Team Kleibrink

The 38th International Berner Damen-Cup is on right now, January the 13th to 15th 2006 Bern, Switzerland.

Shannon and the rest of Team Kleibrink are competing!

Canada 1 (aka TEAM KLEIBRINK)
Shannon Kleibrink (Skip)
Amy Nixon, Glenys Bakker, Christine Keshen, Sandra Jenkins

Canada 2
Jennifer Jones (Skip)
Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Georgina Wheatcroft

You can see the schedule .. HERE .. and see all the current results … HERE

Jan 13, 2006 - Schedule and Results of Team Kleibrink (Canada 1)

GAME A-01 / Jan 13, 2006 8:00

(7) CANADA 1 [vs] ZUERICH-GC JUN (3)

Canada 1
Shannon Kleibrink (Skip), Amy Nixon, Glenys Bakker, Christine Keshen, Sandra Jenkins

Zuerich-GC Jun.
Marlene Albrecht (Skip), Gioia Oechsle, Bigna Oechsle, Patrizia Bonomo, Ronia Pleisch

GAME A-17 / Jan 13, 2006 12:30

(8) CANADA 1 [vs] BERN INTER (2)

Canada 1
Shannon Kleibrink (Skip), Amy Nixon, Glenys Bakker, Christine Keshen, Sandra Jenkins

Bern Inter
Carmen Kueng (Skip), Corinne Bourquin, Yvonne Schlunegger, Laurence Bidaud, Vera Reid

GAME A-25 / Jan 13, 2006 17:45

(2) CANADA 1 [vs] LIMMATTAL 1 (6)

Canada 1
Shannon Kleibrink (Skip), Amy Nixon, Glenys Bakker, Christine Keshen, Sandra Jenkins

Limmattal 1
Carmen Schaefer (Skip), Janine Greiner, Jacqueline Greiner, Emilie Mattille

Jan 13, 2006 - Schedule and Results of Team Jones (Canada 2)

GAME A-15 / Jan 13, 2006 10:15

(9) CANADA 2 [vs] BERN JUNIORINNEN (6)

Canada 2
Jennifer Jones (Skip), Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Georgina Wheatcroft

Bern Juniorinnen
Michèle Jaeggi (Skip), Anita Jaeggi, Nicole Schwaegli, Isabel Kurt

GAME A-24/ Jan 13, 2006 15:30

(1) CANADA 2 [vs] FLIMS PUREPOWER (8)

Canada 2
Jennifer Jones (Skip), Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Georgina Wheatcroft

Flims PurePower
Mirjam Ott (Skip), Binia Beeli, Valeria Spaelty, Michèle Moser

GAME B-14 / Jan 13, 2006 20:00

(2) CANADA 2 [vs] RUSSIA 1 (10)

Canada 2
Jennifer Jones (Skip), Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Georgina Wheatcroft

Russia 1
Liudmila Privivkova (Skip), Olga Zharkova, Yana Nekrasova, Ekaterina Galkina, Nkeiruka Ezekh

WEEKEND SCHEDULE

Sa. 14.01.2006 / 08:00 / Rink 7 / B 21 / Canada 1 : Russia 1
Sa. 14.01.2006 / 10:45 / Rink 2 / C 12 / Norway 2 : Canada 2

then playoffs…

There was an article from the London Free Press that mentioned both Team Canada Men (Team Gushue) and Team Canada Women (Team Kleibrink)

http://www.curlingblog.com/2006/01/gold-or-bust-for-curlers/

… The main threats for Kleibrink include Sweden’s reigning world champion Anette Norberg and Great Britain’s Olympic gold-medallist Rhona Martin.
… Kleibrink beat Olympic-bound Cassie Johnson of the U.S. 11-4 in an exhibition game during the BDO Classic Open semifinals and will compete at a cashspiel in Bern, Switzerland this month. Her foursome will also play in the Canada Cup.

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CurlTV is broadcasting the Kleibrink vs Johnson game at 1:00pm on Sunday January 8, 2006

CurlingZone.com - Everything Curling! - Kleibrink, Johnson join fellow Olympians at Classic

Chris Cariou / Winnipeg Free Press

(Jan 3, 2006) — WINNIPEGGERS were already going to be seeing four past or present Olympic teams competing at this week’s $100,000 BDO Curling Classic at MTS Centre. Now they’re going to be seeing two more.

Classic organizers announced yesterday that Canada’s Shannon Kleibrink and Cassie Johnson of the United States — who will represent their countries at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, next month — will play a tuneup exhibition game on MTS Centre ice while the Classic semifinals are taking place on Sunday.

Team Kleibrink and Curling Blog will be watching!

Newfoundland’s Brad Gushue, who defeated Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton in the final of the Canadian men’s Olympic curling trials in Halifax recently, will also represent Canada in Turin and he’s entered in the Classic along with former Olympic foursomes Pal Trulsen of Norway (gold medal in 2002), Edmonton’s Kevin Martin (silver in 2002) and Pete Fenson of the U.S.

Johnson, based in Bemidji, Minn., won the world junior women’s championship in 2002. Both she and Kleibrink’s Calgary foursome are to be on hand at a press conference tomorrow at the Children’s Hospital that is also to include Martin, Gushue, Stoughton and Winnipeg’s Dave Nedohin, who throws skip’s rocks on Randy Ferbey’s Edmonton team.

Johnson, 24, told the Free Press from Bemidji last night that after winning the 2002 world juniors and playing against the likes of Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones last winter at the 2005 World Women’s Championship, it’s been quite a couple of years for her young foursome.

“We’re very excited,” said Johnson, whose team also won the silver medal at the 2003 World Juniors in Switzerland. “We’re quite a young team for the U.S. just having come out of juniors a couple of years ago. We’ve really improved since 2002 and coming into the women’s ranks.”

“We’re looking forward to this game. It’ll be just great practice for both sides in preparing for the Olympics.”

The women’s game will be played alongside the 2 p.m. semifinals slated for Sunday. The final game for the BDO Classic — one of four Grand Slam events on the Ultima World Curling Tour — is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday night. Both the semifinals and final are to be televised live by Sportsnet.

Fifteen of the world’s top men’s teams are competing at the Classic, with all proceeds going to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. Among the big-name curlers registered are Trulsen, Martin, Ferbey, Stoughton, Gushue, defending Manitoba champion Randy Dutiaume, Winnipeg’s Ryan Fry, Calgary’s John Morris and Glen Howard.

Ontario’s Wayne Middaugh had been slated to compete but he has withdrawn and has been replaced by Pierre Charette of Quebec. Tickets for the Classic are still available at Ticketmaster.

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The ChronicleHerald.ca - Curling champ has baby in tow

Curler Glenys Bakker holds her four-month-old daughter. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)

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By KRISTEN LIPSCOMBE
Staff Reporter

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
Friday December 16, 2005

Tucked snuggly inside her baby carriage, four-month-old Sara Marie Bakker slept peacefully Saturday at the Halifax Metro Centre, unaware that on the ice down below the Olympic dreams of her mother’s curling team were about to come true.

It seems mother-of-two Glenys Bakker can do it all — from helping her Calgary-based squad secure themselves a spot in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games to nursing her new baby mid-match.

Mrs. Bakker, 43, likely took a lesson from her own mother, Faye Kindt, who watched anxiously as her daughter helped Team Kleibrink edge Kelowna’s Team Scott 8-7 in the final of the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials, while keeping a close eye on her happily snoozing granddaughter.

“The hubbies and the team members have been helping and have been a wonderful support,” Ms. Kindt said of how Mrs. Bakker, now on maternity leave from her job as a legal assistant, has successfully been juggling motherhood and a blossoming curling career.

“I’ve been travelling with her all fall and it’s been an exciting experience for me.

“The baby’s been just a real treasure.”

“She’s just been a bit of soul — she eats and sleeps and changes her pants and she’s set,” Ms. Kindt said with a chuckle.

Although Mrs. Bakker’s busy life “takes a lot of working at it,” Ms. Kindt said the baby and 2-and-a-half-year-old Ryan Glen “have been good kids” and are extremely proud of their mom.

And now all the family members of skip Shannon Kleibrink’s squad have reason to be ecstatic for their hardworking loved ones — they’re headed to Torino, Italy, in February to represent Canada.

More than 8,000 curling fans filled the seats to see which team would win that much sought after trip to the Olympics, an attendance number called “remarkable” by the president of the event’s host committee. The support for the event is especially incredible considering the heavy snowfall dumped on Nova Scotia overnight Friday, Graham Harris said.

“There were quite a number of volunteers that couldn’t get in because power has been out all night,” Mr. Harris said Saturday. “The weather played havoc with us for sure.”

Mr. Harris said although Team Kleibrink may have come out on top Saturday, all the ladies who participated in The Roar of The Rings this year “have raised the bar” for curlers across the country.

“When you look at the field that’s here for this week, there’s not one weak one amongst them,” he said. “They’re playing very well.”

Mr. Harris said this week’s Canadian Curling Trials will be “the largest attended curling function in Atlantic Canada,” with upwards of 160,000 people taking in curling over the course of this week. That number will break attendance records set by the Halifax Nokia Brier in 2003.

Ada and Sam Waye of Jeddore watched in anticipation as the finals unfolded but they weren’t cheering for anyone in particular.

In true maple leaf spirit, the cheerful couple was decked out in matching red and white jackets, eager to watch Canada’s elite athletes in action.

Mr. Waye said curling is one of the few sports where each and every fan will sing O Canada beforehand and pick up their garbage afterwards, out of respect for each other and their sport.

His wife agreed wholeheartedly.

“It’s really one of the finest games in all of the sports,” Mrs. Waye said with a smile.

“Curling is the one game where every fan cheers for every shot, no matter who makes it.”

( klipscombe@herald.ca)

© 2005 The Halifax Herald Limited