The Scotties Tournament of Hearts came down to Sunday’s late winner-take-all championship draw between Canada’s Rachel Homan and Manitoba’s Kerri Einarson. The 7-1 finale favouring Homan and her juggernaut squad from the Ottawa Curling Club capped what was another stellar week featuring the best of the best of the nation’s top female athletes in the sport.

When Rachel Homan is on her game, no stone in the rings is safe from her. The skip of the defending champions at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts gave Manitoba’s

Two young athletes at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont., have identical ambitions: to compete on the national stage like their mother, four-time Scotties champion skip Kerri Einarson.