Valerie Sweeting

Valerie Sweeting
Curler
Born	(1987-07-09) July 9, 1987 Redvers, Saskatchewan
Team
Curling club	Saville SC, Edmonton, AB
Skip	Valerie Sweeting
Third	Lori Olson-Johns
Second	Dana Ferguson
Lead	Rachelle Brown
Alternate	Sarah Wilkes
Career
Hearts appearances	3 (2010, 2014, 2015)
Top CTRS ranking	2nd (2014-15)
Grand Slam victories	2 (Masters, 2014; Tour Challenge, 2016)
Medal record Women's curling Representing  Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts 2014 Montreal 2015 Moose Jaw

Valerie "Val" Sweeting (born July 9, 1987 in Redvers, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Vegreville, Alberta. Sweeting skipped Alberta to a silver medal at the 2014 and 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Career

Sweeting grew up in Maryfield, Saskatchewan. In 2007, Sweeting played third for Hailey Surik's junior rink out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.. The team represented Saskatchewan at the 2007 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. After posting an 8-4 record, they lost to Manitoba in a tie-breaker match.

After juniors, Sweeting moved to Alberta where she would form her own team with Megan Anderson at third, Carly Quigley at second and Whitney Eckstrand at lead. In 2010, in her very first provincial championship, Sweeting surprised many by defeating former World championship bronze medalist Cathy King and Olympic bronze medalist Shannon Kleibrink to capture the provincial crown. She would be the youngest skip ever to represent Alberta at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts. At the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, she skipped her province to a 4-7 record.

Sweeting played in her first Grand Slam event later in the season. Ranked 44th going into the 2010 Players' Championships, she won three straight games after losing to Kleibrink, qualifying her for the playoffs. She would however lose in the quarter final to Stefanie Lawton.

After the 2009-10 season, Sweeting re-jigged her team's lineup adding Leslie Rogers at third, replacing Quigley. The team had a less eventful season in 2010-11, including winning just one game at the 2011 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts. After the season, Sweeting brought in a new front-end of Joanne Courtney and Rachelle Pidherny. The team improved on the year before, including finished in fourth place at the 2012 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Following the season, Sweeting added Dana Ferguson at third position, replacing Rogers.

In the 2012-13 season, Sweeting's rink narrowly missed the playoffs at the 2013 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but the team was able to gain enough CTRS points to qualify for the 2013 Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials. The team was one of the qualifiers in the event, giving them the right to play in the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials. At the trials, Sweeting led her rink to a 3-4 record, failing to qualify for the playoffs. Also in the 2013-14 season, the rink had two quarter final appearances at Grand Slams, at the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2013 Colonial Square Ladies Classic. Sweeting continued her success that season by going undefeated at the 2014 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where her team beat Cheryl Bernard in the final. Sweeting then represented Alberta once again at the national championships, the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. At the Hearts, Sweeting led Alberta to an 8-3 finish following the round robin. This put her into the playoffs where she had to beat Saskatchewan's Stefanie Lawton and Manitoba's Chelsea Carey to get to the final. She did this successfully, but lost to Ontario's Rachel Homan 8-6 to win the silver medal.

Personal life

Sweeting is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan. She is currently a service delivery agent at the Case Processing Centre Vegreville. ^[1]

Grand Slam record

Former events

External links

• Valerie Sweeting on the World Curling Tour database

References