Although now full-time in her sport, Wright is still a part-time general surgical ward nurse and with the cancellation of the Women's World Curling Championship in Prince George in Canada this month, she has returned to working in healthcare.

Part of Eve Muirhead's rink that won silver at the European Curling Championships last year, she took a career break from the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland to pursue Olympic qualification before the rest of the season was also cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic. 

She said in an interview with the BBC, "The bigger picture was that helping out at home was more important just now.

"When we flew into Prince George after a few days training in Vancouver we were starting to become aware that the worldwide situation was changing and a few doubts and uncertainty about whether our Championships would go ahead started to creep in.

"We could see how everything was quickly changing and we knew there were other much bigger priorities than sporting events which are now on the back burner.

"They have to take second place to what is happening just now and when I went into work last week at the hospital it really sank in."

Wright joined Team Muirhead this season, reuniting as part of the four-woman team with previous partners Jennifer Dodds and Lauren Gray who were both skips in her previous teams.

She added, "In my nursing career over the years I always felt it was a privilege to be with someone and look after them when they were unwell and vulnerable and it has always made me appreciate the life I have, being able to work as a nurse in a job I love and also compete in curling - a sport I love. 

"This season was great for us and we found our feet from the start and we really settled into our positions within the team and we were all committed to the same goals and wanted the same outcomes. 

"Now it is time to make a difference in a different way and I will now play my part in a much bigger team."

In the United Kingdom there have been more than 17,000 confirmed cases to date of COVID-19 with more than 1,000 fatalities as a result.