Tess Guyatt ( Bobbie; born August 12, 1991) is a Canadian curler. She currently plays

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on Team

Hollie Duncan Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987, in Toronto, Ontario, as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour. Career Juniors As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her Unionville Curling Club ri ...

Career

Youth

Guyatt played lead for

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at the 2015 CCAA Curling National Championships, on a team skipped by Shannon Kee. The team would go on to win the gold medal at the event.

Women's

After her college career, Guyatt joined the Tippin rink in 2015. In their first season together, the team won the CookstownCash presented by Comco Canada Inc. and the

Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel The Stroud Sleeman Cashspiel is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament. It takes place at the Stroud Curling Club Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town' ...

. Guyatt qualified for her first Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2016 as a part of the team. The team made the playoffs, but lost in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game. In the 2016–17 season, the team defended their title at the Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel. They played at the

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, but missed the playoffs. In the 2017–18 season, Guyatt qualified for her first

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event, the

2017 GSOC Tour Challenge The 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge was held from September 5 to 10 at the Co-operators Centre at Evraz Place in Regina, Saskatchewan. This was the first Grand Slam of the 2017–18 curling season. There were two tiers in each of the men's and women' ...

, where the team would lose in a tiebreaker. The team won two events in the season, the StuSells Toronto Tankard and the

KW Fall Classic The KW Fall Classic is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the KW Granite Club in Waterloo, Ontario. The tournament has been held as part of the men's and women's Ontario Curling Tour, and both the men's and women's e ...

. The Tippin rink would win the B final of the 2017 Home Hardware Road to the Road Pre-Trials, qualifying the team to play at the

2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials The 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials (branded as the 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings for sponsorship reasons) were held from December 2 to 10 at the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata, Ontario, Kanata, Ottawa, Ontario. The winners of the men's a ...

where they would finish in eighth place with a 2–6 record. They would not qualify for the playoffs at the

2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 10 to 14 at the Whitby Curling Club in Whitby, Ontario. The winning team represented Ontario at the 2018 Scotties T ...

. The following season, Team Tippin qualified for the 2019 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts where they lost in the final to

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. Tippin left the team after the season, and

Megan Balsdon Megan Balsdon (born May 10, 1982 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian curler. She currently plays third on Team Hollie Duncan. Career In 1998, Balsdon won the Ontario Bantam Mixed championships playing third for skip Bobby Reid. In 2001, she won ...

took over as skip, adding

Lynn Kreviazuk Lynn Elizabeth Kreviazuk (born May 2, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. She currently plays second on Team Carly Howard. Career Kreviazuk was the longtime lead for the Rachel Homan rink. She first joined the team in 2005 as its ...

at third. The team had a successful season on tour, reaching the final of the

, the semifinal of the Tim Hortons Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel and the quarterfinals of the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic, Stu Sells Oakville Tankard and the

2019 Tour Challenge The 2019 KIOTI TRACTOR Tour Challenge was held from November 5 to 10, at the Pictou County Wellness Centre in Westville Road, Nova Scotia. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2019–20 season. In the men's tier 1 final, Brad Jacobs of ...

Tier 2

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event. At the

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, the team finished with a 3–5 record. With Kreviazuk leaving the team following the season, Balsdon, Strybosch and Guyatt added

to their team as their new skip. The team only played in one event during the 2020–21 season due to the

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. They reached the final of the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, losing to Team

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in an extra end. The newly formed team began the 2021–22 season with a semifinal finish at the 2021 Oakville Labour Day Classic where they lost to event winners Team

Tracy Fleury Tracy Fleury (born Tracy Horgan; June 13, 1986) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season, and now plays third on the team. With Homan, she won the 2024 Scotties Tournament of ...

. In their next event, the team won the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, defeating the

Kerry Galusha Kerry Galusha (born Kerry Koe on November 3, 1977) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her team out of the Yellowknife Curling Club in Yellowknife. Career Juniors Galusha's first national experience was at the 1992 Canadian Junior Curlin ...

rink in the final. The following week, they lost in the final of the

to Team Galusha. They responded with their second event title of the season at the

Stu Sells Toronto Tankard The Stu Sells Toronto Tankard, also known as the Stu Sells Tankard, is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the High Park Club in Toronto, Ontario. The event is held in a triple-knock out format, but was held in a rou ...

where they defeated Team Shannon Jay in the final. Because of their successes on tour, Team Duncan had enough points to qualify for the

2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials The 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials were held from October 25 to 31 at the Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. The event qualified two teams for the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Qualif ...

. At the Pre-Trials, the team finished with a 3–3 record, failing to qualify for the championship round. Team Duncan played in two more tour events during the season, missing the playoffs of the

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event and reaching the quarterfinals of the DeKalb Superspiel. Due to the cancellation of the Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, CurlON appointed Team

to represent the province at the

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. However, because Homan herself was chosen to represent Canada at the

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, Team Duncan were awarded the spot as Team Ontario at the national championship, with Team Homan earning one of the three Wild Card spots. At the Hearts, Team Duncan started with four straight losses before winning their last four games, finishing the event with a 4–4 record.

Mixed

Guyatt and partner Scott Howard played in the 2014 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials. After posting a 6-1 group record, they lost in the quarterfinals to

Wayne Tuck Jr. Wayne Tuck Jr. (born May 12, 1976) is a Canadian curling, curler from Strathroy, Ontario. Tuck is a three time provincial mixed champion, having won the Ontario provincial mixed championship at the 2002, 2009 and 2017 events. At the 2002 Canadia ...

and Kim Tuck. The next year, Guyatt teamed up with Bowie Abbis-Mills and played in the 2015 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials. There, they went undefeated in group stage, and continued their winning streak all the way to the final, where they lost to

Charley Thomas Charley M. Thomas (born April 4, 1986 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian curler from Calgary who currently skips his own rink on the World Curling Tour. Curling career Thomas started his career with an Alberta Provincial Junior tit ...

and

Kalynn Park Kalynn Park (born September 12, 1988) is a Canadian curler and curling coach. She is right-handed. She and Charley Thomas won the 2015 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials and represented Canada at the 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Cham ...

Personal life

Guyatt is a Senior Claims Assistant with Allstate Canada. She is married to Charles Guyatt, and lives in

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