Kelsey Rocque
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| Born |
March 25, 1994 Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta |
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| Curling club |
Saville SC, Edmonton, AB |
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| Skip | Kelsey Rocque | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Third | Laura Crocker | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Second | Taylor McDonald | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lead | Jen Gates | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other appearances | WJCC: 2 (2014, 2015) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Top CTRS ranking | 6th (2015-16) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Kelsey Elizabeth Rocque (born March 25, 1994) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. She is a two-time World Junior champion skip.
In 2013, Rocque played for her first University Championship, at the 2013 CIS/CCA Curling Championships in Kamloops, British Columbia, for the University of Alberta Pandas. There, she would go 6–1 in the Round Robin and it would earn her a spot in the Semi Finals. She then, would play the Saint Mary's Huskies and win in an 8–2 decision. She would then go on to play in the final against the Manitoba Bisons and lose in a 9–7 decision. Rocque would win the silver medal, and be named to the First All Star team at the skip position. Rocque would also play in the Alberta Junior Curling Championship that year. They went 6–1 in the Round Robin which gave them a berth in the final. There they would lose to Karynn Flory.
In 2014, Rocque and her team of third Keely Brown, second Taylor McDonald, lead Claire Tully and coach Amanda-Dawn Coderre competed once again in the Alberta Junior Curling Championship and this time they would win, with a 6–5 win over 2012 Canadian Junior champion Jocelyn Peterman. This earned them the right to represent Alberta at the 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Rocque went undefeated in her Round Robin Pool which gave her a playoff berth. She went 9-1 in the playoffs with her only loss coming at the hands of Nova Scotia's Mary Fay. This meant that Rocque and her team would go directly to the final, where they would face British Columbia's Kalia Van Osch. Rocque and her team led the entire game and had an inturn hit for the win and the championship. They won in a 7–6 decision. Rocque was named to the First All Star team at the skip position, with a player percentage of 79 throughout Round Robin play. At the 2014 World Junior Curling Championships, Rocque finished the Round Robin with a 7–2 record, losing only to Russia and South Korea. Rocque would again face South Korea in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff, but this time would win in a 7–6 decision. Rocque and her team would play South Korea again in the final, but would win in a 6-4 decision to capture the Gold medal and the championship. This would be the first time a Canadian Women's team would win the championship since 2003.
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