Carly Howard (born October 7, 1993 in

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) is a Canadian curler from

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. She is the daughter of four-time World curling champion and four-time

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champion

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Curling career

After winning the 2010 Ontario Bantam Mixed Championship, Howard found much of her early success in university curling, winning her first

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(OUA) title in 2014 for the

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, defeating the

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team, skipped by Jamie Sinclair in the final. Her team of Cheryl Kreviazuk, Evangeline Fortier and Kerilynn Mathers went on to represent Laurier at the 2014 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, where they lost to the same Carleton rink in the semifinal. She won a second straight OUA title in 2015, when she defeated the

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in the final. Her team of Mathers, Fortier and

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went on to win the bronze medal at the

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. Howard joined the

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team at

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position in 2014. The team found some early success together, winning the

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event in November of that year. The team played in the

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event that season, losing all three of their games. That season, she also played in the

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with her father Glenn. The pair went 5–2 in pool play, and went on to lose in the quarter-final. They had been ranked in first place on Curling Canada's Order of Merit ranking going into the event. The following season, Howard joined the Mallory Kean rink at

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position. Howard played in her first

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provincial women's championship for Kean in 2016. There, the team finished with a 2–7 record. In 2017, Howard joined her cousin Ashley's

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based rink, playing third on the team. Carly was the team's "import" player, as she was living in

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at the time. The team played at the 2018 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they finished with a 3–5 record. The team played in the 2019 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts as well, but went 2–6. In 2019, Howard returned to play for an Ontario based team, playing third for the Lauren Horton rink for one season, before joining the Jestyn Murphy rink in 2020. The team played in the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, where they finished pool play with a 2–4 record. The team would later qualify for the 2022 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, which was postponed to April that year due to the

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. At the Ontario Hearts, Howard skipped the team, with Murphy playing lead instead. The team, which also consisted of

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and

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went 5–2 in the round robin. They beat Team Hollie Duncan (skipped by

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) in the semifinals, before losing to

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in the final.

Personal life

Howard works as a human resources assistant at Bay Street HR.

References

External links

CurlingZone profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Carly Living people Canadian women curlers 1993 births Curlers from Simcoe County People from Midland, Ontario Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks players