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Georgina Wheatcroft

Canadian curler

Summary

Canadian curler

Field	Value
name	Georgina Wheatcroft
gender	F
birth_name	Georgina Hawkes
birth_date
birth_place	Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Curling club	Royal City CC, New Westminster
Grand Slam victories	1 (2006 Players' Championship)
Hearts appearances	8 (1987, 1988, 1989, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007)

Georgina Wheatcroft (born November 30, 1965, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, as Georgina Hawkes) is a Canadian curler. She won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics while on Kelley Law's team.

Curling career

Wheatcroft made her Scott Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national championship, debut in 1987 as a third for Pat Sanders. Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1985 for British Columbia. Sanders, Wheatcroft, and their British Columbia team won the 1987 Scott Tournament of Hearts, defeating Kathie Ellwood in the final. At the World Championships that year, the team won the gold medal defeating Germany's Andrea Schöpp in the final. In 1988 Wheatcroft played second for Sanders at the Tournament of Hearts and they lost in the final to Heather Houston. In 1989, Wheatcroft moved to Julie Sutton's team and again qualified for the Tournament of Hearts, where they would lose in their first playoff game. Wheatcroft would not go back to the Hearts until 2000.

In 2000, Wheatcroft played second for Kelley Law's rink. With Law, Wheatcroft won that year's Scott Tournament of Hearts and World Curling Championships. The team were runners up at the following 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, where they lost to Colleen Jones. The following year the team qualified for the 2002 Winter Olympics as Team Canada. The team defeated Team United States to win the bronze medal.

In 2004, Wheatcroft skipped her own team to the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts, but her new team finished 4-7. She attempted to qualify the following year, but lost in the British Columbia playdowns. In 2005, she was picked up by that year's Hearts champion Jennifer Jones to replace Cathy Gauthier, and she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, to play with the team. With her new team, Wheatcroft played in that year's Olympic trials; the team finished with a 5–4 record. Wheatcroft had the opportunity to play in the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts because Jones had won it the previous year, and thus got to play as Team Canada. The team lost in the final to Kelly Scott of British Columbia.

2006 saw Wheatcroft return to playing with Kelley Law, as her third. In 2007, the team made their way back to the national championship, now called the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, after winning the B.C. Provincial Championship. At the Scotties they finished with a 5–6 record.

In 2008, she once again skipped her own team and qualified for the 2009 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Grand Slam record

Event	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Autumn Gold	DNP	Q	Q	Q
Manitoba Lotteries	QF	Q	DNP	DNP
Wayden Transportation	Q	Q	QF	DNP
Sobeys Slam	N/A	Q	DNP	DNP
Players'	SF	DNP	DNP	DNP

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second
Georgina Hawkes	Christine Stevenson	Tracey Barwick	Deb Massullo
Pat Sanders	Georgina Hawkes	Louise Herlinveaux	Deb Massullo
Pat Sanders	Louise Herlinveaux	Georgina Hawkes	Deb Massullo
Julie Sutton	Pat Sanders	Georgina Hawkes	Melissa Soligo
Kelley Law	Julie Skinner	Georgina Wheatcroft	Diane Nelson
Kelley Law	Julie Skinner	Georgina Wheatcroft	Diane Nelson
Kelley Law	Julie Skinner	Georgina Wheatcroft	Diane Nelson
Kelley Law	Julie Skinner	Georgina Wheatcroft	Diane Dezura
Georgina Wheatcroft	Diane McLean	Shellan Reed	Diane Dezura
Georgina Wheatcroft	Diane Gushulak	Kristen Recksiedler	Mila Hockley
Jennifer Jones	Cathy Overton-Clapham	Jill Officer	Georgina Wheatcroft
Kelley Law	Georgina Wheatcroft	Shannon Aleksic	Darah Provencal
Colleen Jones	Georgina Wheatcroft	Kate Hamer	Darah Provencal
Georgina Wheatcroft	Steph Jackson	Kristen Windsor	Niki Hatter
Georgina Wheatcroft	Steph Jackson	Sarah Wark	Kristen Windsor

References

{{cite Sports-Reference. link
"World Curling Championships 1987: Tournament details".
"Georgina Wheatcroft Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com".

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