Jessica_Smith_(curler)

Jessica Smith (curler)

Jessica Smith (curler)

New Zealand curler

Jessica (Jess) Smith (born 29 September 1997) is a New Zealand curler[2] from Invercargill.[3]

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At the international level, she competed at the 2023 World Women's Championship (first-ever Worlds for the New Zealand women's curling team), Pacific-Asia Championships 2017 and the 2022 Pan Continental Championships.

At the national level, she is a New Zealand women's and mixed doubles champion curler.

Personal life

Her brother[4] Ben is also a curler;[5] the pair won the New Zealand Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in 2018 and 2019.[6]

In 2020, at the age of 23, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma cancer,;[7] and after a difficult treatment, she recovered and returned to the ice, including the international stage, leading the New Zealand women's team to win the right to play at the 2023 World Women's Curling Championship for the first time in Women's World Curling Championship history.[5]

Smith currently works as a nurse.[3]

Teams and events

Women's

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Mixed doubles

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References

  1. [1]
    Dunedin Curling - New Zealand Curling
  2. [2]
    Jessica Smith on the World Curling database Edit this at Wikidata
  3. [3]
    "2024 World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  4. [4]
    "NZ women ready to 'move granite' at first Curling World Championships outing". Stuff.co.nz.
  5. [5]
    "From cancer diagnosis to curling world championships". Olympics.com. 21 April 2023. Archived from the original on 21 April 2023. It was in April 2020, just after then 23-year-old Smith and her brother Ben found out
  6. [6]
    "NZ Mixed Doubles Curling Championship". Curling New Zealand. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  7. [7]
    "New Zealand's Jess Smith back on international stage following cancer battle". World Curling Federation. 3 November 2022. Archived from the original on 27 March 2023.


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