by Meridian Manufacturing, this opposite page Eve Muirhead sometimes plays bagpipes at her own curling events.

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But her Olympic medal, Scottish and she admits. “I’ll always do as much as I can to European championships and other on-ice help any charity. It was fun.” curling accomplishments are just part of the There are other exhibits in the case Big Picture. There is much, much more going of Muirhead’s rich and well-rounded life. on in her life. She grew up on a farm and has sheared Consider this: many sheep. She is a certified personal Muirhead is Scottish to the very core, trainer. She loves rock music and although she admits she’s half English. She says Canada’s Nickelback is her plays the bagpipes, and very well. So well, favourite band. She’s a huge in fact, she has competed in international supporter of Scottish soccer’s competitions, and was the ambassador for the St. Johnstone Saints. She world’s largest piping festival, Piping Live!, has two tattoos and once in 2010. She even pipes at some of her own sported bright, pink hair. curling events. Muirhead wouldn’t “I’ve been playing the bagpipes since I was be human if there a child, and I love it,” says Muirhead, who is was not some a member of the Pitlochry & Blair Atholl Pipe adversity in her Band. “I still do a little bit of piping. It’s always life. And there is. a good gig for friends’ weddings and things like She suffers from that, but yeah, I can still play the pipes.” celiac disease, As well as she throws a rock, she hits the golf an autoimmune ball with equal precision. Muirhead, a scratch disorder of the golfer, was offered golf scholarships by two U.S. small intestine. universities, but turned them down. It’s under control, “I had to decide if I wanted to pursue my but she admits curling or golf,” she says. “I knew if I chose it’s been a “pain”. to go to America and give golf a go I wouldn’t “So many be able to curl at a top level. I knew I had a places cater for fantastic opportunity in curling. gluten-free diets “I’ll never know if I made the right now so it’s getting decision or not.” easier and easier to She prefers to play golf socially and closer deal with,” she says. to home, preferably at the Pitlochry Golf “Unfortunately I have Course, where she holds the course record. no choice in it. But Muirhead has an innocent, yet radiant I’m good. Everything’s beauty. It has not gone unnoticed. Following perfect right now.” the 2010 Olympics in , she was She’s still single and invited to model in New York at the Dressed is waiting for that special to Kilt! Show, a famed fashion and cultural man in her life. But there’s no celebration of all things Scottish, hosted by Sir hurry, and the day will come, she Sean and Lady Connery. believes, when curling is put on “That was good fun,” Muirhead says. hold as she deals with a steady stream She has also posed with a Scottish saltire of boisterous children on the cusp of (St. Andrews Cross) over her chest for a bedtime. Eve Muirhead women’s curling calendar. The flag was all that Right now it’s curling, and a lot of it, as almost pursued maintained her modesty. she continues to cement her name in the sports “It was for charity and such a great cause,” world. a career in golf.

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Alt.: Susan O’Connor Coach: Charley Thomas Formal name: Dominion of Canada Local name: Canada Local formal name: Dominion of Canada Location: North America Status: UN member country Capital City: Ottawa Main cities: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax Chelsea Carey Population: 35,160,000 Area: 9,997,140 sq. km Currency: 1 Canadian dollar = 100 cents SKIP Languages: English, French, many others Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant Age: 31 Born: Winnipeg CANADA AT THE WORLDS Residence: Calgary Last five years: Marital status: Single 2015: (9-2 silver) Children: None 2014: Rachel Homan (10-1 silver) Employment: Starving curler looking for 2013: Rachel Homan (8-3 bronze) work 2012: (7-4 bronze) Strong likes: Sports, cars, lake life 2011: Amber Holland (7-4 silver) Dislikes: Losing at anything, bad drivers, Last championship — 2010 Jennifer Jones mushrooms, disrespectful people World titles — 15 Favourite food: French fries are my kryptonite Favourite drink: Coffee is generally my first motivation for getting out of bed in the morning Three words that describe you: Intel- ligent, perfectionist (to a fault), eloquent Other life interests: Sports, the lake (family cabin at Lake of the Woods, On- tario), water sports, golf, fitness, travel.

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Through the lens t t Team Russia’s Denmark’s Lene Nielsen Alexandra Raeva either lost something and Nkeiruka on the ice or really Ezekh take the didn’t like her last shot. prize for most intense sweepers. t Japanese skip t Satsuki Fujisawa has reason to be Team South happy. Korea’s Seul Bee Lee and Min Ji Um sweep a rock home.

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SKIP Age: 25 Born: Moscow Lives: Moscow Family: Single Years curled: 11 Years on team: 6 CC Moskvitch Occupation: Student Moscow Hobbies: Driving my car, reading, Alt.: Alina Kovaleva dancing Coaches: Svetlana Kalalb, Most memorable sporting Rodger Schmidt achievement: 2015, 2014 world Formal name: Russian Federation bronze medallist Local name: Rossiya Delivers: Right Local formal name: Rossiyskaya Feder- Languages spoken: English, Russian atsiya Highlights: Olympic Winter Games: Location: Europe/Asia 2014 at Sochi, Russia, 3-6 overall (as Status: UN member country Capital City: Moscow (Moskva) skip). Main cities: St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Nizhny Novgorod Population: 149,476,000 Area: 17,075,000 sq. km Currency: 1 ruble = 100 kopeks Language: Russian Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, Buddhist RUSSIA AT THE WORLDS Last five years: 2015: Anna Sidorova (8-3 bronze) 2014: Anna Sidorova (8-3 bronze) 2013: Anna Siorova (6-5) 2011: Anna Sidorova (4-7) 2010: Anna Sidorova (6-5)

Margarita Fomina Alexandra Raeva Nkeiruka Ezekh THIRD SECOND LEAD Age: 27 Age: 23 Age: 32 Birthdate: Aug. 19, Birthdate: August 20, Born: Moscow 1988 1992 Lives: Moscow Born: Dmitrov, Russia Born: Moscow Family: Single Lives: Moscow Lives: Moscow Years curled: 19 Family: Single Family: Married Years on team: 14 Years curled: 15 Years curled: 13 Occupation: Curler Years with team: 8 Years with team: 3 Hobbies: Photography Occupation: Curler Occupation: Curler Delivers: Right Hobbies: Journalism Hobbies: Swimming Languages spoken: English, Russian Delivers: Right Most memorable sports achievement: Languages spoken: English, Russian Highlights: Olympic Winter Games: 2014 2015, 2014 World bronze medallist at Sochi, Russia (3-6, as alternate for Anna Highlights: Olympic Winter Games: 2014 Delivers: Right Sidorova); 2010 at Vancouver, BC, 3-6 at Sochi, Russia, 3-6 overall (as third for Languages spoken: Russian overall (as second for Liudmila Privivikova); Anna Sidorova); 2010 at Vancouver, BC, Highlights: Olympic Winter Games: 2014 2006 at Pinerolo, Italy, 5-4 overall (as third 3-6 overall (as alternate for Liudmila at Sochi, Russia (3-6, as second for Anna for Liudmila Privivkova); 2002 at Ogden, Privivkova). Sidorova). Utah, 1-8 overall (as third for Olga Jarkova). Page 16 2016 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship CURLING QUIZ Have you ever considered a career with Stark & Marsh CPA LLP? We are currently seeking a 1. Match the curler with her quali ed 3-5 year experienced individual to join our Technical Services Department as occupation: designated CPA or as an Accounting Technician in Swift Current, SK. We are a progressive and competitive organization, but also understand the importance of a healthy work environment Forensics civil and a balance in life. We value our down-to-earth culture and ability to have fun and are always agent looking for new team members that can do the same. Architect 4. If you need a piano player for your Darcy Congdon is our Director of Operations and he would be happy to discuss any interests Irena Shori Industrial you may have in joining our team. house party, this is the curler you designer want to call: Lene Nielsen Insurance a) German lead Pia-Lisa Schoell. << I’ve been with Stark & Marsh for underwriter b) Canadian lead Laine Peters. seven years and haven’t looked back. c) Scottish lead . The opportunity that this firm has given me 2. True or false: Curling is the d) Finland lead Marjo Hippi. to learn and grow has been extraordinary. >> official sport of Saskatchewan. Conrad Funk 5. This world championship curler CPA, CA, Manager 3. U.S. skip Erika Brown is married was a competitive dancer until the to this former world champion: age of 19: Darcy Congdon a) Ian Tetley. Director of Operations a) Chelsea Carey. b) Ed Werenich. b) Erika Brown. c) Randy Ferbey c) . d) Jeff Stoughton. d) Maria Prytz. << We offer accounting services for personal,

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