Julie Hastings
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Julie Hastings is a Canadian
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 Markham, Ontario
Markham, Ontario
Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...

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Hastings is a semi-successful skip on the Women's World Curling Tour
World Curling Tour
The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

 circuit. Her team won the Brampton Bacardi Cashspiel in 2005 and the Sun Life Invitational in 2007.

Hastings' team finished third at the 2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts will be the 2009 edition of the Ontario provincial women's curling tournament. It will be held January 26-February 1 at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Ontario...

 and out of the playoffs at the 2010 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
2010 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2010 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts will be the 2010 edition of the Ontario provincial women's curling championship. It was held January 4–10 at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The winning team will represent Ontario at the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in...

 with a 4-5 record.

Hastings played in her first Grand Slam
Capital One Grand Slam of Curling
The Capital One Grand Slam is a series of curling bonspiels and are a part of the annual World Curling Tour. Grand Slams tend to offer the most amount of money out of all the bonspiels in the curling season, and usually feature the best teams from across Canada and around the World...

 event at the 2010 Players' Championships
2010 Players' Championships
The 2010 Grey Power Players' Championship was the last Grand Slam event of both the World Curling Tour and Women's World Curling Tour for the 2009-10 season. This was the eighteenth time the event took place, and the fifth time since it was switched to joint men's/women's format. The event was held...

. After winning her first game, she lost three straight, eliminating her team.

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