Rachel Homan

Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curler.

While bantam-aged (under 16), she won four straight provincial championships from 2003 to 2006, while no other curler had won even twice.

In 2006, she won the Optimist International Under-18 Curling Tournament, beating Casey Scheidegger in the final.

Her team qualified for the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, Yukon, where Homan skipped Team Ontario to a gold medal.

During her first two years at the junior level, Homan did not win a provincial championship.

In 2007, her team lost the provincial semifinal to Hollie Nicol's rink.

In 2007, she defeated then-World Champion Jennifer Jones in the semifinal and Ève Bélisle in the final, and in 2008 she won in the final against the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu.

Her team earned $11,000 for each win.

In 2008, her team lost in the final to Danielle Inglis.

During her junior career, Homan competed in two Canadian Junior Curling Championships, placing second in 2009 and winning the championship in 2010.

These losses were allayed by a provincial junior championship in 2009, earning her team a berth at the 2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

At the Canadian Juniors, she skipped the Ontario team to a 10–2 record after the round robin, giving her rink a bye to the final, where she lost to the defending champion, Kaitlyn Lawes from Manitoba.

In 2009, she won the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, winning $5,500 for her team.

Later that year, her team participated in the Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, where her team finished with a 3–3 record, and therefore did not qualify for the "Roar of the Rings", Canada's Olympic Trials.

In 2009, Homan's rink was named the World Curling Tour's "rookie team of the year."

She also won a silver medal at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships.

Homan won the 2010 provincial championship and represented Ontario at the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

At the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Homan, with Emma Miskew, Laura Crocker, and Lynn Kreviazuk, won the junior national title with an undefeated record of 13 wins and 0 losses – only the fourth women's team to do so.

The team represented Canada at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships in Flims, Switzerland.

The team lost just one round robin game and lost in the final to Sweden's team, skipped by Anna Hasselborg.

Prior to graduating from juniors in 2010, Homan's junior team was too young to participate in Scotties Tournament of Hearts playdowns (as juniors were ineligible to enter provincial playdowns until 2016), but this did not stop her from participating in Women's World Curling Tour events.

Homan's top accomplishments on the tour while she was junior-aged included winning two straight Southwestern Ontario Women's Charity Cashspiels.

In her first year of eligibility, Homan qualified for and won the 2011 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

At the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Homan skipped the Ontario team, finishing the round robin in third place and beating Nova Scotia's Heather Smith-Dacey in the 3 vs. 4 game, before losing in the semi-final to Saskatchewan's Amber Holland, thus eliminating her from the final.

She then lost in the bronze medal game to Smith-Dacey.

In April 2011, Homan played third for her brother Mark, and won the 2012 Ontario Mixed Championship.

That same month, Homan's women's team made it to her first career Grand Slam final, when she lost to Jennifer Jones in the final of the 2011 Players' Championship.

Later in 2011, she played in her first Canada Cup where her team finished with a 2–4 record.

The team, which also included Brian Fleischhaker and teammate in women's play Alison Kreviazuk, represented Ontario at the 2012 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in November 2011.

The team finished with an 8–5 record and out of the playoffs.

Homan once again qualified for the provincial Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2012.

Her team went undefeated throughout the round robin.

Throughout her women's career, Homan has medalled at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championships, eight times, winning gold four times (2013, 2014, and 2017, ), silver three times (2019, 2020, and 2021), and bronze once (2015).

She has also competed in two Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing in third place in 2013 and winning in 2017.

Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a four-time Canadian national champion, and the 2017 world champion, all as a skip.

She has competed in three World Women's Curling Championships, winning gold in 2017, silver in 2014, and bronze in 2013.

She was also the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, her team finished in sixth place.

In 2019, Homan was named the fourth-greatest Canadian female curler in history by The Sports Network (TSN).

Homan began curling at the age of five, playing in the Little Rock program at the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa.