Cary-Anne McTaggart (born June 4, 1986 in

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as Cary-Anne Sallows) is a Canadian curler from

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. She currently plays

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for Team Ashley Howard.

Career

Juniors

McTaggart won three provincial junior titles playing third for the Desirée Robertson rink in 2003 and 2005 and for

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in 2007. Their provincial titles qualified the rink to represent Alberta in each of those years'

Canadian Junior Curling Championships The Canadian Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best junior-level curling team in Canada. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 21 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament. The even ...

. At the

2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championships The 2003 Kärcher Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held February 1–9 at the Rideau and Ottawa Curling Clubs in Ottawa. Teams from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan won both the men's and women's event. Both teams would go on to win gold meda ...

, the team finished the round robin with a 9-3 record and would lose in the semifinal, placing third overall. At the

2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships The 2005 Kärcher Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held February 5–13 at the Capital Winter Club and the Lady Beaverbrook Rink in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2005 World Junior Curling Champions ...

, the team went undefeated in the round robin, but would end up losing in the final to New Brunswick's

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rink. On her new team at the

2007 Canadian Junior Curling Championships The 2007 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships was held February 3-11 at the Jack Gatecliff Arena and the St. Catharines Golf and Country Club in St. Catharines, Ontario. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2007 World Junio ...

, the rink would finish with a 7-5 record, missing the playoffs.

Women's

After juniors, McTaggart played for Team

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until 2010, when she joined forced with Desirée Robertson (now Owen) again for two seasons. She returned to the Sonnenberg rink in 2012, playing second for the team. The team won the A qualifier at the

2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials The qualification event for the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials (branded as the Capital One Road to the Roar for sponsorship reasons), was held from November 5 to 10 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex in Kitchener, Ontario. The t ...

, qualifying the rink for the

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. There, the team placed last with a 2-5 record. After the season, McTaggart left the team to join the Scheidegger rink at third. They won their first

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event at the

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Personal life

Her brother is fellow curler

Tom Sallows Thomas Sallows (born March 3, 1984) is a Canadian curler from Grande Prairie, Alberta. He regularly plays skip for a Grande Prairie, Alberta-based rink. He also competed at both the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier and 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Champi ...

. She works as a registered nurse with

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. She is married and has one child.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McTaggart, Carry-Anne Living people 1986 births People from Grande Prairie Curlers from Alberta Canadian women curlers Canadian nurses Canadian women nurses Canada Cup (curling) participants People from the County of Warner No. 5 20th-century Canadian women 21st-century Canadian women