PEI curler excited to join junior women’s world champs for 2018 season (CBC PEI)

P.E.I. curler Lauren Lenentine is joining the Canadian and world junior women’s championship team from Nova Scotia for the upcoming curling season.

Lenentine, who curls out of the Cornwall Curling Club, will begin competing with the Kaitlyn Jones rink at the end of April when they travel to Calgary for the Champions Cup.

Lauren Lenentine, middle, accompanied Team Jones as an alternate at the world junior championships in early March, and will play for the team fulltime in 2018. (Team Jones/Twitter)

She will replace third Kristin Clarke, whose junior eligibility has expired.

I’m really excited, they’re clearly a really good team so to have this opportunity is amazing and I’m so excited to have a new adventure,” Lenentine said.

‘She’s very dedicated and we know that she’s a good person on and off the ice and she just brings that chemistry that we need for the team.’— Kaitlyn Jones

Lenentine said she wants to win a Canadian and world junior championship and, at 17, she’ll have three years to do it.

“That has always been my goal so I’m looking forward to trying to achieve it,” she said.

Lenentine accompanied Team Canada as an alternate at the world championships in Scotland earlier this month.

“We wanted to do it as a test run to see if she would work well with us next year and we thought she was a great fit,” Jones said.

Lenentine will be moving to Halifax in the fall to attend university and begin her “new adventure.”

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