Chelsea Principi

Chelsea Principi (née Brandwood; born July 15, 1995) is a Canadian curler from St. Catharines, Ontario.^[1] She currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour. Her hometown is Beamsville, Ontario.^[2]

Chelsea Principi
Curler
Born	(1995-07-15) July 15, 1995 (age 30) Beamsville, Ontario
Team
Skip	Chelsea Principi
Third	Lauren Peskett
Second	Brenda Chapman
Lead	Keira McLaughlin
Curling career
Member Association	Ontario

Career

Youth

Principi's first provincial title came at the women's bantam championship in 2012.^[3]

Principi won the Ontario Junior women's championship in 2015, with teammates Claire Greenlees, Brenda Holloway and Danielle Greenlees. The team represented Ontario at the 2015 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Principi led her rink to a 7-3 record, after the round robin tournament. In the playoffs, she beat British Columbia's Corryn Brown team, before losing in the final to Alberta's Kelsey Rocque.

In university curling, Principi played for the Laurier Golden Hawks, where she won three straight provincial (OUA) titles from 2014 to 2016,^[4] but came up short in 2017, her fourth year of eligibility.^[5] She was the alternate for the Laurier team (skipped by Carly Howard) at the 2014 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, where they finished third. At the 2015 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, she was the lead on the team, and won another bronze medal. At the 2016 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, she was the skip of the team, but they missed the playoffs.

Principi then attended Niagara College, skipping their women's team to a provincial college title in 2018.^[6] She represented Niagara at the 2018 CCAA Curling National Championships, where she led her team to a 4-3 record.^[7]

Women's

Principi won her first World Curling Tour event at the 2018 Gord Carroll Curling Classic, defeating Korea's Gim Un-chi in the final. Later that season, Principi qualified for her first provincial women's championship, the 2019 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts. In 2020, her team competed at the 2020 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts where they finished in dead last with a 1-7 record.

In 2022, Principi won the Home Again Curling Classic bonspiel, and qualified for the 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they went 1–4.