The 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from February 14 to 23 at the Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
[4] The 2025 Hearts marked her 19th appearance at the national championship (excluding official Scotties pre-qualifying tournaments), and Galusha finished the event with a total of 173 games played at the Scotties, which ties her with Mary-Anne Arsenault for 4th all time in total career games played at the hearts.
It did not matter, as both teams won their first games, including Saskatchewan beating the hometown Northern Ontario rink, skipped by Krista McCarville.
Also in the first draw, Team Alberta (Kayla Skrlik) played with just three players due to their lead, Geri-Lynn Ramsay being ill, and their alternate Crystal Rumberg not arriving to the event yet.
British Columbia (Corryn Brown) and Alberta (Kayla Skrlik) also secured Group A playoff berths that evening.
Team Nova Scotia (Christina Black) and Ontario (Danielle Inglis) also clinched playoff berths from the group.
Skrlik rebounded by beating Ontario (Inglis) in the 3/4 page qualifier game, while Black's Nova Scotia rink downed British Columbia (Brown) 10–5.
In the 10th end, Skrlik had to make a difficult quadruple takeout to score two and tie the game, but missed, thus losing the match.
[13] Team Canada's Rachel Homan rink won the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game over Manitoba's Kerri Einarson, 8–4.
Homan scored another deuce in the seventh after Einarson missed both her shots, a draw and a long angle raise.
Homan became the first player at any position to be score a perfect 100 per cent shooting percentage in a Scotties gold-medal game.
After a blanked sixth, Homan made a hit-and-roll behind a short centre guard, and Einarson was heavy with her draw to bite the pin, giving Team Canada a steal of one.
In Draw #3, Team Northern Ontario (McCarville) began the game with the hammer and scored one point, leading 1–0.
In Draw #9, Team Saskatchewan (Martin) began the game with a steal of one from Homan, who had LSFE (hammer in the first end), to lead 1–0.
[19] On January 2, Karlee Burgess left Team Carey, meaning they no longer retained three of their four players from the previous year.