2009 Players' Championships
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The 2009 Grey Power Players' Championship is the last Grand Slam event of both the World Curling Tour
World Curling Tour
The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

 and Women's World Curling Tour for the 2008-09 season. This will be the seventeenth time the event has taken place, and the fourth time since it was switched to joint men's/women's format. The event will be held in Grande Prairie, Alberta
Grande Prairie, Alberta
Grande Prairie is a city in the northwestern part of the province of Alberta in Western Canada. It is located on the southern edge of the Peace River Country . The city is surrounded by the County of Grande Prairie No...

 April 14-19. Since the event is a part of the Olympic qualifying process in Canada, only Canadian teams are invited. The total purse for each event is $100,000.

Teams

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  Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. A former skip, he currently plays second for Randy Ferbey.Appelman has made most of his successes to date as a skip, during the 2008-09 curling season and the 2009-10 curling season. His team was invited to participate in the 2009 Canada...

 
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  Kerry Burtnyk
Kerry Burtnyk
Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...

 
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  Randy Ferbey
Randy Ferbey
Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

 
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  Sean Geall  16 12
  Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...

 
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  Brad Heidt
Brad Heidt
Brad Heidt is a Canadian curler from Kerrobert, Saskatchewan. He is a two-time provincial champion.In 1982, Heidt and his team of Wayne Charteris, John Whetter and Warren Rechenmacher finished 5-6 at the Labatt Brier. He won his second provincial championship 13 years later, sending him to the 1995...

 
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  Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...

 
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  Joel Jordison  11 10
  Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe is a Canadian curler. Originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, he now resides in Grande Prairie, Alberta and curls out of Edmonton, Alberta. He is the skip of the current World champion team....

 
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  Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin (curler)
Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...

 
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  Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett is a Canadian curler from Alliston, Ontario. Matchett is a former provincial junior curling champion and a regular on the World Curling Tour....

 
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  Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen (curler)
Michael "Mike" McEwen is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. The McEwen team curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg.-Career:...

 
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  Wayne Middaugh
Wayne Middaugh
Wayne Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario.Middaugh is a two-time world champion, once as second for Russ Howard in 1993 and as a skip in 1998. He has participated and won in seven and participated in 11 Briers- in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 as Russ Howard's second and in...

 
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  Chris Schille  10 13
  Pat Simmons
Pat Simmons (curler)
Pat Simmons is a Canadian curler. Simmons has skipped team Saskatchewan in four straight Briers from 2005 to 2008.Simmons made it to his first Brier in 2005 after winning his first provincial championship...

 
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  Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton is a Canadian curler. Stoughton is a three-time Brier champion and two-time World champion as skip.-Career:...

 
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Teams

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  Cheryl Bernard
Cheryl Bernard
Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final....

 
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  Michelle Englot
Michelle Englot
Michelle Englot ; is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan...

 
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  Amber Holland
Amber Holland
Amber Holland is a Canadian curler. Holland skipped Saskatchewan's team to a national women's championship in 2011 by defeating defending champion Jennifer Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts...

 
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  Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan
Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian curler from Orleans, Ontario. Homan is a former Canadian Junior Champion.-Career:...

 
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  Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones (curler)
Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...

 
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  Cathy King
Cathy King
Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...

 
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  Shannon Kleibrink
Shannon Kleibrink
Shannon Kleibrink is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy...

 
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  Marie-France Larouche
Marie-France Larouche
Marie-France Larouche is a Canadian curler.Larouche is a former national junior curling champion, having won the title in 1999 with her team of Nancy Bélanger, Marie-Ève Létourneau, Valerie Grenier and Véronique Grégoire. Larouche won the championship after four previous unsuccessful attempts...

 
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  Stefanie Lawton
Stefanie Lawton
Stefanie Lawton is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. After an appearance at the 1997 Canadian Junior Championships, she would go on to win the 2000 Championships with the help of her team of sister Marliese Miller , Stacy Helm and Amanda MacDonald . At the worlds that year, she...

 
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  Marla Mallett
Marla Mallett
Marla Mallett is a Canadian curler from Langley, British Columbia....

 
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  Krista McCarville  22 16
  Sherry Middaugh
Sherry Middaugh
Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....

 
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  Heather Rankin
Heather Rankin
Heather Rankin is a Canadian curler currently residing in Alberta.While living in Nova Scotia, Rankin won the provincial junior championships in 1984 and would skip the Nova Scotia team at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships...

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  Kelly Scott
Kelly Scott
Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...

 
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  Barb Spencer  17 14
  Crystal Webster
Crystal Webster
Crystal Webster is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Webster skips one of the top teams in Alberta, but due to the depth in the province, she has been unable to get out of the province to the Canadian national championships.In 2009, Webster was the first qualifier at the Canadian Olympic...

 
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* Renee Sonnenberg
Renée Sonnenberg
Renée Sonnenberg is a Canadian curler from Grande Prairie, Alberta.Sonnenberg is two time provincial champion....

 is sparing for Heather Rankin, but it is Rankin's team.

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