Chelsea Brandwood is a Canadian curler from

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, Ontario. She currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour. Her hometown is

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Career

Youth

Brandwood's first provincial title came at the women's bantam championship in 2012. Brandwood won the Ontario Junior women's championship in 2015, with teammates Claire Greenlees, Brenda Holloway and Danielle Greenlees. The team represented Ontario at the

2015 Canadian Junior Curling Championships The 2015 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held from January 24 to February 1 at the Corner Brook Civic Centre and the Corner Brook Curling Club. The winners represented Canada at the 2015 World Junior Curling Championships ...

. Brandwood led her rink to a 7-3 record, after the round robin tournament. In the playoffs, she beat British Columbia's Corryn Brown team, before losing in the final to Alberta's Kelsey Rocque. In university curling, Brandwood played for the Laurier Golden Hawks, where she won three straight provincial (OUA) titles from 2014 to 2016, but came up short in 2017, her fourth year of eligibility. She was the alternate for the Laurier team (skipped by Carly Howard) at the

2014 CIS/CCA Curling Championships The 2014 CIS/CCA Curling Championships was held from March 19 to 23 at the Callie Curling Club in Regina, Saskatchewan. The host university of the event was the University of Regina. The winners represented Canada at the 2015 Winter Universiade ...

, where they finished third. At the

2015 CIS/CCA Curling Championships The 2015 CIS/CCA Curling Championships are held from March 18 to 21 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club in Waterloo, Ontario. The host university of the event is Wilfrid Laurier University Wilfrid Laurier University (commonly referred to ...

, she was the lead on the team, and won another bronze medal. At the

2016 CIS/CCA Curling Championships The 2016 CIS/CCA Curling Championships are held from March 20 to 23 at the Kelowna Curling Club in Kelowna, British Columbia. The host university of the event is UBC Okanagan. The winning teams will also represent Canada at the 2017 Winter Unive ...

, she was the skip of the team, but they missed the playoffs. Brandwood then attended Niagara College, skipping their women's team to a provincial college title in 2018. She represented Niagara at the 2018 CCAA Curling National Championships, where she led her team to a 4-3 record.

Women's

Brandwood won her first World Curling Tour event at the 2018 Gord Carroll Curling Classic, defeating Korea's Gim Un-chi in the final. Later that season, Brandwood qualified for her first provincial women's championship, the 2019 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts. In 2020, her team competed at the 2020 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts where they finished in dead last with a 1-7 record. In 2022, Brandwood won the Home Again Curling Classic bonspiel, and qualified for the

2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held from January 23 to 29 at The Plex in Port Elgin, Ontario. The winning Rachel Homan rink represented Ontario at the 2023 S ...

, where they went 1–4.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandwood, Chelsea Living people Canadian women curlers Curlers from Ontario Sportspeople from St. Catharines Wilfrid Laurier University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian women