ALBERTA SCOTTIES CHAMPIONS!
Wow! What a wild ride this week has been, going undefeated and capturing the Alberta Scotties title. We are so incredibly excited to be Team Alberta at the upcoming Scotties Tournament of Hearts in February.
Welcome to the team
@ShannonKleibri1
!
We are excited to have her knowledge, experience & expertise. She won Bronze at the '06 Winter Olympics, competed at 5 Scotties, winning silver in '08, and won the Autumn Gold back when it was a slam (shameless AG plug)!
#welcometotheteam
🌟Welcome Margot as the newest addition to Team Skrlik! 🌟
We are excited to add her experiences & talent to our team and we can’t wait for her to join us in Calgary next season as we chase our dreams! 🥌💪🧹💫
#newlook
#teamskrlik
#curling
#calgary
It was a close first game, but we couldn't quite pull out the win. We learned lots on the ice and are excited to build on that in the next game!
Next game: tonight @ 7:00 pm MST/6:00 pm PST versus Team Saskatchewan.
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
Fought hard till the end, but victory wasn't in the cards this time. This one is going to sting for a bit, but we are proud of our team effort and resilience all week. Here are some photos of us while we were happy 😅
Only 4 days to go until our first game at the Scottie’s Tournament of Hearts. Check out our schedule and put those reminders in your calendars so you don't miss a second of it!
Follow along on our social media and check us out on
@TSNCurling
!
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
🚨 TSN Feature Game 🚨
A win and we are in! We play BC tonight and are looking to secure our spot in playoffs. Let's hear those Alberta cheers loud and proud 📣🎉💙💛.
Catch the action tonight at 630 pm mst/730 pm PST on TSN.
#TSN
#stoh2023
#teamalberta
We are at the
@SandraSchmirler
telethon. Join us in supporting the Sandra Schmirler Foundation to help babies born too soon, too small or too sick. Your donation will help support the purchase of lifesaving equipment for hospitals & NICUs across Canada. Call us at 1-866-210-6011.
All smiles and feeling great with our first win here at the Scotties! Two game day today so time to eat, rest, curl, and repeat!
Next game: tonight @ 7:30 pm MST versus Team Quebec.
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
#stoh2023
Team Announcement!!
We are introducing the new Team Skrlik! We are a competitive women’s team curling out of The Glencoe Club next season.
Skip: Kayla Skrlik
Third: Lindsay Makichuk
Second: Brittany Tran
Lead: Hope Sunley
Stay tuned for more updates to come!
A little Alberta Scotties snapshot with a fun twist. Watch to see the amazing family celebration - we see where the Skrlik's get their energy from! 🎉
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
We are on a roll and riding the vibes! Sitting at 4-2 and have a big two game day tomorrow. Tune in to see how it all shakes out!
Next game: tomorrow @ 9:30 am MST/8:30 am PST versus Team Canada.
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
#STOH2023
National Truth & Reconciliation Day is a time to reflect on the impacts of residential schools. We wear our orange shirts to show support for survivors & their families, to learn & reflect on our history & how to take action to create a better future.
#truthandreconciliation
We went undefeated to get our 3️⃣ event win of the season in Beaumont! 🏆 💪🥇
Short turnaround and we are off to Swift Current this week to cap off our 2023!
#champs
#rolling
#undefeatedorbust
Incredible, amazing, supportive, kind, excited are just a few words to describe the absolute one of a kind community we have surrounding us! THANK YOU to the
@GarrisonCurling
, the staff, members, ice makers, & our friends, family and sponsors who came out to our send off night!
Champions baby!!!!
After a busy October and a weekend off, we came into this weekend feeling excited to defend our title! Alberta Ladies Open repeat champs!! 🏆🥇💪👊🥌
Thank you Okotoks Curling Club for hosting!
Kayla & Ashton participate in the AB Japanese Canadian Bonspiel with their family. Japanese Canadians share a weekend of curling, laughs and culture. This event is a highlight for Kayla and Ashton & we were honoured to have everyone in the bonspiel cheer us on at the Scotties!
This month is Asian Heritage Month & we would like to celebrate our heritage & share our stories with you. This year we made history as the first ever BIPOC majority team at the Scotties and we are extremely proud of the opportunity to be role models for underrepresented groups.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
Kayla & Brit are excited to be adding Selena Sturmay & Ashton Skrlik to the team. Between the 4 players: they have 12 provincial titles, 4 Canadian titles, and Kayla & Selena have skipped against each other 21 times (2 of those times were provincial finals)!
Throwing it back to our curling days as fearless young girls & now reflecting on the remarkable journey that we had and the power of what the sport of curling has done in our lives. We are forever grateful for what the sport has taught us and the friendships we have built from it
Have you tried the
#ChooseToInclude
🍩 yet? Trust us, it’s delicious and 100% of the proceeds go to
@specialocanada
! Amazing way to support our Special Olympic Athletes!
Did you know next year Calgary hosts the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games?!
@TimHortons
@SpecialOCanada
We did it! After a tight game against Team Wang, we are the Medicine Hat Charity Classic champions! We’d like to thank the organizers & volunteers for a great event. A BIG thank you to all our support near & wide for watching us live and on the live stream!
#OnwardsAndUpwards
Introducing our coach for this season, Cori Morris!
Cori comes with an abundance of expertise, an Olympic silver medal, multiple Scottie’s appearances and her own assistant coach, Ellen!
Welcome to the team Cori!
Ladies Alberta Open Champions! 🏆
We had a nail biter against Team Scheidegger in the final & came out with the win!
Thank you to the
@OkotoksCurling
for hosting a great event, to our coaches, sports psych & our family who came out to cheer us on!
#curling
#champs
A huge thank you and shout out to our amazing sponsors! We couldn't compete and achieve our goals without their support!
#thankyou
#sponsorlove
#teamskrlik
Congratulations on
@BrittanyyTran
and
@Slybomb
being selected to represent Alberta in the 2021 Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship!! 💙💛
We can’t wait to finally see you guys rock the blue and gold! We will all be cheering loud and proud!
Curling Alberta announces that
@TeamBottcher
,
@TeamLWalker
, and Team Tran/Sluchinski will represent Team Alberta in their respective categories at the 2021 Hub City in Calgary.
Read the full announcement here:
We also wanted share a bit about ourselves. Brit is half-Vietnamese, half-Caucasian & Kayla & Ashton are half-Japanese, half-Caucasian. One of Brittany’s favorite things to do to share a piece of her culture with friends & family is to make salad rolls. It is a curling staple now
Provincials are finally here!! 💥🥌
We are heading to St. Paul, AB this week to compete against the provinces best and defend our title 💛💙💛💙
Follow along on our socials and watch our games live on the Curling Alberta YouTube page! 📺💻📱
#provincials
#scotties2024
#letsgo
Leduc Kick-off Champions! 🏆
Great battle in our first event of the season against Team Martin in the final! 💪🏻 Congratulations to our friends,
@teamsluchinski
, for winning the men’s side!
Rise and not so shiny! Not quite our morning but we are ready to bounce back for tonight's game. We are playing the home team, so let's hear those big cheers! 📣🙌
Next game: tonight @ 7:30 pm MST versus Team British Columbia.
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
Dropped a tough one last night but we hear everyone cheering loud from near and far - thanks for all your support and energy! We have a day off to recoup and get back at it Monday morning!
Next game: Monday morning @ 8:30 am MST versus Team Nunavut.
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
Started off with a hogline violation, but we swiftly turned it around & came off with a win here at the Alberta Scotties 😂 Thx to our awesome junior for helping us out at opening ceremonies & for giving us an awesome gift 🤗
Next Game:
⏱️ 10am 🆚 Team Richards
#abscotties2024
It was a great day yesterday. We pulled off two wins and are ready to keep it rolling!
Next game: today @ 2:30 pm MST/1:30 pm PST versus Team Prince Edward Island.
#scotties2023
#teamalberta
#stoh2023
We received kind messages & are sharing them with their permission to show the impact it has made.
We encourage you to learn more through research & books from Asian writers like Odori-Darcy Tamayose (the Skrlik's cousin), We Were Dreamers-Simu Liu, Through My Eyes-Vicky Shou.
We are excited to announce that we got the Ab Excel Points spot and the direct berth into the Alberta Scotties !!
This season we set our sights high and have reached many of our goals. We finished the spiel season ranked 33 in the world and got to compete at an event in China!
Today is the day! We are excited to be heading out to
@OkotoksCurling
to kick off the week for the Alberta Scotties.
Check out our schedule and come cheer us on! If you can't make it out you can follow the scores on the
@Curling_Alberta
Website:
🥌 We are back on the ice this weekend in Red Deer and are ready to keep the ball rolling! 🥌
Our first game is at 4:30 pm vs Vaughn/McNamee. It’s a triple knockout, so stay tuned for more updates and follow along on CurlingZone!
#pumpsandpressurereddeerclassic
Your cheque is in the mail! And this has given us a new team goal, which is to clean up our vocabulary out there … or at least stop setting records, even though we are very competitive. 😬🤭
#cursesforkids
#swearjar
My latest newsletter is up, as I talk about all the things I saw at the Autumn Gold Classic from a few impressive performances to some new lineups to the money toss. Take a read!
The Scotties Tournament of Hearts has arrived in Kamloops, BC, from February 17th until the 26th 👏
MR MIKES is a proud partner of
@CurlingCanada
!
We will be rooting for
@team_skrlik
at this incredible event. Let's show 'em how it's done. 🥌🔥
#TeamSkrlik
#STOH2023
We had a pretty good year 😊
Thank you to our sponsors, family and friends for all of the support along the way!
2024 we are coming for you! 💪🥌
#TeamSkrlik2023
#2023recap
#Curling2023
This Christmas holiday, Brittany & Kayla took a break...from women’s curling to compete in mixed doubles provincial playdowns in Cold Lake! Kayla and
@Gregg_Hamilton
qualified on the B side, while Brittany and her partner Aaron Sluchinski won in a C qualifier spot!
A couple weeks ago we picked up our banner and had some fun MCing the
@curlingalberta
awards night! Kayla & Ashton took the goods home for a tour with our sponsors!
Congrats to the champions & award winners - it is well deserved & it was a privilege to celebrate with everyone!
Last Saturday we had the opportunity to get together at
@savillecurl
to have a training day! We can’t wait until our first event in Okotoks starting November 13th!
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Also check out Brittany and Ashton’s amazing sweeping!!
We had a great weekend in Saskatoon. Started off with 3 straight wins against some great teams, but couldn't quite pull it off on Sunday. We learned a lot and are excited for a weekend off.
Thanks to our family & friends for coming out to cheer us on!!
Next up:
@CC_AGCC
We're in Niagara Falls, practice under our belts and ready to rock tomorrow at 10am mst! Swipe to see our schedule for the week.
Stay up to date through linescores on CurlingZone or even better, come check out the falls and catch a game live.
#tourchallenge
#niagarafalls
Today we mourn Indigenous children found in unmarked graves, recognize the history that has taken place, and acknowledge the trauma and pain indigenous people have endured from the residential schools.
What an experience! We had a blast at the 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite. We’d like to thank the efforts of the many organizers, sponsors & volunteers for putting on a great event!
Thank you to our family, friends, and sponsors for all the support! 🇨🇦
Selena was just announced the recipient of the Kathlete Yetman Trophy.
Selena is one of just six student-athletes from Nursing to be an Academic All-Canadian in 2019/20, and is the first ever Pandas Curler to be awarded the Kathlete Yetman Trophy.
1/2
Another close weekend in the books
@CC_AGCC
. We played 7 games and went 4-3, oh so close to qualifying. Next up:
@mhcurlingclub
next weekend!
We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We are so thankful to have the support we do from you all
#onwardsandupwards
We are thrilled to welcome back New West Truck Centres as our title sponsor for Team Skrlik! Together, we’re steering towards victory for another season!
Take a quick tour of their main facility with us and get some insight as to what the company is all about!
#TeamSkrlik
After 7 years, Selena and Kayla have finally said no to battling against each other and joined forces! We hope everyone is staying safe! Stay tuned for some more fun with our team over the summer months 😊
We were finally able to get together for some team bonding a few weeks ago. It was a great day to hang out and get creative with some physical distanced team photos! Can't wait until we meet again and hopefully get on the ice soon ☺️
#newprofilepic
#teambonding
📣 Team Skrlik Update 📣
We would like to share that Selena will be pursuing another opportunity for the upcoming season. We wish Selena the best of luck with her team for next year. Stay tuned for an exciting new roster update from Ashton, Brittany and Kayla soon!
🥌 ✨Good first win! ✨🥌
We get a little rest before our game tmr morning and then back to work 👊🏻
We will be live streaming on our Facebook page for the remainder of the tournament so make sure to tune in!
#teamskrlik
#gsoc
Red Deer recap!
We made our way to the A final but came up short against a hot Team Homan. Rattled off a couple more wins and beat Team Cameron in an extra end to qualify in the B-Final. Unfortunately, our run ended as it didn’t go our way Monday morning against Team Martin.
Training weekend complete! The countdown is on to provincials in t-minus 7 days ⏳
A big thanks to Team Hunkin for a practice game and to Innisfail for providing great ice for it.
#training
#countdown
#provincials2023
When you have fabulous coaches like these, you need to thank them! We are so happy & grateful to have Crystal & Shannon on our squad. They bring a lifetime of knowledge & experience to the team & we can't wait to continue learning from them
#thankful
#nationalcoachesweek
We are pleased to announce we will be a part of the 2020-2021
@Curling_Alberta
Excel Team Program!
We are excited to have access to expert advice during training sessions and game observations with the Excel Coaching Staff, along with support from sport science experts.
We had a strong 2-0 start in Red Deer last weekend. Had a few things not go our way on and off the ice and couldn’t tie together more wins to make it to Monday.
Now we are looking forward to the Leduc - ACS 5, Dec 2-4 to finish off 2022.
#teamskrlik
#curling
A big thank you to Wetaskiwin for hosting an amazing event. Thanks to the volunteers, officials, ice makers, & Curling Alberta for pulling out all the stops & making it one to remember!Thanks to our friends, family & fans for cheering near & far!