Harris left off Team Einarson’s 2025 Canadian women’s curling championship roster

Four-time Canadian champion Kerri Einarson is sticking with her existent lineup for the upcoming Scotties Tournament of Hearts contempt the reinstatement of pb Briane Harris.

Her squad announced its lineup for the Canadian women’s curling title Friday, with Einarson at skip joined by 3rd Val Sweeting, 2nd Karlee Burgess and pb Krysten Karwacki.

The squad says a 5th subordinate volition beryllium announced soon to service arsenic an alternate.

Harris has not played since being notified of a affirmative trial for the banned substance Ligandrol connected Feb. 15, connected the eve of the 2024 Canadian women’s championship. She was handed a provisional suspension by World Curling connected March 12.

She was cleared to instrumentality to enactment connected Jan. 14 aft the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled she was not astatine responsibility for the affirmative test.

In the announcement connected Instagram, Team Einarson says it is blessed Harris has been cleared to instrumentality to curling but the Tournament of Hearts roster was acceptable earlier quality of her reinstatement was announced.

Burgess departed Chelsea Carey’s squad earlier this period to join Einarson as a replacement for 2nd Shannon Birchard, who is retired the remainder of the play with a genu injury.

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Einarson’s squad from Gimli, Man., is the second-ranked squad successful Canada down Ottawa’s Rachel Homan.

The 2025 Canadian women’s curling title begins Feb. 14 successful Thunder Bay, Ont.