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AIS - Area Institute supported curlers help Scotland win World Championships
The Stranraer Adams sisters, Vicki and Kay (Central Scotland Institute of Sport) and Edinburgh's Kerry Barr (East of Scotland Institute of Sport) joined Eve Muirhead (Perthshire) and Sarah McIntyre (Highland), both supported by the Scottish Institute of Sport and members of the 2007 World Championship winning team, to beat Sweden 12-3 in Sunday's final.
Earlier in the week the Scots had lost two meetings against their Swedish hosts, including an 8-2 semi final on Saturday. But in the final, Scotland dominated from the start. Muirhead's troops scored two in the second end, stole another two in the third, and stole a whopping six points in the sixth frame.
“We played Sweden in the first game of the 
round robin and we got off to a slow start,” said 18 year old Vicki Adams. “We were 8-4 down then came back and took them for an extra. Then in the second game they played really well.“But we were never going to lose to them three times in a row. We knew they had played their best game in the play off so we went out there and played our best game in the finals”.
Eighteen year old Vicki Adams has been a member of Team Muirhead all season and played in all the week's round robin matches, but when she injured her leg with three games to go her older sister, Kay, who had been invited to join the team as the fifth player, stepped in.
“Vicki was very unfortunate to fall down some stairs and twist her ankle so she couldn't play,” said skip, Eve Muirhead. “But Kay came in and played really well.”
For 21 year old Kerry Barr, who had skipped the Scottish team to sixth place at this event three years ago, it was the perfect ending to her junior career.
“This was completely different from my last Worlds,” she said. “This time we were more experienced, we knew what we were doing and two of the girls were in the winning team last year so they knew what to expect.”
Winning two titles in a row marks the first back-to-back global junior women's victories for Scotland since Balerno's Gillian Bar and Perth's Kirsty Hay turned the trick in 1992 and 1993, respectively.
If they had felt any additional pressure at being the title holders, the focussed Scots did not let it creep into their game.
“There was more pressure on us because we wanted to retain the title,” said Muirhead. “The plan in the final was to come out and play the way we played the whole week.
“In the two games we played against Sweden we were quite unlucky and we didn't take advantage of their mistakes. But in the final we got on top of them from the start and took advantage of every mistake they played.”