Danielle Parsons



Danielle Parsons (born January 29, 1990 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She plays second for Andrea Crawford [1] [2]

Parsons made her first national curling debut at the 2008 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. She skipped her own team, representing Nova Scotia at the women’s event. Her team would have success at the event finishing with a round robin record of 9-3. Her team would lose the semi-final to Saskatchewan and would receive a bronze medal.[3]

Parsons would join Heather Smith-Dacey in December 2010, when Smith-Dacey’s skip Colleen Jones was hospitalized for bacterial meningitis.[4]  The squad was preparing to enter the qualification round for the 2011 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, when Jones fell ill. The team would go on to qualify for the event, and eventually win the event, defeating Jones’ former teammate Mary-Anne Arsenault in the semi-final and Theresa Breen in the final. The team would go onto the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where their success would continue. The team would finish round robin play with a 7-4 record, which took them to a tie breaker game against British Columbia’s Kelly Scott. After defeating Scott in the tie breaker, the team would meet Ontario’s Rachel Homan. Homan would defeat the Smith-Dacey team in the 3-4 match, sending them to the first ever Bronze Medal Game, where the two teams would meet again. Smith-Dacey’s team would defeat Ontario 9-7 winning the bronze medal game.[5]

Parsons would leave the Smith-Dacey team at the end of the 2011/2012 season. She has since moved to New Brunswick and now plays second stones for Andrea Crawford