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Mike McEwen (curler)

Michael McEwen
Curler
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Born (1980-07-30) July 30, 1980 (age 37)
Brandon, Manitoba
Team
Curling club Fort Rouge CC,
Winnipeg, MB
Skip Mike McEwen
Third B.J. Neufeld
Second Matt Wozniak
Lead Denni Neufeld
Alternate Jon Mead
Career
Brier appearances 2 (2016, 2017)
Top CTRS ranking 1st (2014-15)
Grand Slam victories 6 (World Cup/Masters (2010, 2015); The National (Nov. 2014); Canadian Open (Jan. 2011, Dec. 2011); Elite 10 (2015)

Michael "Mike" McEwen (born July 30, 1980 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. The McEwen team curls out of the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg. McEwen won six Grand Slams in his career before his team qualified for their first Brier, Canada's national championship in 2016. He is noted as one of the top curlers using the Manitoba tuck delivery today.

In 1998, McEwen won his first of two Manitoba Junior championships, sending him and his team of David Chalmers, Bryce Granger and Kevin Schmidt to the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. There, he led his Manitoba rink to 9-3 round robin record, in 2nd place. This put the team in a semifinal match up against Ontario's John Morris. McEwen would lose the match 8-4, settling for third place.

Three years later, McEwen and his new team of Denni Neufeld, Geordie Hargreaves and Nolan Thiessen won the Manitoba junior championships again, qualifying them to represent Manitoba at the 2001 Canadian Juniors. There, they finished in 3rd place after the round robin, with a 9-3 record. This put the team into the semifinals against Northern Ontario's Brian Adams. McEwen beat Adams 8-3, qualifying for the final against Newfoundland's Brad Gushue. McEwen and his Manitoba rink would lose to Gushue, by a score of 8-3, placing them in 2nd place.

In 2003, McEwen and teammates Denni Neufeld, Sheldon Wettig , Marc Kennedy and Nolan Thiessen represented Canada at the 2003 Winter Universiade. McEwen and Wettig represented Brandon University, while his teammates represented the University of Manitoba (Neufeld and Thiessen) and the University of Alberta (Kennedy) . The team finished the round robin with a 6-3 record, in third place. The team then went on to beat Great Britain's Paul Stevenson in the semi-final, then Switzerland's Cyril Stutz in the final, to claim the gold medal.


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