Hollie Duncan
Hollie Duncan | |||||||||||||||
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Born | January 6, 1987 | ||||||||||||||
Team | |||||||||||||||
Curling club | Woodstock CC, Woodstock, ON | ||||||||||||||
Skip | Hollie Duncan | ||||||||||||||
Third | Megan Balsdon | ||||||||||||||
Second | Rachelle Strybosch | ||||||||||||||
Lead | Tess Guyatt | ||||||||||||||
Alternate | Julie Tippin | ||||||||||||||
Curling career | |||||||||||||||
Member Association | Ontario | ||||||||||||||
Hearts appearances | 2 (2018, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
Top CTRS ranking | 9th (2021–22) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987, in Toronto, Ontario, as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour.
Career
Juniors
As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her
Women's
After juniors, Duncan joined the Kirsten Wall rink in 2010 as her third. The team would play in Duncan's lone Grand Slam ever to date, the 2010 Sobeys Slam, in which they were eliminated after posting a 3–3 record. In 2012, she joined the Jill Mouzar rink, playing lead. The team would play in Duncan's first provincial championship, at the 2013 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts where they finished with a 3–6 record. When Mouzar (now Brothers) moved back to her native Nova Scotia in 2013, Duncan moved to skipping the team. Duncan would lead her team to an appearance at the 2014 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, finishing the event with a 2–7 record.
Duncan took two seasons off from competitive curling, returning in 2016, skipping a rink of Chantal Allan,
Duncan started the
Duncan left her team after the season to join the Megan Balsdon rink as their new skip. The team only played in one event during the 2020–21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They reached the final of the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, losing to Team Jennifer Jones in an extra end.[6]
Duncan, with new teammates Megan Balsdon,
Team Duncan began the 2022–23 curling season playing in the 2022 PointsBet Invitational, where her rink was knocked out in the round of 16 by Team Penny Barker. The team then played in the 2022 National, where they lost all four of their games. They then played in the 2022 Tour Challenge where they finished the group round with a 2–2 record, before losing in a tiebreaker game to Isabella Wranå. Playing in those tournaments was good enough to qualify the team for the 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Personal life
Duncan works as a lawyer and decision writer with the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. She is married to Tim Duncan, and has two sons.[16]
Grand Slam record
Key | |
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C | Champion |
F | Lost in Final |
SF | Lost in Semifinal |
QF | Lost in Quarterfinals |
R16 | Lost in the round of 16 |
Q | Did not advance to playoffs |
T2 | Played in Tier 2 event |
DNP | Did not participate in event |
N/A | Not a Grand Slam event that season |
Event | 2021–22 | 2022–23 |
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The National | Q | Q |
Tour Challenge | N/A | Q |
Former events
Event | 2010–11
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Sobeys Slam | Q |
References
- ^ "Past Champions". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ "Past Champions". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ "Past Champions". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014.
- ^ "Team and player identification" (PDF). curling.ca.
- ^ "Homan posts perfect record to repeat as Ontario Scotties champion". Sportsnet. February 1, 2020. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
- ^ "New-look Team Jennifer Jones makes debut in one of season's first events". Sportsnet. October 2, 2020. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "Fleury comes back to take Oakville Labour Day Classic; Jacobs wins on men's side". TSN. September 6, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "Scotland's Mouat, South Korea's Kim pick up victories in Canada". TSN. September 13, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ James McCarthy (September 19, 2021). "Role reversal: Team Galusha beats Hollie Duncan in final of KW Fall Classic". NNSL Media. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "Gushue, Duncan win Stu Sells Toronto Tankard titles". Sportsnet. October 11, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "2021 Trials process revised". Curling Canada. February 4, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "Still in the chase!". Curling Canada. October 29, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ @Devin_Heroux (January 7, 2022). "JUST IN... Curl ON selects Team Homan as Scotties reps... HOWEVER. If Rachel Homan is selected to go to Olympics for mixed doubles... Team Duncan will be the Ontario rep for Scotties... Discuss. #cbccurl" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Scotties update". Curling Canada. January 13, 2022. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts: Standings, schedule and results". Sportsnet. January 28, 2022. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "2023 PointsBet Invitational Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. September 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-24.