Chelsea Brandwood is a Canadian curler from St. Catharines,

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. She currently

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s a team on the

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. Her hometown is Beamsville, Ontario.

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,

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and Danielle Greenlees. The team represented Ontario at the 2015 Canadian 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

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team, before losing in the final to Alberta's

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. In university curling, Brandwood played for the

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, 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, where they finished third. At the 2015 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, she was the

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on the team, and won another bronze medal. At the 2016 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, she was the skip of the team, but they missed the playoffs. Brandwood then attended

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, skipping their women's team to a provincial college title in 2018. She represented Niagara at the 2018

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, where she led her team to a 4-3 record.

Women's

Brandwood won her first

event at the 2018

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, 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

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, where they went 1–4.

References

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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