Courtney Chenier (born October 5, 1992 in

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) is a

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curler from

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. She was the alternate for the

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 ...

rink 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 in ...

Career

Chenier won the 2011 and 2012 Northern Ontario Junior Curling Championships as a member of the Kendra Lilly rink. This qualified her for the

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in each of those years. At the

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, Chenier's team of Lilly,

Jen Gates Jennifer Gates (born April 22, 1990) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. Gates is a two-time Canadian university champion and a two-time Northern Ontario provincial champion. Career Bantam and junior curling During her bantam and juni ...

and Kim Curtin went 6–6 and missed the playoffs. At the

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, her team of Lilly, Crystal Lillico and Avery Thomas went 6–6 again, missing the playoffs. Following her junior career, Chenier and Lilly formed their own rink with Laura Pickering-Forget and Joanne Comé-Forget. They went 4–5 with this team at her first provincial championship in 2013. Chenier and her team qualified for playoffs at the

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, losing in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game. Chenier spared for the Tracy Horgan rink during 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 ...

. The team became the first women's team to represent Northern Ontario at the Scotties, after winning the provincials with a 5–0 record and defeating former skip Kendra Lilly 4–3 in the final. Team Fleury then had to win a relegation qualifier prior to the

in order to compete in the main tournament. During the relegation round at the

, Northern Ontario defeated

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 ...

from the

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10–5 and then beat

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from the

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7–5. In the pre-qualification final, they once again defeated the team from Yellowknife, 7–6, securing the right to represent

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in the main draw at the Scotties for the first time. In the main event, they found some success defeating higher seeds such as

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and

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 ...

. Chenier played in two games against

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and

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, winning both. Headed into draw seventeen, the final draw before playoffs, Northern Ontario and

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 ...

, Team Canada at the time, shared 6–4 records. The winner of their game would determine the fourth seed for playoffs, and the loser would be eliminated. After leading 4–2 after six ends, they would allow Homan to score two points in the seventh end to tie the game. After a blank in the eighth, Fleury was heavy on a tap attempt in the ninth end and gave up a steal of two points. Homan would run them out of stones in the tenth end to win 6–5. Therefore, Northern Ontario finished fifth at the 2015 event with a 6–5 record.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chenier, Courtney 1992 births Canadian women curlers Curlers from Northern Ontario Curlers from Ottawa Living people Sportspeople from Temiskaming Shores