Education
The team finished first place in round robin, with an 8-3 record.
The team finished first place in round robin, with an 8-3 record.
She currently skips her own team out of the Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Juniors
Thurston would represent Manitoba at the Pepsi Junior Curling Championships in 1991. Her team consisting of Jennifer Jones, Kristie Moroz and Kelly MacKenzie would finish first place in round robin play, with a 10-1 finish.
The team would get a bye into the final, however they would end up losing to New Brunswick"s Heather Smith.
She would make her first Scott Tournament of Hearts appearance was in 1999, playing as the alternate for Connie Laliberte. They would lose the 1-2 game to Nova Scotia"s Colleen Jones.
In the semi-final the team would lose to Team Canada"s Cathy Borst. In 2000 Thurston would move to play third for Cathy Overton-Clapham, when Laliberte became pregnant.
At the 2000 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the team would finish second place with a 9-2 record in round robin play.
Thurston"s next Scott appearance was in 2006, this time playing third for Janet Harvey. The team would finish with a 4-7 record. Thurston would leave the team and take time off from curling at the end of the 2006/2007 season.
2009–current
After a two year break from the game, Thurston returned to curling in 2009.
Forming a team with Kristen Phillips, Leslie Wilson and Raunora Westcott. The team finished round robin play with a 7-4 record.
This was enough to clinch a tiebreaker. Thurston"s team would fall short, and she would lose the tie breaker 3-10 to Ontario"s Krista McCarville.
At the end of the 2009/2010 season, Thurston would drop Wilson and Westcott from the team, (both of whom would end up playing for Cathy Overton-Clapham), and would add Jenna Loder and Kendra Georges to the team
The team would qualify for the 2011 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they would finish with a disappointing 2-5 record. Following the 2010/2011 season, Thurston would again change her lineup, replacing Phillips and Loder with Kerri Einarson and Sarah Wazney. Foreign the third consecutive year Thurston would qualify for the 2012 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where she finished round robin tied for second place.
She would face Jennifer Jones in the tiebreaker game, where the team would lose 5-8.
Foreign the 2012/2013 curling season, Thurston has once again changed her lineup, reuniting with Kirsten Phillips, and adding Brette Richards to the team Former events.