Laura Crocker

Laura Crocker (born November 19, 1990) is a Canadian curler originally from Scarborough, Ontario but currently residing in Edmonton, Alberta. She is a two-time Canadian University champion, a national junior champion, and a World Junior silver medalist. Crocker currently throws third for Team Kesley Rocque

Career

Junior and University

Crocker began her junior curling career as a skip. In 2008, her Scarboro Golf & Country Club rink made it to the provincial junior championships where her team finished with a 2–5 record.^[1] In 2010, Crocker was invited to join the Rachel Homan junior rink at the second position. The team's regular second, Alison Kreviazuk, was too old to play in juniors that season (but played with the team in World Curling Tour events). The rink would win the provincial championship and the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, and would then make it to the final of the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships where they lost to Sweden. The following season, Crocker and lead Lynn Kreviazuk joined up with the Clancy Grandy junior rink. With Grandy, Crocker won her second straight provincial championship but finished with a 5-7 record at the 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, missing the playoffs.

While Crocker was finding success with her junior career, she also found success representing Sir Wilfrid Laurier University as a university curler. Crocker won the 2011 CIS/CCA Curling Championships defeating Brock University in the final. In her final year at Laurier, Crocker would repeat her championship, winning in the final of the 2012 CIS/CCA Curling Championships against Brock once again. Crocker graduated that year from Laurier with a BA in Psychology.

Women's (2012-present)

Following the 2011–12 season, Crocker and teammates Sarah Wilkes and Jenn Gates moved from Ontario to curl out of Edmonton, Alberta where they were joined by Albertan Rebecca Pattison. Crocker played in her first WCT Grand Slam event at the 2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, where her team lost in the quarter-finals. At the second Grand Slam of the season, the Crocker rink repeated that success by finishing in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic. However at the next Slam, the 2012 Colonial Square Ladies Classic her team would miss out at the quarters, by losing in the round of 16. At the 2012 Masters Grand Slam of Curling, the rink went 0-5. The team qualified for the 2013 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Crocker's first provincial women's championship appearance. The team began the tournament with four straight victories, but lost both of their playoff games. To wrap up the season, the Crocker rink made it to the quarter finals of the 2013 Players' Championship.

To start the 2013-14 curling season, the Crocker team played in both the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2013 Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women's Classic, failing to make the playoffs in either event.

Effective as of March 11, 2014, the team announced that Chelsea Carey would take over as skip of the team. Crocker would move to third and Gates would remain at lead. Wilkes has left the team. Taylor McDonald has been recruited to play second for the team.

References

↑ "Scarborough teams in provincial playdowns". 8 January 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2012.

External links

Laura Crocker on the World Curling Federation database

Laura Crocker on the World Curling Tour database

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