Allison Flaxey



Allison "Alli" Flaxey (née Nimik; born 2nd September 1985[1] ) is a Canadian curler from Elmvale, Ontario. She is a former Canadian Mixed champion, and World Mixed Doubles bronze medalist.

Flaxey is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a junior, she won the Manitoba Junior championships at the age of 15 in 2001 with teammates Kristin Loder, Lindsay Titheridge and Elisabeth Peters. The team finished with a 4-8 record at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships that year.[2]

She began curling competitively playing second for Shauna Streich. As a resident of Manitoba, Flaxey won the 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship (held in Autumn 2008), playing third for Sean Grassie. This qualified the two for the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they won a bronze medal.

In 2008, Flaxey moved to Alberta where she played competitively as third for Leslie Rogers in 2009 and 2010 and then as third for Casey Scheidegger in 2011. She made the Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts in all three of those seasons. Her highest finish was 4th in 2010.

In 2011, Flaxey moved to Ontario to form her own team. As skip, she qualified for her first Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2012 where she finished with a 2-7 record.

Flaxey and fellow curler Caleb Flaxey were married in March 2013.