So . . . how does a rink top the best curling season imaginable? 

Well, if you’re Corryn Brown’s Kamloops rink, winning the provincial junior women’s championship in Victoria next week would be a good start.

Brown, third Erin Pincott, second Samantha Fisher and lead Sydney Fraser — all of them 16 years old — are to head to Victoria on Monday for the eight-team provincial junior women’s championship. The event starts Dec. 27, with the final scheduled for Dec. 31.

There’s a lot of curling to be done. The Kamloops quartet also will compete at a juvenile zone playdown in Salmon Arm from Jan. 6-8, before Brown will skip a South Kamloops rink — featuring Pincott and Fraser — at a high school playdown in Penticton from Jan. 27-29.

Brown also will play as part of a mixed team at the World Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, from Jan. 13-22.

It will be hard to top the 2010-11 season, in which the Brown rink finished second at the B.C. junior championship before winning provincial high school and juvenile championships. On top of that, Brown and Co. won gold at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax in February.

The major goal last season was to win at the Canada Winter Games; this year, the focus is on winning provincial juniors, and representing B.C. at the Canadian championship, scheduled for Feb. 4-12 in Napanee, Ont.

“We’re concentrating more on juniors,” Brown said. “Last year, we really concentrated on the (Canada) Winter Games — but this year, we’re focusing on juniors because of how well we did last year.”

Yes, the Brown rink, which is coached by Ken Brown and Brian Fisher, had a great time at provincials last December.

Although they were the youngest competitors in the field, the Kamloopsians were excellent, going 5-2 and winning a tiebreaker and a semifinal before meeting Dailene Sivertson’s Victoria rink in the final.

Sivertson ended up winning 6-3, but the Kamloops girls picked up some valuable experience.

Sivertson is too old for juniors now, so the field is wide open. Brown doesn’t feel her rink is the favourite heading in.

“Not really,” she said. “We’ll have a lot of support . . . but by no means are we the favourites.”

Brown’s won’t be the only Kamloops rink in Victoria next week — Brooke Calibaba will skip one of eight rinks at the B.C. junior men’s championship, which runs Dec. 27-31. Joining Calibaba is third Spencer Holden, second Kael Kristjanson, lead Alex Nicholson, fifth Braden Krenz and coach Gailya Wasylik.

It will be a long week for Brown’s rink, with each team to play seven games. Should Brown make the playoffs, she will be facing at least one more game — possibly three.

That doesn’t even factor in the fact that the games will run 10 ends. Brown has been playing in the Kamloops Curling Club’s Super League, which plays eight ends.

“We have to make sure our cardio is good,” Brown said. “And our endurance . . . well, not so much for me, but the girls sweeping are going to have a lot of work.

“And we have to be mentally prepared for the long days. We have a three-game day (Dec. 28), so we have to be ready.”

The other rinks scheduled to compete in the B.C. junior women’s championship are Michelle Ball of Williams Lake, Falon Burkitt of Prince George, New Westminster’s Dezaray Hawes, Vernon’s Alyssa Kyllo, Brittany McAulay of Richmond, Chilliwack’s Stephanie Prinse and Nanaimo’s Kesa Van Osch.

mhunter@kamloopsnews.ca