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The Cardiac Kids of Curling

By Casey Leger was enough to earn a berth at
EOSSAA.
he Cardiac Kids. That’s
Twhat St. Joseph’s Panthers At EOSSAA, the Panthers
varsity girls curling coach handily downed both Kingston’s
La Salle team and a Pembroke
Sylvain Girard calls his young
rink. St. Joe’s broke new ground team. They mounted a comeback
from 7-0 deficit to lose to Perth’s
in girls curling this February
with a silver medal in the SDG St. John team 11-10 in an extra
finals and a bronze medal finish end. They lost a final game to
the eventual champions, VCI.
at EOSSAA. “They’re exciting
to watch,” says Coach Girard. Girard, who has only been
“Curling is an incredibly curling for two years himself,
competitive sport at the high has high praise for his athletes
school level,” he adds. and high hopes for the future.
“The girls are well balanced,” he
From the first, the Panthers
seemed to be curling at a says, “and each has something to
disadvantage. There isn’t a offer the team. Girls curling has
single senior student on the team, a bright future at St. Joe’s.”
they are the only rink with a skip As for the girls themselves,
who is in grade 9, and this is the the experience was a great one.
first season that the girls played Grade 9 skip Rhiannon Beckstead Left to right: Keltey, Kyra, Anna, Rhiannon, and Coach Girard
together. However, none of that has 6 years of curling under her Photo Submitted
kept them from earning a second broom and hopes to one day play Morris, both in grade 10 have says Keltey. Anna MacFarlane,
place finish in SDG. They in the Scotties Tournament of two and three years experience who is in grade 10 and curls
lost to perennial powerhouse Hearts. She curls in Morrisburg each and are also Morrisburg with the Cornwall Curling Club,
curlers North Dundas District and Kemptville. Lead Keltey curlers. “It’s cool to be the first
High School, but second place McCooey and second Kyra girls team to place at EOSSAA,” rounds out the quartet at third.

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Mikaela Coleman

School: St. Joseph’s Catholic Secondary
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Grade: 10
Age: 16
Hometown: Monkland
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Mikaela’s favourite class is mathematics.

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