Val Sweeting

Valerie Sweeting (born July 9, 1987 in Redvers, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Lottie Lake, Alberta She currently plays third for Team Kerri Einarson.

Sweeting skipped Alberta to a silver medal at the and Scotties Tournament of Hearts and won the tournament in, 2021, 2022, 2023 with Team Kerri Einarson.

Sweeting grew up in Maryfield, Saskatchewan.

In 2007, Sweeting played third for Hailey Surik's junior rink out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

The team represented Saskatchewan at the 2007 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

After posting an 8–4 record, they lost to Manitoba in a tiebreaker match.

After juniors, Sweeting moved to Alberta where she formed her own team with Megan Anderson at third, Carly Quigley at second and Whitney Eckstrand at lead.

After the 2009–10 season, Sweeting re-jigged her team's lineup, adding Leslie Rogers at third, replacing Quigley.

In 2010, in her very first provincial championship, Sweeting surprised many by defeating former World championship bronze medalist Cathy King and Olympic bronze medalist Shannon Kleibrink to capture the provincial crown.

She would be the youngest skip ever to represent Alberta at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

At the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, she skipped her province to a 4–7 record.

Sweeting played in her first Grand Slam event later in the season.

Ranked 44th going into the 2010 Players' Championship, she won three straight games after losing to Kleibrink, qualifying her for the playoffs.

She then lost in the quarterfinal to Stefanie Lawton.

The team had a less eventful season in 2010–11, including winning just one game at the 2011 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

After the season, Sweeting brought in a new front-end of Joanne Courtney and Rachelle Pidherny.

The team improved on the year before, and finished in fourth place at the 2012 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Following the season, Sweeting added Dana Ferguson at third position, replacing Rogers.

In the 2012–13 season, Sweeting's rink narrowly missed the playoffs at the 2013 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but the team was able to gain enough CTRS points to qualify for the 2013 Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials.

The team was one of the qualifiers in the event, giving them the right to play in the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.

At the trials, Sweeting led her rink to a 3–4 record, failing to qualify for the playoffs.

Also in the 2013–14 season, the rink had two quarterfinal appearances at Grand Slams, at the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2013 Colonial Square Ladies Classic.

After the 2013–14 season, Sweeting's third Joanne Courtney left the team to play for the Homan rink, whom they had lost to in the 2014 Scotties final.

She would be replaced by Andrea Crawford, who left the team early in the season when things weren't working out.

Sweeting continued her success that season by going undefeated at the 2014 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where her team beat Cheryl Bernard in the final.

Sweeting then represented Alberta once again at the national championships, the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

At the Hearts, Sweeting led Alberta to an 8–3 finish following the round robin.

This put her into the playoffs, where she beat Saskatchewan's Stefanie Lawton and Manitoba's Chelsea Carey to advance to the final.

There, she lost to Ontario's Rachel Homan 8–6 to win the silver medal.

With Cathy Overton-Clapham playing third as their spare, they won their first slam at the 2014 Masters of Curling.

With Lori Olson-Johns as their new full-time third, they also made it to the semifinals at two slams and the quarterfinals at one other.

They also won the 2014 Canada Cup of Curling, defeating Homan in the final.

The team would win the 2015 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, earning the team a berth at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

There, Sweeting led her rink to a 9–2 round robin record, good enough for second place, behind Team Manitoba, skipped by Jennifer Jones.

They would go on to lose to Manitoba in the 1 vs. 2 game, but rebounded in the semifinal, beating Saskatchewan (skipped by Stefanie Lawton), before losing to Jones again in the final.

The team found less success in their next season.

They won just one tour event (the 2015 HDF Insurance Shoot-Out), though they still made the playoffs in five of the six slams of the season, including making it to the finals of the 2015 Masters, where they lost to Homan.

The team would not represent Alberta at the Scotties, as they lost in the finals of the 2016 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts to the Chelsea Carey rink, who would end up winning the national title.

In the 2016–17 season, the Sweeting rink made the playoffs in five of the six slams, including winning the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge and losing in the final of the 2017 Players' Championship.

The team again lost in the finals of the 2017 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, this time losing to Shannon Kleibrink.