The 2025 Scotties Canadian females’s crinkling champion starts on Friday in Thunder Bay, Ont., and goes throughFeb 23. Here are all the skips and rinks that will certainly be competing to become this year’s nationwide champs.
Teams’ seeds (in braces) through Curling Canada’s Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS). Team participants are provided in order from 3rd to alternating:
SWIMMING POOL A
Rachel Homan– Defending champ (1 )
Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown.
Heavy preferred for Hearts repeat with a 45-4 document this period, consisting of Grand Slam success in the Kioti National and Canadian Co- opOpen Ottawa Curling Club foursome is additionally ruling globe champ. Former archrival Jennifer Jones will certainly sign up with the group as train in Thunder Bay.
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Selena Sturmay– Alberta (4 )
Danielle Schmiemann, Dezaray Hawes, Paige Papley.
Chelsea Carey’s group disbanding catapulted Sturmay right into a pre-qualified berth for Thunder Bay and her group hence bypassed the rural champion. Sturmay got to the 2024 Hearts last 4 in Calgary prior to bailing out to Manitoba’s Kate Cameron in the Page playoff in between 3rd and 4th seeds. Coached by Ted Appleman.
Kayla Skrlik– Alberta champ (5 )
Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Margot Flemming, Ashton Skrlik, Crystal Rumberg.
Skrlik avoided Alberta to a 4-4 document 2 years earlier in Kamloops, B.C. Flemming, that played in 4 previous Hearts with Northwest Territories’ Kerry Galusha, changes 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 go back to Hearts after going 6-6 in 2020 and 4-4 in both 2021 and 2024. Koltun will certainly play in her 8th Hearts after previous looks under the Yukon and N.W.T. flags. Brown informed neighborhood Kamloops radio terminal CFJC that she will certainly be 6 months expecting 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 last time the Hearts was kept in her home town of Thunder Bay in 2022. Her foursome dropped 9-6 toKerri Einarson Veteran New Brunswick curling iron Andrea Kelly has actually considering that signed up with the rink at 3rd. They do not take a trip as long as leading groups, however flaunt a great deal of Hearts experience 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 fun for their present trainSherry Anderson Martin is two times a nationwide blended increases runner-up. Lott is a Hearts newbie, however she’s coming off a Canadian blended increases title with hubby Colton in 2024.
Melissa Adams– New Brunswick champ (13 )
Jaclyn Crandall, Kayla Russell, Kendra Lister, Molli Ward.
Adams won a globe younger females’s champion in Thunder Bay in 1998 when her group went 9-2 and defeat Japan in the last. She brings the very 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 3rd rocks and Mayne 4th on a group of that went 0-8 in its launching in 2014 inCalgary Coached by Kathy O’Rourke, that avoided 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 previously Homan’s lead. Nunavut go back to the area after remaining 2024. A tv collection 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 period as a result of 2nd Shannon Birchard’s knee injury and the await a judgment on lead Briane Harris’s doping violation. Harris was considered not responsible, however Einarson had actually currently secured her Thunder Bay lineup, that includes previous 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 access based upon her group’s position at the final thought of the 2023-24 period. Lawes is a nationwide, globe and Olympic champion having fun 3rd for Jennifer Jones, however has actually avoided her very own groups the last 2 years. Peterman and hubby Brett Gallant won the Olympic blended increases curling tests inJanuary Coached by Connor Njegovan.
Christina Black– Nova Scotia champ (6 )
Jill Brothers, Jennifer Baxter, Karlee Everist, Marlee Powers.
Reached the last 4 2 years earlier in Kamloops, B.C., by disturbing Homan in a championship game. Black’s laser attracts attracted gasps from viewers. Recruited previous competitor Jill Brothers as vice for this period. Coached by Stuart MacLean.
Kate Cameron– Manitoba champ (7 )
Taylor McDonald, Brianna Cullen, Mackenzie Elias.
Cameron makes her 8th look, however 2nd as avoid after getting to the semifinal in 2014 inCalgary McDonald could not take part in 2024 as a result of maternity. Recruited two-time Canadian college 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 internet material, is off the task a 2nd straight year since she’s hectic avoiding Ontario once again. Her group went 3-5 in 2024. Inglis won 5 straight to liquidate the rural females’s champion. Coached by Steve Acorn.
Laurie St-George– Quebec (11 )
Jamie Sinclair, Emily Riley, Lisa Weagle.
St-George misses Quebec for the 5th time in her job. Brought Homan’s previous lead Lisa Weagle back to group curling this period after the separation ofKelly Middaugh Sinclair is a previous 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 does not acknowledge the play-in years) rates 2nd just to Colleen Jones (21 ). Galusha’s schedule consists of 15-year-old child 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 an alternative in 2021 and McNeil-Lamswood is a Hearts newbie, however Porter and Burt are skilled with 5 and 2 previous looks specifically. Burt played lead in 2014 for Stacie Curtis, whose 2 victories in Calgary consisted of one 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 avoid Yukon in both the Hearts and Brier a 2nd straight year as Thomas will certainly stand for the region in Kelowna, B.C., inMarch Coached by Kevin Patterson.
