Kerri Einarson curling team silencing the question of too many skips
CALGARY — Kerri Einarson heard the comments and questions. Four skips on one curling team, how is that going to work?
Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard and Briane Meilleur, who all skipped their own teams in 2017-18, have won four World Curling Tour events to open this season.
The team’s most recent victory was beating reigning world champion Jennifer Jones in Monday’s final of the Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Classic in Calgary.
“Everyone was kind of like ‘Well, let’s see how four skips can sweep’ or ‘Who is going to call the game? Who is going to call the shots?’” Einarson told The Canadian Press prior to the final.