Olympians feature at Scottish Curling Championships – live on BBC

Former world junior champion Henderson has a similar focus after being part of the Team GB women’s near miss in Italy as they just fell short of reaching the semi-finals.

“To be able to win a third Scottish title at my home rink as well would be great,” said the 24-year-old.

“Three in a row isn’t something that many skips have been able to do in their first few years out of juniors, so I think that would definitely mean a lot and hopefully it would lead to our selection at worlds third time lucky, so I am really hoping that we can put in a really great performance all of this week and then the results will take care of themselves.”

Both men’s and women’s events are five-team competitions and Henderson’s rink open their campaign against that of 2024 Winter Youth Olympic champion Tia Laurie, which includes Cara Davidson, Kirsty Gallacher, Holly Burke and Amy Mitchell.

“Not all of the Olympians will be ruled out of this year’s World Championships this season,” added Henderson.

“There are still many of the Olympic teams hoping to compete so I think it will be great to test ourselves against some of the teams that I have been watching here at Milan-Cortina as I think the standard has been very high and I am hoping that we can keep that going into this World Championships, providing we get selected.

“It has been great working with Team Morrison this past week and watching them perform so well. That definitely gives us inspiration knowing that we are all on the same programme and we want to perform well to make sure we keep everyone watching curling after the big boost in interest in the game from the past two weeks and we want more people to try it.”