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Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987 in
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as Hollie Nicol) is a
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curler. She currently skips her own team on the
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Career


Juniors

As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her
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rink to a provincial Bantam championship in 2002. In 2004, Duncan represented the Bayview Country Club when her team won the
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championship. Duncan wrapped up her junior career by winning the 2007 provincial junior championship. Her rink of
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Karen Sagle Karen Trines (born December 15, 1986, in Ottawa as Karen Sagle) is a Canadian curler from Nepean, Ontario. She currently plays lead for Team Mann on the World Curling Tour. Career Trines twice represented Ontario at the Canadian Junior Curling ...
and
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from the Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club would then go on to represent Ontario at the
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. At the juniors, Duncan led Ontario to a 7–5 record, which was not good enough to make the playoffs. Duncan had a successful university curling career, playing for
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. Duncan would win two
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for Laurier, in 2008 and 2009. Duncan represented Canada at the
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, where she won a silver medal for Canada.


Women's

After juniors, Duncan joined the
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rink in 2010 as her third. The team would play in Duncan's lone
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ever to date, the
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, in which they were eliminated after posting a 3–3 record. In 2012, she joined the
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rink, playing lead. The team would play in Duncan's first provincial championship, at the
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where they finished with a 3–6 record. When Mouzar (now Brothers) moved back to her native Nova Scotia in 2013, Duncan moved to skipping the team. Duncan would lead her team to an appearance at the
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, finishing the event with a 2–7 record. Duncan took two seasons off from competitive curling, returning in 2016, skipping a rink of Chantal Allan,
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and
Karen Sagle Karen Trines (born December 15, 1986, in Ottawa as Karen Sagle) is a Canadian curler from Nepean, Ontario. She currently plays lead for Team Mann on the World Curling Tour. Career Trines twice represented Ontario at the Canadian Junior Curling ...
. Allan was replaced with
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in 2017. The team would win the
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, Duncan's first provincial title, sending her to her first
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in 2018. There, her team posted a 4–3 round robin record which qualified them for the tiebreaker against Newfoundland and Labrador's
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. Ontario scored three in the ninth end and stole two in the tenth for a 11–8 win and a spot in the Championship Pool. They would not win any more games, finishing the tournament with a 4–7 record. The following season, she failed to qualify for the playoffs at the
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after losing the tiebreaker 10–5 to
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. Duncan started the 2019–20 season with a quarterfinal finish at the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic despite qualifying for the playoffs as the number one seed. Also that season, her team qualified for the
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and made it to the final where they lost to
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. Duncan left her team after the season to join the
Megan Balsdon Megan Balsdon (born May 10, 1982 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian curler. She currently plays third on Team Hollie Duncan. Career In 1998, Balsdon won the Ontario Bantam Mixed championships playing third for skip Bobby Reid. In 2001, she won ...
rink as their new skip. The team only played in one event during the 2020–21 season due to the
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. They reached the final of the
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, losing to Team
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in an extra end. Duncan, with new teammates Megan Balsdon, Rachelle Strybosch and
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began the 2021–22 season with a semifinal finish at the 2021 Oakville Labour Day Classic where they lost to event winners Team
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 ...
. In their next event, the team won the
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, defeating the
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rink in the final. The following week, they lost in the final of the
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to Team Galusha. They responded with their second event title of the season at the
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where they defeated Team
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in the final. Because of their successes on tour, Team Duncan had enough points to qualify for the
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. At the Pre-Trials, the team finished with a 3–3 record, failing to qualify for the championship round. Team Duncan played in two more tour events during the season, missing the playoffs of the 2021 National
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event and reaching the quarterfinals of the
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. Due to the postponement of the
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due to the
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,
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appointed Team
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 ...
to represent the province at the
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. However, because Homan herself was chosen to represent Canada at the
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in
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, Team Duncan were awarded the spot as Team Ontario at the national championship, with Team Homan earning one of the three Wild Card spots. At the Hearts, Team Duncan started with four straight losses before winning their last four games, finishing the event with a 4–4 record. Team Duncan began the
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playing in the 2022 PointsBet Invitational, where her rink was knocked out in the round of 16 by Team
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. The team then played in the 2022 National, where they lost all four of their games. They then played in the 2022 Tour Challenge where they finished the group round with a 2–2 record, before losing in a tiebreaker game to
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. Playing in those tournaments was good enough to qualify the team for the 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.


Personal life

Duncan works as a lawyer and decision writer with the
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. She is married to Tim Duncan, and has one son.


Grand Slam record


Former events


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duncan, Hollie 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Markham, Ontario Curlers from Toronto Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks players Canadian women curlers Universiade medalists in curling Universiade silver medalists for Canada Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade 21st-century Canadian women