Joanne Courtney

Joanne M. Courtney (born March 7, 1989, as Joanne Taylor) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta.

From 2014 to 2022, she was a member of the Rachel Homan rink which won the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship and represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

In 2023, she became a curling analyst for TSN, with the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts becoming the first event she covered for the network.

She also covered curling for the CBC during the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Courtney played third for Val Sweeting.

She gained recognition in the curling world for her aggressive sweeping style together with Rachelle Pidherny.

Though Courtney threw third rocks, she did not hold the broom for the skip, but instead brushed with the front end.

Dana Ferguson, the team's second, served as vice-skip for Sweeting.

It was announced that Courtney would join the Rachel Homan rink for the 2014–15 season, replacing Alison Kreviazuk at second position.

The team did not win any Slam events their first season, losing in the finals of the 2014 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic (against Jennifer Jones) and the 2014 Canadian Open of Curling (against Eve Muirhead).

Courtney lost in the final of the 2014 Canada Cup of Curling against former teammate Val Sweeting.

As defending champions, the team represented Team Canada at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

The team nearly missed the playoffs but won their last round-robin game against Tracy Horgan to finish the round robin in 4th place with a 7–4 record.

In the playoffs they would lose to Saskatchewan's Stefanie Lawton in the 3 vs. 4 game, but rebounded in the bronze medal game in a re-match against the Lawton rink, beating them 7–5.

That season, the team would win one World Curling Tour event, the Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown held in March.

The team found much more success in the 2015–16 curling season, but were still wrought with some disappointment.

They began the season with a win in the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, followed by a loss in the first Slam, the 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge against Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni.

The team then went on to win six Tour events in a row, the Stockholm Ladies Cup, the Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic (no longer a Slam), the 2015 Masters of Curling, the 2015 National, the 2015 Canada Cup of Curling and the 2015 Canadian Open of Curling, amassing a huge lead in both the World Curling Tour Order of Merit and Money standings in the process.

After this impressive run, the team's success seemed to dry-up.

That season, the team also won the inaugural 2016 Women's All-Star Curling Skins Game, taking home $52,000.

They were upset in the finals of the 2016 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts against their club mates, the Jenn Hanna team, meaning the World #1 ranked Homan team would not be able to play in the national championships that year.

The team was invited to play in the 2016 Elite 10 men's Grand Slam event, making history in the process.

The team would only win one game in the event though, beating Charley Thomas' team.

The team ended the season losing against Jennifer Jones in the final of the 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup.

The Homan rink's success over the course of the season meant the team would end the season ranked number one in the world in both the Women's money list and order of merit standings.

The 2016–17 curling season was one of Courtney's best season to date.

Her team began the season winning their first event, the 2016 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic.

They followed this up by winning the 2016 Canad Inns Women's Classic the following month.

A week later, the team lost in the final of the 2016 Masters of Curling against the Allison Flaxey rink.

A month later, they lost in the final of the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling.

In playdown play, the rink struggled in the round robin of the 2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, losing two games, and finishing second behind Jacqueline Harrison.

However, they won both their playoff matches, including defeating Harrison in the final, qualifying the team to represent Ontario at that year's Scotties.

Team Homan defeated Manitoba's Michelle Englot to win the 2017 Scotties, her third Scotties title in four years.

She won in an extra end in what many considered to be one of the most exciting Scotties finals ever.

Both teams went 10–1 in the round robin, with Homan's lone loss coming at Englot's expense.

Englot beat Homan once again in the 1 vs. 2 game, forcing Homan to beat Northern Ontario (Krista McCarville) in the seminal to force the re-match against Englot.

At the 2017 world championship in Beijing the Homan rink became only the third in tournament history to go unbeaten in round-robin play, joining fellow Canadian Colleen Jones from 2003 and Sweden's Anette Norberg from 2005.

She ended up going unbeaten right to the end, the only team to do so to date, winning the gold medal by beating Anna Sidorova (for the 3rd consecutive time with wins in the round robin, 1–2 playoff game, and final) 8–3 for the gold medal, her first world title and completing her medal set at worlds.

The Homan rink finished the season by winning the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup.

Courtney began the 2017-18 curling season by winning the 2017 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic and then the Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic the following week.