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Briane Harris (left) competes with the Kerri Einarson team at the 2023 Scotties. She\u2019ll play mixed doubles with Kyle Doering this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think I had any good (four-person) fits in the works, so I was like \u2018You know what, let\u2019s go with Kyle,\u2019\u201d Harris told the Free Press on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI texted him back and he was super excited and it got me even more fired up. My gut, for some reason, was always saying to go with Kyle so it\u2019s really awesome that it ended up working out. I\u2019m really excited to see what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to believe skips across the country weren\u2019t looking for ways to find room in their lineup for an accomplished talent like Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what everyone\u2019s thinking about me since all that stuff happened,\u201d she said, alluding to her provisional suspension in early 2024. She was elgible to return to competition in January 2025 after proving she wasn\u2019t at fault for an anti-doping violation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of confusing to me, but at the same time, I can\u2019t really control what happens. I\u2019m just hoping that I can grow with Kyle here and see what we can do together.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, if in the future, a four-person team happens to come up that I am excited about, I\u2019ll have to look at that at the time. It depends how well Kyle and I are doing at the same time. If we\u2019re doing really great, it would be hard to step away from that. But yeah, I hope that I can play four-person again one day because I really do love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
After six seasons at lead for Kerri Einarson, followed by a year out of action, Harris signed on to join Cameron at a position she hasn\u2019t played in a decade. With it being the final year of the quadrennial, the new-look Cameron squad didn\u2019t have time to reach its full potential. They struggled at the Canadian Curling Trials and failed to reach the provincial final, leading to the group announcing in February that they were going their separate ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was also coming off of having my second son, so there was also the postpartum stuff to throw in as well, and then the mental stuff of dealing with what I had to deal with for that whole case. So it was a lot for me, and I thought I could persevere over all of it and still have a really good season and we did, but we didn\u2019t hit those milestones that we were hoping to,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is what it is. It still was a really great learning experience, and I wouldn\u2019t have traded it for anything because I feel like I\u2019m a better player now because of playing with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been five years since she\u2019s dabbled in the two-player game. Her lone experience with the discipline came with Mark Nichols at the 2021 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship where they missed out on the playoffs after going 3-3.<\/p>\n
Doering, the 30-year-old manager of the Granite Curling Club, was an alternate for Brad Gushue at the 2024 world championship in Switzerland and spared for Reid Carruthers at the 2025 Brier. He played mixed doubles nationals with Ashley Groff in 2018 and 2019, going 2-5 on both occasions.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Kyle Doering offered Harris the chance to join forces and make the switch to mixed doubles.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you talk to anyone about Kyle, they\u2019d have the same thing to say about him that he\u2019s so great and such a genuine person. He\u2019s really smart and talented, so all those attributes just make me excited to play with him,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n \u201cWe both know that we want to play a good amount to be competitive. Our big goal is making mixed doubles nationals so we\u2019re going to do whatever it takes to put ourselves in that position.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n \t\t\tSign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t Going the mixed route will be an adjustment, but Harris has gotten used to change in recent years. When her on-ice career was turned upside down, she went back to school to start a bookkeeping business to make up for her lost curling income.<\/p>\n She hasn\u2019t let any challenge slow her down, and she believes this one won\u2019t be any different.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been wearing a lot of hats lately, but it\u2019s gonna be good,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited for the future, and I hope I can just grow in all ways to be the best mom, the best business owner and best curler that I can be.\u201d<\/p>\n winnipegfreepress.com\/taylorallen<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Taylor Allen Taylor Allen is a sports reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. Taylor was the Vince Leah intern in the Free Press newsroom twice while earning his joint communications degree\/diploma at the University of Winnipeg and Red River College Polytechnic. He signed on full-time in 2019 and mainly covers the Blue Bombers, curling, and basketball. Read more about Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Taylor produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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