CHAMPION: Carey Wins 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

SKIP
Chelsea
Carey

Third
Sarah
Wilkes

Second
Dana
Ferguson

Lead
Rachel
Brown

Chelsea Carey (Calgary, AB) won 8-6 over Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) in the Final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held February 16 - 24, 2019 in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Carey finished 9-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Carey defeated Tracy Fleury (East St. Paul, MB) 7-6, then won 6-5 against Jill Brothers (Halifax, NS) and 7-6 against Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, NONT). Carey won 9-8 against Sarah Wark (Abbotsford, BC), then won 10-5 against Jenine Bodner (Iqaluit, NU) and 6-3 against Homan. Carey won 12-3 against Gabrielle Lavoie (Quebec, QC). Carey went on to lose 10-8 against Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, CAN). Carey lost 10-6 to Suzanne Birt (Charlottetown, PEI) where Carey responded with a 10-3 win over Robyn Silvernagle (North Battleford, SK). Carey won 9-8 against Casey Scheidegger (Lethbridge, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Championship title, Carey earned 75.668 world rankings points. Carey move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 71.264 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 6th overall with 307.215 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Carey ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 307.215 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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