It’s not easy being a full-time TV personality, wife, mother and world champion curler, but bubbly Colleen Jones manages to do it all- and keep her sense of humour!

Her schedule: As one of Canada’s elite curlers, Colleen Jones and her team spend approximately 40 days away from home curling between October and March- that doesn’t even include their weekly practices! And Jones doesn’t necessarily leave the ice when she’s not curling- with both of her two sons in net as goaltenders on local hockey teams, she logs many an hour as a hockey-mom at the local rink. Says Jones, “I probably spend more time on the ice than Pat Quinn!” And if the thought of getting out of bed everyday before 5:00 am is more frightening to you than getting to sleep at that hour, imagine Colleen’s schedule! She’s up everyday at 4:45 am and en-route to work where she’s got to be in front of the camera and looking her best before a national television audience! Always the eternal optimist, Colleen says that she’s very happy with her job and uses her free time in the afternoon to shop for groceries and get her sons to their various hockey practices and games.

Her goals: Colleen Jones holds more Canadian Championships than any other curler- and she plans on continuing with this trend. This year’s trip to the Scott marks her 16th participation in a Canadian Ladies Championship. Her team strategy and goals for the 2002/2003 curling season include taking it easy and gaining experience from October until January, and then buckling down and getting Team Jones to the Scott Tournament of Hearts. From provincial champs to Canadian champs, and then to the Ford World Championships in the hopes of coming home with yet another World Championship title.

How she does it: For Colleen Jones, the secret to maintaining her busy life as a wife, mother, career woman and champion curle, is by making a point each day, to do absolutely nothing! Jones explains, “I’m on the go so much that I make sure to rest whenever I get the chance. I have a “napping chair” in my kitchen where I’ll have a cup of tea and relax in the late afternoon, once I have supper together.”

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