CHAMPION: Sweeting Wins 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1

SKIP
Val
Sweeting

Third
Lori
Olson-Johns

Second
Dana
Ferguson

Lead
Rachel
Brown

Val Sweeting (Edmonton, AB) won 8-4 over Michelle Englot (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1, held November 8 - 13, 2016 in Cranbrook, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Sweeting won 9-2 over Allison Flaxey (Caledon, ON) in the semifinals of the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Cranbrook, British Columbia; and won 7-5 over Tracy Fleury (Sudbury, NONT) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Cranbrook, British Columbia;

Sweeting finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sweeting lost 7-5 to Sherry Middaugh (Coldwater, ON), then responded with a 9-3 win over Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Sweeting won 6-5 against Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB), then won 6-3 against Alina Paetz (Zurich, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1 Championship title, Sweeting earned 80.114 world rankings points along with the $20,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 4th place overall with 513.526 total points. Sweeting ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 166.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2024: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Dawn McEwen, Krysten Karwacki
Gimli, MB
2023: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Karlee Burgess, Emily Zacharias, Lauren Lenentine
Winnipeg, MB
2022: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes
Ottawa, ON
2019: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Mabergs
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2017: Val Sweeting
Val Sweeting, Lori Olson-Johns, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Edmonton, AB
2016: Val Sweeting
Val Sweeting, Lori Olson-Johns, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Edmonton, AB
2015: Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Tirinzoni, Manuela Siegrist, Esther Neuenschwander, Marlene Albrecht
Aarau PwC, SUI

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