Emily Farnham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Emily Farnham

Canadian curler

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1937

Place of Birth: Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada

Profession: athlete

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Emily Farnham

  • For the Brookside character, see List of Brookside characters#FEmily Blanche Farnham (born April 14, 1937 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler.
  • Her and her team of Linda Saunders, Pat McBeath and Donna Collins from the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon dominated the women's curling scene during the 1973-74 season, capping the year off by winning the 1974 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Canada's national women's curling championship.
  • Farnham and Collins had been teammates for seven years before University of Saskatchewan curlers Saunders and McBeath joined the team in 1973.
  • During the 1973-74 season, the team won four major cashpiels in Saskatchewan before winning the provincial championship and representing Saskatchewan at the 1974 Macdonald Lassies Championship.
  • Farham had tried unsuccessfully for 13 years before winning the Saskatchewan provincial championship.
  • At the national championship, her rink went undefeated, winning all nine of their games en route to the national championship.
  • It would be the sixth championship in a row for rinks representing Saskatchewan.
  • In total, Team Farnham won 118 of 120 games over the course of the season, losing just to games - one to a men's team, and one in the Northern Saskatchewan playdowns.
  • In 1989, Farnham became the first woman to win the Canadian Senior Curling Championships, after having previously won the national women's championship.
  • Farnham and her rink of Mary Todarchuk, Mary Heidt, Arlie Ellsworth won the Seniors Championship that year for Saskatchewan.
  • At the national championship, the team finished the round robin with a 7-3 record, and then had to win a tiebreaker, before winning two playoff games to claim the championship.
  • Farnham and Heidt were also members of Team Saskatchewan at the 1988 Canadian Senior Championship, where they finished with a 5-5 record.
  • Farnham won another provincial Seniors title in 1991, and lost in the finals of the 1991 national championship.As of 2015, Farnham lives in Airdrie, Alberta.The 1973-74 Farmham rink was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.
  • Her 1989 Senior team was inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1993 as well.
  • Farnham was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1993.

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