The 2025 Scotties Canadian females’s crinkling champion begins on Friday in Thunder Bay, Ont., and goes viaFeb 23. Here are all of the skips and rinks that can definitely be competing to turn out to be this yr’s nationwide champs.
Teams’ seeds (in braces) via Curling Canada’s Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS). Team individuals are offered so as from third to alternating:
SWIMMING POOL A
Rachel Homan– Defending champ (1 )
Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown.
Heavy most well-liked for Hearts repeat with a 45-4 doc this era, consisting of Grand Slam success within the Kioti National and Canadian Co- opOpen Ottawa Curling Club foursome is moreover ruling globe champ. Former archrival Jennifer Jones will definitely enroll with the group as practice in Thunder Bay.
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Selena Sturmay– Alberta (4 )
Danielle Schmiemann, Dezaray Hawes, Paige Papley.
Chelsea Carey’s group disbanding catapulted Sturmay proper right into a pre-qualified berth for Thunder Bay and her group therefore bypassed the agricultural champion. Sturmay acquired to the 2024 Hearts final 4 in Calgary previous to bailing out to Manitoba’s Kate Cameron within the Page playoff in between third and 4th seeds. Coached by Ted Appleman.
Kayla Skrlik– Alberta champ (5 )
Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Margot Flemming, Ashton Skrlik, Crystal Rumberg.
Skrlik averted Alberta to a 4-4 doc 2 years earlier in Kamloops, B.C. Flemming, that performed in 4 earlier Hearts with Northwest Territories’ Kerry Galusha, modifications the left Brittany Tran in Skrlik’s schedule. Coached by Shannon Kleibrink.
Corryn Brown– B.C. champ (8 )
Erin Pincott, Sarah Koltun, Sam Fisher, Kristen Ryan.
Brown return to Hearts after going 6-6 in 2020 and 4-4 in each 2021 and 2024. Koltun will definitely play in her eighth Hearts after earlier appears to be like beneath the Yukon and N.W.T. flags. Brown knowledgeable neighborhood Kamloops radio terminal CFJC that she will definitely be 6 months anticipating inThunder Bay Coached by Jim Cotter.
Krista McCarville– Northern Ontario champ (9 )
Andrea Kelly, Kendra Lilly, Ashley Sippala, Sarah Potts.
McCarville’s group was a finalist the final time the Hearts was saved in her house city of Thunder Bay in 2022. Her foursome dropped 9-6 toKerri Einarson Veteran New Brunswick curling iron Andrea Kelly has truly contemplating that signed up with the rink at third. They don’t make a journey so long as main teams, nonetheless flaunt an excessive amount of Hearts expertise with the schedule. Coached by Rick Lang.
Nancy Martin– Saskatchewan champ (12 )
Chaelynn Stewart, Kadriana Lott, Deanna Doig, Colleen Ackerman.
Martin and Stewart made their Hearts debuts in 2021 having enjoyable for his or her current practiceSherry Anderson Martin is 2 instances a nationwide blended will increase runner-up. Lott is a Hearts beginner, nonetheless she’s coming off a Canadian blended will increase title with hubby Colton in 2024.
Melissa Adams– New Brunswick champ (13 )
Jaclyn Crandall, Kayla Russell, Kendra Lister, Molli Ward.
Adams gained a globe youthful females’s champion in Thunder Bay in 1998 when her group went 9-2 and defeat Japan within the final. She brings the exact same Hearts schedule that went 2-6 in Calgary in 2014. Coached by Alex Robichaud.
Jane DiCarlo– Prince Edward Island rural champ (16 )
Veronica Mayne, Sabrina Smith, Whitney Jenkins, Jenny White.
DiCarlo tosses third rocks and Mayne 4th on a bunch of that went 0-8 in its launching in 2014 inCalgary Coached by Kathy O’Rourke, that averted P.E.I. to runner-up in 2010.
Julia Weagle– Nunvaut (proclaimed) (17 )
Sadie Pinksen, Leigh Gustafson, Alison Taylor.
Julia Weagle is the sibling of Canadian and globe champ Lisa Weagle, that was beforehand Homan’s lead. Nunavut return to the realm after remaining 2024. A television assortment shot in Iqaluit’s crinkling rink supplanted territorial champion. Coached by Colin Hodgson.
SWIMMING POOL B
Kerri Einarson– Manitoba (2 )
Val Sweeting, Karlee Burgess, Krysten Karwacki, Lauren Lenentine.
Four- time champ Einarson’s schedule was a rotating door this era on account of 2nd Shannon Birchard’s knee harm and the await a judgment on lead Briane Harris’s doping violation. Harris was thought of not accountable, nonetheless Einarson had truly at the moment secured her Thunder Bay lineup, that features earlier Chelsea Carey colleagues Burgess at 2nd and Lenentine at alternate. Coached by Reid Carruthers.
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Kaitlyn Lawes– Manitoba (3 )
Selena Njegovan, Jocelyn Peterman, Kristin Gordon, Becca Hebert.
Like Einarson, Lawes obtained very early entry primarily based upon her group’s place on the last considered the 2023-24 interval. Lawes is a nationwide, globe and Olympic champion having enjoyable third for Jennifer Jones, nonetheless has truly averted her very personal teams the final 2 years. Peterman and hubby Brett Gallant gained the Olympic blended will increase curling checks inJanuary Coached by Connor Njegovan.
Christina Black– Nova Scotia champ (6 )
Jill Brothers, Jennifer Baxter, Karlee Everist, Marlee Powers.
Reached the final 4 2 years earlier in Kamloops, B.C., by disturbing Homan in a championship sport. Black’s laser attracts attracted gasps from viewers. Recruited earlier competitor Jill Brothers as vice for this era. Coached by Stuart MacLean.
Kate Cameron– Manitoba champ (7 )
Taylor McDonald, Brianna Cullen, Mackenzie Elias.
Cameron makes her eighth look, nonetheless 2nd as keep away from after attending to the semifinal in 2014 inCalgary McDonald couldn’t participate in 2024 on account of maternity. Recruited two-time Canadian school champ Cullen with the separation ofMeghan Walter Coached by Glenn Howard.
Danielle Inglis– Ontario champ (10 )
Kira Brunton, Calissa Daly, Cassandra de Groot, Kimberly Tuck.
Inglis, Curling Canada’s co-ordinator of social networks and web materials, is off the duty a 2nd straight yr since she’s hectic avoiding Ontario as soon as once more. Her group went 3-5 in 2024. Inglis gained 5 straight to liquidate the agricultural females’s champion. Coached by Steve Acorn.
Laurie St-George– Quebec (11 )
Jamie Sinclair, Emily Riley, Lisa Weagle.
St-George misses Quebec for the fifth time in her job. Brought Homan’s earlier lead Lisa Weagle again to group curling this era after the separation ofKelly Middaugh Sinclair is a earlier united state nationwide champ. Coached by Francis Roberge.
Kerry Galusha– Northwest Territories champ (14 )
Megan Koehler, Sydney Galusha, Shona Barbour, Ella Skauge.
Galusha’s 18th “official” journey to the Hearts (Curling Canada doesn’t acknowledge the play-in years) charges 2nd simply to Colleen Jones (21 ). Galusha’s schedule consists of 15-year-old little one Sydney as her vice tossing 2nd rocks. Coached by Amber Holland.
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Brooke Godsland– Newfoundland and Labrador champ (15 )
Erin Porter, Sarah McNeil-Lamswood, Camille Burt, Kate Paterson.
Godsland was another in 2021 and McNeil-Lamswood is a Hearts beginner, nonetheless Porter and Burt are expert with 5 and a pair of earlier appears to be like particularly. Burt performed lead in 2014 for Stacie Curtis, whose 2 victories in Calgary consisted of 1 overAlberta’s Sturmay Coached by Cory Schuh.
Bayly Scoffin– Yukon champ (18 )
Kerry Foster, Raelyn Helston, Bailey Horte, Kimberly Tuor.
Scoffin and Helston crinkle collegiately in Calgary for SAIT. Scoffin brother or sisters keep away from Yukon in each the Hearts and Brier a 2nd straight yr as Thomas will definitely stand for the area in Kelowna, B.C., inMarch Coached by Kevin Patterson.
