Terri Loblaw
Terri Loblaw (born c. 1958){{Cite news|title=Alberta’s Loblaw wins Canadian senior women’s curling title|url=https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/albertas-loblaw-wins-canadian-senior-womens-curling-title|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|date=March 28, 2015}} is a Canadian curler. She is a former national women's senior champion.
Early life
In her youth, Loblaw played high school basketball in Rocky Mountain House.{{Cite news|title=Sjare, Kannekens lead all-stars|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/red-deer-advocate/136594468/|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Red Deer Advocate|date=March 25, 1976}}
Loblaw did not curl competitively until later in her life, instead playing Slo-Pitch softball. In Slo-Pitch, she played in the 1989 Co-Ed national championships for the Kennedy Oilfield Blackjacks.{{Cite news|title=Blackjacks are dealers of a good time|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/calgary-herald/136592145/|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Calgary Herald|date=August 22, 1989}}
Curling career
Loblaw played in the 2010 Alberta Senior women's championship, finishing with a 2–5 record.{{Cite news|title=Curling|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/calgary-herald/136592743/|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Calgary Herald|date=February 21, 2010}} She made it all the way the Alberta final in 2014, where she lost to Glenys Bakker.{{Cite news|title=Johnson eyes another national title|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal/136592967/|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|date=February 21, 2014}} In the 2015 provincial championship, she won the title, defeating Cathy King in the final, when King's rink ran out of time in the extra end.{{Cite news|title=Cathy King, Ed Lukowich take Alberta seniors curling titles|url=https://calgaryherald.com/sports/curling/cathy-king-ed-lukowich-take-alberta-seniors-curling-titles|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Calgary Herald|date=February 22, 2016}} Loblaw, and her rink of Judy Pendergast, Sandy Bell, Cheryl Meek then went on to represent Alberta at the 2015 Canadian Senior Curling Championships.{{Cite news|title=Alberta's Terri Loblaw wins senior women's title|url=https://edmontonsun.com/2015/03/29/albertas-terri-loblaw-wins-senior-womens-title|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Edmonton Sun|date=March 28, 2015}} It was the first trip to a national championship at any level for Loblaw. After finishing the round robin with a 9–3 record, Loblaw beat Saskatchewan's Cathy Inglis in the semifinal 9–3, then former world champion Colleen Jones representing Nova Scotia in the final, 7–5. It was Alberta's seventh national women's senior title. The win qualified Loblaw to represent Canada at the 2016 World Senior Curling Championships in Karlstad, Sweden, Loblaw's first trip to Europe in her life. At the 2016 World Seniors, she led Canada to a 7–1 round robin record, but lost to Germany's Monika Wagner rink in the quarter-finals.{{Cite news|title=Neufeld through to semifinals at World Seniors|url=https://www.curling.ca/blog/2016/04/22/neufeld-through-to-semifinals-at-world-seniors/|access-date=2023-12-10|publisher=Curling Canada}}
Loblaw played in the Alberta women's senior championships again in 2016.{{Cite news|title=Fast Eddie Lukowich to rock in first provincial seniors|url=https://calgaryherald.com/sports/curling/fast-eddie-lukowich-to-rock-in-first-provincial-seniors|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Calgary Herald|date=February 16, 2016}} Two years later, Loblaw and her rink of Pendergast, Bell and Cheryl Hall won the 2018 Alberta women's championship.{{Cite news|title=Results of the 2018 Alberta Senior Curling Championship|url=http://www.sunnysouthnews.com/sports/2018/02/27/results-of-the-2018-alberta-senior-curling-championship/|access-date=2023-12-10|newspaper=Sunny South News|date=February 27, 2018}} The team had less success representing Alberta at the 2018 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, finishing the round robin with a 4–5 record.{{Cite news|title=Playoff match-ups are set at the Canadian Seniors|url=https://www.curling.ca/blog/2018/03/28/playoff-match-ups-are-set-at-the-canadian-seniors/|access-date=2023-12-10|publisher=Curling Canada}}
Personal life
Loblaw worked as a credit administrator for a furniture company in Calgary.