Laura Walker

Laura Walker (born November 19, 1990, as Laura Crocker) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta.

She is a two-time Canadian University champion, a national junior champion, world junior silver medallist and world mixed doubles bronze medallist.

Walker is originally from Scarborough, Ontario.

Walker began her junior curling career as a skip.

In 2008, her Scarboro Golf & Country Club rink made it to the provincial junior championships where her team finished with a 2–5 record.

While Walker was finding success with her junior career, she also found success representing Sir Wilfrid Laurier University as a university curler, where she attended school from 2008 to 2012.

In 2010, Walker was invited to join the Rachel Homan junior rink at the second position.

The team's regular second, Alison Kreviazuk, was too old to play in juniors that season (but played with the team in World Curling Tour events).

The rink would win the provincial championship and the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, and would then make it to the final of the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships where they lost to Sweden.

The following season, Walker and lead Lynn Kreviazuk joined up with the Clancy Grandy junior rink.

With Grandy, Walker won her second straight provincial championship but finished with a 5–7 record at the 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, missing the playoffs.

Walker won the 2011 CIS/CCA Curling Championships defeating Brock University in the final.

Following the 2011–12 season, Walker and teammates Sarah Wilkes and Jen Gates moved from Ontario to curl out of Edmonton, Alberta where they were joined by Albertan Rebecca Pattison.

In her final year at Laurier, Walker would repeat her championship, winning in the final of the 2012 CIS/CCA Curling Championships against Brock once again.

Walker graduated that year from Laurier with a BA in Psychology.

Walker played in her first WCT Grand Slam event at the 2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, where her team lost in the quarter-finals.

At the second Grand Slam of the season, the Crocker rink repeated that success by finishing in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic.

However at the next Slam, the 2012 Colonial Square Ladies Classic her team would miss out at the quarters, by losing in the round of 16.

At the 2012 Masters Grand Slam of Curling, the rink went 0–5.

The team qualified for the 2013 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Crocker's first provincial women's championship appearance.

The team began the tournament with four straight victories, but lost both of their playoff games.

To wrap up the season, the Crocker rink made it to the quarter-finals of the 2013 Players' Championship.

After the season, Wilkes became the team's alternate and was replaced by Erin Carmody at third.

To start the 2013–14 season, the Crocker team played in both the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2013 Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women's Classic, failing to make the playoffs in either event.

Her team played in the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, winning two games, but not qualifying for the Olympic Trials.

Next, Walker played in the 2013 Winter Universiade with her Laurier University rink which included Wilkes, Gates and lead Cheryl Kreviazuk.

She would lead the team to a 4–5 record, missing the playoffs.

Walker finished the season by playing third for Val Sweeting at the 2014 Players' Championship, where they would miss the playoffs.

Effective as of March 11, 2014, the team announced that Chelsea Carey would take over as skip of the team.

Walker would move to third and Gates would remain at lead.

Wilkes has left the team.

Taylor McDonald was recruited to play second for the team, while Carmody left the team.

The team would win two tour titles that season, the HDF Insurance Shoot-Out and the Boundary Ford Curling Classic.

The team played in three slams that season, making the playoffs in only the 2014 Canadian Open of Curling, where they lost in the quarterfinals.

Following the 2014–15 season, Carey formed a new team, and was replaced by Kelsey Rocque as the team's skip.

In their first season together, the Rocque rink won the Red Deer Curling Classic and the CCT Uiseong Masters on the tour.

The team played in five slams, making it to the quarterfinals in four events.

At the 2015 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the team would lose in the finals.

The team also played in the 2015 Canada Cup of Curling, but finished with a 2–4 record, missing the playoffs.

Team Rocque played in the 2016 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but failed to make the playoffs.