Former Scotties Tournament of Hearts champions Chelsea Carey of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Lisa Weagle of Ottawa, Ontario will be joining new curling teams in 2024-25. Carey will be the new skip on the Jennifer Jones’s team, and Weagle will be joining the reigning Quebec provincial championship team skipped by Laurie St-Georges of Dollard-des-Ormeaux according to Rogers Sportsnet on Wednesday.
Carey has won two Scotties Tournament of Hearts as a skip. Both times she has represented Alberta. The first time came in 2016 in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and the second time in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Carey has also won two Grand Slam of Curling events. The first time came at the 2010 Manitoba Lotteries Women’s Curling Classic, and the second time came at the 2018 Canadian Open in Camrose, Alberta.
The team Carey is taking over is comprised of third Karlee Burgess, second Emily Zacharias, and lead Lauren Lenentine. With Canadian Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Jones as their skip this past season, Burgess, Zacharias and Lenentine got to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts final in Calgary, Alberta, and won the 2023 HearingLife Tour Challenge in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Weagle is a world champion, as she won the gold medal at the 2017 Women’s World Curling Championship in Beijing, as the lead for Rachel Homan of Ottawa. Weagle also won three Scotties Tournament of Hearts (2013 in Kingston, Ontario, 2014 in Montreal. Quebec, and in 2017 in St. Catharines, Ontario), and 10 Grand Slam titles with Homan.
In other curling news, two-time Newfoundland men’s provincial curling champion Bob Cole of St. John’s, Newfoundland died on Thursday at the age of 90. Cole, who is best known as being the play-by-play voice of Hockey Night in Canada, represented Newfoundland at the 1971 Macdonald Brier in Quebec City, Quebec, and the 1975 Macdonald Brier in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Meanwhile, Canada has been eliminated from the 2024 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Sweden after losing their opening playoff game 6-5 to Estonia on Friday.
