This is from Curl BC
Scotties team members go separate ways
March 21, 2014 by rconnopprice ·
The women’s team that represented BC at the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Montreal will not be playing together next season.
Team Van Osch, with Kesa Van Osch, Stephanie Baier, Jessie Sanderson and Carley Sandwith, are parting company.
Kesa has joined up with her sister Kalia, who skipped her BC junior women’s team to a silver medal at the 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships.
The two of them will be able to play on a women’s team together now that Kalia has aged out of juniors.
Meanwhile, the other three – Baier, Sanderson and Sandwith – have joined up with Scotties stalwart Dailene Sivertson. The team, skipped by Sivertson, will be curling out of the Victoria Curling Centre.
Stephanie Baier said: “When we arrived back from Montreal, we took a break from curling, and then we met up again to discuss the team.
“Kesa had decided that she wanted to curl with Kalia, and that meant something had to change. We all decided the five-player team wasn’t what any of us wanted, especially with the success that we had last year. We all wanted to curl full-time.
“So the three of us decided to go into a different direction.
“At the same time Dailene was looking to move back to B.C. and looking to skip again. Two of us have curled with her before, so it was a natural move for her and for us.”
Sivertson, a three-time BC junior champion and a BC Scotties champion, has most recently been playing with Amber Holland out of Regina, Saskatchewan, but is returning to Victoria.
Kesa Van Osch said everyone was happy with the way things turned out. She said: “We are doing what is right for each of us and we parted on good terms.”
