Cathy King
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Team C. King | |
Alternate | |
Lead | Tracy Bush |
Second | Raylene Rocque |
Third | Lori Olson |
Skip | Cathy King |
Club | Saville Curling Club |
Top CCA ranking |
4th (2004-05, 2005-06) |
Cathy King (born: Winnipeg, Manitoba), formerly Cathy Borst (Cathy's married name was Borst - when she divorced she went back to her maiden name of King) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. She is best known for winning the 1998 Scott Tournament of Hearts and going on to place third at the subsequent World Championships behind Elisabet Gustafson's team from Sweden and Helena Blach Lavrsen's team from Denmark. She was also national junior champion in 1978 and 1979. She has been in six Scott Tournament of Hearts (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2005). At the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts, she finished with a 6-5 round-robin record, then lost in a tie-breaker to Ontario's Jenn Hanna. In 2006, King won the Canada Cup of Curling defeating Jennifer Jones in the final. King returned to the Hearts in 2006, and she finished 6-5 again, and out of the playoffs.