Team Cameron adds 4-time Scotties champion Harris

Team Kate Cameron is adding some big-time experience into their line-up.

It was a good season for the St Adolphe-based curling team, nabbing a Manitoba championship but falling short of the playoffs at the national championship Scotties.

After the Scotties, the team announced on social media it would no longer feature second Brianna Cullen. Replacing her is four-time national champion Briane Harris.

Harris was forced to leave Team Kerri Eirarson in 2024 when she tested positive for ligandrol, a banned performance enhancing drug, just before the start of that year’s Scotties tournament.

Harris was cleared to return to competitive play in January of 2025 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled she “bears no fault or negligence for the violation.”

Harris proved to the arbiter ruling on her case she only tested positive for trace amounts of the substance after contact with her husband, who was using a workout supplement with ligandrol at the time. The arbiter agreed she should not be suspended.

Despite that ruling coming in January, Team Einarson decided kept their current line-up for the Scotties.

Movement had to be coming this off-season, as Einarson had loaded up on players since the suspension. They picked up Krysten Karwacki to replace Harris at lead, added Karlee Burgess as an injury replacement and named Lauren Lenentine as their fifth/alternate before the start of the 2025 Scotties.

“When Team Einarson parted ways with Briane, we were quick to pick her up knowing that her plethora of expertise, knowledge and experience will take us that extra mile,” Team Cameron shared on social media.

Harris was one of four skips to form Team Einarson in the 2018 off-season, playing as the team’s lead in an unorthodox line-up. That risk to pair four leaders of teams paid off, with the Gimli-based Team Einarson winning four consecutive Scotties from 2020-2023, nabbing two world championship bronze medals as well.

Team Cameron called the move to drop Cullen a “difficult decision.”

“Brianna’s work ethic and youthfulness have helped shape the team’s success,” a statement from the team reads.

“She not only helped us maintain our team ranking but ultimately helped us achieve our goal of representing Manitoba at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay.”

The team also touted with Harris playing third, they can move back to a line-up with Taylor McDonald at second and Mackenzie Elias at lead, the format the team had when they finished third at the Scotties in 2024.