- Georgina Wheatcroft
Georgina Wheatcroft (born
November 30 ,1965 inNanaimo, British Columbia as Georgina Hawkes) is a Canadian curler.Wheatcroft made her
Scott Tournament of Hearts debut in 1987 as a third forPat Sanders . Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at theCanadian Junior Curling Championships in 1986 for British Columbia. At the1987 Scott Tournament of Hearts , Sanders, Wheatcroft and their British Columbia team won the Hearts defeatingKathie Ellwood in the final. At the World Championships that year, the team won the gold medal defeatingGermany 'sAndrea Schöpp in the final. In 1988 Wheatcroft played second for Sanders and they lost in the final toHeather Houston . In 1989, Wheatcroft moved to Julie Sutton's team, and they also qualified for the Hearts. However at the Hearts, they would lose in their first playoff game. Wheatcroft would not go back to the Hearts until 2000.In
2000 , Wheatcroft played second forKelley Law 's rink. With Law, Wheatcroft won that year's Scott Tournament of Hearts andWorld Curling Championships . The team were runners up at the following2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts where they lost toColleen Jones . The following year the team qualified for the2002 Winter Olympics as team Canada. The team won the bronze medal.In 2004, Wheatcroft skipped her own team to the
2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts , but her new team finished 4-7. She attempted to qualify the following year, but lost in the British Columbia playdowns. In 2005, she was picked up by that year's Hearts champion Jennifer Jones to replaceCathy Gauthier , and she moved toWinnipeg, Manitoba to play with the team. She was added prior to that year's Olympic trials. However the team had a 5-4 record at the trials. Wheatcroft had the opportunity to play in the2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts , because Jones had won it the previous year, and thus got to play in 2006 as Team Canada. The team lost in the final toKelly Scott of British Columbia.2006 saw Wheatcroft return to playing with Kelley Law, as her third. In 2007, the team made their way back to the national championship, now called the Scotties Tournament of Hearts after winning the B.C. Provincial championship on January 28, 2007 with her new team. At the
2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts , they finished with a 5-6 record.In 2008, she once again formed her own team.
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