{{Short description|Canadian curler (born 1988)}} {{Infobox curler | name = Julia Weagle | image = | image_size = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|2|10}}<ref name="MG">{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2025/02/2025-Scotties-Tournament-of-Hearts-media-guide-WEB1.pdf|title=2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Media Guide|publisher=Curling Curling|date=February 11, 2025|access-date=February 22, 2025}}</ref> | birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<ref name="MG"/> | Curling club = Iqaluit CC, <br> Iqaluit, NU | Skip = '''Julia Weagle''' | Third = Sadie Pinksen | Second = Leigh Gustafson | Lead = Alison Taylor | Alternate = | Member Association = {{ON}} (2000–2024) <br/> {{NU}} (2024–present) | Hearts appearances = 2 ({{STOH|2025}}, {{STOH|2026}}) | Top CCA ranking = | medaltemplates = }}

'''Julia Weagle''' (born February 10, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa.

==Career== ===Youth=== Weagle began curling at the age of 7.<ref name="Homan">{{Cite web|url=https://www.teamhoman.ca/family-friends-blog/2018/2/17/lisa-weagles-start-curling-in-her-blood|title=Lisa Weagle's start: Curling in her blood|website=Team Homan|access-date=February 22, 2025|author=Brenda Chapman (writer)}}</ref> When the 2001 Nokia Brier was hosted in Ottawa, Weagle beat future World Champion Rachel Homan in a special little rock bonspiel played on Brier ice. Homan's future longtime teammate Emma Miskew was a member of Weagle's team.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brier Notes|date=March 12, 2001|page=18|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen/166446233/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref>

In high school, Weagle skipped her Nepean High School team to a runner-up finish at the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association championships in 2004. She lost in the final to Sir Robert Borden High School, skipped by Karen Sagle.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sir Robert Borden rules in high school curling|date=March 10, 2004|page=23|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen/166445682/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref> In 2005, she lost in the Ontario Bantam final to Rachel Homan.<ref>{{cite news|title=Area Curlers Rock in 2005|date=April 4, 2005|page=29|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen/166446520/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref> She skipped a team out of Peterborough at the 2009 Ontario Junior Curling Championships,<ref>{{cite news|title=Ontario Junior Curling Championships|date=January 11, 2009|page=44|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen/166447231/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref> finishing with a 1–6 record.<ref>{{cite web |title=Junior Women : Scores |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113080225/http://www.ontcurl.com/competitions/scores.aspx?id=324 |publisher=Ontario Curling Association via Internet Archive |access-date=February 22, 2025}}</ref> That year, she was given an athletic award from Trent University for her contributions to varsity and campus recreation programs for third and fourth year students.<ref>{{cite news|title=Winners' Circle|date=March 28, 2009|page=59|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen/166447444/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref>

===Early women's=== Weagle curled competitively in Ontario from 2004 to 2019, playing for such skips as Robyn Mattie, Brit O'Neill, Caitlin Romain and Chrissy Cadorin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/player.php?playerid=10648&view=Teams#1|title=Julia Weagle: Teams|publisher=CurlingZone|access-date=February 22, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/player.php?playerid=10648&view=Events#1|title=Julia Weagle: Events|publisher=CurlingZone|access-date=February 22, 2025}}</ref> Playing second for the Cadorin rink, she played in the 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The team finished with a 3–3 record.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=4853&teamid=117935&profileid=|title=Cadorin 3-3 At 2018 Ontario Scotties|publisher=CurlingZone|access-date=February 22, 2025}}</ref>

===Nunavut=== At the end of the 2023–24 curling season, Nunavut curlers Sadie Pinksen, Leigh Gustafson and Alison Taylor were looking for a fourth player to join their team. Gustafson's father Jack spoke to Weagle's father, Ted about the team's dilemma, and Julia was mentioned as a possible fourth,<ref name="sportspage"/> despite having retired from competitive curling.<ref name="sportsnet"/> After meeting a few times virtually, the three Nunavummiut flew south to meet Weagle to play in the Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel Ontario Curling Tour event, where they went 1–3. Weagle flew north to practice with the team a couple of times over the next few months to prepare for the Nunavut playdowns. The team was the only rink to enter, and therefore earned the right to represent the territory at the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.<ref name="sportspage"/> Weagle would be the team's "import player" as the only player from outside Nunavut on the team. It was her first Scotties appearance.<ref name="nunatsiaq"/>

The 2025 Hearts was the first time since 2023 that Nunavut fielded a team, as the territory had to withdraw from the 2024 Hearts due to lack of ice due to the Iqaluit Curling Club being closed for the filming of the ''North of North'' television show.<ref name="nunatsiaq">{{cite news|title=Win games, inspire next generation: Nunavut’s goals set in Scotties return|date=February 14, 2025|website=Nunatsiaq News|url=https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/win-games-inspire-next-generation-nunavuts-goals-set-in-scotties-return/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref> The team did not have high expectations for the tournament, with Weagle saying their goals were "to represent ourselves and the territory and our sponsors, ... [and] on growing the sport in Iqaluit."<ref name="sportsnet">{{cite news|title=After one-year absence, Nunavut returns to Tournament of Hearts|date=February 11, 2025|website=Sportsnet|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/curling/article/after-one-year-absence-nunavut-returns-to-tournament-of-hearts/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref> Also playing at the 2025 Hearts was Weagle's sister Lisa, who was playing for Quebec. It was the fifth time that two sisters played on different teams at the Hearts,<ref name="sportspage"/> though they ultimately wouldn't play against each other. At the Hearts, Weagle led Nunavut to an 0–8 record.

==Personal life== Weagle works as a senior manager in guest experience<ref name="Media">{{cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-Scotties-Tournament-of-Hearts-media-guide-WEB1.pdf|title=2026 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Media Guide}}</ref> at TD Place for the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, where she has worked since 2020.<ref name="sportspage">{{cite news|title=HIGH ACHIEVERS: Nunavut skip Julia Weagle preparing for her first Scotties, may face sister|date=January 21, 2025|website=Ottawa Sports Pages|url=https://ottawasportspages.ca/2025/01/21/high-achievers-nunavut-skip-julia-weagle-preparing-for-her-first-scotties-may-face-sister/|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}</ref> She is married to Shane McConnell,<ref name="Media"/> her sister is Olympic curler Lisa Weagle, and her mother is writer Brenda Chapman.<ref name="Homan"/> She attended Nepean High School, Trent University and Algonquin College.<ref name="sportsnet"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/player.php?playerid=10648|title=Julia Weagle|publisher=CurlingZone|access-date=February 22, 2025}}</ref> She previously lived in Toronto.<ref name="sportspage"/>

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