The Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the provincial women's championships of
curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...
in
Northern Ontario
Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario. Most of the core geographic region is located on part of the Superior Geological Pro ...
, Canada. Beginning with the
2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the winning team will have a direct entry to the
Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The Scotties Tournament of Hearts (''french: Le Tournoi des Cœurs Scotties''; commonly referred to as the Scotties) is the annual Canadian women's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada, formerly called the Canadian Curling Associat ...
, Canada's national women's curling championship.
In 2008, following the formation of the
Northern Ontario Curling Association
The Northern Ontario Curling Association is the regional governing body for the sport of curling in Northern Ontario.
History
The NOCA was founded in 2007 upon the amalgamation of the Northwestern Ontario Curling Association, Northern Ontari ...
(NOCA), Northern Ontario held its first provincial women's curling championship,
with the top four teams playing in the
Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the Ontario provincial curling championship for women's curling. The tournament is run by CurlON, the curling association for Southern Ontario. The winning team represents Team Ontario at the national S ...
. Prior to 2007,
Northeastern Ontario
Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior.
Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timiskami ...
and
Northwestern Ontario
Northwestern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. It includes most of subarctic Ontario. Its western boundary is the ...
each had their own qualifying tournaments for the Ontario championship. Northern Ontario was awarded a direct entry to the national championship beginning in 2015.
The tournament has only been won by two skips,
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 Curl ...
and
Krista McCarville
Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curling, curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the Curling at the 2003 Winter Universiade, 2003 Winter Univ ...
.
Winners
Number of titles
''As of the 2023 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts''
Notes
References
External links
List of champions
See also
{{Scotties playdowns
Scotties Tournament of Hearts provincial tournaments
Curling in Northern Ontario
2007 establishments in Ontario
Recurring sporting events established in 2007