Cassandra de Groot

Cassandra de Groot (born April 5, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa.

Early life Born in Sudbury, Ontario, while playing out of the Ottawa Curling Club.

In 2019, she briefly returned to Collingwood to join her mother at her wealth management practice,

Career de Groot was a member of the Katie Morrissey junior rink which made it to the finals of the 2009 Ontario Junior Championships, where they lost to Rachel Homan. That year, she was also the runner-up at the Ontario Junior Mixed Championship. Playing for a team skipped by Christian Tolusso, her team lost to Mark Kean in the final. Following juniors, de Groot played four more years curling with Morrissey, before joining the Danielle Inglis rink in 2014, first playing second, then moving to lead in 2017. With Team Inglis, she played in her first provincial women's championship in 2015, where they went 3–6. The team did not qualify for provincials again until 2018. There, they made it all the way to the final before losing to Hollie Duncan. The team qualified again in 2020, where the team were eliminated by Duncan again, this time in the semifinals.

The team played in the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, hoping to represent Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics. There, the team finished pool play with a 3–5 record, The team then represented Ontario at the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they finished pool play with a 6–2 record. She is married to fellow curler Gary Rowe, and has two stepsons. She graduated from the University of Ottawa in 2010 with a Bachelors degree in Health Science.