Georgina Wheatcroft
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| Olympic Medalist | |||
 Wheatcroft (right) with Kelley Law |
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| Bronze | 2002 Salt Lake City | Women's | |
Georgina Wheatcroft (born November 30, 1965 in Nanaimo, British Columbia as Georgina Hawkes) is a Canadian curler. Wheatcroft currently plays third for Kelley Law.
Wheatcroft made her Scott Tournament of Hearts debut in 1987 as a third for Pat Sanders. Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1986 for British Columbia. At the 1987 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Sanders, Wheatcroft and their British Columbia team won the Hearts defeating Kathie Ellwood in the final. At the World Championships that year, the team won the gold medal defeating Germany's Andrea Schöpp in the final. In 1988 Wheatcroft played second for Sanders and they lost in the final to Heather Houston. In 1989, Wheatcroft moved to Julie Sutton's team, and they also qualified for the Hearts. However at the Hearts, they would lose in their first playoff game. Wheatcroft would not go back to the Hearts until 2000.
In 2000, Wheatcroft played second for Kelley Law's rink. With Law, Wheatcroft won that years' Scott Tournament of Hearts and World Curling Championships. The team were runners up at the following 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts where they lost to Colleen Jones. The following year the team qualified for the 2002 Winter Olympics as team Canada. The team won the bronze medal.
In 2004, Wheatcroft skipped her own team to the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts, but her new team finished 4-7. She attempted to qualify the following year, but lost in the British Columbia playdowns. In 2005, she was picked up by that years Hearts champion Jennifer Jones to replace Cathy Gauthier, and she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to play with the team. She was added prior to that years' Olympic trials. However the team had a 5-4 record at the trials. Wheatcroft had the opportunity to play in the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts, because Jones had won it the previous year, and thus got to play in 2006 as Team Canada. The team lost in the final to Kelly Scott of British Columbia.
2006 saw Wheatcroft return to playing with Kelley Law, as her third. In 2007, the team made their way back to the national championship, now called the Scotties Tournament of Hearts after winning the B.C. Provincial championship on January 28, 2007 with her new team. At the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, they finished with a 5-6 record.
