Rebecca Atkinson (curler)



Rebecca "Becky" Atkinson (born July 17, 1982 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler from Rothesay, New Brunswick. Atkinson currently throws third stones for Andrea Crawford, out of the Gage Golf and Curling Club in Oromocto, New Brunswick.[1]



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[hide]  *1 Career  ==Career[edit] == ===Juniors[edit] === Her first appearance at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships was in 2000 in Moncton, New Brunswick. She was selected from the spare pool for Teams New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador throughout the week. [2]  Her second and final trip to the championships was in 2003, this time as skip of her own team. She finished the round robin in seventh place, with a 6-6 record.[3] ===2009–2011[edit] === Atkinson participated at the 2009 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where she skipped her own squad. She would not make the playoffs that year, finishing sixth place with a 3-4 record, but would return again to the 2011 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where she would finish round robin in third place with a 5-2 record. She faced Sylvie Robichaud in the semifinal and lost with a score of 4-6.[4] ===2011–current[edit] === For the 2011–12 curling season, Atkinson left her team and joined Andrea Kelly to form a new squad. Atkinson threw third stones and skip the team. The team participated in the first Curl Atlantic Championship, where they would advance to the playoffs. They faced Suzanne Birt in the semifinal, but ended up losing with a score of 2-6.[5]
 * 1.1 Juniors
 * 1.2 2009–2011
 * 1.3 2011–current
 * 2 References

The team went on to participate in the 2012 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts. There, they finished the round robin in first place with a 6-1 record. They received a bye to the final, where they faced Mary Jane McGuire, and won the championship with a score of 7-5. With the win, Atkinson also won the right to represent New Brunswick at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  In Atkinson's first Scotties appearance, she skipped her team to a sixth place round robin finish, ending with a 5-6 record.