2017 Winter Universiade Curling: Gold for Canada’s Kelsey Rocque
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“It’s kind of a surreal feeling,” said second Taylor McDonald, who plays with Rocque on her women’s World Curling Tour team. “We knew what we were doing out there. I’m very confident in my three teammates and our coach. I’m so happy to have this gold.”
“I couldn’t ask for better people to have standing beside me,” said vice-skip Danielle Schmeimann, whose strong hitting ability played a big role in the win. “It was a really good week of tough competition and it feels really good to pull it off.”
“I can’t even express how proud I am of these girls,” added Coderre. “They worked really hard all week. Just to see the smiles on their faces, it’s just great. There’s probably going to be a little celebrating going on later today.”
Sweden’s Isabella Wranaa, who is coached by former Team Rachel Homan second, Alison Kreviazuk, won the bronze medal after defeating Switzerland’s Briar Huerlimann, 6-3.
2017 (Almaty, Kazakhstan): Women gold (Kelsey Rocque)
2015 (Granada, Spain): Women silver (Breanne Meakin)
2013 (Trentino, Italy): Men bronze (Brendan Bottcher)
2009 (Harbin, China): Women silver (Hollie Nicol)
2007 (Turin, Italy): Women gold (Brittany Gregor)
2003 (Tarvisio, Italy): Men gold (Mike McEwen) / Women silver (Krista McCarville)
About the Winter Universiade
The Winter Universiade is a biennial international multi-sport event open to competitors who are at least 17 and less than 28 years of age as of January 1 in the year of the Games. Participants must be full-time students at a post-secondary institution (university, college, CEGEP) or have graduated from a post-secondary institution in the year preceding the event.
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