Colleen Pinkney (born Colleen Marshall) is a

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curler from

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. She is a 2009 and 2013 Canadian Senior champion skip and a two-time provincial senior champion. She won the World Senior Curling Championships in 2010.

Career

In 1988, Pinkney played in her first

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, playing second for Judy Burgess. The team finished 3–8. In

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, she made her second Hearts, playing third for Nancy McConnery. That team finished with a 5–6 record. She was also the alternate for Nancy McConnery in the

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. Pinkney won the

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in Summerside by defeating British Columbia's

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in the final. She went on to represent Canada at the

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where her rink won Gold over Switzerland to take home Canada's 6th World Senior Curling Championship title. Pinkney won her second Canadian senior title in

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, also in Summerside, by defeating Alberta's

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in the final. At the

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, she led Canada to a silver medal after losing to Scotland's

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in the final.

External links

Tournament of Hearts Statistics
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