The 2016

Scotties Tournament of Hearts The Scotties Tournament of Hearts (''french: Le Tournoi des Cœurs Scotties''; commonly referred to as the Scotties) is the annual Canadian women's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada, formerly called the Canadian Curling Associat ...

was held from February 20 to 28 at Revolution Place in

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. The winning team represented Canada at the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship held from March 19 to 27 at the

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Teams

The 2016 Scotties is as notable for who did not qualify for the event as who did. Notably absent is the #1 ranked team in the world,

Rachel Homan Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curler. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a three-time Canadian national champion, and the 2017 world champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Cana ...

, who was defeated in the Ontario final by her club-mates, 2005 Hearts runner-up

Jenn Hanna Jennifer Ann Hanna (born January 22, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Nepean, Ontario. She curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the . Career Early competitive career ...

, who is representing Ontario. The 2015 runner up

Val Sweeting Valerie Sweeting (born July 9, 1987 in Redvers, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Lottie Lake, Alberta She currently plays third for Team Kerri Einarson. Sweeting skipped Alberta to a silver medal at the and Scotties Tournament of Hearts ...

rink lost in the Alberta final to the

Chelsea Carey Chelsea Danielle Carey (born September 12, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She is the 2016 and 2019 Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba provincial women's champion skip. Career E ...

rink, the #5 ranked

Tracy Fleury Tracy Fleury (born June 13, 1986, as Tracy Horgan) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season. In 2021, she led her team to a silver medal at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling ...

lost in the Northern Ontario final to 2010 Scotties bronze medalist

Krista McCarville Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curling, curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the Curling at the 2003 Winter Universiade, 2003 Winter Univ ...

and the #8 ranked

Stefanie Lawton Stefanie Lawton ( Miller; born June 20, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central r ...

rink lost in the Saskatchewan final to

Jolene Campbell Jolene Campbell (born Jolene McIvor on August 12, 1981) is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan. She currently skips her own team out of Winnipeg. Curling career Junior career Born in Saskatoon, Campbell won a provincial junior title i ...

. The headline team for the 2016 Scotties is the defending Scotties and Olympic champion,

Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned over five decades, she was nominated ...

who is representing Team Canada. Also returning from 2015 is the

Suzanne Birt Suzanne Birt (born Suzanne Gaudet on October 2, 1981 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian curling, curler from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. She currently Skip (curling), skips her own team on the World Curling Tour. Career ...

rink from Prince Edward Island, the

Sylvie Robichaud Sylvie Quillian (born June 18, 1980 as Sylvie Robichaud) is a Canadian curler from Riverview, New Brunswick. She has won four New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts and was the New Brunswick provincial junior champion from 1999–2001. Ca ...

rink from New Brunswick and the

Kerry Galusha Kerry Galusha (born Kerry Koe on November 3, 1977) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her team out of the Yellowknife Curling Club in Yellowknife. Career Juniors Galusha's first national experience was at the 1992 Canadian Junior Curling ...

rink from the Northwest Territories. 2004 Canadian Junior champion

Jill Brothers Jillian Brothers (born May 20, 1983 as Jill Mouzar ronounced "MOW-zer" is a Canadian curler. Brothers was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and now resides in Bedford, Nova Scotia. She currently plays second on Team Andrea Kelly out of New Brunswi ...

is representing Nova Scotia for the second time as skip. 2004 Hearts runner-up

Marie-France Larouche Marie-France Larouche (born June 5, 1980 in Lévis, Quebec) is a Canadian curler, who currently skips her own team out of the Club de curling Etchemin in Saint-Romuald, Quebec. In 2022 she won the World Mixed Curling Championship playing third f ...

is representing Quebec for the 7th time as skip, in her first Scotties since 2012. 2007 Canadian Junior champion

Stacie Curtis Stacie Curtis (born Devereaux; May 27, 1986) is a curler originally from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a four-time provincial junior champion, three time provincial women's champion and 2007 Canadian Junior champion and World J ...

is representing Newfoundland and Labrador for the third time as skip. Skipping the Yukon team was

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, returning to the Hearts for the first time since 2007. Making their Scotties debut is

Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born October 3, 1987 as Kerri Flett) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is the three-time reigning women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to vic ...

from Manitoba and Karla Thompson from British Columbia, while Nunavut was represented for the first time ever in the Scotties, and was skipped by Geneva Chislett. The teams are listed as follows:

CTRS ranking

Pre-qualifying tournament

Standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC−7).

Draw 1

''Thursday, February 18, 7:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Friday, February 19, 7:30 am''

Draw 3

''Friday, February 19, 4:20 pm''

Pre-qualifying final

''Saturday, February 20, 1:30 pm''

Round robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC−7).

Draw 1

''Saturday, February 20, 1:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Saturday, February 20, 6:30 pm''

Draw 3

''Sunday, February 21, 8:30 am''

Draw 4

''Sunday, February 21, 1:30 pm''

Draw 5

''Sunday, February 21, 6:30 pm''

Draw 6

''Monday, February 22, 1:30 pm''

Draw 7

''Monday, February 22, 6:30 pm''

Draw 8

''Tuesday, February 23, 8:30 am''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, February 23, 1:30 pm''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, February 23, 6:30 pm''

Draw 11

''Wednesday, February 24, 8:30 am''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, February 24, 1:30 pm''

Draw 13

''Wednesday, February 24, 6:30 pm''

Draw 14

''Thursday, February 25, 8:30 am''

Draw 15

''Thursday, February 25, 1:30 pm''

Draw 16

''Thursday, February 25, 6:30 pm''

Draw 17

''Friday, February 26, 8:30 am''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''Friday, February 26, 7:00 pm''

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, February 27, 1:30 pm''

Semifinal

''Saturday, February 27, 6:30 pm''

Bronze medal game

''Sunday, February 28, 1:30 pm''

Final

''Sunday, February 28, 6:30 pm''

Statistics

''Round Robin only''

Awards

The awards and all-star teams are as follows: ;All-Star Teams ''First Team'' *Skip:

, Team Canada *Third:

Kaitlyn Lawes Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to ...

, Team Canada *Second:

Jill Officer Jill Officer (born June 2, 1975) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Officer played second for the teams skipped by Jennifer Jones from 2003 to 2018 and while they were juniors. The team won a gold medal while representing Canada at t ...

, Team Canada *Lead:

Dawn McEwen Dawn Kathleen McEwen (born Askin; July 3, 1980) is a Canadian retired curling, curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the long-time lead for the Jennifer Jones (curler), Jennifer Jones rink, who became Olympic champions, winning gold for Canada ...

, Team Canada ''Second Team'' *Skip:

, Alberta *Third: Ashley Howard, Saskatchewan *Second:

Liz Fyfe Elisabeth Fyfe (born May 11, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts as second on Kerri Einarson's Team Manitoba. She was a Canadian Junior Curling Champion having won the 2008 ...

, Manitoba *Lead: Sarah Potts, Northern Ontario Note: All of the second all-star team members are daughters of former

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champions. Chelsea Carey's father is Dan Carey, who won the Brier in

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, Ashley Howard's father is

Russ Howard Russell W. "Russ" Howard, CM, ONL (born February 19, 1956 in Midland, Ontario) is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Regina, Saskatchewan, but originally from Midland, Ontario. He lived in Moncton, New Brunswick from 2000 to 20 ...

, who won it in

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and

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, Liz Fyfe's father

Vic Peters Victor Alvin "Vic" Peters (March 24, 1955 – March 27, 2016) was a Canadian curler who was a three-time Manitoba curling champion, and one-time national champion as winner of the 1992 Labatt Brier. Peters was once considered a member of Manit ...

won the Brier in 1992 and the father of Sarah Potts is

Rick Lang Richard P. "Rick" Lang (born December 12, 1953) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. He is a two-time World champion and three-time Brier champion representing Northern Ontario. He currently serves as a performance consultant for Curl ...

, who won the Brier in

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and

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. ;

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* Ashley Howard, Saskatchewan ;Joan Mead Builder Award *

Renée Sonnenberg Renée Sonnenberg (born Renée Handfield March 22, 1971) is a Canadian curler from Grande Prairie, Alberta. Curling career Sonnenberg had a fairly successful junior career, having won two provincial junior titles in 1989 and 1990. She placed ...

-area volunteer junior coach, an executive director of the

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Curling Association, and skip of Team Alberta at the

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and

2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts The 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's national curling championship, was played at the Sudbury Community Arena in Sudbury, Ontario. The final pitted 1999 champions Colleen Jones and her Nova Scotia team against the defending champ ...

Teams

CTRS ranking

Pre-qualifying tournament

Standings

Results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Pre-qualifying final

Round robin standings

Round robin results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 6

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 9

Draw 10

Draw 11

Draw 12

Draw 13

Draw 14

Draw 15

Draw 16

Draw 17

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

3 vs. 4

Semifinal

Bronze medal game

Final

Statistics

Awards

References

External links