Jessica "Jessie" Hunkin (born August 24, 1988, née Kaufman) is a
Canadian
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curler from
Parkland County, Alberta. She currently
skips her own team out of
Spruce Grove
Spruce Grove is a city that is west of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. The city is adjacent to the Town of Stony Plain and is surrounded by Parkland County.
With a 2021 population of 37,645, Spruce Grove is the ninth-largest city in Alberta. T ...
.
Career
Until joining the
Robyn Silvernagle
Robyn Silvernagle (born May 20, 1987) is a Canadian curler from North Battleford, Saskatchewan.
Career
Silvernagle represented Saskatchewan at the 2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, finishing the event with a 7–5 record and missing ...
rink in 2018, Hunkin skipped or threw last stones one of the top teams in Alberta. Since forming her rink in 2008, she has won four WCT events: the
2010 Meyers Norris Penny Charity Classic
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Curling co ...
, the
2011 Boundary Ford Curling Classic
The 2011 Boundary Ford Curling Classic was held from November 25 to 28 at the Lloydminster Curling Club in Lloydminster, Alberta as part of the 2011–12 World Curling Tour. The purse for the event was CAD$32,000, and the event was held in a t ...
, the
2012 Iron Trail Motors Shoot-Out
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and the
2013 Avonair Cash Spiel. Her team were also runners up at the 2010
Red Deer Curling Classic
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, the 2013
Shamrock Shotgun
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and the
Boundary Ford Curling Classic
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.
Hunkin played in her first
Grand Slam
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event at the
2011 Players' Championship
The 2011 GP Car and Home Players' Championship was a Grand Slam curling bonspiel held at the Crystal Centre in Grande Prairie, Alberta from April 12–17. It features a men's and women's draw, where the top sixteen teams from the Order of Merit ...
where her team won just one game, failing to qualify for the playoffs. The next season, she played in two Grand Slam events. At the
2011 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic
The 2011 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 7 to 10 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. It was the first women's Grand Slam event of the 2011–12 curling season and the twenty-sixth time the tournament ...
she won just won match before being eliminated and at the
2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic
The 2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic was held October 21 to 24 at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the second women's Grand Slam (curling), Grand Slam event of the 2011–12 curling season and the eighth tim ...
her team failed to win a single game. The next season, Team Hunkin did much better at the
2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic
The 2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 5 to 8 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta as part of the 2012–13 World Curling Tour. It was the first women's Grand Slam event of the 2012–13 curling se ...
where they won four matches, before being eliminated in a qualifier game against
Laura Crocker
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. At the
2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic
The 2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic was held October 19 to 22 at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the second women's Grand Slam event of the 2012–13 curling season, and this edition of the event marked ...
the team won three games before being eliminated and at the
2012 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling
The 2012 Masters Grand Slam of Curling was held from November 14 to 18 at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre, the Brantford Golf & Curling Club, the Paris Curling Club, and the Brant Curling Club in Brantford and Paris, Ontario as part of the 201 ...
she won just one game.
Provincially, Hunkin has played in two
provincial championships
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. At the
2011 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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she and her team were eliminated after winning two matches. The
2012 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2012 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Alberta's women's provincial curling championship, was held from January 25 to 29 at the Leduc Curling Club in Leduc, Alberta. The winning team of Heather Nedohin, represented Alberta at the 2012 Sc ...
was much more successful for the team. They won the A qualifier, by winning four straight games, and then they won their first
page playoff
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match up against
Heather Nedohin
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. However, Nedohin won her semi-final and faced off against Hunkin in the provincial final, and prevailed, beating her 8-5 and going on to win the national championship and a bronze medal at the world championships. At the
following season's provincial Tournament of Hearts, her rink would be eliminated from contention after a 3–3 record.
In 2013,
Tiffany Steuber
Tiffany Steuber (born July 17, 1977, in Grande Prairie, Alberta as Tiffany McKeeman) is a Canadian curler from Parkland County
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joined the team as skip, but threw third stones. The team began the 2013-14 Grand Slam season by being eliminated after losing their first three games at the
2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic
The 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 11 to 14 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. The event was the first women's Grand Slam of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a triple kn ...
. At the
2014 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2014 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Alberta, was held from January 8 to 12 at the Sylvan Lake Curling Club in Sylvan Lake. The winning Val Sweeting team represented Alberta at the 2014 ...
, the team won four games, but were eliminated in the C event.
In 2014, Hunkin formed a new team with
Crystal Webster
Crystal Webster (born as Crystal Rumberg on February 26, 1975, in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.
Career
Juniors
Webster made her national curling debut at the 1994 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. This ...
skipping and throwing third stones. They played in two slams, the
2014 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic
The 2014 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 10 to 13 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. The event was the first women's Grand Slam of the 2014–15 World Curling Tour. The event was a triple knockout f ...
, where they won two games and the
2014 Colonial Square Ladies Classic
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, where they won three games, failing to make the playoffs in either event. At the
2015 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2015 Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Alberta's provincial women's curling championship, was held from January 21 to 25 at the Lacombe Arena in Lacombe, Alberta. The winning team Val Sweeting team represented Alberta at the ...
, they would make it as far as the C2 qualifier final before being eliminated.
In 2015, Hunkin formed yet another new team, this time with her returning to skipping. While her rink didn't play in any slams, they did play in the
2016 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2016 Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Alberta's provincial women's curling championship, was held from January 20 to 24 at the North Hill Curling Club in Calgary. The winning Chelsea Carey team represented Alberta at the 201 ...
. There, Hunkin led to her team into the playoffs, where she lost in the semifinal to
Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Danielle Carey (born September 12, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She is the 2016 and 2019 Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba provincial women's champion skip.
Career
E ...
. That same year, Hunkin and
Brock Virtue
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Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, raised in from Regina, Saskatchewan, Virtue's ...
won the Alberta Mixed Doubles Championship, and played in the
2016 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials
The 2016 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials were held from March 31 to April 3 at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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. There, the pair went 3–4 in pool play, missing the playoffs.
Hunkin wouldn't return to the Alberta Scotties
until 2018. Her team would go through the event without a single win. After that season, Hunkin joined the
Robyn Silvernagle
Robyn Silvernagle (born May 20, 1987) is a Canadian curler from North Battleford, Saskatchewan.
Career
Silvernagle represented Saskatchewan at the 2005 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, finishing the event with a 7–5 record and missing ...
Saskatchewan-based rink as the team's
second
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. The team had a strong start to the season, winning the 2018
Red Deer Curling Classic
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and Saskatchewan Women's Curling Tour events in Humboldt and Saskatoon. With the
2019 Canadian Open being held in
North Battleford
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, the Silvernagle rink qualified for the event as the sponsor's exemption. The team qualified for the playoffs with a 3–1 record in the triple knockout format, before losing to
Silvana Tirinzoni
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in the quarter-final.
The Silvernagle rink won the
2019 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2019 Viterra Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Saskatchewan, was held January from 22–27 at the Humboldt Curling Club in Humboldt. The winning Robyn Silvernagle team represented Sask ...
with a steal in the final end against Sherry Anderson. Representing Saskatchewan at the
2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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, the rink went 8–3 in the round robin and championship pools, before eventually losing the semi-final to Ontario and winning the bronze medal. The team had semi-final and quarterfinal finishes at the
2019 Players' Championship
The 2019 Players' Championship was held from April 9 to 14 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, Ontario. It was the seventh Grand Slam event of the 2018–19 curling season.
In the men's final, Brendan Bottcher defeated Kevin Koe 6–1. ...
and the
2019 Champions Cup
The 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup was held from April 23 to 28 at the Merlis Belsher Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It was the eighth and final Grand Slam event of the 2018–19 curling season. In the men's final, Brendan Bottcher defeated Kev ...
respectively.
Team Silvernagle missed the playoffs in the first two Slams of the
2019–20 season, the
Masters and the
Tour Challenge
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. She also competed in her first
Canada Cup
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where her team finished with a 1–5 record. They defended their provincial title at the
2020 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2020 Viterra Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Saskatchewan, was held from January 24–28 at the Horizone Credit Union Centre in Melville, Saskatchewan. The winning Robyn Silvernagle ...
when they once again bested Sherry Anderson in the final. At the
2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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, Team Silvernagle led Saskatchewan to a 6–5 record, finishing in fifth. It would be the team's last event of the season as both the
Players' Championship
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and the
Champions Cup Grand Slam events were cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. On March 11, 2020, the team announced that Lawton would be stepping back from competitive curling and Thevenot would be leaving the team. Five days later, Silvernagle and Hunkin announced that
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and
Dayna Demers
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would be joining them for the following season.
Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan
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, the 2021
Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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was cancelled. Despite being the defending provincial champions, Team Silvernagle did not retain three out of four team members from the previous season and could therefore not qualify as the provincial representatives. Team Sherry Anderson was then invited to represent Saskatchewan at the
2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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, as they had the most points from the 2019–20 and
2020–21
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seasons combined, which they accepted. This ended the abbreviated 2020–21 season for the newly formed Silvernagle rink.
On maternity leave, Robyn Silvernagle did not play with the team for their first few events of the
2021–22 season. Hunkin took over skipping duties during this time, with
Becca Hebert
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coming in to throw second. 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
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Qu ...
, an event where eight teams would compete to try to earn one of two spots into the
2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials
The 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials were held from October 25 to 31 at the Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. The event qualified two teams for the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Qualif ...
. Team Silvernagle qualified for the Pre-Trials Direct-Entry Event as the third seed. The team qualified for the playoffs through the B Event, giving them two chances to secure a spot in the Pre-Trials. They then, however, lost 10–8 to
Kerry Galusha
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and 8–6 to
Jill Brothers
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, finishing third and not advancing. With Silvernagle back in the lineup, the team qualified for three straight quarterfinals at the
Boundary Ford Curling Classic
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, the SaskTour Women's Moose Jaw event and the
Red Deer Curling Classic
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. In December 2021, they won the Swift Current Women's Spiel, defeating
Michelle Englot
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8–3 in the championship game. In the new year, Team Silvernagle competed in the
2022 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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where they entered as the third seeds. They qualified for the playoffs through the C Event before being eliminated by
Amber Holland
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in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game.
Personal life
Hunkin is married and is a manager at Olson Curling Inc.
[2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Media Guide: Team Saskatchewan]
References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunkin, Jessie
1988 births
Living people
Canadian women curlers
Curlers from Edmonton
People from Parkland County
Canada Cup (curling) participants
20th-century Canadian women
21st-century Canadian women