Sylvie Quillian (born June 18, 1980 as Sylvie Robichaud) is a
Canadian
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curler from
Riverview, New Brunswick
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. She has won four
New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts and was the New Brunswick provincial junior champion from 1999–2001.
Career
Juniors
Quillian skipped the New Brunswick team at three straight
Canadian Junior Curling Championships
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The even ...
from 1999–2001. She had a 6–6 sixth place finish
in 1999
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and a 4–8 eleventh place finish
in 2000. Her best finish came
in 2001 where she finished with a 7–5 record, just missing the playoffs.
Women's
Quillian won her first
New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2008 with teammates
Danielle Nicholson,
Marie Richard and
Julie Carrier
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. At the
2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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, her team finished in last place with a 1–10 record. She could not defend her title the next season, finishing 3–4 at the
2009 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts. After once again not qualifying for the playoffs in 2010, Quillian and her rink of Nicholson, Richard and
Kendra Lister
Kendra Lister (born October 4, 1987 as Kendra Dickison) is a Canadian curler from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She currently plays second on Team Melissa Adams.
Career
Women's
Lister joined the Quillian (Robichaud at the time) rink after the 2 ...
finished 6–1 through the round robin of the
2011 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts. They then defeated
Rebecca Atkinson
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Early life and education
Atkinson studied theatre and dance at Preston College.
Career
Before her ...
in the semifinal before losing the provincial final to
Andrea Crawford
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7–2. Her rink also qualified for the playoffs the following year, before losing in the semifinal to
Mary Jane McGuire.
After another semifinal loss in 2013, Quillian made the provincial final again in 2014 where she once again faced Crawford. Up 7–6 in the last end, her team gave up two points and lost the match 8–7. She would finally win her second provincial title
in 2015 where her new rink of Atkinson, Richard and
Jane Boyle defeated Melissa Adams 7–6 in the provincial final. At the
2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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in
Moose Jaw
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,
Saskatchewan
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, New Brunswick defeated higher seeds such as Ontario's
Julie Hastings
Julie Hastings (born September 5, 1975 in North York as Julie Anderson) is a Canadian curler from Stouffville, Ontario.
Career
As a junior curler, Hastings won the 1992 Ontario Junior Mixed Championship playing third for skip Brad Savage. In 19 ...
and Team Canada's
Rachel Homan
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, ultimately finishing the round robin with a 4–7 record. Quillian was able to defend her title at the
2016 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2016 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of New Brunswick was held January 27 to 31 at Curl Moncton in Moncton. The winning Sylvie Robichaud team represented New Brunswick at the 2016 Scot ...
, sending her to her third
Canadian championship
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in
Grand Prairie, Alberta
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. At the end of the round robin, New Brunswick was placed last with a 2–9 record, meaning they would be relegated to the pre-qualification event the following year. Also during the
2015–16 season, her team played in the
2015 GSOC Tour Challenge
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Tier 2
Grand Slam of Curling
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event, where they lost in the quarterfinals to
Jamie Sinclair.
Quillian and her new rink of
Jessica Ronalds
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,
Nicole Arsenault Bishop
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Career
Arsenault-Bishop played in her first New Brunswick Scot ...
and
Michelle Majeau
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began the
2016–17 season by winning the 2016
Jim Sullivan Curling Classic. They would not however win the
2017 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2017 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship of New Brunswick was held January 25 to 29 at the Miramichi Curling Club in Miramichi, New Brunswick. The winning Melissa Adams team represented New ...
, losing in a tiebreaker to Melissa Adams. After the season, Adams joined the team at third, with Arsenault Bishop remaining at second and Lister returning to play lead. It proved to be a successful move as the Quillian (Robichaud at the time) rink won the
2018 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts. At the
2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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, Quillian would have her most successful Scotties to date, finishing the new pool play format with a 4–3 record. This placed them fifth in their pool, not enough to qualify for the Championship Pool. The following season, the team would win the 2018
Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel on the
World Curling Tour
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. At provincials, they lost in the semifinal to
Sarah Mallais. The following season they made the final of the
2020 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts, before losing to the Crawford rink 6–3. After the season, Crawford's third
Jennifer Armstrong moved to Saskatchewan and Quillian took her place at third on the team.
Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in New Brunswick
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, the 2021 provincial championship was cancelled. As the reigning provincial champions, Team Crawford was given the invitation to represent New Brunswick at the
2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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, but they declined due to work and family commitments. Team
Melissa Adams was then invited in their place, which they accepted.
Team Crawford played in five tour events during the
2021–22 season, performing well in all of them. In their first event,
The Curling Store Cashspiel
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, the team reached the final where they lost to Nova Scotia's
Christina Black
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Career
Black joined Team Mary-Anne Arsenault for the 2014� ...
upon giving up a stolen victory. They then lost in the final of the
Steele Cup Cash two weeks later to the Melodie Forsythe rink. They would then secure two victories in their next two events, going undefeated to claim the titles of the
Dave Jones Stanhope Simpson Insurance Mayflower Cashspiel Dave may refer to:
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and the
Atlantic Superstore Monctonian Challenge
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. The team then had a semifinal finish at the
Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic
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, dropping the semifinal game to Switzerland's
Corrie Hürlimann.
The 2022
New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts was cancelled due to the pandemic and Team Crawford were selected to represent their province at the
2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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in
Thunder Bay
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,
Ontario
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. At the Hearts, the team began the event with five straight wins, the most consecutive wins to start a Tournament of Hearts of any New Brunswick team. Team Crawford finished the round robin with a 6–2 record, qualifying for the playoff round over higher seeded teams such as Wild Card #2 (
Chelsea Carey
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Career
E ...
), Wild Card #3 (
Emma Miskew
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) and Saskatchewan's
Penny Barker. They then defeated the Northwest Territories'
Kerry Galusha
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Career Juniors
Galusha's first national experience was at the 1992 Canadian Junior Curling ...
in the knockout round and upset Team Canada's
Kerri Einarson
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to reach the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game, becoming the first New Brunswick team to reach the playoffs since
Heidi Hanlon in 1991. They then lost to Northern Ontario's
Krista McCarville
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in the 1 vs. 2 game and Canada's Einarson rink in the semifinal, earning the bronze medal from the event. After the event, the team announced they would be parting ways with second
Jillian Babin due to her relocation to Ontario. They then announced on March 4, 2022 that
Jill Brothers
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would be joining them as their new second.
Mixed
Aside from women's play, Quillian has represented New Brunswick at two
Canadian Mixed Curling Championships
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In mixed curling, the positions on a team must a ...
, skipping the team in 2011 and 2013. She had successful results on both occasions, reaching the semifinal
in 2011 and losing a tiebreaker
in 2013.
Personal life
Quillian works as a financial controller for Brona Transport Ltd. She attended the
Université de Moncton
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The university was founded in 1963 following the recommendations of the royal commission on higher ...
. She is married.
Teams
References
External links
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1980 births
Canadian women curlers
Curlers from New Brunswick
Living people
People from Riverview, New Brunswick
Sportspeople from Moncton
Université de Moncton alumni