2009 Grey Power Players' Championship | |
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Host city | Grande Prairie, Alberta |
Arena | Crystal Centre |
Dates | April 14-19 |
Men's winner | Randy Ferbey |
Curling club | Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton |
Skip | Randy Ferbey |
Third | David Nedohin (fourth) |
Second | Scott Pfeifer |
Lead | Marcel Rocque |
Finalist | Glenn Howard |
Women's winner | Jennifer Jones |
Curling club | St. Vital Curling Club, Winnipeg |
Skip | Jennifer Jones |
Third | Cathy Overton-Clapham |
Second | Jill Officer |
Lead | Dawn Askin |
Finalist | Shannon Kleibrink |
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The 2009 Grey Power Players' Championship was the last Grand Slam event of both the World Curling Tour and Women's World Curling Tour for the 2008-09 season. This was the seventeenth time the event has taken place, and the fourth time since it was switched to joint men's/women's format. The event was held in Grande Prairie, Alberta April 14-19. Since the event was a part of the Olympic qualifying process in Canada, only Canadian teams were invited. The total purse for each event is $100,000.
Edmonton's Randy Ferbey won the men's event securing a spot for his rink at the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials. [1] On the women's side, Winnipeg's Jennifer Jones rink won their third Players' title. [2]
Skip | WCT $ # | CTRS |
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Ted Appelman | 13 | 14 |
Kerry Burtnyk | 9 | 7 |
Randy Ferbey | 5 | 6 |
Sean Geall | 16 | 12 |
Brad Gushue | 4 | 4 |
Brad Heidt | 18 | 18 |
Glenn Howard | 1 | 2 |
Joel Jordison | 11 | 10 |
Kevin Koe | 7 | 9 |
Kevin Martin | 2 | 1 |
Dale Matchett | 69 | 16 |
Mike McEwen | 8 | 8 |
Wayne Middaugh | 3 | 3 |
Chris Schille | 10 | 13 |
Pat Simmons | 46 | 19 |
Jeff Stoughton | 6 | 5 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 1 | ||||||||||||
Kevin Martin | 9 | |||||||||||||
Pat Simmons | 3 | |||||||||||||
Kevin Martin | 6 | |||||||||||||
Kevin Koe | 5 | |||||||||||||
Kevin Koe | 6 | |||||||||||||
Mike McEwen | 5 | |||||||||||||
Kevin Martin | 5 | |||||||||||||
Randy Ferbey | 6 | |||||||||||||
Brad Gushue | 6 | |||||||||||||
Ted Appelman | 2 | |||||||||||||
Brad Gushue | 3 | |||||||||||||
Randy Ferbey | 6 | |||||||||||||
Randy Ferbey | 6 | |||||||||||||
Chris Schille | 5 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 2 | ||||||||||||
Jeff Stoughton | 7 | |||||||||||||
Dale Matchett | 1 | |||||||||||||
Jeff Stoughton | 2 | |||||||||||||
Wayne Middaugh | 6 | |||||||||||||
Wayne Middaugh | 7 | |||||||||||||
Sean Geall | 3 | |||||||||||||
Wayne Middaugh | 3 | |||||||||||||
Glenn Howard | 7 | |||||||||||||
Kerry Burtnyk | 4 | |||||||||||||
Joel Jordison | 5 | |||||||||||||
Joel Jordison | 2 | |||||||||||||
Glenn Howard | 7 | |||||||||||||
Glenn Howard | 7 | |||||||||||||
Brad Heidt | 4 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 3 | ||||||||||||
Pat Simmons | 5 | |||||||||||||
Mike McEwen | 7 | Mike McEwen | 7 | |||||||||||
Ted Appelman | 6 | Ted Appelman | 5 | |||||||||||
Chris Schille | 3 | Mike McEwen | 8 | |||||||||||
Wayne Middaugh | 2 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 4 | ||||||||||||
Dale Matchett | 4 | |||||||||||||
Sean Geall | 3 | Dale Matchett | 9 | |||||||||||
Kerry Burtnyk | 5 | Brad Heidt | 4 | |||||||||||
Brad Heidt | 7 | Dale Matchett | 1 | |||||||||||
Kevin Martin | 8 |
Semifinals | Qualifier 5 | ||||||||
1 | Kevin Koe | 6 | |||||||
4 | Brad Gushue | 8 | |||||||
Brad Gushue | 5 | ||||||||
Joel Jordison | 4 | ||||||||
3 | Jeff Stoughton | 2 | |||||||
2 | Joel Jordison | 7 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 6 | ||||||||||||
Pat Simmons | 7 | |||||||||||||
Chris Schille | 3 | Pat Simmons | 5 | |||||||||||
Jeff Stoughton | 7 | |||||||||||||
Jeff Stoughton | 6 | |||||||||||||
Dale Matchett | 3 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 7 | ||||||||||||
Sean Geall | 4 | |||||||||||||
Kerry Burtnyk | 10 | Kerry Burtnyk | 1 | |||||||||||
Kevin Koe | 6 | |||||||||||||
Kevin Koe | 6 | |||||||||||||
Wayne Middaugh | 1 |
Semifinals | Qualifier 8 | ||||||||
Ted Appelman | 5 | ||||||||
Brad Heidt | 3 | Ted Appelman | 6 | ||||||
Joel Jordison | 4 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Q2 | Glenn Howard | 7 | ||||||||||||
Q8 | Ted Appelman | 4 | ||||||||||||
Q2 | Glenn Howard | 7 | ||||||||||||
Q3 | Mike McEwen | 1 | ||||||||||||
Q5 | Brad Gushue | 4 | ||||||||||||
Q3 | Mike McEwen | 5 | ||||||||||||
Q2 | Glenn Howard | 7 | ||||||||||||
Q1 | Randy Ferbey | 10 | ||||||||||||
Q1 | Randy Ferbey | 7 | ||||||||||||
Q7 | Kevin Koe | 5 | ||||||||||||
Q1 | Randy Ferbey | 6 | ||||||||||||
Q4 | Kevin Martin | 5 | ||||||||||||
Q4 | Kevin Martin | 7 | ||||||||||||
Q6 | Jeff Stoughton | 5 |
Skip | WCT $ # | CTRS |
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Cheryl Bernard | 4 | 3 |
Michelle Englot | 7 | 6 |
Amber Holland | 24 | 15 |
Rachel Homan | 10 | 13 |
Jennifer Jones | 5 | 5 |
Cathy King | 11 | 9 |
Shannon Kleibrink | 1 | 1 |
Marie-France Larouche | 2 | 2 |
Stefanie Lawton | 3 | 4 |
Marla Mallett | 18 | 10 |
Krista McCarville | 22 | 16 |
Sherry Middaugh | 6 | 7 |
Heather Rankin [lower-alpha 1] | 14 | 12 |
Kelly Scott | 9 | 8 |
Barb Spencer | 17 | 14 |
Crystal Webster | 13 | 11 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 1 | ||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 7 | |||||||||||||
Krista McCarville | 6 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 9 | |||||||||||||
Kelly Scott | 8 | |||||||||||||
Kelly Scott | 7 | |||||||||||||
Cathy King | 5 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 10 | |||||||||||||
Jennifer Jones | 4 | |||||||||||||
Stefanie Lawton | 8 | |||||||||||||
Rachel Homan | 6 | |||||||||||||
Stefanie Lawton | 4 | |||||||||||||
Jennifer Jones | 7 | |||||||||||||
Jennifer Jones | 7 | |||||||||||||
Heather Rankin | 6 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 2 | ||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 9 | |||||||||||||
Barb Spencer | 7 | |||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 10 | |||||||||||||
Michelle Englot | 2 | |||||||||||||
Michelle Englot | 11 | |||||||||||||
Crystal Webster | 7 | |||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 8 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 2 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 6 | |||||||||||||
Marla Mallett | 0 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 8 | |||||||||||||
Amber Holland | 5 | |||||||||||||
Marie-France Larouche | 0 | |||||||||||||
Amber Holland | 6 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 3 | ||||||||||||
Krista McCarville | 9 | |||||||||||||
Cathy King | 2 | Krista McCarville | 5 | |||||||||||
Rachel Homan | 5 | Heather Rankin | 2 | |||||||||||
Heather Rankin | 7 | Krista McCarville | 5 | |||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 4 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 4 | ||||||||||||
Barb Spencer | 4 | |||||||||||||
Crystal Webster | 8 | Crystal Webster | 8 | |||||||||||
Marla Mallett | 9 | Marla Mallett | 7 | |||||||||||
Marie-France Larouche | 7 | Crystal Webster | 5 | |||||||||||
Jennifer Jones | 6 |
Semifinals | Qualifier 5 | ||||||||
1 | Kelly Scott | 6 | |||||||
4 | Stefanie Lawton | 3 | |||||||
Kelly Scott | 8 | ||||||||
Michelle Englot | 7 | ||||||||
3 | Michelle Englot | 5 | |||||||
2 | Amber Holland | 4 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 6 | ||||||||||||
Cathy King | 4 | |||||||||||||
Rachel Homan | 7 | Rachel Homan | 7 | |||||||||||
Amber Holland | 2 | |||||||||||||
Rachel Homan | 7 | |||||||||||||
Crystal Webster | 4 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 7 | ||||||||||||
Barb Spencer | 9 | |||||||||||||
Marie-France Larouche | 2 | Barb Spencer | 7 | |||||||||||
Stefanie Lawton | 5 | |||||||||||||
Barb Spencer | 3 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 8 |
Semifinals | Qualifier 8 | ||||||||
Heather Rankin | 6 | ||||||||
Marla Mallett | 5 | Heather Rankin | 7 | ||||||
Michelle Englot | 5 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 5 | |||||||||||||
Rachel Homan | 3 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 8 | |||||||||||||
Kelly Scott | 3 | |||||||||||||
Kelly Scott | 6 | |||||||||||||
Krista McCarville | 3 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 7 | |||||||||||||
Jennifer Jones | 9 | |||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 4 | |||||||||||||
Heather Rankin | 3 | |||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 4 | |||||||||||||
Jennifer Jones | 8 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 2 | |||||||||||||
Jennifer Jones | 9 |
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