birchard won two provincial junior championships in her junior career, in 2012 and 2013 as a skip. at the 2012 canadian junior curling championships, birchard led her team of selena kaatz, kristin maccuish and mariah mondor to a 10-2 round robin record, giving her rink a bye to the finals, where she lost to alberta's jocelyn peterman. at the 2013 canadian junior curling championships, she led her team of nicole sigvaldason, sheyna andries and mondor to a 9-1 record before the playoffs. there, she won the semifinal game against ontario's jamie sinclair before losing in the final to corryn brown's british columbia rink. she was not able to defend her manitoba title in 2014 or in 2015, when she lost in the final.