Jill Thurston
| Jill Thurston | |
|---|---|
| Curler | |
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| Born |
Jill Staub December 2, 1971 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Team | |
| Curling club |
Granite CC, Winnipeg, MB |
| Career | |
| Hearts appearances | 4 (1999, 2000, 2006, 2010) |
| Top CTRS ranking | 6th (2014-15) |
Jill Thurston (born December 2, 1971) is a Canadian curler. She skipped her own team out of the Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Thurston would represent Manitoba at the 1991 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Her team consisting of Jennifer Jones, Kristie Moroz and Kelly MacKenzie would finish first place in round robin play, with a 10-1 finish. The team would get a bye into the final, however they would end up losing to New Brunswick's Heather Smith.
Thurston was a participant at the 1997 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, which was won by Sandra Schmirler.
She would make her first Scott Tournament of Hearts appearance was in 1999, playing as the alternate for Connie Laliberte. The team finished first place in round robin, with an 8-3 record. They would lose the 1-2 game to Nova Scotia's Colleen Jones. In the semi-final the team would lose to Team Canada's Cathy Borst.
In 2000 Thurston would move to play third for Cathy Overton-Clapham, when Laliberte became pregnant. The team would win the Manitoba provincial, however before Thurston would play in the National championship, Laliberte returned to the team, throwing third and skipping the game, with Overton-Clapham hrowing fourth stones, and Thurston back to alternate. At the 2000 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the team would finish second place with a 9-2 record in round robin play. They lost the 1-2 game to Ontario's Anne Merklinger and lost the semifinal to British Columbia's Kelley Law who would go on to win the tournament. Thurston's next Scott appearance was in 2006, this time playing third for Janet Harvey. The team would finish with a 4-7 record. Thurston would leave the team and take time off from curling at the end of the 2006/2007 season.
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