Krista McCarville

Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario.

In 1998, she played second for Elaine Uhryn and finished with a 7–5 record, out of playoffs.

During her junior career, McCarville competed at four Canadian Junior Curling Championships for Team Northern Ontario, skipping three times (2000, 2001, and 2002), and playing second once (1998).

Throughout her women's career, McCarville has competed in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championships, ten times, all as a skip.

She skipped her own team in 2000, 2001, and 2002, finishing with a 7–5 record in both 2000 and 2001, and a 6–6 record in 2002.

McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the 2003 Winter Universiade silver medallist, a four-time Ontario provincial champion, a four-time Northern Ontario provincial champion, and a two-time Canadian national medallist.

In 2003, she and her team from Lakehead University represented Canada at the Winter Universiade in Tarvisio, Italy.

The team won the silver medal, losing to Olga Jarkova's team from Russia in the final.

McCarville competed in her first women's provincial championship at the 2004 Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts (before 2015, there was no separate Northern Ontario team at the national Tournament of Hearts), missing the playoffs.

She also played third for Northern Ontario, skipped by her brother Joe Scharf, at the 2005 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship.

They finished out of the playoffs.

In 2005, she placed second at the 2005 Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts, losing the final to Jenn Hanna.

Leading up to the 2005–06 curling season, Lorraine Lang asked McCarville to skip her team, with former skip Tara George moving up the lineup, which McCarville accepted.

That season, she competed in her first Grand Slam at the 2005 Casinos of Winnipeg Curling Classic (no longer a Grand Slam event), where her team placed third.

In 2006, she won the 2006 Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts, earning the right to represent Ontario at the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts.

There, her team finished with a 4–7 record.

The following season, McCarville competed at the 2006 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic, finishing with a 4–3 record and out of the playoffs.

She won the Ontario Tournament of Hearts again in 2007, and improved on her previous record at the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, finishing the round robin with a 6–5 record and losing the tie-breaker to Team Alberta, skipped by Cheryl Bernard.

During the 2007–08 season, McCarville placed third at the Casinos of Winnipeg Curling Classic.

Her team placed second at the 2008 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, losing the final to Sherry Middaugh.

She also made the final of the 2008 Players' Championship Grand Slam, which she lost to Amber Holland.

The next season, McCarville's team missed the playoffs at the 2008 Casinos of Winnipeg Classic and the 2008 Sobeys Slam.

She has also competed in three Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing in third place twice (2009 and 2021) and fifth place once (2017).

McCarville and her rink are known for doing well at major tournaments such as the Scotties and Olympic Trials, despite not playing many tour events.

Their team mission has been to be the "best 'amateur' team in the World".

McCarville started curling at the age of ten at the Fort William Curling Club.

She represented Northern Ontario in four Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

In 2009, she once again won the right to represent Ontario at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, for the third time in four years, after winning the 2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

At the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia, she again finished 6–5, missing the playoffs.

At the 2009 Players' Championship, her team reached the quarterfinals, where they lost to Kelly Scott.

In 2009, McCarville and her team won the second qualifying spot at the Road to the Roar (the Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials) in Prince George, British Columbia, earning them one of eight spots in Edmonton, Alberta for the Roar of the Rings, the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.

There, her team finished the round robin in a tie for third place.

They played in the first tie-breaker against Team Lawton of Saskatoon.

After beating Team Lawton, they moved on to the second tie-breaker against Team Amber Holland of Kronau, Saskatchewan, which they won.

They then played in their third game of the day, the semi-final against Shannon Kleibrink from Calgary, and lost, ending their run at the Olympic Trials.

A month later, the 2010 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts took place at home for Team McCarville, in Thunder Bay.

After going undefeated in the round robin, they earned an automatic bye into the provincial final, where they beat Team Horgan of Sudbury to finish the tournament undefeated.

It was the first time in provincial history that a team went undefeated.

Before 2015, Northern Ontario did not compete at the Tournament of Hearts separately from Ontario; McCarville represented Ontario four times at the championships (2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010), winning bronze in 2010.

She has skipped the Northern Ontario team six times (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023), winning silver in 2016 and 2022.