Georgina Wheatcroft

Who is Georgina Wheatcroft?

Georgina Wheatcroft is a Canadian curler.

Wheatcroft made her Scott Tournament of Hearts debut in 1987 as a third for Pat Sanders. Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1985 for British Columbia. At the 1987 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Sanders, Wheatcroft and their British Columbia team won the Hearts defeating Kathie Ellwood in the final. At the World Championships that year, the team won the gold medal defeating Germany's Andrea Schöpp in the final. In 1988 Wheatcroft played second for Sanders and they lost in the final to Heather Houston. In 1989, Wheatcroft moved to Julie Sutton's team, and they also qualified for the Hearts. However at the Hearts, they would lose in their first playoff game. Wheatcroft would not go back to the Hearts until 2000.

In 2000, Wheatcroft played second for Kelley Law's rink. With Law, Wheatcroft won that year's Scott Tournament of Hearts and World Curling Championships. The team were runners up at the following 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts where they lost to Colleen Jones. The following year the team qualified for the 2002 Winter Olympics as team Canada. The team won the bronze medal.