Kayla MacMillan of Victoria, British Columbia is set to have a new third and lead for the 2026-27 curling season according to the Grand Slam of Curling website on Sunday. Valerie Sweeting of Redvers, Saskatchewan is taking over Brittany Tran of Red Deer, Alberta at the third position, and Lauren Lenentine of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island is taking over from Sarah Loken of White Rock, British Columbia at the lead position. MacMillan’s team will be based out of British Columbia.
Sweeting recently won a silver medal for Canada at the 2026 World Women’s Curling Championship in Calgary, Alberta. A three-time World Championship medalist, Sweeting also won a bronze medal at the 2022 World Women’s Curling Championship in Prince George, British Columbia and a bronze medal at the 2023 World Women’s Curling Championship in Sandviken, Sweden.
A five-time Scotties champion, Sweeting played alongside skip Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Manitoba since 2018. You could make the argument that Team Einarson is one of the best women’s curling teams in Canadian history never to have won a world championship.
Lenentine is a two-time World Junior champion, and was the lead from 2020 to 2024 for skips Mackenzie Zacharias, Jennifer Jones and Chelsea Carey. This past season, Lenentime was MacMillan’s fifth. MacMillan reached the final of the Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials in November in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and is in a relationship with eight-time world men’s curling champion Niklas Edin of Sweden according to the 2025 Curling Canada Olympic Pre-Trials Media Guide.
