Emma Miskew

Emma Kathryn Miskew (born February 14, 1989) is a Canadian curler.

Miskew began her dominance in the sport when she was bantam aged, winning four straight provincial bantam championships from 2003 to 2006.

She had won four championships while no other curler had won even twice.

Her bantam rink qualified for the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, Yukon, where Team Ontario won to a gold medal.

Miskew's first two years at the junior level were somewhat disappointing, as her top-rated team failed to win a provincial championship.

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

In 2007, she defeated then-World Champion Jennifer Jones, and in 2008 she beat 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.

Aside from the Homan team, Miskew also won the 2008 Junior provincial mixed title with Christian Tolusso.

However, 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, team Ontario was 10–2 after the round robin, giving her rink a bye to the final.

However, she lost to the defending champion Kaitlyn Lawes rink from Manitoba in the final.

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 record of three wins and three losses, and therefore did not qualify for the "Roar of the Rings", Canada's Olympic Trials.

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

The Homan rink won the 2010 provincial championship and went on to represent Ontario at the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

At the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Miskew, with Rachel Homan, Laura Crocker, and Lynn Kreviazuk, won the Junior National Title in dramatic fashion by completing the event 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 dominated the tournament, losing just their final round robin game.

However, the team came up short in the final, losing to Sweden's Anna Hasselborg team.

Miskew's top accomplishments on the tour while still being so young included winning two straight Southwestern Ontario Women's Charity Cashspiels.

The Homan rink qualified and won the 2011 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

At the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Homan skipped the Ontario team to a 4th-place finish.

They finished the round robin in 3rd place, and lost in the bronze medal game to Nova Scotia's Heather Smith-Dacey after previously beating her in the 3 vs. 4 game.

A semi-final loss to Saskatchewan's Amber Holland eliminated her from the finals.

In April 2011, the Homan team made it to their first Grand Slam final, when she lost to Jennifer Jones in the final of the 2011 Players' Championship.

Later that year they would play in her first Canada Cup where her team finished with a 2–4 record.

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

Her team went undefeated throughout the round robin.

However, the team would be bested in the final by Tracy Horgan's rink from Sudbury.

Rachel Homan, her skip, missed a draw to the button to clinch the victory on her final rock.

Instead, she gave up three and lost.

The 2012–13 curling season was Miskew's most successful to date on the World Curling Tour.

In her first Grand Slam event of the season, the 2012 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, her team lost to Sherry Middaugh in the final.

In the second Grand Slam event of the season, the 2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic, the Homan rink once again lost in the final, this time to Stefanie Lawton.

The team lost in the semi-final of the third Slam, the 2012 Colonial Square Ladies Classic but followed it up with their first ever Grand Slam victory at the 2012 Masters of Curling where she beat Chelsea Carey in the final.

Outside of the Grand Slams, Miskew and her team won the 2nd Royal LePage OVCA Women's Fall Classic.

She was the long-time third of the three-time Canadian champion and 2017 world champion Rachel Homan rink until 2022 when she moved to second.

The Homan team represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.