Megan Balsdon

Megan Balsdon (born May 10, 1982 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from London, Ontario. She currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour.

Career

In 1998, Balsdon won the Ontario Bantam Mixed championships playing third for skip Bobby Reid.[1] In 2001, she won the Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships playing third for Carrie Lindner.[2] The team represented Ontario at the 2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, finishing with an 8-4 round robin record. The team would place third after losing to Prince Edward Island's Suzanne Gaudet in the semifinal game.[3]

After juniors, Balsdon joined the Kelly Cochrane rink, playing third for Cochrane until 2006. Balsdon then re-united with Lindner as her third, winning the 2006 Shorty Jenkins Classic, their first World Curling Tour event together. The team would play in two Grand Slam events, the 2007 Wayden Transportation Ladies Classic and the 2008 Sobeys Slam. Balsdon and Lindner added Julie Reddick as their skip in 2011, with Balsdon throwing second stones. The team won the 2012 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau. Balsdon remained as a member of the Reddick rink until forming her own team in 2014. Balsdon would make it to her first Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts as a skip in 2015. At the 2015 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, she and her rink of Jessica Corrado, Stephanie Corrado and Laura Hickey finished in last place, with a 2-7 record.

Personal life

Balsdon works as a biomechanical engineer. She attended York Mills Collegiate Institute and the University of Guelph. She is the sister of 2014 Ontario Tankard champion Greg Balsdon.[4]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.ontcurl.com/competitions/past-champions.aspx?id=560
  2. ↑ https://www.ontcurl.com/competitions/past-champions.aspx?id=538
  3. ↑ http://www.curling.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Juniors_Women_2001.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/15/familiar-house-for-curler-sherry-middaugh

External links

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