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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, February 6, 2014 | 6 Athletes ready for 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Brianne Jenner At 22 years of old, Brianne Jenner makes her Olympic debut as the second-youngest member of the Canadian women's hockey team. The Appleby College grad was the Ivy League and East Coast Athletic Conference player of the year last season, when she led Cornell University to an appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four quarter- nals. Jenner, one of the nal cuts for the 2010 Olympic team when she was 18 years old, is the daughter of former Ontario Hockey League goaltender Dave Jenner and wife Brenda. · Women's hockey: Gold medal game is Thursday, Feb. 20 at noon. Spotlight "Connected to your Community" John Tavares Already with a pair of world junior hockey championships on his resumé, 23-year-old John Tavares hopes to add Olympic gold to his already lengthy list of accomplishments. The New York Islanders captain entered Wednesday's action third in NHL scoring after leading his team in scoring in each of his rst four NHL campaigns and earning MVP consideration last season. Tavares, a former high school student at St. Thomas Aquinas, is the son of Joe and Barbara Tavares. His uncle, also named John, is the top scorer in National Lacrosse League history. · Men's hockey: Gold medal game is Sunday, Feb. 23 at 7 a.m. | Oakville Beaver le photo | photo by Andrew Francis Wallce - Toronto Star by Jon Kuiperij Oakville Beaver Staff Kirsten Wall Two years after retiring from competitive curling, White Oaks high school grad Kirsten Wall will serve as an alternate on Jennifer Jones' Canadian rink. Wall filled in for Jones in 2012 for a series of cashspiels, leading to another call from Jones last spring requesting Wall's services as an alternate for the team's bid to qualify for the Olympics. Wall, whose husband's name is Trevor, is a senior genetic technologist at Mississauga's Credit Valley Hospital. · Women's curling, Gold medal game is Thursday, Feb. 20 at 10:30 a.m. Erika Brown Though Erika Brown has competed in the Olympics before, this time will be a much different experience. Brown, a Wisconsin native who has resided in Oakville with husband Ian Tetley for approximately a decade, was just 15 when she was the vice of the U.S. women's rink that participated at the 1998 Nagano Games -- when curling was a demonstration sport. Twenty-six years later, Brown returns to skip an American team looking for its country's rst-ever Olympic curling medal. Brown quali ed her team for Sochi with a clutch draw to the four-foot in the nal of last year's U.S. Olympic trials. · Brown is skip for the U.S. rink The U.S. has never won a curling medal. Women's curling, Gold medal game is Thursday, Feb. 20 at 10:30 | photo courtesy Michael Burns Jr. - USA Curling a.m. Association | Oakville Beaver le photo Volume 52 | Number 16 447 Speers Road, Oakville ON (905) 845-3824 Oakville Beaver is a member of the Ontario Press Council. The council is located at 80 Gould St., Suite 206, Toronto, Ont., M5B 2M7. Phone (416) 340-1981. Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a typographical error, that portion of advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. The publisher reserves the right to categorize advertisements or decline. Editorial and advertising content of the Oakville Beaver is protected by copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. NEIL OLIVER Vice ­President and Group Publisher DAVID HARVEY Regional General Manager JILL DAVIS Halton Region Editor in Chief Editorial Department: (905) 632-0588 Advertising Department (905) 845-3824 Classi ed Advertising: (905) 632-4444 Circulation: 5300 Harvester Rd., Burlington (905) 631-6095 DANIEL BAIRD Director of Advertising ANGELA BLACKBURN Managing Editor