Christina Black

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Christina Black
Born (1987-10-21) October 21, 1987 (age 36)
Team
Curling club Dartmouth CC
Dartmouth, NS
Skip Christina Black
Third Jenn Baxter
Second Karlee Everist
Lead Shelley Barker
Alternate Carole MacLean
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Nova Scotia.svg  Nova Scotia
Hearts appearances5 (2015, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023)
Top CTRS ranking 8th (2022–23)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Nova Scotia.svg  Nova Scotia
Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Penticton

Christina Black (born October 21, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. [1] She currently skips her own team out of the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

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Career

Black joined Team Mary-Anne Arsenault for the 2014–15 season at third. The team, along with second Jane Snyder and lead Jennifer Baxter, won two tour events early in the season, the Dave Jones Molson Mayflower Cashspiel and the Gibson's Cashspiel. [2] They also won the 2015 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, qualifying them for the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Black's first. There, the team finished in seventh place with a 5–6 record. In 2016, Jennifer Crouse joined at second when Snyder left the team. A few seasons later, they won the 2018 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts and won a bronze medal at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. [3] Later that year, the team won the 2018 New Scotland Clothing Ladies Cashspiel. [4]

The Arsenault rink began the 2019–20 season by winning the 2019 Curling Store Cashspiel. [5] The team won the provincial Scotties again in 2020, and represented Nova Scotia at the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with new lead Emma Logan. The team finished pool play with a 4–3 round robin record, in a tie with British Columbia's Corryn Brown rink. They lost to British Columbia in a tiebreaker, failing to advance.

In 2020, Arsenault announced she was moving to British Columbia. [6] Black formed a new rink as skip with Baxter at third and front end Karlee Jones and Shelley Barker. In their first event together, the team won the 2020 Curling Store Cashspiel. [7] The 2021 Nova Scotia Scotties was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nova Scotia, so the Nova Scotia Curling Association appointed Team Jill Brothers to represent the province at the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Team Black would have been selected as the Nova Scotia representatives, however, they did not retain three out of their four players from the previous season. [8]

Team Black won their first event of the 2021–22 season, The Curling Store Cashspiel, going undefeated to claim the title. [9] They also reached the final of the Atlantic Superstore Monctonian Challenge, losing to the Andrea Crawford rink. In November, the team once again went undefeated to win the Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel, defeating former teammate Jennifer Crouse in the final. [10] At the 2022 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Team Black won all three qualifying events, winning the provincial title and securing their spot at the 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. [11] At the Hearts, Black led her rink to a 5–3 record in the round robin, which was enough to qualify for the championship round. Along the way, she scored victories over higher seeded teams such as Alberta's Laura Walker and Manitoba's Mackenzie Zacharias. She also defeated British Columbia, which was being skipped by former teammate Mary-Anne Arsenault. [12] In their championship round match against Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville, Team Black got down 9–1 before coming back to make the game 9–8, eventually losing 11–8. This eliminated them from the championship. [13]

The Black rink began the 2022–23 season at the inaugural PointsBet Invitational where they lost to Kelsey Rocque in the opening round. [14] They bounced back immediately in their next event, however, winning the New Scotland Clothing Women's Cashspiel in a 6–4 final over Tanya Hilliard. [15] At the 2022 Tour Challenge Tier 2 Grand Slam of Curling event, the team went undefeated until the semifinals where they were defeated by Jessie Hunkin. [16] Through November and December, they qualified for three straight finals. After losing to the Kaitlyn Lawes rink, skipped by Selena Njegovan, in the final of the 2022 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic, [17] they once again defeated Jennifer Crouse at the Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel and then beat Marlee Powers in the final of the Bogside Cup. [18] At the 2023 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Team Black won both the A and B events to earn two of the three spots in the playoffs. They then beat the Hilliard rink 9–4 in the semifinals to claim their second consecutive Nova Scottia Scotties title. [19] This qualified the team for the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Kamloops, British Columbia where they again went 5–3 through the round robin. This qualified them for a tiebreaker where they stole in an extra end to upset the Lawes Wild Card rink. [20] In the championship round, they again stole in an extra to beat Ontario's Rachel Homan rink before losing to Northern Ontario's McCarville in the seeding game. They then fell 9–4 to Team Canada's Kerri Einarson in the 3 vs. 4 game, settling for fourth. [21]

Black also played third for Brent MacDougall, representing Nova Scotia at the 2013 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, where they were finalists, [22] as well as the 2018 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. [23]

Personal life

Black works as an SSI Supervision Specialist for Scotiabank. [1] She attended Saint Mary's University.

Grand Slam record

Key
CChampion
FLost in Final
SFLost in Semifinal
QFLost in Quarterfinals
R16Lost in the round of 16
QDid not advance to playoffs
T2Played in Tier 2 event
DNPDid not participate in event
N/ANot a Grand Slam event that season
Event 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Tour Challenge T2 DNPDNP T2 T2 N/AN/A T2 T2
The National DNPDNPDNPDNPDNPN/ADNPDNP Q
Masters QF DNPDNPDNPDNPN/ADNPDNPDNP

Teams

Black has played with the following women's curling teams: [24]

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLead
2010–11 Tanya Hilliard Christina Black Liz Woodworth Kaitlin Fralic
2011–12 Marie Christianson Kristen MacDiarmid Christina Black Jane Snyder
2012–13Marie ChristiansonKristen MacDiarmidChristina BlackJane Snyder
2013–14Christina Black (Fourth)Jane Snyder Katarina Danbrook Mary Sue Radford (Skip)
2014–15 Mary-Anne Arsenault Christina BlackJane Snyder Jenn Baxter
2015–16Mary-Anne ArsenaultChristina BlackJane SnyderJenn Baxter
2016–17Mary-Anne ArsenaultChristina Black Jennifer Crouse Jenn Baxter
2017–18Mary-Anne ArsenaultChristina BlackJenn BaxterJennifer Crouse
2018–19Mary-Anne ArsenaultChristina BlackJenn Baxter Kristin Clarke
2019–20Mary-Anne ArsenaultChristina BlackJenn Baxter Emma Logan
2020–21 [25] Christina BlackJenn Baxter Karlee Jones Shelley Barker
2021–22Christina BlackJenn BaxterKarlee EveristShelley Barker
2022–23Christina BlackJenn BaxterKarlee EveristShelley Barker
2023–24Christina BlackJenn BaxterKarlee EveristShelley Barker

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