Finally, Jennifer Jones has accepted…from curling.
Though she still enjoys women’s curling, Jennifer Jones is prepared for a change in her life.
The 49-year-old skip, who is the winner of six Canadian women’s titles, two world titles, and an Olympic gold medal, said on Tuesday that she will be retiring from team curling at the conclusion of this season. Despite this, she will still play mixed doubles with her spouse, Brent Laing.
The accomplished Winnipeg curler from Canada had a hard time deciding to give up team curling.
Jones remarked, “I’m getting a little emotional about it.” It has always played a significant role in both my love and my life, and I will miss it. I was changed by curling. I’ve always been grateful for how it helped me grow into the woman I am today.
“I’m also quite thrilled about the next chapter in my life, which is starting later than I ever imagined, and what the possible next steps may be. I was not prepared for it to begin, but now I am.”
Jennifer Jones shares the record for most Canadian women’s championships with former Nova Scotia skip Colleen Jones with her six victories between 20015 and 2018.
However, should Jennifer Jones secure the seventh-ever Scotties Tournament of Hearts title, and consequently the She maintains that this will be her final appearance at the national women’s tournament, which begins this Friday in Calgary, and that she will return in 2025 as the defending champion.
“This is my final one,” she declared. “I want to take it all in.” I want to inhale the ice’s scent as if it were my own. I wish to savor the now. I will be a little depressed when it ends. Because I adore it so much, I’ll be content but also a little depressed.
Traveling to events nearly every week from September to April was necessary for Jones to maintain her elite curling status in both women’s team and mixed doubles.
Jones’s choice to give up one curling discipline was mostly motivated by her daughters, Skyla, 7, and Isabella, 11. Numerous bedtime tales have been narrated electronically.
Jones stated, “I just want to be more physically present instead of practicing spelling words over FaceTime because I schedule it when I’m on the road. I’m super-present in their life so I don’t want it to come across that I’m not.”
All I want is to be there for ordinary moments. I started to value those kinds of little things more than the ice’s aroma.
Jones, Jill Officer, Kaitlyn Lawes, and In 2014, Dawn McEwen won an Olympic gold medal in Sochi, Russia, going unbeaten at 11-0. 2018 saw that quartet win a global championship in North Bay, Ontario.
