Hailey Armstrong

After winning the 2017 Ontario Junior Curling Championships, Armstrong competed in her lone Canadian Junior Curling Championships of her junior career at the 2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. She represented Ontario with teammates Grace Holyoke at third, Lindsay Dubue at second and Marcia Richardson at lead.{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/scoreboard/#!/competitions/2206/teams/10373|title=2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championships: Team Ontario (Armstrong)|website=Curling Canada|access-date=February 19, 2021}} They finished the round robin and championship pools with an unblemished 10–0 record, qualifying directly for the final where they faced Alberta's Kristen Streifel. Tied 3–3 with hammer in the tenth end, Armstrong was heavy on her final draw, giving Alberta a steal of two and the 5–3 win.{{youtube|vxns0egTeS4|Video (full game): 2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championship - Women's Final - Ontario (Hailey Armstrong) vs Alberta (Kristen Streifel)}} Armstrong aged out of juniors the following season and began skipping her own team on the World Curling Tour. Her team qualified for the 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they went 0–3 in the triple knockout tournament. After failing to qualify for the provincial championship in 2019, she joined the Laurie St-Georges rink out of Quebec as their third.

In their first season together, Team St-Georges competed in their first Grand Slam of Curling event at the 2019 Tour Challenge Tier 2 where they lost in a tiebreaker to Megan Balsdon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?eventid=5873&eventtypeid=82&view=Tie-Breakers#1|title=2019 Tour Challenge Tier 2 Tiebreakers|website=CurlingZone|access-date=February 19, 2021}} They also competed in their first provincial women's championship at the 2020 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts. After finishing the round robin in first place, they lost in the final to Noémie Verreault 3–1.{{Cite web|url=https://curling-quebec.qc.ca/resultats/#!/competitions/6258/draws/20903|title=2020 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts – Final|language=fr|website=Curling Québec|access-date=February 19, 2021}}

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, the 2021 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts was cancelled.{{Cite web|url=https://curling-quebec.qc.ca/devoilement-des-equipes-quebecoises-masculine-et-feminine/|title=Dévoilement des équipes Québécoises masculine et féminine|language=fr|work=Curling Québec|author=Alanna Routledge|date=January 14, 2020|access-date=February 17, 2021}} Since the defending champions, Team Noémie Verreault, had disbanded, Team St-Georges (the 2020 provincial runner-up) was invited to represent Quebec at the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, which they accepted.{{Cite news|url=https://www.curling.ca/2021scotties/2021/02/14/meet-the-teams-team-wild-card-2-team-quebec/|title=Meet the Teams: Team Wild Card 2 & Team Quebec|work=Curling Canada|date=February 14, 2021|access-date=February 19, 2021|archive-date=September 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903025249/https://www.curling.ca/2021scotties/2021/02/14/meet-the-teams-team-wild-card-2-team-quebec/|url-status=dead}} The event was played in a bio-secure bubble in Calgary, Alberta to prevent the spread of the virus. At the Hearts, Armstrong and her teammates received a lot of media attention and fans thanks to their positive attitudes and strong play on the ice.{{Cite news|url=https://www.tsn.ca/curling-addict-laurie-st-georges-making-plenty-of-noise-at-scotties-tournament-of-hearts-1.1597139|title='Curling addict' St-Georges making plenty of noise at Scotties|work=TSN|author=Ryan Horne|date=February 22, 2021|access-date=February 28, 2021}} They also defeated multiple higher ranked teams in the tournament including the Wild Card team of Tracy Fleury (skipped by Chelsea Carey), Corryn Brown's British Columbia rink and Suzanne Birt's team out of Prince Edward Island. Ultimately, they finished the event with a 6–6 record and a seventh place finish.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/scotties-tournament-hearts-scores-standings-schedule-results-2021-bubble/|title=Scotties Tournament of Hearts: Scores, standings, schedule|website=Sportsnet|access-date=February 28, 2021}}

Team St-Georges began the 2021–22 season with a semifinal finish at the 2021 Oakville Fall Classic where they lost to the event winners Team Jamie Sinclair.{{Cite news|url=https://www.tsn.ca/glenn-howard-wins-oakville-fall-classic-1.1687339|title=Howard wins Oakville Fall Classic; Sinclair edges Birt in women's final|publisher=TSN|date=August 29, 2021|access-date=February 19, 2022}} They only made the playoffs at one other tour event at the Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic, losing in the quarterfinals to Team Jill Brothers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Main&eventid=6990#1|title=2021 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic|website=CurlingZone|access-date=February 19, 2022}} Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the qualification process for the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials had to be modified to qualify enough teams for the championship. In these modifications, Curling Canada created the 2021 Canadian Curling Pre-Trials Direct-Entry Event, an event where eight teams would compete to try to earn one of two spots into the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials.{{Cite news|url=https://www.curling.ca/blog/2021/02/04/2021-trials-process-revised/|title=2021 Trials proceess revised|work=Curling Canada|date=February 4, 2021|access-date=February 19, 2022}} Team St-Georges qualified for the Pre-Trials Direct-Entry Event as the second seed. The team won their opening match, but then lost three straight games and were eliminated from the event. The Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts was again cancelled due to the pandemic and Team St-Georges were once again selected to represent Quebec at the national women's championship.{{Cite news|url=https://curling-quebec.qc.ca/equipe-quebec-equipe-st-georges/|title=Équipe Québec = Équipe St-Georges|publisher=Curling Québec|author=Alanna Routledge|date=January 7, 2022|access-date=February 19, 2022}} The team could not replicate their successful run from 2021, finishing the 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with a 3–5 record.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/curling/article/2022-scotties-tournament-hearts-standings-schedule-results/|title=2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts: Standings, schedule and results|website=Sportsnet|date=January 28, 2022|access-date=February 19, 2022}} They won their opening two matches against Alberta's Laura Walker and the Yukon's Hailey Birnie and their last game against Nova Scotia's Christina Black.

At the beginning of the 2022–23 curling season, Armstrong returned to Ontario to skip a new team out of Niagara Falls CC. Armstrong's team qualified for the 2024 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where she finished with a 3-3 record. Armstrong joined a new team for the 2024-25 curling season out of the High Park Club, and qualified for the 2025 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Armstrong began curling at age 9. She grew up in Perth, and at the time of the 2017 Canadian Juniors, she was living in Innisville, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hometownnews.ca/curler-hailey-armstrong-goals-rocking-olympics/|title=Curler Hailey Armstrong has goals of rocking the Olympics|work=Hometown News Perth|author=Jane Hobson|date=February 7, 2017|access-date=February 21, 2021}} Armstrong studied business administration at Algonquin College, and studied commerce at Nipissing University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2022/01/2022-Scotties-Tournament-of-Hearts-media-guide-2.pdf|title=2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Media Guide|website=Curling Canada|access-date=January 26, 2022}}

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