Homan Runner-Up at 2023 KIOTI National

SKIP
Rachel
Homan

Third
Tracy
Fleury

Second
Emma
Miskew

Lead
Sarah
Wilkes

Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) lost 7-6 to Eun ji Gim (Uijeongbu, KOR) in the Final of the KIOTI National, held November 7 - 12, 2023 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. To advance to the championship game, Homan won 9-6 over Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in the semifinals of the 2023 KIOTI National in Pictou County, Nova Scotia; and won 7-4 over Kerri Einarson (Gimli, MB) in the quarterfinals.

Homan finished 4-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Homan defeated Kate Cameron (Winnipeg, MB) 7-5, then won 7-1 against Christina Black (Halifax, NS) and 7-2 against Einarson. Homan won 6-4 against Hasselborg in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the KIOTI National, Homan take home 55.000 world rankings points along with the $34,000CDN prize. Homan move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 8.969 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 4th overall with 332.875 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Homan ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 148.750 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

2023: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min Ji Kim, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Ye ji Seol, Dong ho Shin
Uijeongbu, KOR
2022: Silvana Tirinzoni
Alina Paetz, Silvana Tirinzoni, Carole Howald, Briar Schwaller
Aarau, SUI
2021: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Mabergs
Sundbyberg, SWE
2019: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Mabergs
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2017: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Selena Njegovan, Liz Fyfe, Kristin MacCuish
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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