With the 2025 Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials quickly approaching, TSN.ca will profile one men’s team and one women’s team each day before the first rocks fly on Nov. 22 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax.
Team Kaitlyn Lawes
Lineup
Fourth: Kaitlyn Lawes (Age 36)
Third/Skip: Selena Njegovan (33)
Second: Jocelyn Peterman (32)
Lead: Kristin Gordon (32)
Alternate: Laura Walker (35)
Coach: Marcel Roque
Curling Club: Heather Curling Club in Winnipeg
2025-26 Season
Events: 6 Record: 18-11 World Ranking: 19th
Highlights: Team Lawes won the Saville Grand Prix in mid-September with a 7-3 victory over South Korea’s Team Youbeen Park in the championship game.
How They Qualified
Qualified via their two-year total (2023-25) on the Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS).
Trials Schedule
Nov. 22 – Corryn Brown
Nov. 23 – Selena Sturmay, Christina Black
Nov. 24 – Kerri Einarson
Nov. 25 – Kate Cameron, Rachel Homan
Nov. 26 – Kayla Skrlik
Expert Analysis from TSN’s Cathy Gauthier
Team Lawes will have a successful week at the Canadian Curling Trials if...
“Kaitlyn channels Olympic Kaitlyn - sweeping, line calling, and shot making. Selena needs to call around Kaitlyn’s strengths.”
Team Story
Kaitlyn Lawes is no stranger to the Winter Olympics.
The 36-year-old Winnipeg native has worn the Maple Leaf for Canada at the past three Winter Games, winning gold medals in 2014 and 2018 with Team Jennifer Jones and mixed doubles partner John Morris, respectively.
At the Olympic Trials four years ago in Regina, all four members of the Team Lawes competed in the final when Lawes and second Jocelyn Peterman, as members of Team Jones, defeated Tracy Fleury’s squad, featuring Selena Njegovan and Kristin Gordon, 6-5 in an extra end thriller.
In Beijing, Team Jones missed the playoffs as Canada went home without a medal in women’s curling for the second straight Olympics.
Now Lawes will look to get back for a fourth time with an upset Trials win in Halifax as the skip of her own rink.
Peterman has already booked her ticket to the Winter Games in Italy alongside mixed doubles partner and husband Brett Gallant.
Following a highly successful run with curling legend Jones, Lawes began captaining her current team at the beginning of this Olympic quadrennial. The results over the past four years have been mixed for the former Canadian and world champion.
Team Lawes competed in the last three Scotties Tournament of Hearts but haven’t qualified for the page playoffs. They also haven’t won a Grand Slam as a foursome, which is the case for a lot of rinks not led by Rachel Homan over the past few seasons.
The Winnipeg foursome went 2-2 at the PointsBet Invitational and missed the playoffs at both the Tour Challenge and at Lake Tahoe on the Grand Slam circuit in their three most recent events.
Despite not winning many major events, Team Lawes enters the Halifax Trials ranked third in the field and a real threat to make the playoffs.
They’ll need to take care of business early in the week against the teams ranked lower than them because having to beat Team Homan in their penultimate game to stay alive for the final three will a tough task.
Lawes and company will be playoff favourites on paper.
