Jill Officer
Jill Officer (born June 2, 1975) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Officer plays second for the 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion teams skipped by Jennifer Jones. The team won a gold medal representing Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Team Jones is the first women’s team to go through an Olympic round-robin campaign undefeated. The latest being their final game (6-3) over Sweden on February 20, 2014.
Officer has played on and off with Jones since she was 15, and has continuously played second for her since 2003. Officer won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1994 with Jones. She won the Scotties Tournament of Hearts with Jones in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2015. On March 30, 2008 she was a key part of Jones' World Women's Curling Championship winning team.
Officer's Scotties victories put her in an elite group of four to have won four titles. The group includes herself, Jennifer Jones, and Vera Pezer and Lenore Morrison of Saskatoon.
Officer now has five Scotties victories with her 2015 title.
Officer was born on June 2, 1975 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her father, John was a former hockey player and is now a coach. Her mother Leslie, was a sports enthusiast and was trying to get Officer involved in many areas of sports. Officer took figure skating lessons, played soccer, gymnastics, and baton twirling. When she was 10, her mother Leslie signed her up for curling in the Highlander Curling Club. "I was always hanging around a curling club or a hockey rink, so I was bound to take up one of those sports," Jill said in an interview tih Active Life Magazine. Officer trekked to Mount Everest base camp in 2006.
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