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The 2010 Sun Life Financial Invitational Curling Classic
Sun Life Classic
The Sun Life Classic is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's World Curling Tour. It is held every November at the Paris Curling Club, Brant Curling Club and the Brantford Golf and Country Club in the Brantford, Ontario area.-Event names:...

was held November 19-22 at the Brantford Golf and Country Club and Brant Curling Club in Brantford, Ontario

Brantford, Ontario

Brantford is a city located on the Grand River in Southern Ontario, Canada. While geographically surrounded by the County of Brant, the city is politically independent...

and the Paris Curling Club in Paris, Ontario

Paris, Ontario

Paris, Ontario is a community on the Grand River in Ontario, Canada. The town was established in 1850. In 1999, its town government was amalgamated into that of the County of Brant, Ontario, thus ending about 149 years as a separate incorporated municipality.-History:The town was first settled in...

. It was held on Week 11 of the 2010-11 World Curling Tour

World Curling Tour

The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

season. The total purse for both the men's and women's events was CAD$50,000.

Teams

Greg Balsdon

Greg Balsdon is a Canadian curler from the Toronto area.In 1995, Balsdon won the Ontario Schoolboy championship for his Don Mills Collegiate Institute team. In 1996, he won the provincial junior mixed title....

Jonathan Beuk Mark Bice

Mark Bice

Mark Bice is a Canadian curler.Bice had a fairly successful junior career. Bice is a two time provincial junior champion, winning in 2003 and 2005 and was a provincial schoolboy champion in 2002...

Peter Corner

Peter Corner is a Canadian curler.Corner was a member of the 1993 "dream team" of his cousin Wayne Middaugh and the brothers of Glenn and Russ Howard. Corner played lead for the team. All four players would skip teams to provincial championships in the future...

John Epping

John Epping is a Canadian curler from Toronto.Epping was a top junior curler, having won the Ontario Junior championship in 2004. At the 2004 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, his team finished with an 8-4 record, just out of the playoffs. He won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in 2006...

Pete Fenson

Peter Fenson is an American curler, skip of the men's rink which represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The rink took the bronze medal, the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in curling...

Martin Ferland

Martin Ferland is a Canadian curler from Trois-Rivières.Ferland was a member of the 2007 Quebec champion team, that was skipped by Pierre Charette. Ferland threw last stones for the team. At that first Brier, Ferland's team finished with a 4-7 record.Ferland was also the 1989 provincial junior...

Darcy Garbedian Tyler George

Tyler George

Tyler George is an American curler. He was a member of the defending American national championship team....

Gerry Geurts Brad Gushue

Brad Gushue

Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...

Mike Harris

Mike Harris (curler)

Mike Harris is a Canadian curler. Mike Harris is the golf professional at The Donalda Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Ontario....

Jake Higgs

Jake Higgs is a Canadian curler from Harriston, Ontario.Higgs played second for Wayne Tuck's mixed team, that won a provincial championship in 2008-09, giving them the right to represent Ontario at the 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. The team lost in the final to Sean Grassie's Manitoba...

Glenn Howard

Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...

Brad Jacobs

Brad Jacobs (curler)

Brad Jacobs is a Canadian curler. Jacobs is a three-time Northern Ontario "provincial" champion, and one time provincial junior champion....

Mike Jakubo Mark Kean

Mark Kean

Mark Kean is a Canadian curler from Chesterfield, Ontario.Kean's junior career involved winning the provincial junior mixed title in 2009. Kean made a quick transition to men's curling winning the provincial Colts trophy in 2010 and in 2011 playing in his first provincial tournament...

Rob Lobel

Rob Lobel is a Canadian curler from Thornhill, Ontario.Lobel played second for Steve Hartley at the 1982 Junior Provincial Curling Championship, in which the team won, earning them the right to represent Ontario at the 1983 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.Lobel skipped his men's team to a...

Dale Matchett

Dale Matchett is a Canadian curler from Alliston, Ontario. Matchett is a former provincial junior curling champion and a regular on the World Curling Tour....

Heath McCormick Mike McEwen

Mike McEwen (curler)

Michael "Mike" McEwen is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. The McEwen team curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg.-Career:...

Jean-Michel Ménard

Jean-Michel Ménard is a curler from Quebec, Canada. Ménard is notable for being the first Francophone skip from Quebec to win the Brier - Canada's national curling championship- which he did in 2006.-Profile:...

Wayne Middaugh

Wayne Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario.Middaugh is a two-time world champion, once as second for Russ Howard in 1993 and as a skip in 1998. He has participated and won in seven and participated in 11 Briers- in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 as Russ Howard's second and in...

Matt Paul Howard Rajala

Howard Rajala

Howard J. Rajala is a Canadian curler from Kanata, Ontario. He curls out of the Rideau Curling Club.Rajala was a member of the Rich Moffatt rink that won the provincial championship in 1999...

Nick Rizzo

Nick Rizzo (curler)

Nick Rizzo is a Canadian curler from Brantford, Ontario.Rizzo has played in nine provincial men's championships. In 1979, his rink of Dan Aitchison, Brad Hager and Chris Hager won the provincial junior championship. In 1988, he won a provincial Colts championship and in 2003 he won a provincial...

Brendan Taylor Wayne Tuck, Jr.

Playoffs

Teams

Cathy Auld

Cathy Auld is a Canadian curler from Toronto.Auld currently skips one of the top women's curling teams in Ontario.Auld was a long time member of the Alison Goring rink. Auld played third for the team until 2006 when she was promoted to last rock thrower when Goring moved to throwing lead rocks...

Denna Bagshaw Ève Bélisle

Ève Bélisle

Ève Bélisle is a Canadian curler and amateur ornithologist from Montreal. She is employed at the Center for Reseatch in Computational Thermochemistry at École Polytechnique....

Suzanne Birt

Suzanne Birt is a Canadian curler from Covehead, Prince Edward Island....

Erika Brown

Erika Brown is an American curler, currently residing in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She started curling in 1980 and throws right-handed....

Kathy Brown Chrissy Cadorin Alison Goring

Alison Goring

Alison Goring is a Canadian curler.Goring is a former Canadian champion skip, having won the 1990 Scott Tournament of Hearts. She was also a successful junior curler, having won the 1983 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.Goring won her first provincial championship in 1990...

Jacqueline Harrison Julie Hastings

Julie Hastings

Julie Hastings is a Canadian curler from Markham, Ontario.Hastings is a semi-successful skip on the Women's World Curling Tour circuit...

Amber Holland

Amber Holland is a Canadian curler. Holland skipped Saskatchewan's team to a national women's championship in 2011 by defeating defending champion Jennifer Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts...

Rachel Homan

Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian curler from Orleans, Ontario. Homan is a former Canadian Junior Champion.-Career:...

Tracy Horgan

Tracy Horgan is a Canadian curler.Horgan is a three time Northern Ontario junior champion skip, having won the "provincial" championship in 2005, 2006 and 2007....

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones (curler)

Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...

Patti Lank

Patti Lank is an American curler from Lewiston, New York.-Career:Patti Lank began curling at the age of eleven and competed at her first US National Championships in 1994 and her team placed fourth. She has since gone on to compete in fifteen National Championships. In March 2010 she will compete...

Marie-France Larouche

Marie-France Larouche is a Canadian curler.Larouche is a former national junior curling champion, having won the title in 1999 with her team of Nancy Bélanger, Marie-Ève Létourneau, Valerie Grenier and Véronique Grégoire. Larouche won the championship after four previous unsuccessful attempts...

Carrie Lindner

Carrie Lindner is a Canadian curler from Sarnia, Ontario.Her Bradford, Ontario team of Trisha Bourgeois, Lindsay Osborne, Megan Balsdon won the Ontario junior women's championship in 2001. This qualified them for that year's Canadian Junior Curling Championships in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her...

Colleen Madonia Lauren Mann Heather Marshall Krista McCarville Sherry Middaugh

Sherry Middaugh

Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....

Shelley Nichols

Shelley Nichols is a Canadian curler from St. John's.Nichols played third for Jennifer Guzzwell at the 2002 and 2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. The team lost the 2002 final to Suzanne Gaudet of Prince Edward Island...

Brit O'Neill Cathy Overton-Clapham

Cathy Overton-Clapham

Cathy Overton-Clapham is a Canadian curler...

Allison Pottinger

Allison Pottinger is an American curler from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She currently skips her own team, but is best known as having played for Debbie McCormick in multiple Olympics and World Championships. McCormick left the team in 2010. She competed in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in...

Brette Richards Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...

Robyn Silvernagle Heather Strong

Heather Strong

Heather Strong is a Canadian curler.Strong is the current Provincial Director of the Terry Fox Foundation and an avid curler...

Kirsten Wall

Kirsten Wall is a Canadian curler from Oakville, Ontario.In 1995 she won the provincial junior curling championship as a skip earning her team the right to represent Ontario at the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships...

Playoffs

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