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{{short description|Canadian curler}}
{{Infobox curler
| name = Kathleen O'Rourke
| image =
| image_size = 200
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|4|30}}
| birth_place = [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island]]
| Curling club = [[Charlottetown Curling Complex|Charlottetown CC]], <br> [[Charlottetown|Charlottetown, PEI]]
| Skip = [[Suzanne Birt]]
| Third = [[Marie Christianson]]
| Second = [[Meaghan Hughes]]
| Lead = [[Michelle McQuaid]]
| Alternate = '''Kathy O'Rourke'''
| Member Association = {{PE}}
| Hearts appearances = 8 ({{STOH|1989}}, {{STOH|1991}}, {{STOH|1996}}, {{STOH|1999}}, {{STOH|2002}}, {{STOH|2010}}, {{STOH|2021}}, {{STOH|2022}})
| Other appearances = [[Canadian Mixed Curling Championship|Canadian Mixed]] (1989, 1999)
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Women's [[Curling]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Scotties Tournament of Hearts]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts|2010 Sault Ste. Marie]] | }}
}}
'''Kathleen O'Rourke''' (born April 30, 1964)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2021/02/2021-Scotties-Tournament-of-Hearts-media-guide-1.pdf|title=2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Media Guide|website=Curling Canada|access-date=February 15, 2021}}</ref> is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[curling|curler]] from [[Cumberland, Prince Edward Island]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://peicurling.com/scoreboard/#!/competitions/6748/teams/29215/team_athletes/29215-alternate-41189|title=Scoreboard|date=12 November 2015}}</ref> She is a six-time provincial champion and is a former Canadian Mixed Champion. She is currently the coach of the [[Suzanne Birt]] rink.<ref name="MG">{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2021/10/2021-Home-Hardware-Curling-Pre-Trials-media-guide-1.pdf|title=2021 Home Hardware Curling Pre-Trials Media Guide|website=Curling Canada|access-date=October 22, 2021|archive-date=October 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022201300/https://www.curling.ca/files/2021/10/2021-Home-Hardware-Curling-Pre-Trials-media-guide-1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career==
O'Rourke played in her first [[Scotties Tournament of Hearts|national women's championship]] in 1989, playing second for [[Kathie Gallant]]. The team finished 4–7. In 1991, she made it again, playing second for [[Angela Roberts (curler)|Angela Roberts]], finishing 2–9. She made her third trip in 1996, playing third for [[Susan McInnes]], finishing 6–5. This qualified the team for a tie-breaker match, which they lost to the defending champion [[Connie Laliberte]] (Team Canada) rink. In 1999, she returned once again, playing third for [[Rebecca Jean MacPhee]], finishing with a 6–5 record once again, but missing the playoffs. In 2002, she made her fifth national championship, her first as skip. She finished the round robin with a 3–8 record. She won her sixth [[2010 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts|provincial championship in 2010]], throwing second stones and skipping for Erin Carmody, and later won a silver medal at the [[2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts]].<ref name="Silver">{{Cite news|title = Carmody hungry for rematch after Hearts loss|publisher = [[CBC News]]|date = 2010-02-08|url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/carmody-hungry-for-rematch-after-hearts-loss-1.903097|access-date = 2010-02-09}}</ref>
In [[mixed curling]], O'Rourke won the [[Canadian Mixed Curling Championship]] in 1989, playing lead for [[Robert Campbell (curler)|Robert Campbell]]. She played third at the 1999 Canadian Mixed, for [[Peter MacDonald (curler)|Peter MacDonald]], but did not win. She is married to [[Mark O'Rourke]], her teammate in her 1989 Mixed Championship win.<ref name="Mark">{{Cite news|last = McCormick|first = Murray|title = Inside Brier stuff|newspaper = [[Regina Leader-Post]]|publisher = [[Canwest]]|date = 2009-03-02|url = http://communities.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/blogs/bloglines/archive/2009/03/02/inside-brier-stuff.aspx|accessdate = 2010-02-09|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100220132542/http://communities.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/blogs/bloglines/archive/2009/03/02/inside-brier-stuff.aspx|archivedate = 2010-02-20}}</ref>
At the end of the 2010–2011 season O'Rourke retired from competitive curling. Her decision was made when teammates [[Erin Carmody]] and [[Geri-Lynn Ramsay]] decided to move to [[Calgary]], Carmody to further her University studies at [[University of Calgary|U of Calgary]] and Ramsay to relocate alongside her boyfriend.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cdn.curling.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/TankardTimesMarch12.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706174655/http://cdn.curling.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/TankardTimesMarch12.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
O'Rourke returned to curling in the 2012-2013 curling season, taking over the skip position of [[Meaghan Hughes]]' team. Hughes throws last rock, with O'Rourke skipping and throwing third stones. [[Jackie Reid (curler)|Jackie Reid]] and [[Tricia Affleck]] round off the team at second and lead.<ref>{{cite web|title=O'Rourke returning to competitive curling|url=http://peicurling.com/2012/08/30/orourke-returning-to-competitive-curling-journal/|publisher=Prince Edward Island Curling Association|date=30 August 2012}}</ref>
==Personal life==
O'Rourke is a retired managing partner at Grant Thornton PEI.<ref name="MG"/>
==Grand Slam record==
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===Former events===
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! Event
! [[2010-11 curling season|2010–11]]
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| [[Sobeys Slam]]
|style="background:#ffebcd;"| QF
|}
==References==
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[[Category:1964 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Canadian women curlers]]
[[Category:Canadian mixed curling champions]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Summerside, Prince Edward Island]]
[[Category:Curlers from Charlottetown]]
[[Category:Canadian curling coaches]]
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