The lineup for the Canadian ladies’s curling championship was accomplished Sunday with the crowning of eight champions.
A area of 18 groups will curl Feb. 14-23 within the Scotties Match of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont.
Corryn Brown (B.C.), Kayla Skrlik (Alberta), Nancy Martin (Saskatchewan), Kate Cameron (Manitoba), Danielle Inglis (Ontario), Krista McCarville (Northern Ontario), Jane DiCarlo (Prince Edward Island) and Brooke Godsland (Newfoundland and Labrador) prevailed Sunday of their respective finals.
Rachel Homan’s workforce was already sure for Thunder Bay’s Hearts as defending champion after profitable final 12 months in Calgary.
4-time champ Kerri Einarson, Alberta’s Selena Sturmay and Manitoba’s Kaitlyn Lawes pre-qualified for the Hearts based mostly on their rating on the finish of the 2023-24 season.
Different provincial and territorial reps already certified embody Christina Black (Nova Scotia), Laurie St-Georges (Quebec), Kerry Galusha (Northwest Territories), Melissa Adams (New Brunswick), Bayly Scoffin (Yukon) and Julia Weagle (Nunavut).
The winner in Thunder Bay represents Canada on the ladies’s world championship March 15-23 in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
Brown claimed her second B.C. ladies’s title 5 years after the primary with a 10-7 victory over Kayla MacMillan in Langley.
“It feels unimaginable. We had a extremely nice week all week. We confirmed we deserved to be right here and we actually introduced all of it collectively in that final sport,” Brown instructed Curl BC.
McCarville’s bid to signify Northern Ontario in her hometown of Thunder Bay was a battle.
The 2-time Hearts finalist trailed Emma Artichuk 5-2 after 5 ends, however scored one within the sixth and stole single factors within the seven and eighth.
The skip drew the four-foot rings within the tenth for the win and her twelfth journey to the Hearts.
Cameron simply wanted Beth Peterson’s shot stone to go away and made the hit for a 7-6 victory in Pilot Mound, Man.
Cameron skipped her workforce to final 12 months’s Hearts semifinal in Calgary the place her rink was ousted by Jennifer Jones.
Kayla Skrlik edged Nicky Kaufman 6-5 to win Alberta and return to the Hearts after going 4-4 in her first look in 2023.
After shedding the final two Saskatchewan finals, Martin prevailed 9-7 over Jolene Campbell in Kindersley to punch a ticket to Thunder Bay.
Inglis claimed a second straight Ontario championship by doubling Chelsea Brandwood 8-4 in Coburg.
Godsland was a 10-4 winner over Carrie Vautour in St. John’s, N.L.
DiCarlo stole two factors within the tenth finish for an 8-7 victory over Hillary Selkirk in P.E.I.
The Hearts winner additionally qualifies for November’s Olympic curling trials in Halifax if that workforce ranks within the prime six on the world championship.
Homan and Einarson have already got trials berths locked down. Ought to both workforce emerge victorious in Thunder Bay, the trials berth goes to the workforce ranked next-highest within the 2024-25 nationwide ladies’s workforce rankings on the conclusion of the Gamers’ Championship in April.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 26, 2025.
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