Charlottetown’s Shelly Bradley and Cornwall’s Ruth Stavert are the two finalists for female adult curler of the year at the annual ADL/Sport PEI curling awards to be held in conjunction with Curl PEI’s Annual General Meeting on May 29 at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside.

Photo: Shelly Bradley at the 2013 PEI Scotties

Shelly Bradley, who plays third on the Suzanne Birt rink out of the Charlottetown Curling Complex, been on six PEI women’s championship teams, and, additionally, has been an alternate at the nationals three times. The Birt rink beat the defending champion Kim Dolan team in this year’s PEI Scotties final, and went on to represent PEI at the national Scotties in Kingston ON, finishing with a 5-6 win-loss record. Bradley and the rest of team, coached by Peter Gallant, have an extensive on and off-ice training schedule.

Bradley, who, as skip, won her first  PEI women’s championship back in 1994, plays a great leadership role on the team, drawing on her decades of curling experience when called upon for advice and guidance by the team. Bradley also sits on the Board of Directors at the Charlottetown Curling Complex.

Photo: Ruth Stavert at the Canadian Stick Curling Ch’ships

Ruth Stavert is a Cornwall Curling Club stick curler, who, with her teammate Eileen Blanchard, won the 10 team women’s division at the Canadian 2-Person Stick Curling Championships at their home club in April. With teammate Gloria Clarke, she won the Provincial Women’s Stick Championship for the fourth time, the only winners in its four year history, and went on to the Maritime championships in Montague, winning it, too. With Blanchard, she won gold at the Vogue Optical Provincial 55+ Games women’s division, giving Stavert a complete sweep of Provincial, Maritime, and National women’s stick curling championship events.

In the summer months, Stavert participates in a number of sports that bear some similarity to stick curling, taking home bronze medals in the provincial 55+ Summer Games bocce and lawn bowling events last summer, and, with Clarke, winning a gold in the “washer toss” event.