2026 women in curling Summit - Missisauga
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026
Hyatt Place Toronto/Mississauga
Full and half-day registration options available
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For every woman who loves the game
Fuel your love of curling. Grow your impact. Find your people.
Join us at the 2026 Women in Curling Summit Mississauga for a day of insight, community, and connection built to help you grow your confidence, strengthen your network, and deepen your relationship with the game, wherever you are on your curling path.
With a lineup of inspiring female leaders, including an opening keynote by Jennifer Jones, we’ll tap into what sparks your potential — the moments, people, and practices that keep you connected to the game. Leave with the clarity and momentum to carry that flame forward, wherever curling takes you next.
Be part of something bigger
This is your chance to learn from the women who’ve shaped the sport, build skills you can use far beyond the rink, and expand your circle with driven, like-minded women from across curling. If you want a jolt of confidence, community, and momentum — this is it.
Here’s what you can expect to take away from the day:
- Gain inspiration from women who have excelled in curling on and off the ice
- Learn leadership and teamwork skills that translate from the rink to daily life
- Build powerful connections with like-minded women in sport, igniting an ongoing passion for curling and beyond
Jennifer Jones
heather mair
Women in Curling
For every woman who loves the game — and wants to shape its future.
Women in Curling is a national initiative dedicated to advancing gender equity across all levels of curling. Our work supports girls and women as players, coaches, leaders, officials, volunteers and builders of the sport at every stage of their journey.
Our Vision
Curling has a long and proud history of women leading and excelling — often without formal pathways, visibility, or support. Women in Curling exists to change that.
Our vision is to engage women, foster personal growth and create opportunities to discover what’s possible in curling, while celebrating the many women whose contributions have shaped the game.
This work is grounded in the belief that when women are supported, confident and connected, the entire curling community is stronger.
What we’re working toward
Women in Curling focuses on practical, long-term outcomes:
- Personal and professional development opportunities for women across curling
- Increased confidence, influence, and leadership capacity
- Safer, more inclusive environments for girls and women in the sport
- Stronger pathways into coaching, leadership, and decision-making roles
- Women empowered to make a difference in their own communities
- Donate to Curling Canada’s philanthropic program to Get More Girls in the Game
Feature Programs
Accordion Content
Join us for the four-part Women in Curling Conversation Series!
PART ONE: FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE GAME (featuring Dr. Heather Mair and Cori Morris)
Date: October 8, 2026
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Find meaningful ways to get involved in curling this season.
There are countless ways to contribute to curling — but that doesn’t mean you have to say yes to all of them. This session is about becoming more intentional about where you put your time and energy and finding new opportunities that match your interests, strengths and goals.
This conversation will focus on how to:
- Identify the roles and opportunities that are most meaningful and energizing to you.
- Step forward with confidence when you want to contribute — and say no without guilt when you don’t.
- Move from simply being willing to help to intentionally choosing opportunities where you can grow, lead and make an impact.
Interested in hosting a Women in Curling Summit in 2027–2028?
Women in Curling Summits bring women together to connect, learn, share experiences, and celebrate the many ways they contribute to curling. Each summit is shaped by its local community, with support from Curling Canada to help create an engaging and meaningful experience for participants.
Provincial and Territorial Member Associations and their affiliated curling centers that are interested in hosting a summit for the 2027–2028 season can apply for hosting support, including resources and funding to help bring the event to life.
Application deadline: December 1, 2026
About Women in Curling
OUR INITIATIVES
Women in Curling delivers a suite of initiatives that support girls and women at different stages of their curling journey.
An annual national Conversation Series designed to reimagine what’s possible for women in curling — and the personal impact they can have on the future of the game.
Our gathering that brings women from across the curling system together for leadership development, shared learning and meaningful connection. We host an annual Summit at the Scotties Tournament of Heats and support two additional regional Summits throughout the country each year.
A celebration of women who have shaped the sport, creating space for recognition, storytelling, and intergenerational learning.
In addition to the role modelling and leadership development opportunities offered through Girls Rock, presented by Scotties, Women in Curling supports and shines a light on emerging initiatives from across the Canadian curling community — creating opportunities for mentorship, education, connection and resource sharing.
SHAPE WHAT COMES NEXT
There are many ways to engage with Women in Curling:
- Attend a summit, webinar or event
- Bring a girls’ or women’s program in your curling centre
- Connect as a mentor, coach, or leader
- Share ideas, experiences and inspiration with your community
- Join our Facebook Group for ongoing conversation and connection
Executive Council
Women in Curling is guided by an Executive Council that provides strategic direction and oversight for the initiative.The council brings together leaders from across sport, coaching and administration, ensuring the work remains aligned with its vision and responsive to the needs of the curling community.
Women in Curling Facts & Figures
Accordion Content
- Sport Canada’s funding for curling athletes is split evenly between genders
- Curling Canada’s National Training Program is split evenly between teams of each gender
- Women receive the same amount of prize money as men at the national championships and at the PointsBet Invitational
- Women receive the same amount of travel funding subsidies for all disciplines of curling at all events
- All national championships are structured and formatted the same for women and men at each level of the sport (ex: U-18, U-20, U SPORTS/CCAA, Women’s/Men’s and seniors)
- Women receive the same amount of TV broadcast time as men at Curling Canada events
- Curling Canada Season of Champions (SOC) events feature approximately 270 hours of linear broadcast time with 135 hours dedicated to women’s sport
- The same equity is applied for the streaming of Curling Canada’s non-SOC events with approximately 150 hours of coverage dedicated to women’s curling.
Women in Curling Facts & Figures
Curling Canada is proud to be a leader in the space of gender equity and equality in sport. With its partner, Kruger Products, the title partner of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, women in curling have defied the odds and achieved their dreams for 40 years and counting.
Women in curling receive equal opportunities, broadcast time and prize money. This bond between the women and girls in the sport means girls can dream to achieve anything they want to do in curling as a player, coach, role model and mentor.
On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Curling Canada celebrates the positive impacts of women and girls in sports thanks to its partners, donors, volunteers, coaches and athletes.
“Curling has been such an important part of my life and it’s given me the opportunity to grow as an athlete, as a woman and as a parent. I see how my daughter carries herself on a sheet of curling ice, and I see her confidence growing with every game. That’s what our sport can do for young athletes.”
-Kerry Galusha, Northwest Territories
Women & Girls News
Finding Belonging, Connection and Community for Women in Curling
At the Women in Curling Summits, connection is as powerful as competition
Women in Curling: Fish sisters’ curling journey forges an unbreakable bond on and off the ice
Q&A with Trailblazer Elaine Dagg-Jackson: Leading the Charge for Women in Curling
Girls Rock Program
Girls Rock – Facts & Figures
- 12 Member Associations ran a Girls Rock program during the 2024-25 season.
- Women in Curling, in coordination with NOCA, ran a Girls Rock program aligned with the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay. Sixty-four participants were registered for the Feb. 15 session at the Port Arthur Curling Centre!
- Understanding girls’ experiences is the first step in transforming the sport and physical activity system in Canada so that all girls can play. Rally Report 2024 aims to champion girls’ voices, and support and inspire sport leaders with fresh insight into how they can reimagine sport and create more equitable, inclusive environments.
Girls Rock – Register!
Calling all girls aged 9-16! Bring your besties and come try the great sport of curling! Test your skills on and off the ice. And have a great time “throwing rocks” during this female-led, female-participant, curling experience. Register for this FREE event!
Girls Rock – Learn More!
Girls Rock shares the extensive benefits of sports involvement, including developing on-ice skills in a safe, welcoming and non-judgemental environment. Learn more about how it is being implemented across Canada in 2024-25.
Gender Equity Campaign
Along with our partners at Canadian Women and Sport, we stand beside and support our female athletes in their pursuit of excellence through every challenge they face as women in sport.