Her hard work paid off. Ottawa’s Team Homan, representing Ontario, beat Team Manitoba 9-6 to win the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Rachel Homan, along with Alison Kreviazuk, Lisa Weagle, and Emma Miskew, surpassed the team’s pre-tournament goal of making the playoff round, and went all the way to the finals.
In the finals, Homan beat Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones, who was coached by Ontario coach Earle Morris in 2010. Team Homan finished with an 11-1 record, losing only to Jones’ Manitoba earlier in the tournament.
It wasn’t quite the storybook ending coach Morris had envisioned – “I hope that we get to the final, I hope that it’s all tied up coming home, I hope that the last rock is made, and I hope we have the hammer,” Morris said before the tournament – and thanks to a brilliant shot by Homan in the seventh end, the win was seldom in question for Team Ontario.
With the win, Team Homan will represent Canada March 16-24 in Riga, Latvia.