Liz Fyfe
Canadian female curler

Liz Fyfe

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Canadian female curler
A.K.A.
Elisabeth Peters
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11 May 1988(Winnipeg, Canada)
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Introduction

Elisabeth Fyfe (born May 11, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts as second on Kerri Einarson's Team Manitoba. She was a Canadian Junior Curling Champion having won the 2008 Canadian Junior Championships as a second on the Kaitlyn Lawes team. Fyfe is the daughter of former Brier champion Vic Peters. She currently plays second for Team Tracy Fleury.

Junior career

As a junior, Fyfe won the Manitoba Junior championships in 2001 with teammates Allison Nimik, Kristin Loder and Lindsay Titheridge. The team finished with a 4-8 record at the 2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Fyfe tied for third best leads at the competition, curling an average 73% in the round robin. She returned to the Canadian Juniors in 2008, playing second for Kaitlyn Lawes. The team finished round-robin with a 10-2 record which qualified them for the final. Manitoba won the final 7-6 which qualified the team for the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships. They won the bronze medal after defeating Russia in the Bronze Medal Game 9-8.

Women's Career

Fyfe joined the Einarson rink in 2012. They did not qualify for the 2013 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts or play in any Grand Slam's. In the 2013-14 curling season they played in one slam, the 2013 Colonial Square Ladies Classic (not qualifying) and the 2014 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, losing in the final to Team Chelsea Carey. The next season the team again lost in the final of Manitoba Hearts, losing this time to Team Jennifer Jones.

The 2015-16 curling season would be the breakthrough year for the rink. The team begun the season by winning the Tier 2 event of the 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge. The team finally won the Manitoba Scotties in 2016, and represented Manitoba at the national 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. There, the team would make the playoffs, but would end up losing in the bronze medal game, settling for fourth place. Elsewhere on the World Curling Tour, the team would play in four slams, making it to the semifinals at three events.

The team played in their first Canada Cup in 2016, losing in the semifinals. On the Tour, the team played in five Grand Slams, and would win their first title at the 2016 Boost National. At the 2017 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the team failed to make the playoffs.

The Einarson rink qualified for the 2017 Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials, but would lose in a tiebreaker game. On the tour, the team would win the 2017 Icebreaker at The Granite and would make it to the finals of the 2017 Masters of Curling. They qualified for the first ever Wild Card game at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they beat Chelsea Carey for the right to represent "Team Wild Card".

Fyfe would stay with Selena Njegovan and Kristin MacCuish for the 2018-19 curling season but would bring on a new skip, Tracy Fleury for the 2019-2022 Olympic quadrennial. Fleury is from Sudbury and plays as their designated out-of-province curler. The team had a nearly full schedule in Grand Slam events, beginning the season at the Elite 10, where they missed the playoffs after winning just one game. Next, they made it to the quarterfinals of the 2018 Masters, which they followed up by making it to the finals of the 2018 Tour Challenge, where they lost to Rachel Homan. Outside of the Grand Slam tour, they were invited to represent Canada at the second leg of the Curling World Cup, which they finished with a 4-2 record, narrowly missing the final. The following week they were back into a Grand Slam event, the 2018 National, where they won just one game. The following month, the team played in the 2019 Canadian Open, again missing the playoffs. The team found success in provincial playdowns, winning the 2019 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts defeating her old skip Kerri Einarson 13-7 in the final to represent Manitoba at the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. A week after provincials, the team played in at the 2019 TSN All-Star Curling Skins Game where they lost to Jennifer Jones by $4,000 in the final. The team did earn $32,500 during the tournament. At the Hearts, Manitoba went 4-3 record in pool play, but lost to British Columbia's Sarah Wark rink in a tiebreaker to get into the championship pool, which eliminated the team from contention. Fyfe missed the last event of the season for the team, the 2019 Players' Championship due to her pregnancy. With McDonald stepping in once again, the team had a quarterfinal finish.

McDonald spared at the teams first event of the 2019–20 season as well, the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic where the team would finish fourth. In her first event back, the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker, the team went undefeated en route to claiming the title. In their next event, Fyfe would again have a spare take her place, this time Jill Officer. The team would finish runner-up to Jennifer Jones. Two weeks later, they played in the 2019 Colonial Square Ladies Classic where they went undefeated until the final where they came up just short to Rachel Homan. Officer played in Fyfe's place once again at the 2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic where her team made it to the semifinals. She rejoined the team for the 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic where they lost in the quarterfinal. Their next event was the first Grand Slam of the season, the 2019 Masters where they qualified for the playoffs with a 3-1 record. With wins over Elena Stern in the quarterfinals and Anna Hasselborg in the semifinal, Team Fleury made their second Grand Slam final since forming. They would be successful this time, defeating Sayaka Yoshimura to claim the Grand Slam title. The next week, they had a quarterfinal finish at the second Slam of the season, the 2019 Tour Challenge. At the Canada Cup, the Fleury team once again had a successful run, qualifying for the playoffs with a 5-1 record. They downed Chelsea Carey 9-4 in the semifinal before coming up short to Rachel Homan in the final. Team Fleury capped off the 2019 part of the season with a semifinal finish at the 2019 Boost National Grand Slam. This meant they qualified for the playoffs in all 10 of the events they played in to start the season.

Personal life

Fyfe is a self-employed wedding and event planner. She is married to Kevin Fyfe, and has two daughters.

Grand Slam record

Key
C Champion
F Lost in Final
SF Lost in Semifinal
QF Lost in Quarterfinals
R16 Lost in the round of 16
Q Did not advance to playoffs
T2 Played in Tier 2 event
DNP Did not participate in event
N/A Not a Grand Slam event that season
Event 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
Masters N/A N/A N/A DNP DNP DNP SF Q F QF C
Tour Challenge N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A T2 Q T2 F QF
The National N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Q C Q Q SF
Canadian Open N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A DNP DNP Q Q Q
Players' Q DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP SF DNP SF DNP
Champions Cup N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A SF DNP F DNP

Former events

Event 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
Elite 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Q
Colonial Square N/A N/A N/A Q Q DNP N/A N/A N/A
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Q Q DNP DNP DNP N/A N/A N/A N/A

Teams

Season Skip Third Second Lead
2009–10 Jenna Loder Liz Fyfe Sarah Pyke Mary Jane McKenzie
2010–11 Brette Richards Cheryl Neufeld Liz Fyfe Jillian Sandison
2012–13 Kerri Einarson Sara Van Welleghem Liz Fyfe Krysten Karwacki
2013–14 Kerri Einarson Selena Kaatz Liz Fyfe Kristin MacCuish
2014–15 Kerri Einarson Selena Kaatz Liz Fyfe Kristin MacCuish
2015–16 Kerri Einarson Selena Kaatz Liz Fyfe Kristin MacCuish
2016–17 Kerri Einarson Selena Kaatz Liz Fyfe Kristin MacCuish
2017–18 Kerri Einarson Selena Kaatz Liz Fyfe Kristin MacCuish
2018–19 Tracy Fleury Selena Njegovan Liz Fyfe Kristin MacCuish
2019–20 Tracy Fleury Selena Njegovan Liz Fyfe Kristin MacCuish