Chrissy Cadorin in action with her local rink from the Mississaugua Golf & Country Club. They are in the hunt for a victory at the 2009 Ontario Women's Curling Championship at the Oakville Curling Club until February 1, 2009. (Photo by Rob Beintema)
Chrissy Cadorin has strong convictions.
When the skip of the Mississauga-based curling team undertakes a project or a charity, she’ll do what she feels is necessary to help it be successful.
And it was for that reason she agreed to be among the many women to pose, albeit somewhat risqué, for the 2009 Women of Curling calendar.
“I thought about it long and hard,” said Cadorin, who has posed two years in a row for the calendar. “I wrestled with the idea. I didn’t want it to be outrageous and I only agreed to do it if half of the proceeds I got from the calendar went to Canadian spinal research. That was my reason for doing it.”
Cadorin, skip of the Mississauga Golf and Country Club team competing this week in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial ladies championship in Oakville, isn’t sure how much money she has helped raise for the spinal organization, but says it is “thousands of dollars.”
“It’s done tastefully,” said Cadorin’s father and coach, Peter. “I wouldn’t have let her do it otherwise.”
The calendar, which features female curlers from around the world, includes the Canadian Curling News among its distributors.
The 28-year-old Cadorin and her team of third Colleen Madonia, second Janet Murphy and lead Kate Hamer, all promote the “Shoot for the Cure” spinal cord research fundraising program on their curling shirts and jackets.
The Mississaugua team split a pair of games Tuesday to even its record at 2-2 in the week-long, 10-team Scotties tournament at the Oakville Curling Club.
Cadorin lost 8-2 to Alison Goring of the Bayview Golf and Country Club Tuesday night after beating perennial champion Sherry Middaugh of Midland 7-6 with a clutch shot in the final end in the afternoon draw.
Cadorin struggled with her weight control against Goring, who stole five consecutive ends to grab a 5-0 lead through six. After blanking the first end and then dropping the next five ends, Cadorin picked up a pair in the seventh to get back in the game. But the Bayview skip ended it in the eighth end when she scored three.
Cadorin came up with what the skip called a “good win” Tuesday afternoon in beating Middaugh.
Cadorin got into a little trouble in the ninth when her last rock rubbed against a guard and exposed her shot rock at the back of the four-foot ring. She couldn’t believe she had done that, and her disappointment was evident as she held her face in her hand.
But Cadorin shook it off in the 10th and capitalized on a little misfortune by Middaugh, winner of the provincial title six times in nine appearances dating back to 1993.
Middaugh needed a double take-out with her last rock in the 10th to try and force an extra end, but ended up with a nose hit instead. All Cadorin had to do was make a nose hit of her own, which she did, and counted two for the win.
The winner of the 10-team tournament will represent Ontario next month at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts National final in Victoria, B.C.
