Rebecca Morrison Explained

Rebecca Morrison
Birth Date:22 August 1996
Birth Place:Bristol, England[1]
Curling Club:Meldrum & Daviot CC,
Aberdeen, SCO
Skip:Rebecca Morrison
Third:Jennifer Dodds
Second:Sophie Sinclair
Lead:Sophie Jackson
Mixed Doubles Partner:Craig Waddell
World Championship Appearances:3
European Championship Appearances:2

Rebecca Morrison (born 22 August 1996) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. She currently skips her own team out of Stirling.[2] The team won the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships in Dumfries.[3]

Career

Rebecca Morrison's national curling career has been closely intertwined with that of the Team GB nine-player squad. In being part of this squad, she skipped Team GB to the Euro Super Series championship in 2019.[4] She later formed her current squad, with two of the other three members previous being on the team (the only person not is lead Sophie Jackson). Team Morrison, competing with third/vice-skip Gina Aitken, second Sophie Sinclair, and lead Sophie Jackson, won the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships which qualified them for the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship in Prince George.[5] They were selected over Team Muirhead who did not compete at the 2022 Scottish Championships because of the proximity in time to the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.[6] Unfortunately, Team Morrison was forced to withdraw from the 2022 World Championship after four of the five players on the team tested positive for COVID-19 leaving only one curler eligible to curl with Morrison and Fay Henderson testing positive before the start of the tournament, dropping team Morrison down to three players including the alternate and leaving them without their skip. On 20 March 2022, two more members of the team tested positive forcing Team Morrison to withdraw.[7]

Grand Slam record

Event2023–24
Tour ChallengeQF
MastersQ
Canadian OpenQ

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rebecca Morrison . British Curling . 16 March 2022 . en.
  2. News: Team Morrison Selected for 2022 World Championship . 16 March 2022 . Scottish Curling . 8 March 2022.
  3. News: Law . Danny . Curling: Scottish title joy for Aberdeen's Rebecca Morrison . 16 March 2022 . Press and Journal . 27 February 2022.
  4. News: CurlingZone: Great Britain Red's Morrison wins Euro Super Series . 16 March 2022.
  5. News: Law . Danny . Curling: Aberdeen's Rebecca Morrison to represent Scotland at Women's World Championships . 17 March 2022 . Press and Journal . 8 March 2022.
  6. News: Nicolson . Eric . Eve Muirhead and Beijing heroes have NOT been selected by British Curling for World Championships . 17 March 2022 . The Courier . 8 March 2022.
  7. News: Clakre . Ted . Positive COVID tests force Scotland to withdraw from women's world curling championship . 21 March 2022 . Prince George Citizen . 20 March 2022 . en.