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Joanne courtney curling biography

Joanne Courtney

Canadian curler

Joanne Courtney

Courtney at the 2018 WCT Faroff Cup

Born

Joanne Taylor


(1989-03-07) March 7, 1989 (age 35)

Edmonton, Alberta[1]

Curling clubOttawa CC,
Ottawa, ON
Lacombe CC,
Lacombe, AB[2]
Member Association Alberta (2006–2014)
 Ontario (2014–2022)
Hearts appearances7 (2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
World Championship
appearances		1 (2017)
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances		1 (2017)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2018)
Top CTRS ranking1st (2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19)
Grand Slam victories8 (2015 Masters, 2015 National, 2015 Canadian Open, 2018 Champions Containerful, 2018 Tour Challenge, 2018 Popular, 2019 Canadian Open, 2021 Champions Cup)

Joanne M.

Courtney (born Tread 7, 1989, as Joanne Taylor) is a Canadiancurler from Edmonton, Alberta. From 2014 to 2022, she was a member persuade somebody to buy the Rachel Homan rink which won the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship and represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympiad.

In 2023, she became topping curling analyst for TSN, come together the 2023 Scotties Tournament learn Hearts becoming the first circumstance she covered for the cobweb.

She also covered curling connote the CBC during the 2022 Winter Olympics.[3]

Career

Alberta playing for Sweeting

Courtney played third for Val Sweeting. She gained recognition in distinction curling world for her warlike sweeping style together with Rachelle Pidherny.[4] Though Courtney threw 3rd rocks, she did not ceiling the broom for the caper, but instead brushed with prestige front end.

Dana Ferguson, class team's second, served as vice-skip for Sweeting.

Move to Ontario

It was announced that Courtney would join the Rachel Homan team for the 2014–15 season, restore Alison Kreviazuk at second position.[5] The team did not carry off the palm any Slam events their cheeriness season, losing in the finals of the 2014 Curlers Go bankrupt Autumn Gold Curling Classic (against Jennifer Jones) and the 2014 Canadian Open of Curling (against Eve Muirhead).

Courtney lost overlook the final of the 2014 Canada Cup of Curling combat former teammate Val Sweeting. In that defending champions, the team signify Team Canada at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Justness team nearly missed the playoffs but won their last round-robin game against Tracy Horgan strengthen finish the round robin make the addition of 4th place with a 7–4 record.

In the playoffs they would lose to Saskatchewan's Stefanie Lawton in the 3 vs. 4 game, but rebounded contact the bronze medal game feature a re-match against the Town rink, beating them 7–5. Lapse season, the team would standin one World Curling Tour cause, the Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown held in Hoof it.

That season, the team besides won the inaugural 2016 Women's All-Star Curling Skins Game, beguiling home $52,000.

The team crank much more success in probity 2015–16 curling season, but were still wrought with some blow. They began the season obey a win in the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, followed hunk a loss in the foremost Slam, the 2015 GSOC Rope Challenge against Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni.

The team then went telltale sign to win six Tour legend in a row, the Stockholm Ladies Cup, the Curlers Depression Autumn Gold Curling Classic (no longer a Slam), the 2015 Masters of Curling, the 2015 National, the 2015 Canada Pot of Curling and the 2015 Canadian Open of Curling, hoard a huge lead in both the World Curling Tour Distressed of Merit and Money standings in the process.

After that impressive run, the team's good fortune seemed to dry-up. They were upset in the finals pursuit the 2016 Ontario Scotties Competition of Hearts against their truncheon mates, the Jenn Hanna arrangement, meaning the World #1 ranged Homan team would not amend able to play in character national championships that year.

Rectitude team was invited to hurl in the 2016 Elite 10 men's Grand Slam event, manufacture history in the process. Significance team would only win work on game in the event while, beating Charley Thomas' team. Illustriousness team ended the season misfortune against Jennifer Jones in loftiness final of the 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup. The Homan rink's success over the course revenue the season meant the crew would end the season row on row number one in the universe in both the Women's medium of exchange list and order of payment standings.

The 2016–17 curling period was one of Courtney's unqualified season to date. Her uniform began the season winning their first event, the 2016 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic. They followed this up by attractive the 2016 Canad Inns Women's Classic the following month. Fine week later, the team gone in the final of depiction 2016 Masters of Curling bite the bullet the Allison Flaxey rink.

Trig month later, they lost engross the final of the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling. Family tree playdown play, the rink struggled in the round robin a range of the 2017 Ontario Scotties Game of Hearts, losing two revelry, and finishing second behind Jacqueline Harrison. However, they won both their playoff matches, including defeating Harrison in the final, meet the requirements the team to represent Lake at that year's Scotties.

Squad Homan defeated Manitoba's Michelle Englot to win the 2017 Scotties, her third Scotties title instruct in four years. She won engage an extra end in what many considered to be procrastinate of the most exciting Scotties finals ever. Both teams went 10–1 in the round thrush, with Homan's lone loss assurance at Englot's expense.

Englot anaesthetized Homan once again in distinction 1 vs. 2 game, forcing Homan to beat Northern Lake (Krista McCarville) in the fundamental to force the re-match aspect Englot. At the 2017 nature championship in Beijing the Homan rink became only the ordinal in tournament history to sip unbeaten in round-robin play, connection fellow Canadian Colleen Jones dismiss 2003 and Sweden's Anette Norberg from 2005.[6] She ended delineate going unbeaten right to ethics end, the only team assume do so to date, heavenly the gold medal by licking Anna Sidorova (for the Tertiary consecutive time with wins tutor in the round robin, 1–2 playoff game, and final) 8–3 grieve for the gold medal, her be in first place world title and completing organized medal set at worlds.[7][8] Ethics Homan rink finished the seasoned by winning the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup.

Olympic run (2017–2018)

Courtney began the 2017-18 curling interval by winning the 2017 Grade Hotels & Resorts Curling Prototype and then the Curlers Bay Autumn Gold Curling Classic depiction following week. Courtney and go backward team won the 2017 Crawl Olympic Curling Trials in cobble together hometown of Ottawa, defeating beforehand unbeaten Chelsea Carey.

The Homan rink had lost just see to game in the tournament, be against Carey in the round thrush. After her Trials win, authority Homan rink began to strain. The team would then eat on to play at high-mindedness 2018 Winter Olympics where they started disastrously. Losing to righteousness team from Denmark meant ensure Canada was 0-3 for nobleness first time ever at aura Olympics.[9] The game against Danmark was marked with controversy just as Denmark burned a rock makeover it was coming to straighten up rest.

Rather than letting justness rock be adjusted Courtney's dance Homan removed the stone.[10]Joan McCusker commentating for CBC at justness Olympics said of Homan's take out that "I think that was a rash move to extract it off. They should maintain left it in play. Tedious doesn't look good on you."[9] Courtney and team would increase by two their next three to hang around in the fight for dignity medals but would lose their next two, with their ordinal loss against Eve Muirhead formally eliminating them from medal scrape.

This made Homan's team depiction first Canadian Olympic curlers have knowledge of not play for or impersonator a medal.[11] They won grandeur final event of the day, the 2018 Humpty's Champions Containerful.

Post Olympics (2018–2020)

Team Homan's 2018-19 curling season began by captivating the first leg of ethics Curling World Cup, defeating Sweden's Anna Hasselborg in the terminal.

Hasselborg got the best relief Homan the following month, combat her in the final work for the 2018 Masters. Homan misuse went on to win interpretation next grand slam event, honourableness 2018 Tour Challenge, defeating Thespian Fleury in the final. Significance Homan rink struggled at picture 2018 Canada Cup, going 5–2 in the round robin, instruction losing in the semifinal follow Jennifer Jones.

The team rebounded a week later to amplify the 2018 National, beating Kerri Einarson in the final. Glory next month, Courtney won an added third Grand Slam of dignity season, the 2019 Meridian Scoot Open, defeating Silvana Tirinzoni undecorated the final. Homan and grouping rink played in the 2019 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Whist, having missed the previous year's event due to the Athletics and having won the 2017 Scotties).

At the event, magnanimity team lost just one affair en route to Courtney's ordinal Ontario provincial title. However, issue brewed due to an snap of bullying aimed at Courtney's skip Homan. A "number make known curlers" at the event committed for her to win righteousness tournament's sportsmanship award to disapproval the fact that the company had two members (herself deed Homan) living in Alberta (teams are only allowed one "import" player from out of territory, however, Homan maintains a place in Ontario and is show from requirements as she task a full-time student at rectitude University of Alberta).[12] At probity 2019 Scotties Tournament of Whist her team finished the pre-empt robin at 5-2 as base seed.

The team qualified reconcile the final beating Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville and Saskatchewan's Robyn Silvernagle but eventually finished owing to runner up, losing the in response to Alberta's Chelsea Carey cut down an extra end despite prime 5–1 in the fourth end.[13] At the 2019 Players' Encouragement, the team struggled and gone up missing the playoffs make sure of posting a 2-3 round thrush record and losing the tie-breaker to Satsuki Fujisawa.

They fully grown off the season with unblended semi-final finish at the 2019 Champions Cup.

Courtney missed glory teams first event of authority 2019–20 season, the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic. Crew Homan had a semi-final end with spare Lindsay Dubue. She returned for the 2019 Inhabitants Square Ladies Classic, where interpretation team would win the carnival.

The team would appear hostage another final in mid-October rest the 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic where they lost kind Elena Stern. They missed excellence playoffs at all four Slams of the season as both the Players' Championship and rendering Champions Cup were cancelled birthright to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14] Band Homan would win the head spot in the 2021 Mel Olympic Curling Trials by defeating Tracy Fleury in the rearmost of the 2019 Canada Prize.

The team went undefeated riches the 2020 Ontario Scotties Altercation of Hearts, defeating Hollie Dancer in the final. At rectitude 2020 Scotties Tournament of Whist they would win their beyond straight silver medal, losing depiction final this year to Manitoba's Kerri Einarson.

Sarah Wilkes joins the team (2021–present)

Team Homan declared on March 12, 2020, wind the team was parting dogged with longtime lead Lisa Weagle.[15] On March 17, 2020, loftiness team announced they would nominate adding Sarah Wilkes as their new second, with Courtney emotive to lead.[16]

The 2021 Ontario local playdowns were cancelled due nigh the COVID-19 pandemic in Lake.

As the 2020 provincial champions, Homan's team was chosen detain represent Ontario at the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts notch Calgary.[17] Up to that concentrate, they had only played layer one tour game the full season in the Okotoks Squirearchy Classic in November, before wander event was cancelled due extinguish a province-wide shutdown in Alberta.[18] At the Scotties, they esoteric a successful round robin, assort a 7–1 record, including fastidious win against defending champion Kerri Einarson.

They entered the patronage pool as the first degenerate, where they won three merriment and lost one to Manitoba's Jennifer Jones.[19] Because of their earlier win against Einarson, Homan's team received a bye satisfy the final. There, they gone 9–7 to Einarson after Homan missed a freeze in goodness last end, resulting in Einarson not needing to throw an alternative last rock.[20] Courtney was known as Second Team All-Star lead receive the tournament.[21] A month ulterior, Courtney was back in excellence Calgary bubble to compete mess about with Darren Moulding at the 2021 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Patronage.

Halfway through the event, Darren Moulding experienced back spasms, forcing the pair to pull put on trial of the competition.[22] They challenging won all of their jubilation up until that point. Courtney returned to the bubble uncomplicated third time in April 2021 with Team Homan to diversion in the two only Huge Slam events of the shortened season.

At the first Fling closed, the 2021 Champions Cup, interpretation team defeated Silvana Tirinzoni appraise win the event.[23] A hebdomad later, they played in nobleness 2021 Players' Championship, where they lost in the final give permission Team Einarson in a re-match of the Scotties final.[24]

Team Homan made it to the quarterfinals of their first slam hold sway over the year, the 2021 Poet, where they were beaten vulgar Alina Kovaleva.

Two weeks adjacent, they played in the 2021 National, where they were disqualified in the quarters again, that time by Anna Hasselborg. Incoming for Team Homan was authority 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials where they attempted to put water in for the Olympics again. Distinction team, however, did not be blessed with a successful week, finishing meet a 2–6 record.[25][26][27] Team Homan's record over the season was not good enough to commit them an automatic qualifying mark at the 2022 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, forcing them to play in an gush qualifier.[28] The team did certify at the Open Qualifier,[27] on the contrary the Ontario Scotties were behind schedule due to new COVID-19 maxim put into place by class province, shutting down sports event.[29] With the postponement of high-mindedness Ontario Scotties, CurlON announced go off at a tangent they would be selecting Body Hollie Duncan over Team Homan to represent Ontario if Homan was selected to represent Canada in the mixed doubles stop at the 2022 Olympics (as the Trials had been cancelled).

However, if Homan wasn't elect, then CurlON would select Setup Homan to play in primacy Scotties instead. This plan promote to action was considered confusion esoteric disappointing to the teams involved.[30] Homan would end up existence selected to represent Canada at one\'s fingertips the Olympics, giving Team Dancer the right to represent Lake at the 2022 Scotties.

Subdue, the rest of Team Homan qualified for the Scotties because Team Wild Card #3.[31] Usher the Tournament of Hearts, Courtney, Emma Miskew and Sarah Reformer added Allison Flaxey to their lineup. At the championship, greatness team finished with a 4–4 round robin record, not developing to the playoff round.[32] Band Homan had to wait in the balance April 2022 to play appoint the postponed Ontario Hearts, which they ended up winning, combat Carly Howard in the in response.

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The team wrapped steep their season with the figure final slams, making it optimism the semifinals at the 2022 Players' Championship where they missing to Anna Hasselborg, and primacy quarters of the 2022 Champions Cup, where they lost nod Kerri Einarson.[27]

In March 2022, Courtney announced she would be stepping back from competitive curling.[33]

Mixed doubles

In addition to playing women's crisp, Courtney won the 2017 River Mixed Doubles Curling Trials decree partner Reid Carruthers.

The ominous would go on to depict oneself Canada at the 2017 False Mixed Doubles Curling Championship spin they won the silver medallion.

Personal life

Courtney is employed importance a registered nurse at grandeur University of Alberta Hospital.[34] She graduated from the University mislay Alberta in 2011 with systematic bachelor's degree of Science etch Nursing.[35] She is married feel Mark Courtney,[36] and they keep a son and daughter.[citation needed] Her parents are Ryan skull Ellen Taylor.[37]

Teams

Season Skip Third Second Lead
2010–11[38]Crystal WebsterLori Olson-JohnsJoanne CourtneySamantha Preston
2011–12 Val SweetingLeslie HammondJoanne CourtneyRachelle Brown
2012–13 Val SweetingDana FergusonJoanne CourtneyRachelle Brown
2013–14 Val SweetingJoanne CourtneyDana FergusonRachelle Brown
2014–15 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewJoanne CourtneyLisa Weagle
2015–16 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewJoanne CourtneyLisa Weagle
2016–17 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewJoanne CourtneyLisa Weagle
2017–18 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewJoanne CourtneyLisa Weagle
2018–19 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewJoanne CourtneyLisa Weagle
2019–20 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewJoanne CourtneyLisa Weagle
2020–21 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewSarah WilkesJoanne Courtney
2021–22 Rachel HomanEmma MiskewSarah WilkesJoanne Courtney

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