Jessica Smith (curler)

Jessica (Jess) Smith (born 29 September 1997) is a New Zealand curler from Invercargill.

At the international level, she competed at the (first-ever Worlds for the New Zealand women's curling team),  and the.

At the national level, she is a New Zealand women's and mixed doubles champion curler.

Personal life
Her brother Ben is also a curler; the pair won the New Zealand Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in 2018 and 2019.

In 2020, at the age of 23, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma cancer,; and after a difficult treatment, she recovered and returned to the ice, including the international stage, leading the New Zealand women's team to win the right to play at the 2023 World Women's Curling Championship for the first time in Women's World Curling Championship history.

Smith currently works as a nurse.