Our Champions represent Alberta and Canada from a diverse array of expertise.
Browse through our list of Champions that your Foursome could spend the day with!
Our Champions
Beth Iskiw
Olympic Curling Champion
Beth Iskiw has spent the last several years playing third for one of the top female curling teams in the World skipped by Heather Nedohin. In 2012, Team Nedohin won the Alberta Women's Curling Championship and then went on to win the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, AB. Beth's team followed that triumphant win with a bronze medal at the 2012 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, AB.
Beth and Team Nedohin competed in the 2013 Continental Cup in Penticton, BC, winning the Ryder Cup style championship for North America over the World team. They then went on to compete as Team Canada at the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Kingston, ON, losing the semi-final.
This past winter Team Nedohin competed in the 2013 Roar of the Rings Olympic Curling Trials. Finishing with a 3-4 record the team narrowly missed the playoffs. The eventual champion was Jennifer Jones who went on to win gold in Sochi, RU.
Beth has had a successful curling career since her junior days. She won a Canadian Junior Women's Championship in 1997 and went on to a bronze medal at the 1997 World Juniors. She has competed in four Scotties Tournament of Hearts, two representing Nova Scotia where she used to reside, and two representing Alberta where she now calls Edmonton home. Beth is a mom of two young children, Allie, 7, and Nate, 5, with her husband Blayne Iskiw. She works as a Sales Supervisor with Wiley Canada.
2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Semi-finalist (Team Canada)
2012 Ford Worlds Bronze Medalist
2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Champion (Alberta)
2004 Nova Scotia Scott Tournament of Hearts Champion
2002 Nova Scotia Scott Tournament of Hearts Champion
1997 World Junior Curling Bronze Medalist
1997 Canadian Junior Curling Champion (Nova Scotia)
1996-1999 Nova Scotia Junior Champion
Fun Stuff
Do you have any superstitions?
“I have quite a few superstitions as the season goes along. We all have to sit in the same seat in the car or van after a win until we lose a game. If we’re on a streak, I may not change a particular item of clothing.”
If you could be a star any other sport, what would it be, and why?
“Definitely golf — beautiful weather, amazing courses and you’re not cooped up in a dingy rink.”
If you could change any rule in curling, which one would it be, and why?
“I would love to see thinking time (the system that was used at the Capital One Canada Cup, in which the clocks only run when the rocks aren’t in motion) implemented.”
Amanda Lindhout
Humanitarian
Amanda Lindhout is an award winning humanitarian, social activist, public speaker and writer, as well as the Founder and former Executive Director of the Global Enrichment Foundation.A woman whose compassion and determination are a powerful portrait of the strength of the human spirit, she founded the Global Enrichment Foundation to empower, educate and provide aid in the very country where she lost her freedom. Amanda’s trajectory as a woman of unique resilience, vision and action has made her an inspiring example of how one person can enact positive change on a worldwide scale.
In 2012, the Women’s Executive Network named Amanda one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women.Her memoir, A House in the Sky, co-written with New York Times contributing writer Sara Corbett, is the story of a young woman aspiring to live a significant life. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth”, where she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity.
