Dawn Kathleen McEwen (born Askin; July 3, 1980) is a Canadian semi-retired curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In 2019, McEwen was named the greatest Canadian female lead in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers.
[2] McEwen was born at the Riverside Hospital in Ottawa, the daughter of Wayne and Jane Askin (née Machin).
The next season, McEwen joined up with Jenn Hanna playing as her second, and lost in the semifinal of the 2004 Ontario Hearts.
McEwen won her second provincial championship (first as a Manitoban) in 2008 and played in her second Tournament of Hearts with Jones, this time as a teammate, winning in the finals against Alberta.
They would go to the 2009 World Women's Curling Championship in Korea but would suffer a defeat in the quarter-finals that put them out of the medal contention.
[7] With the addition of Jocelyn Peterman, who replaced Officer at second, the Jones team won the 2018 Canada Cup, defeating Kerri Einarson in the final.
[10] In their first event of the 2019-20 season, Team Jones won the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, defeating Tracy Fleury in the final.
[17] McEwen did not play in any events with Team Jones during the abbreviated 2020–21 season as she was expecting her second child in April 2021.
[21] At the 2021 Hearts, the team finished with a 9–3 record, putting them in a third-place tiebreaker match against Alberta, skipped by Laura Walker.
At the first Grand Slam of the season, the 2021 Masters, the team was able to reach the final before losing to Tracy Fleury in a 9–7 match.
On her final shot, Fleury attempted a soft-weight hit on a Jones stone partially buried behind a guard.
[29] Through the round robin, the Canadian team had mixed results, ultimately finishing tied for third with a 5–4 record.
[32] Team Jones still had two more events together before parting ways, the 2022 Players' Championship and 2022 Champions Cup Grand Slams.
[33] McEwen came out of retirement to play for Team Kerri Einarson at the 2024 Tour Challenge Grand Slam event.