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Curling and kickboxing seem like two sports at the opposite end of the spectrum, but Mackenzie Zacharias, skip of the Manitoba rink at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont., can connect the two. Zacharias is a kinesiology student at the University of Manitoba who also works as a fitness trainer at a kickboxing gym. She has spent the last year learning kickboxing. Both sports pump up the adrenalin and involve strategy, said the 22-year-old Altona, Man., native. “Every sport