The 2025 edition of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada’s national women’s curling championship, is currently being held from Feb. 14 to 23 at the Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
This year’s Scotties features a field of 18 teams. The fourteen Canadian curling member associations sent a representative. Team Canada is represented by Rachel Homan, who won the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. There are also three wildcard teams.
The wildcard spots initially went to three Manitoba-based teams: Chelsea Carey, Kerri Einarson, and Kaitlyn Lawes. However, on Jan. 2, Karlee Burgess left Team Carey to join Team Einarson, meaning that Carey no longer retained three of its four players from the previous year. Carey’s wildcard spot was then given to the next highest-ranked team in the CTRS rankings, Selena Sturmay of Alberta.
Similar to the previous few years, the field will be split into two pools of nine, where an eight-game round-robin will take place.
The top three teams from each pool at the conclusion of the round-robin will advance to a six-team playoff, with the first-place team from Pool A taking on the second-place team from Pool B and vice versa. The winners will advance to the 1 vs. 2-page playoff, while the losers meet the third-place finishers in the pools. Those games will serve as qualifiers for the 3 vs. 4-page playoff game. From there, a regular page playoff will take place, with the winner crowned on the evening of Feb. 23.
Manitoba will have three entries in the field: Gimli’s Kerri Einarson (Val Sweeting, Karlee Burgess, Krysten Karwacki), Heather’s Kaitlyn Lawes (Selena Njegovan, Jocelyn Peterman, Kristin Gordon), and Heather’s Kate Cameron (Taylor McDonald, Brianna Cullen, Mackenzie Elias).
The three Manitoba rinks are all grouped together in the same pool, which means that they all play each other at some point during the round-robin, as they all hope to qualify for the playoffs. Every single draw from this week can be watched by the home viewer on TSN.
Gimli’s Einarson is ranked number two in the field this week and likely has the best chance of anyone in the field in upsetting the powerhouse Rachel Homan in the final. Lawes is ranked third in the field, while Cameron is the seventh seed.
The winning team from this week’s Scotties will go on to represent Canada at the 2025 World Women’s Curling Championship at the Uijeongbu Indoor Ice Rink in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
