(by Jason Simmonds)
COVEHEAD – It will be a new-look Suzanne Birt rink next season.
Suzanne Birt in action during the 2015 provincial women’s curling championship at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside.
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Birt, third stone Shelly Bradley, second stone Michelle McQuaid and lead Susan McInnis won the 2015 provincial women’s title, and went 4-7 (won-lost) at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian women’s championship.
Birt and Green (nee MacPhee) are no strangers to one another, having won two Canadian junior and one world women’s championship together. They have also been teammates in women’s competition previously.
When asked how the new team came about, Birt explained: “Robyn and I touched base and it went from there. Meaghan was looking for a change, and I didn’t know what I wanted to do.
“Michelle is moving to China to teach for the year, so there was going to have to be a change in our old team anyways. It just kind of all fell together.”
Birt said the toughest part of the process was parting ways with Bradley, who has been her teammate for seven years.
“It’s very hard because we got along so well,” said Birt. “We were roommates on the road, and there’s not one second that we had that was a bad moment.”