At 16, Jordan Henson was by far the youngest of 20 skips entered in the Prince George ladies curling bonspiel which wrapped up Sunday at the PGGCC.
But after Henson scored a 9-1 win over Pam Boehmer in the final to claim the title for the third straight year, it's obvious the talented teenager is wise beyond her years in figuring out the intricacies of the game.
She was missing two of her junior teammates - skip Alyssa Connell and third Bailey Eberherr - but had her usual lead, Erin Ross, lending her talents and they went undefeated in five games for the threepeat.
"The last two years we've won it with a junior team but this year two of our players had to work, so we ended up picking up Diamond Wilson (who played third) and (lead) Mackayla Beck," said Henson.
"This is Mackayla's first huge competition so it was pretty cool for her. This was our first time ever curling together. I curl with Erin all the time but it took the first couple games to find the ice for the other two.
"The team was pretty much on the ball the whole time. We got lucky on a couple shots and just had to take advantage of their missed shots, and there wasn't very many."
Henson, a Grade 11 student at Prince George secondary school, jumped out to a 6-0 lead after four ends and scored three more in the sixth in what was an eight-end game.
"It was just an awesome team to play against, very sharp curlers, and it was well-deserved for them," said Boehmer, whose team of third Carol Brown, second Maxine Johnson and lead Tamara Kroeger was a first-time finalist. "If we would have played our game it would have been better, but unfortunately not."
Twenty women's teams entered the bonspiel, the second year it has been scheduled for the same weekend as the Kelly Cup men's bonspiel.
"It is something I've wanted to happen for a few years, it actually just brings the whole curling community together," said Boehmer. "It's really good, just an uplifting place to be for the weekend."
