Jennifer Crouse (curler)

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Jennifer Crouse
Other namesJC
Born
Jennifer Lee Crouse

(1980-01-23) January 23, 1980 (age 44)
Team
Curling club Halifax CC
Halifax, NS
Skip Jennifer Crouse
Third Julie McEvoy
Second Sheena Moore
Lead Kaitlin Fralic
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Nova Scotia.svg  Nova Scotia
Hearts appearances3 (2009, 2010, 2018)
Top CTRS ranking 22nd (2017–18)
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing Flag of Nova Scotia.svg  Nova Scotia
Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Pentiction

Jennifer "JC" Lee Crouse (born January 23, 1980, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler from Timberlea, Nova Scotia. [1]

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Career

Crouse would win her first provincial title with Nancy McConnery defeating Mary-Anne Arsenault in 2009 throwing third rocks earning the right to represent Nova Scotia at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. [2] Unfortunately the team would not make playoffs at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts finishing with a disappointing 2-9 record. [3] The following year Crouse won a second provincial title with Nancy McConnery, defeating Mary-Anne Arsenault in 2010 and the right to represent Nova Scotia at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts [4] again the team ended up with another disappointing finish at nationals at 1–10. [5] The McConnery team disbanded the end of the 2010 season. [6] Crouse went on to skip in 2011, [6] joined a team skipped by Kelly MacIntosh in 2012 - 2015 [6] but was unable to repeat with another provincial title losing the 2014 provincial final to Heather Smith Dacey [7] and a 2015 semifinal to Mary-Anne Arsenault who went on to represent NS at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts [8] until 2018 winning the provincial Scotties title with team Mary-Anne Arsenault. [9]

Crouse won a third provincial title in mixed as lead with Chris Sutherland finishing 4-7 in 2011 [10] (Representing Nova Scotia at the 2012 National Mixed Curling Championship), and a second provincial mixed title in 2017 as lead with Brent MacDougall and former teammate Christina Black after going undefeated in the provincial playdown. [11] [12] In the 2018 mixed national championship, team nova scotia finished tied for 4th place, however due to elimination of tie breakers was eliminated from playoffs due to their head to head loss over Newfoundland and Labrador resulting in a 5th place overall finish. [13]

In 2016 Crouse joined team Mary-Anne Arsenault as second eventually moving to lead when Jane Snyder left the team. [14] The team won bronze at the 2018 Scotties tournament of hearts after finishing 9-2 in the round robin, and eventually losing the semifinals to team Wild Card. [15]

Jennifer rejoined former teammates Julie McEvoy, Sheena Moore (Gilman) and Jill Thomas in 2018. [16]

Personal life

Jennifer Crouse is an Account Executive with Desjardins [17]

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References

  1. Crouse, Jennifer. "Player Profile".
  2. Crouse, Jennifer (Jan 26, 2009). "2009 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts". www.metronews.ca.
  3. Crouse, Jennifer (30 May 2010). "2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts" (PDF).
  4. Crouse, Jennifer (29 January 2010). "2010 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of hearts".[ dead link ]
  5. Crouse, Jennifer (24 September 2010). "2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts" (PDF).
  6. 1 2 3 Crouse, Jennifer (1 January 2009). "Crouse Past Teams".
  7. Crouse, Jennifer. "2014 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts".
  8. Crouse, Jennifer. "2015 NS Scotties Tournament of Hearts".
  9. "Team Arsenault Heading To National Scotties Tournament Of Hearts | CKBW 98.1 94.5 93.1 Fm". ckbw.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-01-16.
  10. Crouse, Jennifer. "2011-2012 Provincial Mixed Curling Championships Nova Scotia".
  11. Crouse, Jennifer (26 Mar 2017). "2017 Nova Scotia Mixed Provincial Championships". Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  12. "2018 Mixed Championship".
  13. "Five Fun Facts about Team Nova Scotia – 2018 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship". www.curling.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-07-02.
  14. Crouse, Jennifer. Team http://www.facebook.com/teammcevoytitle=Current Team.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. "Team Nova Scotia skip Mary-Anne Arsenault hugs coach Peter CorkuTeam Nova Scotia skip Mary-Anne Arsenault hugs coach Peter Corkum after a semifinal loss at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts".
  16. "Facebook". Facebook . Archived from the original on 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
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