Team Rachel Homan, fresh off winning a record 19th Grand Slam title, embarked on a cross-country trip to Virginia, Minn. for the 2025 United States Steel Pan Continental Curling Championships.
The team, consisting of Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown, and coaches Renee Sonnenberg and Viktor Kjell, arrived Monday afternoon and had a practice session before their opening game.
In their opening game at the Iron Trail Motors Event Center, the two-time defending Canadian and world champions from Ottawa lost 11-5 to Japan's Team Satsuki Fujisawa.
No comment from the team is available at this time.
Author summary: Team Homan loses opening game.