1. Rachel Catherine Homan was born on April 5,1989 and is a Canadian international curler and the reigning women's world champion in 2024 and 2025.
51 Facts About Rachel Homan
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Rachel Homan was the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Rachel Homan won a silver medal at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships.
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Rachel Homan has competed in five World Women's Curling Championships, winning gold three times, silver in 2014, and bronze in 2013.
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Rachel Homan has competed in three Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing in third place in 2013, winning in 2017, and finishing last in 2021.
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In 2019, Rachel Homan was named the fourth-greatest Canadian female curler in history by The Sports Network.
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Rachel Homan began curling at the age of five, playing in the Little Rock program at the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa.
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Rachel Homan won the 2010 provincial championship and represented Ontario at the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.
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At the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Rachel Homan skipped the Ontario team, finishing the round robin in third place and beating Nova Scotia's Heather Smith-Dacey in the 3 vs 4 game, before losing in the semi-final to Saskatchewan's Amber Holland, thus eliminating her from the final.
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Rachel Homan then lost in the bronze medal game to Smith-Dacey.
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Rachel Homan, who was up by one point with the hammer, missed a draw to the button to clinch the victory on her final rock.
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Rachel Homan lost in the semi-final of the third Slam of the season, the 2012 Colonial Square Ladies Classic, but followed it up with her first-ever Grand Slam victory at the 2012 Masters of Curling, where she beat Chelsea Carey in the final.
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Outside of the Grand Slams, Rachel Homan won her 2nd Royal LePage OVCA Women's Fall Classic in 2012.
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Rachel Homan began the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Kingston, Ontario, by winning the Ford Hot Shots skills competition.
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The Rachel Homan rink finished the season by losing in the quarter-final of the 2013 Players' Championship.
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Rachel Homan's team had made the playoffs in every Grand Slam event in the previous season; however, they failed to make the playoffs at the 2013 Colonial Square Ladies Classic.
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The Rachel Homan team went through the entire tournament undefeated without ever having to throw their last rock and defeated Alberta's Val Sweeting in the final.
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Rachel Homan became the youngest skip ever to win back-to-back Scotties.
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The Rachel Homan rink ended the season with a loss in the final of the 2014 Players' Championship against the Olympic gold medallist Jennifer Jones.
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At the 2017 world championship in Beijing, Rachel Homan's rink became the third team in tournament history to go unbeaten in round-robin play, joining fellow Canadian Colleen Jones from 2003 and Sweden's Anette Norberg from 2005.
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The Rachel Homan rink finished the season by winning the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup.
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The Rachel Homan rink lost just one game in the tournament, against Carey in the round robin.
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Rather than letting the rock be adjusted, Rachel Homan removed the stone.
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Rachel Homan won the next Grand Slam event, the 2018 Tour Challenge, defeating Tracy Fleury in the final.
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The next month, Rachel Homan won her third Grand Slam of the season, the 2019 Meridian Canadian Open, defeating Silvana Tirinzoni in the final.
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Rachel Homan won one game in the event, in the mixed team scramble.
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Teams were only allowed one out-of-province "import" player; however, Rachel Homan maintained a residence in Ontario and was exempted from requirements as she was a full-time student in Edmonton.
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In 2019, Rachel Homan was named the fourth-greatest Canadian female curler in history by The Sports Network, the main television broadcaster of major curling events, following a poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers.
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Team Rachel Homan won the first spot in the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials by defeating Tracy Fleury in the final of the 2019 Canada Cup.
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Team Rachel Homan announced on March 12,2020, that the team was parting ways with longtime lead Lisa Weagle.
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Three months later, Rachel Homan entered the 2021 Scotties at eight months pregnant.
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Rachel Homan entered the championship pool as the first seed, where she won three games and lost one to Manitoba's Jennifer Jones.
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Rachel Homan was named Second Team All-Star skip for the tournament.
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The spread of COVID-19's omicron variant cancelled the 2022 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials which Rachel Homan was set to participate in with John Morris.
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However, if Rachel Homan wasn't selected, then CurlON would select Team Rachel Homan to play in the Scotties instead.
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Team Rachel Homan had to wait until April 2022 to play in the postponed Ontario Hearts, which they ended up winning, beating Carly Howard in the final.
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Later on in the month, Team Rachel Homan played in the inaugural PointsBet Invitational tournament organized by Curling Canada.
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In March, Rachel Homan paired up with British Columbia's Tyler Tardi at the 2023 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.
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Rachel Homan took over as skip at the event, as it was announced she was pregnant.
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Three weeks later, Team Rachel Homan played in their first Slam of the season, the 2023 Tour Challenge.
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On June 21,2024, Team Rachel Homan was awarded the Key to the City of Ottawa.
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Team Rachel Homan faced a re-match against Hasselborg in the final of the 2025 Masters, the next Slam.
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Rachel Homan curled a perfect 100 per cent, the first curler to ever have a perfect game in a Scotties final, though Rachel Homan believed the statistician was being generous.
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The final was a close affair until the eighth end, when Rachel Homan made a delicate tap to sit two on her last shot.
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Team Mouat won the game, taking home $10,000, while Rachel Homan won $2,000, with their winnings going to the Sandra Schmirler Foundation.
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Rachel Homan was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in Ottawa to parents Cathy and Craig Rachel Homan.
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Rachel Homan has an older brother, Mark, who is a curler.
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Rachel Homan graduated from the University of Alberta with a bachelor's degree in education in 2020.
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Rachel Homan met Shawn Germain, a former professional hockey player from Edmonton in 2014, and the two married in September 2016.
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Rachel Homan gave birth to a son, Ryatt Mitch Germain, in June 2019, a daughter, Bowyn, in March 2021, and another son, Briggs in September 2023.
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Rachel Homan is a fan of the Ottawa Senators NHL team.