her team played in the 2017 manitoba scotties tournament of hearts, again making the playoffs after winning a tiebreaker game after a 4-3 record. however, she would lose to darcy robertson in their only playoff game. birchard won the manitoba mixed doubles title that year and played in the 2017 canadian mixed doubles curling championship with partner jason gunnlaugson. they went 5-2 after group play, but were eliminated in the round of 12 against marliese kasner and dustin kalthoff.