Jenna Loder


Jenna Loder is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a two-time Canadian junior champion and two-time world junior medallist, playing third for Kaitlyn Lawes.

Career

Loder, along with skip Kaitlyn Lawes, second Liz Peters, and lead Sarah Wazney, represented Manitoba at the 2008 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, where they won, beating Stephanie McVicar's Saskatchewan rink in the final to qualify for the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships. There, the team lost the 3 vs. 4 playoff game against Russia's Liudmila Privivkova; they faced the Russians again in the bronze medal match, which they won.
Loder, along with Lawes and a new front end of Laryssa Grenkow and Breanne Meakin, returned to the 2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, making playoffs and defeating Rachel Homan's team from Ontario in the final. At the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships, the team lost the final to Eve Muirhead's team from Great Britain and claimed the silver medal. On the World Curling Tour that season, the team made it to the semifinals of a Grand Slam, the 2008 Casinos of Winnipeg Classic.
Loder skipped her own team of Liz Peters, Sarah Wazney, and Mary Jane McKenzie for the 2009–10 curling season. They competed in one Grand Slam, the 2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic.
For the 2010–11 curling season, Loder played second for Jill Thurston. The team qualified for the 2011 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but failed to make playoffs.
The following season, Loder joined Cathy Overton-Clapham's team at third. The team won the 2011 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, participated in the 2012 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and were finalists in the 2012 Players' Championship. The team remained intact for the 2012–13 curling season, but missed playoffs at all four Grand Slams that they played in and the 2013 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and they placed last in the round robin of the 2012 Canada Cup of Curling, winning a single match. That season, Loder also competed in the 2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials with teammate Josh Heidt. They started with two wins but narrowly missed playoffs.
Loder was the second for Barb Spencer during the 2013–14 curling season. The team won one event that season, the DEKALB Superspiel. They competed in the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, but were eliminated from playoff contention following a loss to Cheryl Bernard. They placed third in the 2014 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts after losing in the semifinal to the eventual winner, Chelsea Carey. Loder and Heidt competed again in the 2014 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials, but missed playoffs again.
For the 2014–15 curling season, Loder joined Trish Paulsen's Saskatchewan team at second. The team competed in the 2015 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts but failed to reach playoffs.
Loder joined Kelly Scott's British Columbia rink at second for the 2015–16 curling season. The team, with third Shannon Joanisse and lead Sarah Pyke, were finalists in the 2016 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, losing to Karla Thompson.
Loder returned to playing third during the 2016–17 curling season, when she returned to Manitoba to play for Cathy Overton-Clapham, with a front end of Katherine Doerksen and Sarah Pyke. The team missed playoffs at the 2017 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Loder and Doerksen joined Rhonda Varnes for the 2017–18 curling season and Beth Peterson for the 2018–19 curling season.

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