Christine Keshen
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Christine Keshen is a Canadian
curler
from Invermere, British Columbia
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Keshen played lead for Team Canada, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink
at the 2006 Winter Olympics
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Keshen joined the team in 2005, and helped them win the Canada Cup of Curling in 2005 and the 2005 Olympic Trials.
At the Olympics, Keshen had the best percentage of any female player at the games with 81% after round-robin play.
Very athletic, Keshen played many other sports while growing up.
Keshen posed nude for Ana Arce
's "Fire on Ice" 2007 Team Sponsorship Calendar to promote women's curling. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/11/08/curling-calendar.html
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
curler
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
from Invermere, British Columbia
Invermere, British Columbia
Invermere is a community in eastern British Columbia, Canada, near the border of Alberta. With its growing permanent population of almost 4,000 , swelling to near 40,000 on summer weekends, it is the hub of the Columbia Valley between Golden, and Cranbrook...
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Keshen played lead for Team Canada, skipped by 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...
at the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...
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Keshen joined the team in 2005, and helped them win the Canada Cup of Curling in 2005 and the 2005 Olympic Trials.
At the Olympics, Keshen had the best percentage of any female player at the games with 81% after round-robin play.
Very athletic, Keshen played many other sports while growing up.
Keshen posed nude for Ana Arce
Ana Arce
Ana Arce is a photographer and former skip of the Andorran national women's curling team. She now plays on the Spanish national team.-Photography:...
's "Fire on Ice" 2007 Team Sponsorship Calendar to promote women's curling. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/11/08/curling-calendar.html