Taylor McDonald

Taylor Rae McDonald (born May 12, 1993) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton.

She currently plays second on Team Kate Cameron.

It was the first time a Canadian Women's team would win the championship since 2003.

McDonald began her junior curling career in the 2011–12 season on Team Kelsey Rocque.

McDonald previously played second for Team Laura Walker and Team Kelsey Rocque, with whom she won gold at the 2014 World Junior Curling Championships and the 2017 Winter Universiade.

In 2014, her team of Rocque, third Keely Brown, lead Claire Tully and coach Amanda-Dawn Coderre won the 2014 Alberta Junior Curling Championship with a 6–5 win over 2012 Canadian Junior champion Jocelyn Peterman in the final.

This earned them the right to represent Alberta at the 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Alberta went undefeated in their round robin pool which gave them a berth in the championship pool.

They finished 9–1 after the championship pool, with their only loss coming at the hands of Nova Scotia's Mary Fay.

This meant that the team would go directly to the final, where they would face British Columbia's Kalia Van Osch.

Alberta led the entire game and had an inturn hit for the win and the championship.

They won in a 7–6 decision.

At the 2014 World Junior Curling Championships, the team finished the round robin with a 7–2 record, losing only to Russia and South Korea.

They would then face South Korea in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff, but this time would win in a 7–6 decision.

Team Rocque would play South Korea again in the final, but would win in a 6-4 decision to capture the gold medal and the championship.

For the 2014–15 season, McDonald joined Team Chelsea Carey at second, with Laura Crocker as third and Jen Gates as lead.

The team would win two tour titles that season, the HDF Insurance Shoot-Out and the Boundary Ford Curling Classic.

Team Carey also played in three slams that season, making the playoffs in only the 2014 Canadian Open of Curling, where they lost in the quarterfinals.

Following the 2014–15 season, Carey formed a new team, and was replaced by McDonald's former skip Kelsey Rocque.

In their first season together, the Rocque rink won the Red Deer Curling Classic and the CCT Uiseong Masters on the tour.

The team played in five slams, making it to the quarterfinals in four events.

At the 2015 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the team would lose in the finals.

McDonald played in her first Canada Cup at the 2015 Canada Cup of Curling, where her team finished with a 2–4 record, missing the playoffs.

Also during the 2015–16 season, McDonald won the 2016 CIS/CCA Curling Championships with the University of Alberta, qualifying her and teammates Rocque, Danielle Schmiemann, Taylore Theroux and Kristen Streifel for the 2017 Winter Universiade the next season.

The following season, The Rocque rink had less success on the tour.

Team Rocque played in the 2016 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but failed to make the playoffs.

They would play in four slams, making it to the quarterfinals in just one event, the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge.

The team played in the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling, but once again missed the playoffs with a 2–4 record.

The team made the decision to miss the 2017 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts so that Rocque and McDonald could participate in the Universiade.

The team won gold at the Universiade, beating Russia's Victoria Moiseeva 8–3 in the final.

In the 2017–18 season, Team Rocque would win the Curl Mesabi Classic and would play in three slams, making it to the quarterfinals at just the 2018 Meridian Canadian Open.

The team played in the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, losing in the playoffs.

Midway through the season, Walker took over skipping duties of the team, but remained throwing third stones.

The Rocque rink played with the new arrangement at the 2018 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they narrowly missed the playoffs.

The next month it was announced that the team would be splitting up.

In their final event together, with Rocque off the team, the rink would lose in a tiebreaker at the 2018 Players' Championship with Walker skipping and Kendra Lilly brought in to play third.

In March 2018, McDonald announced she was joining a Winnipeg-based team skipped by Allison Flaxey, with third Kate Cameron and lead Raunora Westcott.

The team participated in two Slams and finished sixth at the 2019 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

McDonald was invited to be Team Fleury's and team Manitoba's alternate at the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

She played in one game, Draw 11 against Nunavut, where she curled 75%.