Local curlers qualify for Olympic trials
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Prince Albert’s Sherry Just and Shellbrook’s Marliese Kasner have a real shot at fulfilling their Olympic dreams.
They will both be competing at the Canad Inn Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials, to be held in Portage La Prairie, MB. Jan. 2 – 7.
Just said she is feeling pretty excited.
“It’s been on my to-do list to play in for the last couple years so I’m excited that I have a chance to go now,” she said.
Just will be playing alongside Kelowna’s Tyrel Griffith in Pool A. Griffith was originally scheduled to play with Emma Miskew but Griffith was forced to find a new partner after Miskew was victorious at the 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings and qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the four-player women’s event.
Just said she reached out to Griffith when she heard he needed a new partner.
“He plays on Team Morris and same with Catlin Schneider and Caltin Schneider plays mixed doubles with Nancy Martin and I’m like best friends with Nancy Martin so through that connection is how I was able to contact him, she said.
Just competed against Griffith in Winnipeg this past summer at a Mixed Doubles event but have no competition experience as a team. She said she is confident their styles will meld well together.
“Our communication styles are pretty similar and we are both pretty positive and emotioinally neutral on the ice so that should work well for us” she said.
Meanwhile Shellbrook’s Marliese Kasner will competing in Pool B with her partner, Saskatoon’s Dustin Kalthoff.
Kasner practices and coaches in Shellbrook, but plays out of the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon. She told paNOW she was focused on staying loose and relaxed and was trying not to think too much about qualifying for the Olympics.
“Just the experience to be at the trials, the atmosphere is going to be a bit more tense,” she said.
