Colleen Jones

Colleen Patricia Jones (born December 16, 1959) is a Canadian curler and television personality.

In 1982 she became the youngest skip, at age 22, ever to win the Canadian women's curling championship but career, marriage and a family slowed down her competitive curling.

Jones began her broadcasting career in radio sports at CHUM radio in 1982.

She made the switch to television broadcasting in 1984 at CTV, and joined the CBC in 1986.

She joined CBC Television as a reporter in 1986 and went on to cover numerous summer and winter Olympic Games.

Beginning in 1993, Jones has been the weather presenter and sports reporter for CBC Morning News on CBC Newsworld (now CBC News Network).

She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row and held the record for most Tournament of Hearts wins from when she won her 67th game in 1994 until her eventual 152 wins were eclipsed by Jennifer Jones in 2021.

In 1999, with her new team of Kim Kelly, Mary Anne Waye (later Arsenault) and Nancy Delahunt, Jones won the Canadian curling title for the second time.

The team repeated this in 2001 and they went on to win the World Curling Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland.

They followed this up with another Canadian championship in 2002 and then won it for a record-setting fifth time at the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts.

This made Jones the first skip to win four straight Canadian titles.

From there the team went on to win their second World Curling Championship.

Their return at the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts was not as stellar.

The team finished the round-robin at 6–5 and lost in a tie-breaker to Sandy Comeau of New Brunswick.

When this happened, the team got a standing ovation, which even halted play in the other game that was occurring two sheets over.

The following year, the team was back in form, but bowed out in the semi-finals to Jennifer Jones.

At the 2006 Torino Olympics, she did CBC segments about curling.

Jones starred in a public service announcement about the Canada 2006 Census.

At the end of the 2006 season, the team broke up.

Jones joined the team of fellow Haligonian Kay Zinck, as her third.

The rest of the team got a new skip in Laine Peters.

After a short run playing third for Kay Zinck during the 2006/2007 season, Jones went back to skipping.

For the 2007/2008 season she would add Olympic bronze medallist Georgina Wheatcroft to her team along with Kate Hamer and Darah Provencal.

At the end of the season Jones would retire from competitive curling.

Jones appeared in the January 15, 2008 episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes for a skit titled MVC Most Valuable Curler.

She also co-hosts the online series That Curling Show with CBC journalist Devin Heroux.

On 6 April 2023, it was announced that she would be retiring from CBC after almost 40 years with the broadcaster.

Jones also serves as a reporter and weather presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and as a curling commentator for NBC in the United States, particularly during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Jones provided curling commentary for NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Colleen Jones announced on March 24, 2010, on CBC News that she would be again returning to competitive curling.

Having been present for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a spark ignited in her, and she once again wanted to make another run for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

For the 2010/2011 season, Jones was recruited by Heather Smith-Dacey, Blisse Comstock and Teri Lake, to take over skipping duties, when former skip Jill Mouzar moved to Ontario.

She served as the sideline reporter for the curling events at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.

In 2018, Jones finished second to Sidney Crosby in a listing of the greatest 15 athletes in Nova Scotia's history.

In 2019, she was named the third greatest Canadian curler in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers.

She currently coaches the Heather Smith rink.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from a family of curlers, at age 14, she joined the Mayflower Curling Club.

She found success in competitive curling from an early age, playing skip for the St. Patrick's High School curling team.

She was only 19 years old when she won the first of her 16 Nova Scotia curling titles.

That led to competing in the Canadian championships, where she finished second.