Red Deer Curling Club holds Olympic send-off for Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant

“We never really got to do anything before [the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics], and it’s really special to do it right here in Red Deer, especially at this club,” she said. “My dad worked here for years, and I have so many memories of my first time curling here. It means a lot after all these years to still have so much support from the local community and the members of this club.”

The couple has one more mixed doubles event at the Sherwood Park Curling Club from Jan. 16-19 before heading to the Olympics in Italy on Jan. 27.

The mixed doubles curling tournament in the Olympics is set to take place from February 4-10, with 10 countries competing. The top four nations will move on to the medal rounds.

“It’s crazy how fast it’s come, and now it’s the final countdown, and we’re really looking forward to it. We played a mixed doubles event just two weekends ago, and it’ll be nice to play one more event,” Peterman said. “Once we get into those mixed doubles grooves, it’s exciting and makes it seem hard to believe that it has come so fast.”

Last January, Peterman and Gallant took a major step in their journey to the Olympics after they won gold at the 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in Nova Scotia, defeating Team Rachel Homan.

However, they secured their spot in Italy after finishing sixth place at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Fredericton, NB, last May.

Both Peterman, 32, and Gallant, 35, competed at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. They both were on their own respective teams and saw success, including Peterman, who finished fifth on Team Jennifer Jones, and Gallant, who won bronze with Team Brad Gushue.

Most recently, they’re fresh off a victory in their first mixed doubles event of the season in Moose Jaw on Dec. 14.

“We hadn’t played a mixed doubles event since the world championships in April, so we do go through some long pauses from playing mixed doubles sometimes,” Gallant said. “It’s a confidence booster for sure when we get back on the ice together to have success again.”

He added that they’ve put a lot of time and effort into planning, practicing, and training leading up to the Olympics.

“These 18 months have probably been the hardest we’ve ever worked together at mixed doubles,” he said. “When we started playing doubles, we were living in separate provinces, so we’ve just put an emphasis on being as prepared as we can for these games. We’ve got a lot of confidence coming from that preparation.”

Peterman explained they really first started to click as a duo after winning the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials.

She said it’s been their skill sets that have really meshed well together.

“We both played skip a lot in our junior years, and so both of us kind of had that experience of ice reading, line calling, and stuff like that,” she said.

“And then we both moved to the second position when we joined men’s and women’s, so we both have the experience of sweeping, judging, and all that side of it. I think this discipline just really worked for us, where we could just kind of highlight everything we’ve had the opportunity to learn throughout our careers. It’s just clicked for us from the beginning.”

by Ian Gustafson

Red Deer Curling Club holds Olympic send-off for Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant

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