The Best Canadian Female Curling Players This Season

For many people, curling is a sport they only remember even exists once every four years, when the Winter Olympics roll around, and they realize it’s actually a fascinating game to watch. If you happen to be one of those people, it’s worth bearing in mind that there are entire championships dedicated to this sport that happen away from the winter games.

While Olympic gold may be the pinnacle of a curlers career, these players work – harder than many soccer players to become the best in their country before they can even consider international representation. And, whether you are a curling novice or enjoy watching the sport yourself, we thought it was worth giving some attention to the best female curlers currently playing.

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Including some names from right here in Saskatchewan, such as the first name in the list Robyn. This is a rundown of the best players around right now and a recognition of their achievements, as well as a look at what some of these players could yet go on to achieve.

If you’re looking for some post-World Cup sports betting in Saskatchewan, these names are well worth getting to know as we look towards the future Olympics and – before that – to 2023’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts at Kamloops’ Sandman Center.

Robyn Silvernagle

Hailing from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Robyn Silvernagle first came to public prominence for Brett Barber and Brenda Goertzen before, in 2015, skipping her own team for the first time.

During her early career as a skip, Robyn was not blessed with a great deal of luck, losing to Penny Barker in 2017 and then – in a heartstopping extra-end finish – to Sherry Anderson in the 2018 Saskatchewan Scotties finals.

By 2019, she and her team had accumulated enough heartbreak and – more importantly – big-match experience and won the following two finals before Covid hit in 2021 and canceled the finals for that year. Aged just 35, Robyn has taken time away from the rink recently as she has started a family but plans to return to the rink in 2023.

Kerri Einarson

Einarson is the reigning women’s national champion in the sport, winning in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and along with that incredible run, she has a long and impressive history in the sport.

She won her first provincial title as part of a mixed team in 2010, aged just 23 – no mean feat in a sport that prizes experience. Even before that, she was skipping her own women’s curling teams, and that is something that she had continued to do.

So far this year, Einarson – who curls out of Gimli, Manitoba – has picked up a bronze in the World Curling Championship as part of Canada’s women’s team and repeated that feat in the Pan-continental Championships. In the future, Olympic representation is very much on the cards for a curler who, even if she retired today, would have quite the roll of honor.

Penny Barker

Durability is a highly-prized quality in the sport of curling, and so Penny Barker’s provincial titles in the Scotties mark her out as a key Saskatchewan curler, having won in both 2017 and earlier this year. At the Scottie’s Nationals, she narrowly missed out on the Championship round after clocking up a 4-4 record in the round robin earlier this year. But she will be back in 2023 and putting up as strong a fight as she has always done.

Curling out of Moose Jaw, Barker has built up a career to be reckoned with over more than a decade, and her influential partnerships with Christie Gamble and Danielle Sicinski will make her a favorite when it comes to the 2023 Scotties Provincial. And could 2023 be the year when Team Barker makes the step up to the Championship round? It could well be.

If you haven’t watched domestic team curling outside of an Olympic year, now might be the time to start. The action is generally more frantic than at the big international tournaments, and once you’ve watched the players above (along with their teams) and others, you’ll look forward to the Olympics in an entirely different way.

But you’ll always want to come back to the Scotties and other domestic tournaments to see where the national teams find their stars of the future.

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