Sherry L. Middaugh (née Hamel, born October 11, 1966 in

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) is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler

Wayne Middaugh Robert Wayne Middaugh (born September 20, 1967) is a Canadian curler. Born in Brampton, Ontario, Middaugh resides in Victoria Harbour, Ontario. He is the only player to have won the Canadian Men's Curling Championship (known as the Brier) at t ...

, she was known as Sherry Scheirich. She is a five-time Ontario champion and a one-time Saskatchewan curling champion. She is currently the coach of Team Tracy Fleury.

Career

Middaugh, originally from

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, won the 1986 Saskatchewan Junior Women's Championship. She represented Saskatchewan at the

1986 Canadian Junior Women's Curling Championship The 1986 Canadian Junior Women's Curling Championship was held March 15-22 at the Noranda Curling Club in Noranda, Quebec. Team British Columbia, skipped by Jodie Sutton won the event, defeating Newfoundland's Jill Noseworthy rink in the final, ...

, where she tied for fourth with a 6–4 record. Her lone Saskatchewan Hearts victory came in 1996, when she defeated Sandra Peterson (Schmirler) in the provincial final, 8–5. She represented Saskatchewan at her first Scott Tournament of Hearts in 1996, and finished with a 7–5 record. In her new province of

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at the 1999 Scott Tournament of Hearts, she played third for Kim Gellard, but finished 4–7. She played at the 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts. Middaugh led her team to the semifinals where she lost to

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. At the 2002 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Middaugh was ousted once again in the semifinals, this time to defending champion

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. Middaugh failed to make the Scotts in 2003, but instead won the Canada Cup of Curling beating Kelley Law in the final. Middaugh qualified for the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts, but she lost in the semi-final to

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's Marie-France Larouche. In 2007, Middaugh won her first Grand Slam event by winning the

2007 Sobeys Slam The 2007 Sobeys Slam was held from November 29 to December 2 at the John Brother MacDonald Stadium in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. It was the fourth of five women's Grand Slam events during the 2007–08 season. It was the first season where the ev ...

. At the

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, Middaugh lost in the semifinal to

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, her fourth semifinal loss. Middaugh also participated as a third for

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at the 1986 Canadian Junior Championships and she won the 2003 JCV Skins Game. At the

Middaugh also won the Shot of the Week Award and a Bronze medal via a 9–8 loss to

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's Jennifer Jones, in an extra end semifinal. Jones would go on to win the

2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championship, was held from February 21 to March 1 at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. Teams Round-Robin Standings Quebec was awar ...

in Victoria, B.C. as Team Canada. Middaugh attended the

2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championship, was held from February 19 to February 27 at the Charlottetown Civic Centre in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It was the 30th anniversary of Kruger Pr ...

as the alternate for the

Rachel Homan Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curler. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a three-time Canadian national champion, and the 2017 world champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Can ...

team. In 2012, she won her second Grand Slam event of her career by winning the 2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, defeating Homan in the final. At the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, the team started slowly with a 1–3 record. However, the team won three straight games to finish the round-robin tied for second at 4–3 with the Chelsea Carey and

rinks. Homan claimed second based on the draw shot challenge while Middaugh and Carey played a tiebreaker. The Middaugh rink found success defeating Carey in the tiebreaker and defeating Homan in the semifinals. Middaugh's rink was unable to defeat the Jennifer Jones rink in the final, therefore claiming the silver medal at the event. In 2019, Middaugh made her

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debut at the

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and placed second, losing in an extra end to

Sherry Anderson Sherry Anderson (born January 6, 1964) is a Canadian curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan. She is a two-time winner of the World Senior Curling Championships for Canada. Career Anderson has been to ten Scotties Tournament of Hearts, six as a ski ...

. She started coaching the Tracy Fleury rink for the 2020–21 season.

Personal life

Middaugh owns her own company 4M Home & Garden. She is married to

and has two children, Kelly and Emily.2017 Home Hardware RTTR Media Guide

Grand Slam record

Former events

References

CCA Stats

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Middaugh, Sherry Curlers from Saskatchewan Curlers from Simcoe County Living people 1966 births Canadian women curlers Continental Cup of Curling participants People from Rosetown Canada Cup (curling) participants Canadian curling coaches