Kerri Einarson

Kerri Einarson
Curler
Born	Kerri Flett (1987-10-03) October 3, 1987 Selkirk, Manitoba[1]
Team
Curling club	East St. Paul CC, East St. Paul, MB
Skip	Kerri Einarson
Third	Valerie Sweeting
Second	Shannon Birchard
Lead	Briane Meilleur
Career
Hearts appearances	2 (2016, 2018)
Top CTRS ranking	4th (2017-18)
Grand Slam victories	1 (2016 Boost National)
Medal record Curling Representing  Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts 2018 Penticton

Kerri Einarson (born October 3, 1987 as Kerri Flett) is a Canadian curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba.^[2]

Career

Einarson is a two-time provincial mixed champion. She won her first provincial mixed title in 2010, playing third for Dave Boehmer. The team represented Manitoba at the 2010 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, where they lost in the tiebreaker match. At the 2013 provincial mixed (played in 2012), Einarson played third for Terry McNamee and won her second provincial mixed title.

Einarson also skips her own team on the women's World Curling Tour. After playing third for Jill Thurston in the 2011–12 curling season, she once again skipped her own rink.^[3] In her first season as a skip, she finished second in the 2012 Atkins Curling Supplies Women's Classic.

Einarson scored a rare eight-ender in her first round robin game of the 2015 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts against Tiffany McLean. It was the first time a team scored an eight-ender in recorded Manitoba Scotties history.^[4]

Einarson's first Tour event win as a skip was at the 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge, where she finished first in the tier 2 event and won a spot at the 2015 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling where she would lose to Val Sweeting in the semi finals. Einarson would make it to two more semifinals at Grand Slams that season. That year Einarson would also win her first provincial championship, qualifying her team of Selena Kaatz, Liz Fyfe and Kristin MacCuish to represent Manitoba at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. There, she led her province to a 7-4 round robin record, qualifying the team to the playoffs. In the playoffs however, she would go on to lose both games, settling for fourth place.

The next season, Einarson won her first Grand Slam event, the 2016 Boost National. Her next tour event win was at the 2017 Icebreaker at The Granite. Two weeks later she won the 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 2 event. While she didn't win any more events that season, she made it to the finals in two Grand Slams, losing to Jennifer Jones at the 2017 Masters of Curling and to Rachel Homan at the 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup. Einarson's team had a disappointing showing at the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, where she lost in a tie breaker. However, her team amassed enough tour points over the season to play in the first ever Scotties Tournament of Hearts wildcard game against the higher ranked Chelsea Carey rink. Einarson beat Carey for the right to represent the new "Team Wildcard" at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. There, she went on a roll, going 9-2 in round robin pool, to finish in a three-way tie for first. In the playoffs she lost to Jennifer Jones' team Manitoba in the 1 vs. 2 game, beat Nova Scotia in the semifinal, and then lost to Jones again in the final. Despite a successful season, the Einarson team would split up.

For the 2018-19 curling season, Einarson would form a new team of Valerie Sweeting, Shannon Birchard and Briane Meilleur, all former skips.^[5] They began the season by winning four straight World Curling Tour events in three weeks: the 2018 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, the inaugural Morris SunSpiel, and the Mother Club Fall Curling Classic^[6], and in October they won the Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Classic.^[5]

Personal life

Einarson is employed as a Betel Home Foundation Rehabilitation Aide. She is married to Kyle Einarson and has two children.^[2]

Grand Slam record

Teams

References

External links

• Kerri Einarson on the World Curling Tour database
• Kerri Einarson on the CurlingZone database
• Kerri Einarson on Twitter