The All-Stars and other award winners at the 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Championships were announced on Friday at the awards banquet at the Langley BC Events Centre.
Lauren Lenentine
(file photo from 2019 awards)
PEI’s Lauren Lenentine, playing on the undefeated Mackenzie Zacharias team from Manitoba, won the First Team All-Star honour for junior women’s leads, based on shooting percentages during the round-robin, with a percentage of 86%.
Kristie Rogers
(Margaret O’Connor photo)
Kristie Rogers on PEI’s Team Ferguson, won the Second Team All-Star honour for junior women’s second stones, with a percentage of 80%.
Here is the complete list of winners, from Curling Canada:
All-Stars
(determined by shooting percentages during the round robin)
Women
First Team
Skip — Mackenzie Zacharias, Manitoba (85 per cent)
Third — Karlee Burgess, Manitoba (88 per cent)
Second — Calissa Daly, Northern Ontario (82 per cent)
Lead — Lauren Lenentine, Manitoba (86 per cent)
Second Team
Skip — Kira Brunton, Northern Ontario (78 per cent)
Third — Catherine Clifford, Alberta (83 per cent)
Second — Kristie Rogers, Prince Edward Island (80 per cent)
Lead — Jessica Leonard, Northern Ontario (86 per cent)
Men
First Team
Skip — Jacques Gauthier, Manitoba 2 (83 per cent)
Third — Scott Mitchell, Northern Ontario (88 per cent)
Second — Jeffrey Meagher, Nova Scotia (88 per cent)
Lead — Chase Dusessoy, Northern Ontario (87 per cent)
Second Team
Skip — Rylan Kleiter, Saskatchewan (83 per cent)
Third — Ryan McNeil Lamswood, Newfoundland and Labrador (86 per cent)
Second — Brayden Payette, Manitoba 2 (86 per cent)
Lead — Tie — Nathan King, Newfoundland and Labrador & Scott Weagle, Nova Scotia (87 per cent)
* In the case of a percentage tie, the all-star position goes to the player with the highest plus/minus for the week (a player receives a +1 for every game in which he/she outcurls the positional opponent by five per cent or more). Should they still be tied, the pre-event draw to the button results are used to determine the all-star.
Ken Watson Sportsmanship Awards
(voted by the players)
Women — Lyndsey Burgess, Nova Scotia
Men — Ryan Jacques, Alberta
ASHAM Fair Play Awards
(selected by the officials)
Men
Lead — Lawson Yates, Manitoba 1
Second — Joshua Miki, British Columbia 1
Vice-skip — Joshua Leung, Ontario
Skip — Rylan Kleiter, Saskatchewan
Coach — Anthony Purcell, Nova Scotia
Women
Lead — Julie Brenton, Ontario
Second — Kate Callaghan, Nova Scotia
Vice-skip — Peal Gillis, Northwest Territories
Skip — Mackenzie Zacharias, Manitoba
Coach — Michel Blais, Québec
ASHAM National Coaching Awards
(voted by the coaches)
Women – Mark Noseworthy, Newfoundland and Labrador
Men – Vic Shimizu, British Columbia 2