Hailey Breyanne Armstrong (born March 8, 1996) is a
Canadian
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curler from
Carleton Place,
Ontario
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.
She currently
skips her own team out of
Waterloo, Ontario
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.
Career
After winning the 2017
Ontario Junior Curling Championships, Armstrong competed in her lone
Canadian Junior Curling Championships
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The even ...
of her junior career at the
2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championships was held from January 21 to 29 at the Archie Browning Sports Centre and the Esquimalt Curling Club in Esquimalt, British Columbia. The winners represented Canada at the 2017 World Junior Curling ...
. She represented Ontario with teammates
Grace Holyoke at third,
Lindsay Dubue
Lindsay Dubue () (born July 23, 1999) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. She currently plays second on Team Clancy Grandy.
Career
Dubue played in three Canadian Junior Curling Championships during her junior career in 2017, 2018 and 202 ...
at second and
Marcia Richardson
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Athletics career
She represented Great Britain at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996, ...
at lead. They finished the round robin and championship pools with an unblemished 10–0 record, qualifying directly for the final where they faced Alberta's
Kristen Streifel. Tied 3–3 with hammer in the tenth end, Armstrong was heavy on her final draw, giving Alberta a steal of two and the 5–3 win. Armstrong aged out of juniors the following season and began skipping her own team on the
World Curling Tour
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History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later assistance from J ...
. Her team qualified for the
2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they went 0–3 in the triple knockout tournament. After failing to qualify for the provincial championship in 2019, she joined the
Laurie St-Georges rink out of Quebec as their third.
In their first season together, Team St-Georges competed in their first
Grand Slam of Curling event at the
2019 Tour Challenge
The 2019 KIOTI TRACTOR Tour Challenge was held from November 5 to 10, at the Pictou County Wellness Centre in Westville Road, Nova Scotia. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2019–20 season.
In the men's tier 1 final, Brad Jacobs of ...
Tier 2 where they lost in a tiebreaker to
Megan Balsdon. They also competed in their first provincial women's championship at the
2020 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts. After finishing the round robin in first place, they lost in the final to
Noémie Verreault 3–1.
Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, the 2021
Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts was cancelled. Since the defending champions, Team Noémie Verreault, had disbanded, Team St-Georges (the 2020 provincial runner-up) was invited to represent Quebec at the
2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from February 19 to 28 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. The winning Kerri Einarson team represented Canada ...
, which they accepted. The event was played in a bio-secure bubble in
Calgary
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,
Alberta
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to prevent the spread of the virus. At the Hearts, Armstrong and her teammates received a lot of media attention and fans thanks to their positive attitudes and strong play on the ice. They also defeated multiple higher ranked teams in the tournament including the Wild Card team of
Tracy Fleury (skipped by
Chelsea Carey),
Corryn Brown's British Columbia rink and
Suzanne Birt's team out of Prince Edward Island. Ultimately, they finished the event with a 6–6 record and a seventh place finish.
Team St-Georges began the
2021–22 season with a semifinal finish at the
2021 Oakville Fall Classic
The 2021 Oakville Fall Classic was held from August 27 to 29 at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Ontario. It was the fourth men's event and third women's event of the 2021–22 curling season. The total purse for the event was $6,000 on th ...
where they lost to the event winners Team
Jamie Sinclair. They only made the playoffs at one other tour event at the
Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic
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, losing in the quarterfinals to Team
Jill Brothers. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
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, the qualification process for the
2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials
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had to be modified to qualify enough teams for the championship. In these modifications,
Curling Canada
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created the
2021 Canadian Curling Pre-Trials Direct-Entry Event
The 2021 Canadian Curling Pre-Trials Direct-Entry Event was held from September 22 to 26 at the RA Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The event was held to qualify two men's teams and two women's teams for the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials.
Qu ...
, an event where eight teams would compete to try to earn one of two spots into the
2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials. Team St-Georges qualified for the Pre-Trials Direct-Entry Event as the second seed. The team won their opening match, but then lost three straight games and were eliminated from the event. The
Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts was again cancelled due to the pandemic and Team St-Georges were once again selected to represent Quebec at the national women's championship. The team could not replicate their successful run from 2021, finishing the
2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with a 3–5 record. They won their opening two matches against Alberta's
Laura Walker and the Yukon's
Hailey Birnie and their last game against Nova Scotia's
Christina Black.
Personal life
Armstrong began curling at age 9. She grew up in
Perth
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, and at the time of the 2017 Canadian Juniors, she was living in
Innisville, Ontario. Armstrong was business administration student at
Algonquin College,
and is now a bachelor of commerce student at
Nipissing University.
Teams
References
External links
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1996 births
Canadian women curlers
Living people
Algonquin College alumni
People from Carleton Place
Curlers from Ottawa
People from Perth, Ontario
Nipissing University alumni