Overview
- Luke Jones said she died Tuesday morning, confirming the news in a post on X.
- The Halifax native captured six Canadian women’s titles, including four straight from 2001 to 2004, and won world championships in 2001 and 2004.
- She made 21 Scotties Tournament of Hearts appearances, holds the event’s all-time games-played record, and became the youngest skip to win the national title in 1982.
- Jones joined CBC in 1986 as Halifax’s first female sports anchor, reported for nearly four decades, and covered 10 Olympic Games before retiring in 2023.
- She was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2016, appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022, recently coached her son’s team at the Brier, and is survived by her husband, two sons, and a grandson.