Tess Guyatt ( Bobbie; born August 12, 1991) is a Canadian curler. She currently plays

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on Team

Hollie Duncan Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987 in Toronto, Ontario as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour. Career Juniors As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her Unionville Curling Club rink ...

Career

Youth

Guyatt played lead for

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at the 2015

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, on a team skipped by Shannon Kee. The team would go on to win the gold medal at the event.

Women's

After her college career, Guyatt joined the Tippin rink in 2015. In their first season together, the team won the CookstownCash presented by Comco Canada Inc. and the Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel. Guyatt qualified for her first

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in 2016 as a part of the team. The team made the playoffs, but lost in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game. In the 2016–17 season, the team defended their title at the Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel. They played at the 2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but missed the playoffs. In the 2017–18 season, Guyatt qualified for her first

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event, the

2017 GSOC Tour Challenge The 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge was held from September 5 to 10 at the Co-operators Centre at Evraz Place in Regina, Saskatchewan. This was the first Grand Slam of the 2017–18 curling season. There were two tiers in each of the men's and women' ...

, where the team would lose in a tiebreaker. The team won two events in the season, the StuSells Toronto Tankard and the

KW Fall Classic The KW Fall Classic is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the KW Granite Club in Waterloo, Ontario. The tournament has been held as part of the men's and women's Ontario Curling Tour, and both the men's and women's e ...

. The Tippin rink would win the B final of the 2017 Home Hardware Road to the Road Pre-Trials, qualifying the team to play at the

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where they would finish in eighth place with a 2–6 record. They would not qualify for the playoffs at the

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. The following season, Team Tippin qualified for the

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where they lost in the final to

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. Tippin left the team after the season, and

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 ...

took over as skip, adding

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at third. The team had a successful season on tour, reaching the final of the

, the semifinal of the

Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel The Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel (known originally as the Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel) is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, held at the Windsor Curling Club in Windsor, Nova Scotia. It was held as part of the women's World Curlin ...

and the quarterfinals of the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic,

Stu Sells Oakville Tankard The Stu Sells Oakville Tankard (also known as the OCT Championships) is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's Ontario Curling Tour. Except for in 2020, the event has been held at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Ontario. The event wa ...

and the

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Tier 2

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event. At the

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, the team finished with a 3–5 record. With Kreviazuk leaving the team following the season, Balsdon, Strybosch and Guyatt added

to their team 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

, losing to Team

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in an extra end. The newly formed team 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

, defeating the

Kerry Galusha Kerry Galusha (born Kerry Koe on November 3, 1977) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her team out of the Yellowknife Curling Club in Yellowknife. Career Juniors Galusha's first national experience was at the 1992 Canadian Junior Curling ...

rink in the final. The following week, they lost in the final of the

to Team Galusha. They responded with their second event title of the season at the

Stu Sells Toronto Tankard The Stu Sells Toronto Tankard is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the High Park Club in Toronto, Ontario. The men's tournament, started in 2010, is held in a triple-knockout format, while the women's tournament, ori ...

where they defeated Team

Shannon Jay Shannon Jay (born c. 1993; ) is a Canadian curler from Sarnia, Ontario. She currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour. In 2013, Jay was a member of the Fanshawe College team, skipped by Jordan Ariss, that won the CCAA Curling National Cham ...

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

event and reaching the quarterfinals of the

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. Due to the cancellation of the

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appointed Team

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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, 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.

Mixed

Guyatt and partner Scott Howard played in the

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. After posting a 6-1 group record, they lost in the quarterfinals to Wayne Tuck Jr. and Kim Tuck. The next year, Guyatt teamed up with

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and played in the 2015 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials. There, they went undefeated in group stage, and continued their winning streak all the way to the final, where they lost to

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and

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Personal life

Guyatt is a Senior Claims Assistant with Allstate Canada. She is married to Charles Guyatt, and lives in

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guyatt, Tess 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Scarborough, Toronto Canadian women curlers Curlers from Toronto Fanshawe College alumni