{"id":585511,"date":"2026-04-06T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:02:09","slug":"val-sweeting-joins-kayla-macmillans-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585511\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Sweeting joins Kayla MacMillan&#8217;s team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eight-time Grand Slam title winner Val Sweeting has landed with Kayla MacMillan&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoria-based club made the announcement Sunday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWxRiJFiRnW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeting joins MacMillian after playing eight seasons at third on Kerri Einarson&#8217;s team out of Gimli, Man.<\/p>\n<p>She captured her fifth Scotties Tournament of Hearts title with Einarson in February and earned silver at the World Women&#8217;s Curling Championship last month. Sweeting also won back-to-back bronze medals at the women&#8217;s worlds with Einarson in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old from Lottie Lake, Alta., won three Grand Slam of Curling titles as a skip and added five more during her time with Einarson.<\/p>\n<p>MacMillan, who is also flanked by second Lindsay Dubue and lead Lauren Lenentine, parted ways with third Brittany Tran and alternate Sarah Loken last week.<\/p>\n<p>Einarson&#8217;s retooled roster will see Shannon Birchard move up to third and Karlee Burgess to second, with Jocelyn Peterman coming on board at lead and handling vice skip duties.<\/p>\n<p>     <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight-time Grand Slam title winner Val Sweeting has landed with Kayla MacMillan&#8217;s team. The Victoria-based club made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-585511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}