Get to know the teams competing at this year's Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The 2025 Scotties Canadian women's curling championship begins on Friday in Thunder Bay, Ont., and runs through Feb. 23. Here are all the skips and rinks that will be vying to become this year's national champions.

Teams' seeds (in brackets) via Curling Canada's Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS). Team members are listed in order from third to alternate:

Rachel Homan — Defending champion (1)

Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown.

Heavy favourite for Hearts repeat with a 45-4 record this season, including Grand Slam victories in the Kioti National and Canadian Co-op Open. Ottawa Curling Club foursome is also reigning world champion. Former archrival Jennifer Jones will join the team as coach in Thunder Bay.

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Selena Sturmay — Alberta (4)

Danielle Schmiemann, Dezaray Hawes, Paige Papley.

Chelsea Carey's team disbanding catapulted Sturmay into a pre-qualified berth for Thunder Bay and her team thus bypassed the provincial championship. Sturmay reached the 2024 Hearts final four in Calgary before bowing out to Manitoba's Kate Cameron in the Page playoff between third and fourth seeds. Coached by Ted Appleman.

Kayla Skrlik — Alberta champion (5)

Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Margot Flemming, Ashton Skrlik, Crystal Rumberg.

Skrlik skipped Alberta to a 4-4 record two years ago in Kamloops, B.C. Flemming, who played in four previous Hearts with Northwest Territories' Kerry Galusha, replaces the departed Brittany Tran in Skrlik's lineup. Coached by Shannon Kleibrink.

Corryn Brown — B.C. champion (8)

Erin Pincott, Sarah Koltun, Sam Fisher, Kristen Ryan.

Brown returns to Hearts after going 6-6 in 2020 and