2008 Trail Appliances Curling Classic

The 2008 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic
Autumn Gold Curling Classic
The Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic is the very first Grand Slam event of the season on the Women's World Curling Tour. It is held annually on the Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. The first Autumn Gold Classic was held in 1978, and at the...

was held October 10-13 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

. It was the first Grand Slam event of the 2008-09 Women's World Curling Tour.

Teams

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Rank	Home city
Sherry Anderson Sherry Anderson Sherry Anderson is a Canadian curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan.Anderson has been to five Scott Tournament of Hearts, four as a skip. Her first Scotts were in 1994 when her team lost in the semi-final. Anderson returned the following year, but finished out of the playoffs at 6-5...	Kim Hodson	Heather Walsh	Donna Gignac	NR	Saskatoon Saskatoon Saskatoon is a city in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. Residents of the city of Saskatoon are called Saskatonians. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344....
Ève Bélisle Ève Bélisle Ève Bélisle is a Canadian curler and amateur ornithologist from Montreal. She is employed at the Center for Reseatch in Computational Thermochemistry at École Polytechnique....	Brenda Nicholls	Martine Comeau	Julie Rainville	12	Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final....	Susan O'Connor Susan O'Connor Susan O'Connor is a Canadian curler from Alberta. She currently plays third for Cheryl Bernard.O'Connor is a Respiratory Therapist at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta...	Carolyn Darbyshire Carolyn Darbyshire Carolyn Darbyshire-McRory is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She played second for Cheryl Bernard from 2005-2011.Darbyshire joined the team in 2005 after playing for Renelle Bryden...	Cori Bartel Cori Bartel Corinne "Cori" Morris is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She played lead for Cheryl Bernard from 2005 to 2011....	14	Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Allison Earl	Shannon Nimmo	June Campbell	Sheri Pickering	35	Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Michelle Englot Michelle Englot Michelle Englot ; is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan...	Deanna Doig	Roberta Materi	Cindy Simmons	NR	Regina Regina, Saskatchewan Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
Diane Foster	Glenys Bakker Glenys Bakker Glenys Bakker is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Bakker played second for Shannon Kleibrink's bronze medal winning team at the 2006 Winter Olympics....	Jennifer Coutts	Lisa Otto	NR	Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Cathy Auld Cathy Auld Cathy Auld is a Canadian curler from Toronto.Auld currently skips one of the top women's curling teams in Ontario.Auld was a long time member of the Alison Goring rink. Auld played third for the team until 2006 when she was promoted to last rock thrower when Goring moved to throwing lead rocks...	Cheryl McPherson	Jennifer Issler	Alison Goring Alison Goring Alison Goring is a Canadian curler.Goring is a former Canadian champion skip, having won the 1990 Scott Tournament of Hearts. She was also a successful junior curler, having won the 1983 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.Goring won her first provincial championship in 1990... *	NR	Thornhill Thornhill, Ontario Thornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...
Brittany Gregor	Lindsay Blyth	Lindsay Reid	Katrine Fisette	NR	Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Amber Holland Amber Holland Amber Holland is a Canadian curler. Holland skipped Saskatchewan's team to a national women's championship in 2011 by defeating defending champion Jennifer Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts...	Kim Schneider Kim Schneider Kim Schneider is a Canadian curler from Kronau, Saskatchewan. She currently plays third for Amber Holland.Schneider grew up in the small village of Kronau, Saskatchewan outside of Regina...	Tammy Schneider Tammy Schneider Tammy Schneider is a Canadian curler from Kronau, Saskatchewan. She currently plays second for Amber Holland.Schneider grew up in the small village of Kronau, Saskatchewan outside of Regina...	Heather Seeley	NR	Kronau Kronau, Saskatchewan Kronau is a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of 209 in the Canada 2006 Census....
Kristy Jenion	Karen Klein	Theresa Cannon	Jillian Sandison	NR	Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (curler) Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...	Cathy Overton-Clapham Cathy Overton-Clapham Cathy Overton-Clapham is a Canadian curler...	Jill Officer Jill Officer Jill Officer is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Officer plays second for the 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion teams skipped by Jennifer Jones. She currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her husband Devlin Hinchey.Officer has played with Jones since...	Dawn Askin Dawn Askin Dawn Askin is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays lead for Jennifer Jones....	NR	Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
Cathy King Cathy King Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...	Lori Olson	Raylene Rocque	Tracy Bush	19	Edmonton Edmonton Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
Megan Kirk	Jodi Marthaller	Nicole Jacques	Lace Dupont	35	Lethbridge Lethbridge Lethbridge is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada, and the largest city in southern Alberta. It is Alberta's fourth-largest city by population after Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer, and the third-largest by area after Calgary and Edmonton. The nearby Canadian Rockies contribute to the city's...
Shannon Kleibrink Shannon Kleibrink Shannon Kleibrink is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy...	Amy Nixon Amy Nixon Amy Nixon is a Canadian curler. At the age of four she moved with her family to Regina, Saskatchewan, where she grew up. She moved to Calgary in 1995, where she now resides. Nixon is an alumnus of the University of Calgary with three degrees in kinesiology, women's studies and law...	Bronwen Webster	Chelsey Bell	1	Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Stefanie Lawton Stefanie Lawton Stefanie Lawton is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. After an appearance at the 1997 Canadian Junior Championships, she would go on to win the 2000 Championships with the help of her team of sister Marliese Miller , Stacy Helm and Amanda MacDonald . At the worlds that year, she...	Marliese Kasner Marliese Kasner Marliese Kasner is a Canadian curler from Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. She plays lead for her sister, Stefanie Lawton.-Career:Kasner is a two-time Canadian Junior Champion, having won the title in 2000 playing third for her sister, and winning it in her own right as skip in 2003...	Sherri Singler	Lana Vey Lana Vey Lana Vey is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan.Vey had no prior national championship experience when she was picked up to play third for Jan Betker for the 2006-07 season to replace Joan McCusker...	NR	Saskatoon Saskatoon Saskatoon is a city in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. Residents of the city of Saskatoon are called Saskatonians. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344....
Christina Cadorin	Colleen Madonia*	Janet Murphy	Kate Hamer	NR	Mississauga
Moe Meguro Moe Meguro is a Japanese curler, born November 20, 1984 in Sorachi District, Hokkaidō.- History :Moe Meguro won her first medal at the international level at the 2004 Pacific Curling Championships winning the gold medal. She played lead under skip Yumie Hayashi....	Mari Motohashi Mari Motohashi is a Japanese curler, born June 10, 1986 in Tokoro District, Abashiri Subprefecture, Hokkaidō.- History :Motohashi was a member of Team Aomori which was selected to represent Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics . At the 2006 Games she threw Second under skip Ayumi Onodera. She also competed with Team...	Mayo Yamaura Mayo Yamaura is a curler from Aomori, Japan.Mayo Yamaura made her debut at a major curling competition at the 2008 World Championships in Vernon, Canada. She threw second stones...	Kotomi Ishizaki Kotomi Ishizaki is a curler from Japan.Kotomi Ishizaki currently throws Lead stones for skip Moe Meguro.She made her World Championship debut at the 2003 Winnipeg World Championships playing lead for Shinobu Aota's team from Japan...	NR	Aomori Aomori, Aomori is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of Japan. As of 2009, the city had an estimated population of 302,068 and a density of 366 persons per km². Its total area was 824.52 km².- History :...
Sherry Middaugh Sherry Middaugh Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....	Kirsten Wall Kirsten Wall Kirsten Wall is a Canadian curler from Oakville, Ontario.In 1995 she won the provincial junior curling championship as a skip earning her team the right to represent Ontario at the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships...	Kim Moore Kim Moore Kimberly Moore is a Canadian curler from St. Catharines, Ontario. Moore currently plays second for Sherry Middaugh....	Andra Harmark	15	Coldwater
Heather Nedohin Heather Nedohin Heather Nedohin is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. She is a former Canadian and World Junior champion, Scott Tournament of Hearts Champion and a World bronze medalist...	Kristie Moore Kristie Moore Kristie Moore is a Canadian curler. She was the alternate player on the Canadian women's team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was five months pregnant at the time, making her only the third Olympic athlete to be pregnant during Olympic competition... *	Beth Iskiw	Pam Appelman	48	Edmonton Edmonton Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
Jill Mouzar Jill Mouzar Jillian Mouzar [pronounced MOW-zer] is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently plays lead for Kirsten Wall's Oakville, Ontario rink.Mouzar started curling in Liverpool, Nova Scotia...	Heather Smith-Dacey Heather Smith-Dacey Heather Smith-Dacey is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia....	Kristen MacDiarmid	Teri Lake Teri Lake Teri Lake is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently plays lead for Heather Smith-Dacey...	NR	Halifax
Karen Porritt	Janice Blair	Susan Baleja	Alison Harvey	NR	Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
Ludmila Privivkova Ludmila Privivkova Liudmila Andreyevna Privivkova is a curler from Russia....	Olga Jarkova Olga Jarkova Olga Nikolayevna Jarkova is a Russian curler.Jarkova has been curling for Russia internationally since 1999, when she threw fourth stones for Nina Golovtchenko at the World Junior Challenge where they won silver. She threw third stones that year at a disappointing last place finish in the World...	Nkeiruka Ezekh	Ekaterina Galkina Ekaterina Galkina Ekaterina Vladimirovna Galkina is a curler from Russia.At the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, she was part of Ludmila Privivkova's team...	NR	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
Heather Rankin Heather Rankin Heather Rankin is a Canadian curler currently residing in Alberta.While living in Nova Scotia, Rankin won the provincial junior championships in 1984 and would skip the Nova Scotia team at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships...	Lisa Eyamie	Heather Moulding	Kyla MacLachlan	8	Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Julie Reddick Julie Reddick Julie Reddick is a Canadian curler from Oakville, Ontario.Reddick is a three time provincial junior champion, and a Canadian mixed champion....	Jo-Ann Rizzo	Leigh Armstrong	Stephanie Leachman	18	Brantford
Kelly Scott Kelly Scott Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...	Jeanna Schraeder Jeanna Schraeder Jeanna Schraeder is a Canadian curler from British Columbia. She currently plays third for Kelly Scott....	Sasha Carter Sasha Carter Sasha Carter also known as Sasha Bergner, is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia. She currently plays second for Kelly Scott....	Renee Simons Renee Simons Renee Simons is a Canadian curler.Playing lead for Kelly Scott, Simons won the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, a bronze medal at the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship and a gold medal at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship...	5	Kelowna Kelowna Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...
Renée Sonnenburg	Nikki Smith	Twyla Bruce	Cary-Anne Sallows	24	Grande Prairie
Barb Spencer	Darcy Robertson	Brette Richards	Barb Enright	NR	Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
Kaileigh Straith	Kristen Williamson	Leslie Wilson	Raunora Westcott	NR	Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
Liu Yin Liu Yin (curler) Liu Yin is a Chinese curler from Harbin. She plays third on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu.Liu has played internationally for China since 2002, when she was an alternate on the team at the Pacific Curling Championships when she had only been curling for two years.In 2004, she...	Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu is a Chinese curler. She is the skip of the national team, and throws last rocks.-Curling career:Wang began curling in 2001. By 2004, she played in her first international event- skipping the Chinese team at the World Junior B Curling Championships... *	Yue Qingshuang Yue Qingshuang Yue Qingshuang is a Chinese curler. She currently plays second on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu....	Zhou Yan Zhou Yan (curler) Zhou Yan is a Chinese curler. She plays lead for the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu.Zhou curled in her first tournament after having only curled for 2 years, at the 2002 Pacific Curling Championships. At that time she played third for the team...	2	Harbin Harbin Harbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...
Crystal Webster Crystal Webster Crystal Webster is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Webster skips one of the top teams in Alberta, but due to the depth in the province, she has been unable to get out of the province to the Canadian national championships.In 2009, Webster was the first qualifier at the Canadian Olympic...	Desirée Owen Desirée Owen Desirée Owen is a curler from Grande Prairie, Alberta.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 in the semi-final....	Samantha Preston	Stephanie Malekoff	23	Grande Prairie
Georgina Wheatcroft Georgina Wheatcroft Georgina Wheatcroft is a Canadian curler.Wheatcroft made her Scott Tournament of Hearts debut in 1987 as a third for Pat Sanders. Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1985 for British Columbia...	Stephanie Jackson	Niki Hatter	Kristen Windsor	NR	New Westminster
Faye White	Karalee Swab	Michelle Ries	Cindy Westgard	35	Edmonton Edmonton Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

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