Janet Murphy (born April 22, 1965) is a

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curler. She was born in

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but resides in

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. She is the director of curling at Mississaugua Golf & Country Club.

Career

From 2010–2014, Murphy was the third on

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's team. From 2014-2015 she was the third on

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's team. From 2015–2018 she was third on

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's team. In 2015, the team won the

Gord Carroll Curling Classic The Gord Carroll Curling Classic (formerly the Mount Lawn Gord Carroll Classic and the Village of Taunton Mills Gord Carroll Curling Classic) is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the Whitby Curling Club in Whitby, Onta ...

Oakville Fall Classic The Oakville Fall Classic (formerly the Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic and the Biosteel Oakville Fall Classic) is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's World Curling Tour and Ontario Curling Tour. It is held annually in September ...

and

Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic The North Grenville Curling Club Women's Fall Curling Classic (formerly the Royal LePage OVCA Women's Fall Classic and the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic) is an annual women's bonspiel, or curling tournament, held in Kemptville, Ontario. It ...

. The following year, the team won the Brantford Nissan Classic. She coached her daughter

Jestyn Murphy Jestyn Murphy (born September 21, 1996) is a Canadian curler from Mississauga, Ontario. She currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour. Career Youth Murphy won the Ontario Bantam championship in 2013, skipping a team out of the Listowel C ...

who is also a curler. From 2018–2020 they both played on the same team with Janet being

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and her daughter being the

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. The team went on to win the

Listowel Women's Classic The Part II Bistro Ladies Classic (formerly the Listowel Women's Classic and the Listowel Women's Cash Spiel) is a bonspiel that is part of the women's Ontario Curling Tour. The event is an annual event held in November and takes place at the Wing ...

in 2018 and finished as runners-up the following year.

Personal life

Her husband Hugh Murphy was also a curler and died in 2020. They had two children, Jestyn and Hale. Murphy works as the director of curling at the Mississaugua Golf & Country Club.

References

Living people Canadian women curlers 1965 births Curlers from Nova Scotia People from Amherst, Nova Scotia Curlers from Ontario Sportspeople from Mississauga Canadian curling coaches {{Canada-curling-bio-stub