Allison "Alli" Flaxey ( Nimik; born February 13, 1985) is a
Canadian
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curler from
Caledon, Ontario
Caledon (; 2021 Canadian census, 2021 population 76,581) is a town (Ontario), town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. The name comes from a shortened form of Caledonia, the Roman name for what is ...
. She currently plays
third
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* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
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on Team
Carly Howard. She is a former Canadian Mixed champion, and World Mixed Doubles bronze medallist.
Career
Flaxey is originally from
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It is centred on the confluence of the Red River of the North, Red and Assiniboine River, Assiniboine rivers. , Winnipeg h ...
. 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
2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships The 2001 Kärcher Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held February 3–11 at the St. Catharines Golf & Country Club in St. Catharines, Ontario. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2001 World Junior Curling Championships.
Men's Teams ...
.
Flaxey began curling competitively playing second for
Shauna Streich. As a resident of Manitoba, she 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
The Alberta Women's Curling Championship, formerly the Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the Alberta provincial women's curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area t ...
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. The following year, her team did not qualify for the Ontario Hearts, but won
the event in 2014, qualifying Flaxey and her team of
Katie Cottrill,
Lynn Kreviazuk
Lynn Elizabeth Kreviazuk (born May 2, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. She currently plays second on Team Carly Howard.
Career
Kreviazuk was the longtime lead for the Rachel Homan rink. She first joined the team in 2005 as its ...
and
Morgan Court to represent Ontario at the
2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from February 1 to 9 at the Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Quebec. The defending champion Rachel Homan rink won their second straight title, with Homan becoming the youngest skip to ever win back- ...
. There, Flaxey led Ontario to a 3–8 record. As defending champions, Flaxey qualified for the
2015 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but failed to make the playoffs after posting a 4–5 record.
For the
2015-16 curling season, Flaxey formed a new team with
Clancy Grandy,
Lynn Kreviazuk
Lynn Elizabeth Kreviazuk (born May 2, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. She currently plays second on Team Carly Howard.
Career
Kreviazuk was the longtime lead for the Rachel Homan rink. She first joined the team in 2005 as its ...
and
Morgan Court. The tean qualified for the
2016 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but finished with a 3–6 record. However, they did win a
World Curling Tour
The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and Doubles curling, mixed doubles curlers in the world.
History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later ass ...
event that season, winning the
KW Fall Classic. The next season, Flaxey won her first
Grand Slam of Curling
The Grand Slam of Curling (formerly branded as the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling for sponsorship reasons) is a series of curling bonspiels that were formerly part of the annual World Curling Tour. Grand Slam events offer a purse of at least Ca ...
event, the
2016 WFG Masters. The team had enough points to qualify for the
2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts through the CTRS Leaders, but they lost the tiebreaker to
Cathy Auld 10–4. The team lost all three qualifiers at the
2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts and did not qualify for the playoffs.
After the
2017-18 season, Flaxey announced she would be moving back to Manitoba to skip the team a new team of
Kate Cameron,
Taylor McDonald
Taylor Rae McDonald (born May 12, 1993) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. She currently plays third on Team Kate Cameron. McDonald previously played second for Team Laura Walker and Team Kelsey Rocque, with whom she won gold at the 2014 W ...
and
Raunora Westcott for the
2018-19 season. The team played in one Slam, the
2018 Tour Challenge, where they finished 1-3 missing the playoffs. At the
2019 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the team failed to qualify for the playoffs after posting a 4-3 round robin record.
Flaxey moved back to Ontario for the
2019-20 season to join former teammates
Clancy Grandy and
Morgan Lavell. Flaxey moved down to third as the team brought on
Kaitlyn Jones to play skip. The team did not have a great season, failing to win any tour events and not qualifying for the
provincial championship. The team disbanded after just one season. On March 26, 2020, it was announced that Flaxey would play third for
Jacqueline Harrison for the
2020–21 season with
Lynn Kreviazuk
Lynn Elizabeth Kreviazuk (born May 2, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. She currently plays second on Team Carly Howard.
Career
Kreviazuk was the longtime lead for the Rachel Homan rink. She first joined the team in 2005 as its ...
at second and
Laura Hickey at lead.
The new team's first major event was the
2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, where they went 3–5, which included defeating the defending champion
Rachel Homan
Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curling, curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Canadian junior champion, a five-time Scotties Tourna ...
rink. With Homan playing at the
2022 Winter Olympics
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as a member of Canada's mixed doubles team, Flaxey was invited to play second on the Homan rink at the
2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from January 28 to February 6 at the Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The winning team represented Canada at the 2022 World Women's Curl ...
, which qualified as Wild Card #3. The team, skipped by
Emma Miskew
Emma Kathryn Miskew (born February 14, 1989) is a Canadian curler. She is a three-time World and five-time Canadian champion curler as a member of the Rachel Homan rink. She was Homan's longtime third until 2022 when she moved to second, when ...
finished with a 4–4 record.
With Harrison out with a hip injury, Flaxey led the Harrison rink to qualify for the
2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Personal life
Flaxey and fellow curler
Caleb Flaxey were married in March 2013. She works as a Sales Division Manager for Canada Malting.
Grand Slam record
Former events
References
External links
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Living people
Curlers from Alberta
Curlers from Ontario
Canadian women curlers
Canadian mixed curling champions
1985 births
Curlers from Winnipeg
Sportspeople from Caledon, Ontario
Canada Cup (curling) participants
21st-century Canadian sportswomen