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Calgary
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,
Alberta
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. She is former Canadian champion and World championship silver medallist.
Career
Seitz grew up in
Medicine Hat, Alberta
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where she was a top junior curler. In 1968, she and her team of Delores Close, Patsy Erickson and Ellen Noble won the Alberta Junior Curling Championships. The event predated the women's Canadian Juniors.
Seitz won her first of two
provincial championships
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in 1981, when she defeated Heather Wells of Lethbridge, 7-6. Her rink, which included
Judy Erickson
Judy Erickson is a Canadian curler and curling coach
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,
Myrna McKay
Myrna Jean McKay (born January 12, 1949, in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan; died May 30, 2018, in Crossfield, Alberta) was a Canadian curler.
She was a and .
McKay grew up in Red Deer Lake and Calgary, and later moved to Crossfield. In addition t ...
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Betty McCracken
Betty McCracken is a Canadian curler.
She is a and .
Teams
References
External links
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Betty McCracken – Curling Canada Stats Archive
Living people
Canadian women curlers
Curlers from Calgary
Canadian women's curling champions
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, would go on to represent Alberta at the
1981 Canadian Ladies Curling Association Championship
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. At the 1981 "Lassie", they would finish the round robin with a 9-1 record, in first place. They won their final match against Newfoundland's
Sue Anne Bartlett
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Elisabeth Högström
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1985 Scott Tournament of Hearts
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. At the Hearts, they would finish the round robin with 7-3 record, good enough for a tiebreaker match against Newfoundland's Bartlett. Bartlett would this time beat Seitz's rink 8-2.
Later in her career, Seitz won an Alberta Seniors title in 2001 with teammates Heather Loat, Darlene Breckenridge and Saren McLean Her team would represent Alberta at the 2001
Canadian Senior Curling Championships
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in her home of Calgary. The team would go 6-5 in the round robin, missing the playoffs.