CHAMPION: Rocque Wins 2015 World Junior Curling Championships

SKIP
Kelsey
Rocque

Third
Danielle
Schmiemann

Second
Holly
Maschmeyer

Lead
Jesse
Marlow

Kelsey Rocque (Edmonton, CAN) won 8-2 over Gina Aitken (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the World Junior Curling Championships, held February 28 - March 8, 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia.

Rocque finished 9-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rocque defeated Alzbeta Baudysova (Prague, CZE) 8-1, then won 7-3 against Cory Christensen (Blaine, USA) and 10-3 against Evgeniy Demkina (Moscow, RUS). Rocque won 4-2 against Isabella Wrana (Sundbyberg, SWE), then won 6-2 against Hetty Garnier (Kent, ENG) and 9-2 against Aitken. Rocque won 8-2 against Marie Turmann (Tallinn, EST), then won 4-3 against Switzerland's Lisa Gisler and 7-1 against Korea's Eun Bi Kim in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Junior Curling Championships Championship title, Rocque earned 8.000 world rankings points. For week 28 of the event schedule, Rocque did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Rocque ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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