Jennifer Baxter (curler)
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Jennifer "Jenn" Baxter (born April 4, 1987 in Halifax,
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) is a
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curler from
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. She currently plays
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on Team
Christina Black Christina Black (born October 21, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently skips her own team out of the Halifax Curling Club. Career Women's Black joined Team Mary-Anne Arsenault for the 2014–15 season at third. ...
.


Career


Juniors

During Baxter's junior eligibility years, she would only make one appearance at the
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. This appearance took place at the 2007 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, where Baxter, playing lead for Marie Christianson, represented Nova Scotia. Her team failed to make the playoffs, finishing round robin with a 6-6 record.


2009–current

Baxter would team up with and play second for
Mary-Anne Arsenault Mary-Anne Arsenault (born August 19, 1968 in Scarborough, Ontario, also known as Mary-Anne Waye when she was married) is a Canadian curler from Lake Country, British Columbia. She is a five-time Canadian Champion, and two-time World Curling C ...
at the start of the 2009/2010 curling season. The team entered the 2010 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they quickly found success. They would finish round robin in first place with a 5-2, and received a bye to the final. There they faced
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, where their success came to an end, losing the championship game 4-5. The team would return to the provincials in
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, where for a second year in a row, they would finish with a 5-2 record. This was enough to secure second place. They would meet
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in the semi-final, but would lose 3-8. In 2012, Baxter would change positions and move to lead, when Arsenault brought former teammate
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into the lineup at second. The team entered the 2012 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they finished round robin with a 4-3 record. This was enough to take the team into a tiebreaker. They would face Colleen Pinkney in the tiebreaker game, but would not find success, losing and missing out on the playoffs. For the 2012-13 curling season, the Arsenault team made another lineup change. Another former teammate of Arsenault,
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was added to the lineup at third. Baxter continued to play lead. Adding the veteran Jones to the rink proved to be successful, as the team finally won the provincial championship, when they defeated the Jocelyn Nix rink in the final of the 2013 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The team represented Nova Scotia at the
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, where they finished with a 5-6 record. The following season, Jones left the rink, and was replaced by Kelly at third and Christie Gamble joined the rink at second. The team made the playoffs at the 2014 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, after finishing the round robin with a 5-2 record. However they could not repeat their provincial championship, losing in the semi-final to the Kelly MacIntosh rink. After the season, Kelly and Gamble would be replaced with
Christina Black Christina Black (born October 21, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently skips her own team out of the Halifax Curling Club. Career Women's Black joined Team Mary-Anne Arsenault for the 2014–15 season at third. ...
and Jane Snyder. The team won two tour events early in the season, the Dave Jones Molson Mayflower Cashspiel and the Gibson's Cashspiel. They also won the 2015 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, qualifying them for the
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. There, the team finished in seventh place with a 5–6 record. In 2016,
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joined at second when Snyder left the team. A few seasons later, they won the 2018 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts and won a bronze medal at the
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. Later that year, the team won the 2018 New Scotland Clothing Ladies Cashspiel. The Arsenault rink began the 2019–20 season by winning the 2019 Curling Store Cashspiel. The team won the provincial Scotties again in 2020, and represented Nova Scotia at the
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with new lead Emma Logan. The team finished pool play with a 4–3 round robin record, in a tie with British Columbia's
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rink. They lost to British Columbia in a tiebreaker, failing to advance. In 2020, Arsenault announced she was moving to British Columbia. Baxter then joined the new rink skipped by Christina Black at third with front end Karlee Jones and Shelley Barker. In their first event together, the team won the 2020 Curling Store Cashspiel. The 2021 Nova Scotia Scotties was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nova Scotia, so the Nova Scotia Curling Association appointed Team
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to represent the province at the
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. Team Black would have been selected as the Nova Scotia representatives, however, they did not retain three out of their four players from the previous season. Team Black won their first event of the 2021–22 season, The Curling Store Cashspiel, going undefeated to claim the title. They also reached the final of the
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, losing to the
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rink. In November, the team once again went undefeated to win the Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel, defeating former teammate
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in the final. At the 2022 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Team Black won all three qualifying events, winning the provincial title and securing their spot at the
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. At the Hearts, the team had a 5–3 record in the round robin, which was enough to qualify for the championship round. Along the way, they scored victories over higher seeded teams such as Alberta's Laura Walker and Manitoba's Mackenzie Zacharias. They also defeated British Columbia, which was being skipped by former teammate
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. In their championship round match against Northern Ontario's
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, Team Black got down 9–1 before coming back to make the game 9–8, eventually losing 11–8. This eliminated them from the championship. The Black rink began the 2022–23 season at the inaugural
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where they lost to Kelsey Rocque in the opening round. They bounced back immediately in their next event, however, winning the New Scotland Clothing Women's Cashspiel in a 6–4 final over Tanya Hilliard. At the
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Tier 2
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event, the team went undefeated until the semifinals where they were defeated by Jessie Hunkin. Through November and December, they qualified for three straight finals. After losing to the
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rink, skipped by
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, in the final of the 2022 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic, they once again defeated Jennifer Crouse at the Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel and then beat Marlee Powers in the final of the Bogside Cup. At the 2023 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Team Black won both the A and B events to earn two of the three spots in the playoffs. They then beat the Hilliard rink 9–4 in the semifinals to claim their second consecutive Nova Scotia Scotties title. This qualified the team for the
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in
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,
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where they again went 5–3 through the round robin. This qualified them for a tiebreaker where they stole in an extra end to upset the Lawes Wild Card rink. In the championship round, they again stole in an extra to beat Ontario's
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rink before losing to Northern Ontario's McCarville in the seeding game. They then fell 9–4 to Team Canada's
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in the 3 vs. 4 game, settling for fourth. The 2023–24 season began well for Team Black as they reached the final of the Summer Series, losing 5–4 to
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. In their third event, they reached another final where they narrowly lost to Jessica Daigle. With their success from the previous season, the team qualified as the sixth seeds for the
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. After defeating
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in the opening round, they upset
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in the quarterfinals before dropping the semifinal to Rachel Homan. In their next two events, the team reached the quarterfinals of both the
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Tier 2 and the Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic, losing out to
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and
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respectively. In November 2023, the team ranked sixteenth in the world, qualifying them for the
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Tier 1 Slam. They finished with a 1–3 record, earning a victory over Korea's
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. At the 2024 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the team easily qualified for the playoffs through the A event. They then lost to Heather Smith in the 1 vs. 2 game but defeated
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in the semifinal to reach the final. There, they could not defend their provincial title for a third time, dropping the final 6–4 to Team Smith. After the season, the team's lead Shelley Barker retired from competitive women's play. The team then added
Jill Brothers Jillian Brothers (born May 20, 1983 as Jill Mouzar ronounced "MOW-zer" is a Canadian curler. She currently plays third on Team Christina Black. Brothers was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and now resides in Bedford, Nova Scotia. Career Brothe ...
and Marlee Powers for the 2024–25 season. The revised lineup saw Brothers slot in at third with Baxter and Everist moving to second and lead respectively while Powers was named as the alternate. The team had success in their first season together, winning the Tier 2 event of the
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, qualifying them for the
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Grand Slam, where they lost in the Quarterfinals to
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. Black would also go on to fin the 2025 NS Women's Championship, beating clubmate
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in the final, qualifying the team to represent Nova Scotia at the
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. At the 2025 Scotties, the Black rink finished 2nd in Pool B with a 6–2 record, and would make it to the semifinals, where she lost to
Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born Kerri Flett; October 3, 1987) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is a four-time women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to victory in the , , ...
9–8 after a measurement in the 10th end, winning a bronze medal for Nova Scotia. Baxter had to leave the game early due to a family emergency, which was later revealed to be the death of her father, Blair.


Personal life

Baxter is employed as a learning centre teacher with the
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. She is in married to Jason Wilson and has two stepchildren.


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