A capsule look at the teams in the 2007 Canadian women's curling championship starting Saturday in Lethbridge.
Canada
Team - Kelly Scott, Jeanna Schraeder, Sasha Carter, Renee Simons.
Club - Kelowna Curling Club, Kelowna, B.C.
The File - Defending champs get a bye back to the Scotties Tournanent of Hearts. Beat Manitoba's Jennifer Jones in last year's final, just weeks after losing the Olympic trials final to Shannon Kleibrink. Third in the 2006 world championship. A solid team that should be in the hunt for a playoff spot.
British Columbia
Team - Kelley Law, Georgina Wheatcroft, Shannon Aleksic, Darah Provencal.
Club - Royal City Curling Club, New Westminster, B.C.
The File - Law, with Wheatcroft at second, won the national and world titles in 2000, the Olympic trials 2001 and Olympic bronze medal in 2002 before that team broke up. Law can scrap her way back into games and can't be counted out despite her five-year absence.
Alberta
Team - Cheryl Bernard, Susan O'Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire, Cori Bartel.
Club - Calgary Winter Club
The File - Bernard making her third appearance at the national championship. She lost in the 1996 final to Marilyn Bodough. Co-author of the book Between the Sheets: Creating Curling Champions.
Saskatchewan
Team - Jan Betker, Lana Vey, Nancy Inglis, Marcia Gudereit.
Club - Caledonian Curling Club, Regina.
The File - Betker, as third, and lead Gudereit won three world titles and an Olympic gold medal with the late Sandra Schmirler. This is Betker's eighth trip to the nationals, but only her second as skip. Her Saskatchewan team went 7-4 in 2003 and lost in the playoffs. A playoff contender again.
Manitoba
Team - Jennifer Jones, Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Janet Arnott
Club - St. Vital Curling Club, Winnipeg.
The File - Jones raised eyebrows when she replaced lead Dana Allerton with veteran Janett Arnott before the provincial championship. Jones won the 2005 national title with one of the most spectacular shots in the tournament's history, but finished out of the medals at the world championship in Scotland. Backed by a veteran team with national and international experience. Playoff contender.
Ontario
Team - Krista Scharf, Tara George, Tiffany Stubbings, Lorraine Lang
Club - Fort William Curling Club, Thunder Bay.
The File - Scharf qualified for nationals for the second straight year after going 4-7 last year. Lead Lorraine Lang won national and world championships in 1989 as third for Heather Houston.
Quebec
Team - Chantal Osborne, Cheryl Morgan, Catherine Derick, Sylvie Daniel.
Club - Thurso Curling Club, Thurso, Que.
The File - Osborne and lead Daniel are making their fifth appearance at nationals together, but first in a decade. Osborne went 5-6 in 1997.
New Brunswick
Team - Sandy Comeau, Denise Nowlan, Marie-Anne Power, Jeanette Murphy
Club - Beaver Curling Club, Moncton.
The File - Comeau made it into tiebreakers two years ago and ended the four-year reign of Colleen Jones as national champion by beating Jones in one before losing in the next. This is Comeau's third trip to the national championship.
Nova Scotia
Team - Jill Mouzar, Meredith Harrison, Teri Lake, Hayley Clarke.
Club - Mayflower Curling Club, Halifax.
The File - The 23-year-old Mouzar is making her national debut, but she and Harrison are both former Canadian junior champions. Front end Lake and Clarke are also first-timers at the Scotties.
Prince Edward Island
Team - Suzanne Gaudet, Robyn MacPhee, Carol Webb, Stefanie Clark.
Club - Charlottetown Curling Club.
The File - Gaudet, a former world junior champion, hasn't been able to equal the heights of her 10-1 round-robin record at her first national championship in 2003. Her rink went 4-7 last year, but if she gets on a roll, she can contend for a playoff spot. Dark horse.
Newfoundland
Team - Heather Strong, Shelley Nichols, Laura Strong, Susan O'Leary.
Club - St. John's Curling Club.
The File - Strong back for a seventh eighth time at the national championship. Her best record was 7-4 last year which got her into tiebreakers where she lost to Quebec. Improvement over the years makes her another dark horse.
Yukon/Northwest Territories
Team - Kerry Koe, Monique Gagnier, Kelli Turpin, Dawn Moses.
Club - Yellowknife Curling Club
The File - Koe, whose older brother Jamie lost the Alberta final to Kevin Martin, is a solid shotmaker. Territories teams lack for competition so they tend to start slow and pick up steam. Koe is representing the Territories for the fifth time in her career. Both Gagnier and Moses have both skipped teams in previous Scotties.