Jennifer Carmichael "Jenn" Dodds (born 1 October 1991) is a Scottish curler. She currently plays

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with

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, representing Scotland and Great Britain. She is the 2022 Olympic champion in women's curling and the 2022 World champion in mixed doubles curling.

Career

Dodds played

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for the

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junior rink that won a silver medal at the

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. While attending

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, Dodds played on Fleming's team at the

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, placing fourth. Dodds left the Fleming rink in 2014, playing third for

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for two seasons. The team won the 2015 Dumfries Challenger Series event on the

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. In 2016, she returned to the Fleming rink as her third. The team won the 2018

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and defeated the

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Olympic team for the right to represent Scotland at the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship. There, the team missed the playoffs with a 5–7 record. For the 2018–19 season, Dodds joined the Muirhead rink as third. At the first leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup, Dodds skipped the team due to Muirhead having a hip injury. They finished in sixth with a 2–4 record. She played in her first

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at the

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. The team had a disappointing performance, finishing with a 4–5 record and missing the playoffs. At the 2019 Scottish Women's Curling Championships, the team qualified for the final but lost to

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11–7. In Grand Slam play, the team qualified for the playoffs in two of their three events with their best finish being at the Canadian Open where they lost in the semifinals. Team Muirhead began the 2019–20 season by winning the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic. At the

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, the Muirhead rink reached the final where they lost to Sweden's

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, claiming the silver medal. In early January, they won the

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. Team Muirhead claimed the 2020 Scottish Women's Curling Championship by defeating

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8–3 in the championship game. The team was set to represent Scotland at the

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before the event got cancelled due to the

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. In Grand Slam play, they played in three events and qualified in one of them, the 2019 National where they lost in the quarterfinals to

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. Due to the ongoing pandemic, a limited number of tour events were held during the 2020–21 season. Team Muirhead did play in a series of domestic events put on by the British Curling Association, where they won the January Challenge event and finished runner-up to Team

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in the Elite Finals. Dodds and her mixed doubles partner

also won both mixed doubles events hosted by British Curling, which qualified to represent Scotland at the

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. A "curling bubble" was set up in

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in the spring, which hosted a number of events, including the

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and two slams. Team Muirhead competed in both the

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and the

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, failing to qualify at both events. The next week, the team represented Scotland at the World's, finishing with a disappointing 6–7 record, in eighth place. Right after the World Championship, Dodds travelled back home to

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to compete in the World Mixed Doubles with Mouat. The pair had a strong showing, finishing the round robin with an 8–1 record, earning them a direct bye to the semifinals. They then defeated Canada 7–4 in the semifinal and topped Norway 9–7 to claim the gold medal. Dodds was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to curling.

Personal life

Before becoming a full-time curler, Dodds worked as an office assistant. 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide Her cousin Abigail Brown won the 2012 World Junior championships.

Teams

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dodds, Jennifer 1991 births Living people Scottish female curlers Curlers from Edinburgh Continental Cup of Curling participants World mixed doubles curling champions Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Great Britain Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in curling Scottish Olympic medallists Members of the Order of the British Empire