Kaitlyn Lawes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kaitlyn Lawes
Occupation	Curler
Date Of Birth	Dec 16, 1988(1988-12-16)
Age	36
Birthplace	Winnipeg
Country	Canada
Birth City	Manitoba
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Kaitlyn Lawes Biography

Kaitlyn Lawes is one of the most popular and richest Curler who was born on December 16, 1988 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Lawes studied at her studies at the University of Manitoba where she learned about nutrition. She serves as an ambassador with Goldline Curling Supplies. She has a romantic friendship to Stephan Vigier, a professional ice hockey player. His father Keith has also been a curler who competed who played for Newfoundland in The 1969 Macdonald Brier. Her half-sister has Andrea Lawes, who was an athlete on her 90 Scott Tournament of Hearts champion team representing Ontario. The nephew of her is the curler Connor Lawes. The mother of her is Cheryl Lawes and her brother is Kevin Lawes.

In the following year, Lawes played third with Cathy King who was needing a third player after Lori Olson left the team to join Crystal Webster. In her only season on in the King rink Lawes won the Shoot-Out in September, and play at three grand Slams making the finals at the 2009 Trail Appliances Curling Classic. The team participated during the Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts and finished in third place.

The Jones rink continued their success into the 2011–12 season, winning the Radisson Blu Oslo Cup and the 2011 Canada Cup of Curling. The team won the 2012 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts and represented Manitoba at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. There, they would win the bronze medal.

For the first half of the 2012–13 season, Lawes skipped the team, with Kirsten Wall throwing third, as Jones was expecting her first child and sat out until January. Lawes won The Shoot-Out event on the World Curling Tour as skip. As skip, she would play in four slams, failing to qualify at the 2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2012 Masters, making it to the quarterfinals of the 2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women’s Curling Classic and the round of 16 at the 2012 Colonial Square Ladies Classic. Lawes skipped the team at the 2012 Canada Cup of Curling, where she would lose in the final to Team Stefanie Lawton. Jones was back to skipping the team in time for the 2013 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, which they again would win. At the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Jones led Manitoba to another silver medal, this time losing to Ontario’s Rachel Homan rink in the final.

In the wake of the 2009-10 season for curling, Team King decided to withdraw from the sport for a period of time and left Lawes with no team to compete for. Then the announcement was made the team Jennifer Jones had dropped third Cathy Overton-Claphamand been replaced by Lawes just in time for the 2010-11 season of curling. The team experienced rapid success in their first season with two Slams (the 2011 Sobeys Slam and the 2011 Players Championship) in addition to winning the Sun Life Classic, the Karuizawa International Curling Championship and the Victoria Curling Classic Invitational events on the World Curling Tour. After Jones was the winner of in the previous Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the team was a part of Team Canada at the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Lawes the first national championship for women. The team made their way to the semi-finals which they fell to Saskatchewan’s Amber Holland rink.

Kaitlyn Lawes Net Worth

Kaitlyn Lawes is one of the richest Curler from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kaitlyn Lawes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16th 1988) is a Canadian curler from Canada. Lawes is a third player in the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada in the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. It was their first team of women that went through the Olympics without losing and also the first Manitoba curling team from the province to win gold at the Olympics. Lawes curls together with John Morris in the mixed doubles competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics where they won gold. The win made Lawes along with Morris one of the very first Canadian curlers to earn 2 Olympic gold medals. Lawes is the only one curler to take gold at twice consecutive Olympics.

Lawes first became a star in 2008 when she took home her first Manitoba Junior women’s championship with teammates Jenna Loder, Liz Peters and Sarah Wazney. With Lawes not participating in the team the team was represented by Manitoba during the 2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, which she helped her team achieve the record of 10-2 for round robin placing them in first. At the end of finals the team beat the Saskatchewan’s Stephanie McVicar rink, claiming the national championship. Her team qualified to compete for Canada for the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships. In the tournament, she took Canada to an overall record of 5-4 in round robins which was that was tied the record of the Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont team. She went on to beat Denmark but fall in the 3 against. 4 playoff match against the Russians Liudmila Privivkova. Her team was then placed in the bronze medal game where she’d play Russia again. The team she was playing against got the most out of the Russians winning 9-8 and securing the bronze medal.

2009 was another great season for the Lawes team. They once again won the Manitoba junior championship, with a new front-end of Laryssa Grenkow and Breanne Meakin replacing Peters and Wazney. At the 2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Lawes led Manitoba to an 8–4 round robin record, in third place. In the playoffs, however, they downed Alberta’s Casey Scheidegger rink and Ontario’s Rachel Homan to defend their title and once again represented Canada at the World Juniors. At the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships, Lawes would lead Team Canada to a 6–3 round robin record, in third place. In the playoffs, she beat the Russians (skipped by Margarita Fomina) and Switzerland (skipped by Martina Baumann) before losing to Scotland’s Eve Muirhead in the gold medal final, settling for silver. In addition to their great showing in junior competitions, the Lawes team also played well on the World Curling Tour, making the semi-finals in a Grand Slam event, the Casinos of Winnipeg Women’s Curling Classic.

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The Jones rink would not qualify for the 2017 Scotties, having lost in the semifinals of the 2017 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts. However, they had some success in other events, winning the DeKalb Superspiel again, winning the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling and the 2017 Players’ Championship.

Facts & Trivia

Kaitlyn Ranked on the list of most popular Curler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Kaitlyn Lawes celebrates birthday on December 16 of every year.

Following her return from South Korea, Lawes joined the Jones team and took her spot at third back from Shannon Birchard who had played at this position in her absence. The team, victorious with Birchard at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts won the right to wear the maple leaf at the 2018 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship taking place in North Bay, Ontario. The team played very well and went through the round-robin undefeated. They would eventually beat Jamie Sinclair and her American team in the semi-final earning the right to face the Olympic champion, Anna Hasselborg in the final. Lawes and the Jones team would have to take Hasselborg to an extra end, but ultimately won the game without having to throw their last rock. The victory was Lawes’s first World Championship victory and would be the last for long- time second Jill Officer, as she announced she was stepping back from the game.

Top Facts about Kaitlyn Lawes

1. Kaitlyn Lawes is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2. She was born on December 16, 1988.
3. Lawes has won two Olympic gold medals in curling (2014 and 2018).
4. She has also won three World Curling Championships (2015, 2016, and 2018).
5. Lawes began curling at the age of six.
6. She played third for Jennifer Jones’ team that won the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2008.
7. In addition to her success in curling, Lawes is also an accomplished golfer.
8. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in kinesiology.
9. Lawes is married to fellow Canadian curler John Morris.
10. Her nickname is “K-Law”.

Who is Kaitlyn Lawes husband?

She is in a relationship with Stephan Vigier , a professional ice hockey player. Her father Keith was also a competitive curler, having played for Newfoundland at the 1969 Macdonald Brier.

Is Kaitlyn Lawes leaving Jennifer Jones team?

After Team Jennifer Jones announced that they would be going their separate ways at the end of the season , Winnipeg’s Kaitlyn Lawes says she’s had time to reflect and figure out what her future in curling was. The reflection process has led Lawes to a new team – her own.

How old is Kaitlyn Lawes?

33 years (December 16, 1988)

How tall is Kaitlyn Lawes?

5′ 3″

Is Jennifer Jones married?

Brent Laing