The 2015

Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the Ontario provincial curling championship for women's curling. The tournament is run by CurlON, the curling association for Southern Ontario. The winning team represents Team Ontario at the national S ...

, the provincial women's

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championship for

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, was held January 19 to 25 at the

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. The winning

Julie Hastings Julie Hastings (born September 5, 1975 in North York as Julie Anderson) is a Canadian curler from Stouffville, Ontario. Career As a junior curler, Hastings won the 1992 Ontario Junior Mixed Championship playing third for skip Brad Savage. In ...

team represented

at the

2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from February 14 to 22 at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The winners represented Canada at the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship held from March 14 to 22 at the Tsukisamu Gymnasium i ...

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. The event marked the first tournament to exclude teams from

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, which began to have its own entry into the Scotties, the

2015 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2015 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from January 15 to 18 at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The winning team of Tracy Horgan represented Northern Ontario at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Heart ...

Qualification Process

Due to the exclusion of Northern Ontario, qualifying for the provincial Scotties changed for 2015. Ten teams still qualify for the provincial tournament; two teams qualified from each of the four

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regions, one team qualified from a second-chance Challenge Round, while the defending champion team (

Allison Flaxey Allison "Alli" Flaxey ( Nimik; born February 13, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Caledon, Ontario. She currently plays third on Team Carly Howard. She is a former Canadian Mixed champion, and World Mixed Doubles bronze medallist. Career Flaxey ...

rink) automatically qualified. The defending two-time national Scotties champion

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rink once again did not participate in the qualification process, as her team won the

2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held from February 1 to 9 at the Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Quebec. The defending champion Rachel Homan rink won their second straight title, with Homan becoming the youngest skip to ever win back- ...

and therefore continued to represent Team Canada at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Teams

Round robin standings

Round robin results

Draw 1

''Monday, January 19, 7:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Tuesday, January 20, 2:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Tuesday, January 20, 7:00 pm''

Draw 4

''Wednesday, January 21, 2:00 pm''

Draw 5

''Wednesday, January 21, 7:00 pm''

Draw 6

''Thursday, January 22, 2:00 pm''

Draw 7

''Thursday, January 22, 7:00 pm''

Draw 8

''Friday, January 23, 2:00 pm''

Draw 9

''Friday, January 23, 7:00 pm''

Playoffs

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, January 24, 2:00 pm''

1 vs. 2

''Saturday, January 24, 7:00 pm''

Semifinal

''Sunday, January 25, 9:30 am''

Final

''Sunday, January 25, 4:00 pm''

Qualification

Southern Ontario zones will run from December 12-December 21, 2014. Two teams from each zone qualify for regionals. Regional Qualifiers In Bold

Zone Qualification

Zone 1

''December 12–14, at the RCMP Curling Club, Ottawa'' Teams entered: *Jennifer Harvey (Conrwall) * Erin Morrissey (Ottawa) *

Danielle Inglis Danielle Inglis (born February 26, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Whitby, Ontario. She currently skips her own team. Career Juniors As a junior curler, Inglis and her Burlington Curling Club rink of Chantal Lalonde, Tracy O'Leary and Pa ...

(Ottawa) All teams qualified due to lack of teams in Region.

Zone 2

''December 12–14, at the RCMP Curling Club, Ottawa'' Teams entered: *Celeste Butler-Rohland (Rideau) * Rhonda Varnes (Rideau) *Jaqui Lavoie (Rideau) All teams qualified due to lack of teams in Region (event still held, however). Bracket:

Zone 3

''December 12–14, at the RCMP Curling Club, Ottawa'' Teams entered: * Brit O'Neill (City View) Due to lack of entries in region, no other team qualified from this zone.

Zone 4

''December 19–21, at the Napanee & District Curling Club,

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'' Teams entered: *No teams entered (4A filled by Jennifer Harvey; 4B filled by Jacquie Lavoie)

Zone 5

Teams entered: *Emma Joyce (Lindsay) (automatically qualifies as only team) One additional team will be selected from Zone 8.

Zone 6

''December 6–7, at the Unionville Curling Club, Unionville'' Teams entered: *Susan McKnight (Uxbridge) *Janet McGhee (Unionville) *Stephanie Van Huyse (Whitby) Brackets:

Zone 7

Teams entered: *

(Bayview) *Courtney de Winter (Richmond Hill) Both teams qualify as there were no other entries.

Zone 8

''December 13–14, at the Dixie Curling Club, Mississauga'' Teams entered: *Clancy Grandy (Mississaugua) *Megan Balsdon (Dixie) *Kelly Cochrane (High Park) *Samantha Peters (Royal Canadian) *Susan Baird (Dixie) (One additional team qualifies to fill vacancy in Zone 5) Brackets:

Zone 9

''December 19–21, at The Club at North Halton, Georgetown'' Teams entered: *Emma Joyce (Orangeville) (automatically qualifies as only team) Due to lack of entries in Region 2, no additional team will be selected for this zone.

Zone 10

Teams entered: *

Sherry Middaugh Sherry L. Middaugh (née Hamel, born October 11, 1966 in Rosetown, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich. She is a five-time ...

(Coldwater) *Peggy Darmody (Penetanguishene) Both teams qualify as there were no other entries.

Zone 11

No teams entered.

Zone 12

''December 13 at the Galt Country Club, Gambridge'' Teams entered: *Courtney Gilder (Kitchener-Waterloo Granite) *Shannon Kee (Westmount) Both teams qualify as there were no other entries.

Zone 13

''December 6, at the Glendale Golf & Country Club,

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'' Teams entered: *Caitlin Romain (Glendale) *Mallory Kean (Glendale) *

Marilyn Bodogh Marilyn C. Bodogh (also known as Marilyn Darte) (born March 9, 1955) is a Canadian curler, colour commentator and political candidate. Bodogh is best known for her two World Curling Championships in 1986 and 1996 and her two Tournament of Heart ...

(St. Catharines Golf) *Michelle Fletcher (Burlington) Brackets:

Zone 14

Teams entered: *

Cathy Auld Catherine "Cathy" Auld (born December 3, 1971) is a Canadian curler from Toronto. She currently skips her own team out of Thornhill, Ontario. Career Auld was a longtime member of the Alison Goring rink. Auld played third for the team until 200 ...

(Listowel) (automatically qualifies as only team) One additional team will be selected from Zone 13.

Zone 15

''December 13, at the Brantford Golf & Country Club,

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'' Teams entered: *

Jacqueline Harrison Jacqueline Harrison (born July 28, 1978 in Niagara Falls, Ontario as Jacqueline Smith) is a Canadian curler from Waterdown, Ontario. Harrison currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour. Career Harrison's junior career involved reaching ...

(Brant) * Chantal Lalonde (Woodstock) *Amie Shackleton (St. Marys) Brackets:

Zone 16

''December 13, at the Chatham Granite Club,

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'' Teams entered: *

Chrissy Cadorin Christina "Chrissy" Cadorin (born October 19, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Thornhill, Ontario. She currently plays third on Team Cathy Auld. Career Cadorin was born in North York, Ontario. As a junior curler, Cadorin won two Junior Mixed ju ...

(London) *Bethany Heinrichs (Ilderton) *Dianne Dykstra (Chatham Granite) Brackets:

Regional Qualification

Region 1

''January 3–4 at the Smiths Falls Curling Club,

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Region 2

''January 3–4 at the Oshawa Golf and Curling Club, Oshawa''

Region 3

''January 3–4 at the

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Region 4

''January 3–4 at the Grimsby Curling Club,

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Challenge Round

''January 10–11,

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Brockville Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically independent of the county. It is included with Le ...

'' (Hastings must be beaten twice)

References

External links

*{{official website, http://www.2015ontarioscotties.com//

Penetanguishene Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts