The 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts will return to Thunder Bay for the second time in four years. The tournament will take place from February 14-23 at Fort Williams Gardens, with 18 teams competing for the Canadian women's curling championship. Team Rachel Homan enters as the favorite after an incredibly dominant two seasons, but several other teams will be looking to challenge for the title.
For the second time in four years, the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts is set to take place in Thunder Bay .
The top three teams from each pool will advance to a six-team playoff as the first-place team from Pool A will take on the second-place team from Pool B, and vice versa. The winners will advance to the 1 vs. 2-page playoff while the losers meet the third-place finishers in the pools. Those games will serve as a qualifier for the 3 vs. 4-page playoff game. The winning rink will represent Canada at the 2025 World Women's Curling Championship in in Uijeongbu, South Korea from March 15-23.
After putting together arguably the greatest curling season ever last year – highlighted by a perfect run at the Tournament of Hearts and winning the World Women’s Curling Championship – Team Homan hasn’t slowed down in 2024-25, making the final in all seven of their events, winning five of them. They are coming in on a bit of a hot streak, winning an Edmonton bonspiel in mid-January by defeating Team Corryn Brown in the final.
Team Homan is the only lock to make the playoffs out of Pool A, meaning Team Skrlik, alongside the likes of Team Sturmay, Team Corryn Brown, Team Krista McCarville and Team Nancy Martin will all likely battle it out for the remaining two spots.Team Story Brown has always been around the .500 mark at the Scotties – a career record of 14-14 - and will probably need an additional win or two in order to secure a playoff berth and avoid any tiebreakers. Krista McCarville’s 12th Scotties Tournament of Hearts will be in front of her hometown fans for the first time in her career.
With veteran Andrea Crawford back for another year, Team McCarville punched their ticket to the Thunder Bay Scotties after a close 6-5 win over Team Emma Artichuk in the final of the Northern Ontario Women’s Championship. The Saskatoon-based foursome, also featuring mixed-doubles specialist Kadriana Lott in her first Scotties appearance, defeated Team Jolene Campbell in the provincial final. The win was particularly sweet for Martin after dropping the Saskatchewan final in each of the previous two seasons.
As a result, Team Einarson used a handful of fill-in players, including Laura Walker, Dawn McEwen and Joanne Courtney. They’re the only team in the Scotties field to have beaten Team Homan this season, defeating the juggernaut rink, 5-4, in the final of the Tour Challenge back in October.The Winnipeg foursome, who earned a pre-qualified spot to the Scotties this year, started the season with four semifinal appearances in their first five events.
Black is having a career season with 43 wins in 52 games, highlighted by five bonspiel wins. The strong run has catapulted this East coast rink to No. 4 in the country. Team Black might be the Maritimes’ best chance of winning the Scotties since the Colleen Jones’ dynasty from 1999 to 2004. Kate Cameron will wear the Buffalo at this year’s Tournament of Hearts after winning her first provincial title as a skip.
Despite a difficult 2024-25 campaign, the 36-year-old Inglis and her Ottawa foursome saved their best curling for provincial playdowns, defending their title with a 6-1 total record. Team St-Georges having won back-to-back events – including a 6-0 run at the provincial championship – and are on a 11-game winning streak entering the Scotties.
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