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Colleen Jones

Colleen Jones, born December 16, 1959 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is the most successful Canadian women's skip in curling history.

From a family of curlers, at age 14, she joined the Mayflower Curling Club. At an early age, she gained success in competitive curling and was only 19 years old when she won the first of her 16 Nova Scotia curling titles that led to competing in the Canadian championships where she finished second. Jones graduated from Dalhousie University and went to work in broadcasting in her native Halifax. In 1982 she won her first Canadian curling championship but career, marriage and a family slowed her down, a little. She joined CBC television as a reporter in 1986 and went on to cover numerous summer and winter Olympic Games.

In 1999, Jones won the Canadian curling title for the second time then did it again in 2001 when she also won the World Curling Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland. She followed this up with another Canadian championship in 2002 and then won it for a record setting fifth time in 2004.

She has also participated in both Continental Cups, and has been in 7 Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, where she has won 2 titles (as vice-skip).

Colleen Jones is a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame.

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