CHAMPION: Homan Wins Scotties Tournament of Hearts

SKIP
Rachel
Homan

Third
Tracy
Fleury

Second
Emma
Miskew

Lead
Sarah
Wilkes

Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) won 5-4 over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held February 16 - 25 in Calgary, Alberta.

Homan finished 8-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Homan defeated Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, NT) 9-5, then won 11-4 against Danielle Inglis (Ottawa, ON) and 11-2 against Bayly Scoffin (Whitehorse, YK). Homan won 8-6 against Kate Cameron (Winnipeg, MB), then won 7-5 against Jones and 10-3 against Clancy Grandy (Vancouver, BC). Homan won 9-3 against Melissa Adams (Fredericton, NB), then won 6-3 against Heather Smith (Halifax, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Championship title, Homan earned 71.250 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 1st place overall with 415.000 total points. Homan ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 415.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	67	7	0	0.905	18-0	14-2	4-1	1-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	582	540	291	9.28	5.00	4.28	5.29	3.64	1.75	1.37	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	279	403	38	32	9-1	32-1	90-5	1.44	0.14	0.53	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	303	137	253	30	4-0	7-5	21-59	0.45	0.84	0.65	0.29

2024: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown, Don Bartlett
Ottawa, ON
2023: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2022: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2020: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris, Jennifer Clark-Rouire
Gimli, MB
2019: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Sarah Wilkes, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Calgary, AB
2018: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Shannon Birchard, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen, Kaitlyn Lawes
Winnipeg, MB

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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