Lori Olson-Johns
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| Born |
Lori Olson November 24, 1976 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Team | |||||||||||||
| Curling club |
Saville Community SC, Edmonton, AB |
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| Skip | Valerie Sweeting | ||||||||||||
| Third | Lori Olson-Johns | ||||||||||||
| Second | Dana Ferguson | ||||||||||||
| Lead | Rachelle Brown | ||||||||||||
| Alternate | Sarah Wilkes | ||||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||||
| Hearts appearances | 3 (2005, 2006, 2015) | ||||||||||||
| Grand Slam victories | 1 (2016 GSOC Tour Challenge) | ||||||||||||
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Lori Olson-Johns (born November 24, 1976) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. She currently plays third for the Valerie Sweeting rink out of the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton.
Olson-Johns is a three time Alberta junior champion. Her first national experience was playing second stones for Rhonda Sinclair at the 1992 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. The team would finish round robin with a 7-4 record, finding themselves in a tiebreaker. They would end up losing the tiebreaker to Quebec's Janique Berthelot. In 1995 Olson-Johns would return to the championships, playing third for Jodi Lee. The team finished round robin with a 5-6 record. Her final junior appearance was at the 1997 Canadian Juniors, this time playing third stones for Kristie Moore. The team had a rough go, finishing round robin with a 3-9 record.
In 1998 Olson-Johns participated in her first Alberta Women’s Provincial Championships, returning again in 1999 and 2000.
Olson-Johns continued to compete in Alberta Women’s Provincial Championships but did not see success until 2005, when she played third for skip Cathy King. They won the Alberta championship and went on to the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts, where they finished the round robin at 6-5, and lost the first of two tie breakers to Ontario's Jenn Hanna. Her team once again won the 2006 and finished with a 6-5 record, this time not qualifying for a tie breaker. In 2009 playing third for Calgary’s Crystal Webster, Olson-Johns participated in the Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials, where they were the first women’s team to qualify for the Olympic Trials, however they would only finish with a 2-5 record.
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