Throwing Rocks at Houses My Life in and out of Curling [#509375]

Colleen Jones, "Throwing Rocks at Houses: My Life in and out of Curling"
English | ISBN: 0670068195 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Canada's greatest curling champion opens up about her extraordinary career and life In every sport there is one name that stands above all others. In curling, there can be none other than Colleen Jones. When the sport was still developing, Colleen was pioneering the kind of play and dedication that would propel the sport forward. She was only nineteen years old when she won her first provincial championship, and she became the youngest skip, at age twenty-two, ever to win the Canadian women's curling championship: the Tournament of Hearts. She went on to win it a total of six times, with an unprecedented four in a row in the early 2000s. With her two world championships in the same timeframe, no other competitor has matched her record. In "Throwing Rocks at Houses," Colleen Jones discusses her start in curling and her remarkable career-from the pure joy of the game for a large family in Halifax to outworking her competition through will and resilience. But as a successful broadcaster