Jenn Hanna

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Jennifer Ann Hanna

Jenn Hanna (crouched) playing against Chantal Osborne (standing)
Team Hanna
Alternate
Lead	Joëlle Sabourin
Second	Stephanie Hanna
Third	Chrissy Cadorin
Skip	Jenn Hanna
Club	Ottawa Curling Club, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Top CCA ranking	9th (2004-05 & 2005-06)
Hearts appearances	2 (2004, 2005)
Grand Slam victories	1 (Autumn Gold Classic, 2005)

Jennifer Ann Hanna (born January 22, 1980 in Ottawa, Canada) is a Canadian curler who curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. In the 2005 Ontario Women's Curling Championships, Hanna and her team of Pascale Letendre, Dawn Askin and her sister Stephanie Hanna recovered from a 1-4 record in the round-robin to win eight straight games and clinch the Championships, earning the right to represent Ontario at the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. At the 2005 Scotts, she impressed many by winning the Ford Hot Shots competition and defeating defending champion Colleen Jones on day one. However, she would win only one of her next four games but she rebounded by winning her next four only to lose her last game, giving her a record of 6-5. However, this was enough to get into a tie-breaker situation in which she was tied with 3 other teams. Hanna would end up winning both of her tie-breakers against Cathy King of Alberta and Sandy Comeau of New Brunswick to make the playoffs. She would then go on to beat Stefanie Lawton of Saskatchewan in the 3-4 game and then Kelly Scott of British Columbia in the semi-final to face the Jennifer Jones rink from Manitoba in the final. In the final, Hanna's team played well, and led for most of the game, and were looking like they were going to win it. In the tenth end, Hanna's team was up by two but did not have the hammer. Hanna's team had a rock on the button that was already well guarded, and decided to throw another guard rather than take away Jones' only chance at scoring, an in-off. Jones managed to make the extremely difficult shot, coming in-off of a Ontario stone just in front of the house, to take out Hanna's shot rock to score four and win the Scott. However, despite the loss, Hanna was named the tournament MVP, and was named on the second all-star team.

Hanna also made it to a national final in 1998, at the Canadian Juniors, but she lost that game too, to New Brunswick's Melissa McClure. She would be named as the tournament's second team all-star skip. In 2002, as a second for Anne Merklinger, Hanna finished second at the Ontario Championships; in 2003 as a vice-skip for Darcie Simpson she finished second; and in 2004 she finished third as skip. She was invited by 2004 Ontario champion Sherry Middaugh to be the team's "fifth player" at the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts, however Jenn did not play any games.

For Jenn's winning the 2005 provincial Scott Tournament of Hearts, the Ottawa Curling Club was given this banner

In March, 2005 Jenn announced that her team's spare player, Joëlle Sabourin would replace Letendre as the team's third, the same lineup they had in 2003-2004. Letendre was supposed to be the new spare, but has decided to form her own team.

The new Hanna team started the 2005-06 season well, with their first ever Women's Tour victory, when they won the Autumn Gold Classic in Calgary, Alberta on October 17, 2005. Her team won $14,000. However, at the Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts, Hanna's team would lose in the quarter-final to two-time World Champion Marilyn Bodogh.

In February 2006, it was reported that the team would be getting a new player for the next season, Chrissy Cadorin of Guelph, Ontario. Cadorin, who had skipped her own team for a number of years will play third, while Sabourin will play second. Dawn Askin will become the team's Alternate, as she wishes to focus on her new career.

In September 2006, she married Brian Rumas. She is employed by the Government of Canada and is a graduate of the University of Ottawa. She began curling at age 5.

The 2006-07 season was not as successful as the previous two for the Hanna team. After not winning any major bonspiels, the team did have some success at the 2007 provincial championship. After finishing in first place after the round-robin, they lost both their playoff games.

After the season, Jöelle Sabourin left the team to play for Marie-France Larouche in Quebec. Alternate Dawn Askin moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to play for Jennifer Jones. Sabourin will be replaced by Leigh Merklinger at lead.

* Round-robin only
** Did not play