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Lynsay Ryan
Lynsay Ryan (born in 1984) is a Canadian singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. A graduate of McMaster University and University of Toronto. She is the daughter of two-time world champion curling skip Pat Ryan. In 2005, Ryan posed in a see-through sarong A sarong or sarung () is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist, worn in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, Northern Africa, East Africa, West Africa, and on many Pacific islands. The fabric often has woven plaid ... in a calendar to promote women's curling. See also * Ana Arce * Daniela Jentsch * Melanie Robillard * Kasia Selwand * Claudia Toth References External links Ana Acre Team Sponsorship Calendar 2006The Curling News * ttps://web.archive.org/web/20081119071031/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051031.wcurl1031/BNStory/Sports Women of curling gain greater exposure 1984 births Canadian women curlers Curl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelowna
Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan word ''kiʔláwnaʔ'', referring to a male grizzly bear. Kelowna is the province's third-largest metropolitan area (after Vancouver and Victoria), while it is the seventh-largest city overall and the largest in the Interior. It is the 20th-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city proper encompasses , and the census metropolitan area . Kelowna's estimated population in 2020 is 222,748 in the metropolitan area and 142,146 in the city proper. After many years of suburban expansion into the surrounding mountain slopes, the city council adopted a long-term plan intended to increase density instead - particularly in the downtown core. This has resulted in the construction of taller buildings, including One Water Street - a 36-storey building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Gardens. It operates six academic faculties: the DeGroote School of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Science, and Science. It is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. The university bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian senator and banker who bequeathed C$900,000 to its founding. It was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887, merging the Toronto Baptist College with Woodstock College. It opened in Toronto in 1890. Inadequate facilities and the gift of land in Hamilton prompted its relocation in 1930. The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec controlled the university until it became a privately chartered, pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called ''rocks'', across the ice ''curling sheet'' toward the ''house'', a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a ''game''; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each ''end'', which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends. The player can induce a curved path, described as ''curl'', by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Ryan (curler)
Patrick J. C. Ryan (born September 28, 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler originally from Edmonton, Alberta. Ryan is a former World Champion skip, and three time Brier champion. Ryan lives in Kelowna, British Columbia. Career Ryan appeared in his first Brier in 1979 when he was the second for Paul Devlin's Alberta team. They finished 6-5. In 1985, Ryan returned to the Brier, as a skip of Team Alberta. His team of Gord Trenchie, Don McKenzie, and Don Walchuk had an impressive 11-1 performance, their only loss coming in the final against Al Hackner of Northern Ontario. Two years later, Ryan would return to the Brier. His new team, which included Randy Ferbey (whom he played with at the 1986 Canadian Mixed Championship) and Roy Herbert along with Walchuk finished with a disappointing 6-5 record. At the 1988 Labatt Brier however, Ryan's Alberta foursome (now with Don McKenzie as lead instead of Herbert) would win the championship defeating Eugene Hritzuk of Sas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarong
A sarong or sarung () is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist, worn in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, Northern Africa, East Africa, West Africa, and on many Pacific islands. The fabric often has woven plaid or checkered patterns, or may be brightly colored by means of batik or ikat dyeing. Many modern sarongs have printed designs, often depicting animals or plants. Different types of sarongs are worn in different places in the world, notably the lungi in the Indian subcontinent and the izaar in the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The term ''sarong'' () is an English loanword of Malay origin meaning 'to cover' or 'to sheath'. It was first used in 1834 referring to the skirt-like garment of the Malay. ''Sarong'' is also the colloquial and old spelling of the Indonesian and Malay word for , while in formal Indonesian it is known as ().Sarongis known in many names across Asia; including , ; , ; ; and . In West Africa, the word ''srong'' or ''sor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Arce
Ana Arce (born 5 January 1964) is a photographer and former skip of the Andorran national women's curling team. She now plays on the Spanish national team. Photography She produced the ''Ana Arce Team Sponsorship Calendar 2006'' featuring nude or semi-nude photographs of women curlers from a variety of countries including Denmark, Italy, Spain, England, Poland, Germany and Canada. The curlers included Daniela Jentsch, Melanie Robillard, Lynsay Ryan, Kasia Selwand and Claudia Toth. She produced a second calendar for 2007 which included Christine Keshen, Linn Githmark, Debbie McCormick and Jackie Lockhart. Curling Arce played in the 2002, 2003 and 2004 European Curling Championships The European Curling Championships are annual curling Bonspiel, tournaments held in Europe between various European nations. The European Curling Championships are usually held in early to mid December. The tournament also acts as a qualifier for ... for Andorra. Skipping the team, she pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Jentsch
Daniela Jentsch (born 15 January 1982), previously known as Daniela Driendl, is a German curler from Füssen. She is the skip of the German National Women's Curling Team. Career Jentsch played in her first international competition in 1997 at the 1997 World Junior Curling Championships, as third for Natalie Nessler. There, the team finished in eighth place with a 2–7 record. She has skipped the German women's junior team to two "B" level gold medals in 2001 and 2002. At the "A" level, she finished tenth in 2001 and fifth in 2002, just missing the playoffs. When she was just 18, Jentsch participated in her first World Women's Curling Championship at the 2000 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, playing third for Petra Tschetsch. There, the team finished the round robin with a 4–5 record, missing the playoffs. Her first European Curling Championships was in 2002 at the 2002 European Curling Championships. There, Jentsch skipped the German team t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Robillard
Melanie Robillard (born October 3, 1982 in Sussex, New Brunswick) is a curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She represented Germany at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, playing third for Andrea Schöpp. Currently, she lives in Switzerland. Career As a junior, Robillard curled for Jenn Hanna's team in 2000 as her lead. The rink would lose in the Ontario provincial junior finals that year, to Julie Reddick. In 2002, Robillard skipped her team to the provincial junior finals, but lost once again to Reddick. Robillard, who has a German mother, officially played alternate for the German team at the 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, but ended up playing second for seven of the eleven matches. Later in the year, she played lead for the German mixed team that won the gold medal at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championship. She competed on the German women's teams, skipped by Andrea Schöpp, as third in the 2010 Winter Olympics, and in the 2010 Ford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasia Selwand
Katarzyna "Kasia" Selwant is the former Polish national curling team lead. In 2005, she posed for a calendar to promote women's curlinShe played in both the 2004 and 2005 European Curling Championships for skip Krystyna Beniger. Poland finished 17th and 21st respectively. See also * Ana Arce * Daniela Jentsch * Melanie Robillard Melanie Robillard (born October 3, 1982 in Sussex, New Brunswick) is a curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She represented Germany at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, playing third for Andrea Schöpp. Currently, she lives in ... * Lynsay Ryan * Claudia Toth External links Ana Acre Team Sponsorship Calendar 2006The Curling News* https://web.archive.org/web/20051105091326/http://www.mojoradio.ca/news/news.cfm?dir=sports&file=s103145A&n=2 * ttps://web.archive.org/web/20081119071031/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051031.wcurl1031/BNStory/Sports Women of curling gain greater exposure Polish female curlers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Toth
Claudia Fischer (born 24 May 1981 as Claudia Toth) was the Austrian national women's curling team skip from 2004-200 She has played in four European Curling Championships, European Championships, skipping her Austrian team to an 11th-place finish in 2004, 9th place in 2005, 11th place in 2006 and 9th place in 2007. Since then, Fischer has played in several international mixed events, including winning a bronze medal at the 2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with Christian Roth. Fischer and Roth represented Austria at the 2013 and 2014 Mixed Doubles World Championships as well, finishing 8th place on both occasions. Personal life Her younger sister Karina Toth is also a curler, they was teammates many years. She attended the Bundesgymnasium/Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium St. Johann in TiroAustria, from 1991 to 1999. In 2005, she posed nude in a calendar to promote women's curling See also * Ana Arce * Daniela Jentsch * Melanie Robillard * Kasia Selwand * Lynsay Ryan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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