Sadie Wren Pinksen (born January 11, 2000) is a Canadian curler from

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. She currently plays

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on Team

Brigitte MacPhail Brigitte MacPhail (born June 19, 1987, in Grand Falls, New Brunswick) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently skips her own team out of the Iqaluit Curling Club in Iqaluit. Career MacPhail made one appearance at the Can ...

Career

Pinksen skipped Team Nunavut at eight

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 ...

from 2013 to 2020. Her best finish was a 2–7 record in 2016,

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and

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. She also represented Nunavut at the

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. While still in juniors, Pinksen was asked to be the alternate for the Nunavut team at the and

Scotties Tournament of Hearts The Scotties Tournament of Hearts (''french: Le Tournoi des Cœurs Scotties''; commonly referred to as the Scotties) is the annual Canadian women's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada, formerly called the Canadian Curling Associat ...

, Canada's national women's curling championship. In both years, the team failed to reach the main draw after losing out in the pre-qualifying tournament. Pinksen was also supposed to be the alternate for the team at the event but had to pull out due to a scheduling conflict. She lost in the playdowns of the 2019 event skipping her own rink but was asked to be the alternate once again by the Jennifer Blaney rink. Pinksen was listed as the teams alternate at the

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, but through lead stones during the round robin, replacing Megan Ingram. They finished with a 1–6 record. The following season, Pinksen,

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and Kaitlin McDonald teamed up with Ontario curler

Lori Eddy Lori Christine Eddy (born August 26, 1971, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler from Dundas, Ontario. Career Eddy played third on the Alison Goring rink that represented Ontario at the 1997 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Canada's nation ...

for the

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. Despite Eddy living in Ontario, she was added to the team as the territory's "import player", after being asked by Griffin. The team automatically qualified for the Scotties as no other team in the Territory decided to challenge them. The team finished with a 2–5 record, including a surprise win against Northern Ontario's

Krista McCarville Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the 2003 Winter Universiade silver medallist, a four-time Ontario ...

. Team Eddy represented Nunavut again the following year at the

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, where they finished with a winless 0–8 record.

joined the team for the 2021–22 season as their out-of-province player, replacing Eddy at the skip position. The team represented Nunavut 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 ...

, finishing with a winless 0–8 record. The following season, Team MacPhail played in four tour events, failing to qualify for the playoffs at all four. At the

2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from February 17 to 26 at the Sandman Centre in Kamloops, British Columbia. The winning Kerri Einarson team will represent Canada at the 2023 World ...

, the team again went 0–8, placing last. Pinksen has also competed at two

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, finishing winless at both the

and

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events.

Personal life

Pinksen attended the

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as a Communications and sociology student, and is currently a management and philosophy student at

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She started curling when she was seven years old.

Teams

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinksen, Sadie 2000 births Living people Curlers from Nunavut Canadian women curlers People from Iqaluit University of Ottawa alumni Dalhousie University alumni