Jocelyn Peterman. (rdnewsNOW file photo)

By Daniel Barker-Tremblay

Jocelyn Peterman

Red Deer curler to make her Olympic debut

Feb 4, 2022 | 12:17 PM

A local curling athlete is off to the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China to compete in her first Olympic Winter Games.

Red Deer’s own, Jocelyn Peterman is making her Olympic debut next week with the Canadian Women’s Curling Team.

Peterman says her passion for the sport started at the age of five. Once she turned 10, however, she started playing competitively.

Peterman says her Olympic journey began in 2016 when she competed in her first Tournament of Hearts at just 22 years-old. This skyrocketed her career after winning the national title alongside Chelsey Carey, going on to her first world championship and winning bronze.

After Peterman and her now husband Brett Gallant won the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in 2016, where they shared the same stage together for the first time, Peterman would then go on to compete and win the 2019 Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship, sending them to the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and winning silver.

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“I’ve always dreamt of it I think when I started curling that this (Olympic Winter Games) was the goal, so it’s pretty surreal that it’s come true,” says Peterman. “There are so many people back in Red Deer that supported me and helped me get to where I am. Icemakers, the clubs in Red Deer, the Alberta Sport and Development Centre in Red Deer. There are so many people that have helped me be the athlete that I am now and I truly feel that support from back home and it’s a dream come true.”

“It’s an ultimate dream of an athlete to make an Olympic team, and for a parent, I am just so proud of her and so happy for her because I know she worked so hard for this since a very young age,” says Nancy McInerney, Peterman’s mother. “Her first role model, mentor and ice maker was her dad.”

“I’m awfully proud of her. She’s done a tremendous amount of work to get there,” acknowledges Petermans father, Lowell Peterman, managing ice maker at the Innisfail Curling Club. “She grew up at the Red Deer Curling Club and it was always a part of her life. She’s a very dedicated athlete.”

“I got to watch her from a tiny junior to where she is today; she’s exceeded every level she’s played at,” adds Wade Thurber, general manager/ice maker at the Pidherney Curling Centre in Red Deer.

Canada’s Olympic curling teams were established at the 2021 Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials in Saskatoon last November, with Team Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg prevailing in the women’s event and Team Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., winning in the men’s event.

Opening Ceremonies for the Olympic Winter Games take place at the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, China on Feb. 4.

Peterman and the Canadian Women’s Curling Team take on South Korea Feb. 10.

Team Canada’s Women’s Curling Schedule:

• Thursday, Feb. 10, 7:05 a.m. — Canada vs. South Korea
• Friday, Feb. 11, 1:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Japan
• Friday, Feb. 11, 8:05 p.m. — Canada vs. Sweden
• Sunday, Feb. 13, 1:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Switzerland
• Sunday, Feb. 13, 8:05 p.m. — Canada vs. Russian Olympic Committee
• Monday, Feb. 14, 7:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Great Britain
• Tuesday, Feb. 15, 8:05 p.m. — Canada vs. U.S.A.
• Wednesday, Feb. 16, 7:05 a.m. — Canada vs. China
• Thursday, Feb. 17, 1:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Denmark
• Friday, Feb. 18, 7:05 a.m. — Semifinals
• Saturday, Feb. 19, 7:05 a.m. — Bronze-medal game
• Saturday, Feb. 19, 8:05 p.m. — Gold-medal game

Team Canada Men’s Curling Schedule:

• Wednesday, Feb. 9, 7:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Denmark
• Thursday, Feb. 10, 1:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Norway
• Friday, Feb. 11, 7:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Switzerland
• Saturday, Feb. 12, 1:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Sweden
• Saturday, Feb. 12, 8:05 p.m. — Canada vs. U.S.A.
• Monday, Feb. 14, 1:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Italy
• Monday, Feb. 14, 8:05 p.m. — Canada vs. China
• Tuesday, Feb. 15, 7:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Russian Olympic Committee
• Wednesday, Feb. 16, 8:05 p.m. — Canada vs. Great Britain
• Thursday, Feb. 17, 7:05 a.m. — Semifinals
• Friday, Feb. 18, 1:05 a.m. — Bronze-medal game
• Saturday, Feb. 19, 1:05 a.m. — Gold-medal game