Kelly (28), along with skipper Eve Muirhead and teammates Lorna Vevers and Annie Laird won the Columba Cream Scottish Women's Curling Championship on Sunday, beating Stranraer's Gail Munro and her team.

The triumph came only five days after the team returned from the Olympics in Vancouver where they finished a frustrating 7th with three wins over China, Germany and Russia, and six losses.

Kelly said: "We went into Vancouver ranked 7th and we finished 7th but we expected to finish better, in the medals. We're a talented team and I think to be honest, we're a bit gutted.

"We've been out there for five weeks and the training is so intense. Every weekend since August we've had a competition and we'd been gearing up for two years with training.

"You expect that what you put in you get back, but in sport it doesn't always go like that."

After their disappointing performance at the Winter Olympics, Team Muirhead were looking to stay focused on the Scottish title. But in the warm-up, regular third player Jackie Lockhart injured her knee and had to be replaced, forcing a line-up change that saw Kelly moving to third, Lorna playing at second and alternate Annie throwing lead stones.

In the final, Muirhead took a single in the opening end but Munro moved ahead with a score of three in the second.

Muirhead came straight back with two shots in the third to level at 3-3, but Munro again nudged ahead with a single in the fourth. Muirhead played two good tap-backs through a port to score two in the fifth and take the lead 5-4.

The lead changed hands again in the sixth when Munro scored two, with only an umpire's measure denying her a third shot. Muirhead levelled again with a single in the seventh for 6-6 and then Munro blanked the eighth before losing a steal in the ninth to hand the lead back to Muirhead.

When Munro could only score one in the tenth, the game was level again, this time at 7-7 and then Muirhead used last stone advantage to take out the sole Munro stone in the house and leave an earlier stone lying for one and victory.

Winning the Scottish Championships may not have been quite as good as a medal in the Winter Olympics, but it does give the team the chance to represent Scotland at the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship.
Kelly said: "We were only back for three days and still a bit jet-lagged so we were just going through the motions.

"But once you're back on the ice, you are always going to be a competitor. We stayed focused and we got the job done. Now we need to prove ourselves on the world stage. Hopefully we'll come back with a world medal."

Kelly revealed after giving up her job and training for years for the Olympics, she is now considering changing sports, but hasn't made a final decision.

She said: "I am thinking about switching sports but I'm not sure. Sports are all so different and it's great to watch other people.

"It's easy to come back after the Olympics and after a bad result give it all up, but in hindsight I'm going to wait for a couple of months and see."

The team for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia will depend on decisions made by the governing body for curling and Kelly said she wasn't sure whether she would make the commitment.

Kelly said: "It really depends whether it will be a four year commitment or a two year commitment, but they (governing body] don't meet for a couple of months."

Meanwhile, the World Championships take place in Swift Current, from March 20 to 28. Due to her knee injury in Perth at the weekend, team member Jackie Lockhart will not be able to travel to Canada to compete.

Kelly said: "Now I'll need to come back and think about a full-time job. But I'm just planning to enjoy the next few weeks before the season ends – I just want to go out in style."