Kayla Skrlik

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Kayla Skrlik
Born (1997-09-10) September 10, 1997 (age 27)
Team
Curling club Garrison CC,
Calgary, AB [1]
Skip Kayla Skrlik
Third Margot Flemming
Second Ashton Skrlik
Lead Geri-Lynn Ramsay
Alternate Crystal Webster
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Alberta.svg  Alberta
Hearts appearances1 (2023)
Top CTRS ranking 10th (2022–23, 2023–24)
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing Flag of Alberta.svg  Alberta North
Arctic Winter Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Fairbanks

Kayla Skrlik (born September 10, 1997) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. [2] She currently skips her own team out of the Garrison Curling Club.

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Career

Skrlik broke onto the junior scene when she skipped Team Alberta at the 2016 U18 International Curling Championships. There, she led her team to a 3–2 round robin record, just missing the playoffs. She represented Alberta at her first junior nationals at the 2018 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. [3] At the championship, Skrlik led her team of Ashton Skrlik, Hope Sunley and Megan Johnson to a 4–2 round robin record, enough to qualify for the championship round. They then went 3–1 against the other pool, however, this was not enough to qualify for the playoffs and they finished in fourth place with a 7–3 record. [4] Also during the 2017–18 season, Skrlik played in the 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup with Team Delia DeJong. The team lost in the tiebreaker to the Val Sweeting rink. [5] Also in her junior career, Skrlik led Northern Alberta to a gold medal at the 2014 Arctic Winter Games.

Out of juniors, Team Skrlik began competing on the World Curling Tour. For the 2018–19 season, they brought on Brenna Bilassy as their new lead, replacing Johnson. Of their three events played, they reached the quarterfinals of the Avonair Cash Spiel and the Boundary Ford Curling Classic. [6]

The 2019–20 season was a breakthrough season for the Skrlik rink which consisted of Lindsay Makichuk, Brittany Tran and Hope Sunley. The team won two tour events, the Medicine Hat Charity Classic and The Good Times Bonspiel and represented Canada at the 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite. [7] The team went 2–5 against the field in China. [8] At the 2020 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, they also finished with a 2–5 record. Makichuk and Sunley left the team after the season and were replaced by Selena Sturmay and Ashton Skrlik for the 2020–21 season. They were unable to play in any events, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following the abbreviated season, Sturmay left the team and was replaced by Geri-Lynn Ramsay at third. The team was able to find immediate success by reaching the semifinals of the Alberta Curling Series: Leduc event. [9] They also made the semifinals of the Ladies Alberta Open and were finalists at the Alberta Curling Series: Thistle event to Germany's Daniela Jentsch. [10] In December 2021, they qualified for the 2022 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts by defeating Lindsay Bertsch in the final qualifier. [11] At provincials, the team finished in last place with a 1–6 record. Back on the tour, they reached the final of the Alberta Curling Tour Championship where they lost to Abby Marks. [12] Team Skrlik rounded out their season at the 2022 Best of the West where they failed to reach the playoffs with a 1–2 record.

Team Skrlik reached the playoffs in two of their first three events during the 2022–23 season but did not advance past the quarterfinal round. The team played in the 2022 Tour Challenge Tier 2 slam event where they lost in a tiebreaker to Kristy Watling. [13] At the 2022 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, Team Skrlik qualified undefeated through the A side before immediately losing in the quarters to Jennifer Jones. [14] At the Ladies Alberta Open, they lost their opening match before winning six straight games en route to claiming their first tour title, defeating the Casey Scheidegger rink in the final. [15] In the new year, the team competed in the 2023 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, which they qualified for through their Excel Points ranking. [16] Team Skrlik was dominant through the round robin, going a perfect 7–0 which included wins over Casey Scheidegger, Kelsey Rocque and Selena Sturmay. This qualified them directly for the provincial final where they faced Team Scheidegger. The game went back and forth, with Skrlik making a highlight reel double takeout in the tenth end to score two and win the game 9–8. [17] With the win, Team Skrlik represented Alberta at the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts where they missed the playoffs with a 4–4 record. [18] At the Hearts, the team made history, claiming to be the first "majority BIPOC" team to play at the Hearts [19] (the Skrliks are half Japanese, and Tran is half Vietnamese). They again ended their season at the Best of the West where they lost in the semifinals to Kelsey Rocque, skipping the Beth Peterson rink.

Personal life

Skrlik's sister Ashton Skrlik plays lead on her team. She is engaged to fellow curler Jeremy Harty. [20] She works as a business transformation consultant with IBM. [2] Skrlik is half Japanese. [21]

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLead
2013–14 [22] Kayla Skrlik Cheyanne Richards Ashton Skrlik Ashlyn Wozny
2014–15Kayla Skrlik Carley Wolfe Ashton Skrlik Morgan Krassman
2015–16Kayla SkrlikCarley WolfeAshton SkrlikMorgan Krassman
2016–17Kayla SkrlikCarley WolfeAshton Skrlik Megan Johnson
2017–18Kayla SkrlikAshton Skrlik Hope Sunley Megan Johnson
2018–19Kayla SkrlikAshton SkrlikHope Sunley Brenna Bilassy
2019–20Kayla Skrlik Lindsay Makichuk Brittany Tran Hope Sunley
2020–21Kayla Skrlik Selena Sturmay Brittany TranAshton Skrlik
2021–22Kayla Skrlik Geri-Lynn Ramsay Brittany TranAshton Skrlik
2022–23Kayla SkrlikBrittany TranGeri-Lynn RamsayAshton Skrlik
2023–24Kayla SkrlikBrittany TranGeri-Lynn RamsayAshton Skrlik
2024–25 [23] Kayla Skrlik Margot Flemming Ashton SkrlikGeri-Lynn Ramsay

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References

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  19. @team_skrlik (May 31, 2023). "This month is Asian Heritage Month & we would like to celebrate our heritage & share our stories with you. This year we made history as the first ever BIPOC majority team at the Scotties and we are extremely proud of the opportunity to be role models for underrepresented groups" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  20. "2024 PointsBet Invitational Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
  21. @team_skrlik (31 May 2023). "We also wanted share a bit about ourselves. Brit is half-Vietnamese, half-Caucasian & Kayla & Ashton are half-Japanese, half-Caucasian. One of Brittany's favorite [sic] things to do to share a piece of her culture with friends & family is to make salad rolls. It is a curling staple now" (Tweet) via Twitter.
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