Darrell McKee
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Darrell McKee is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is a two-time provincial champion
SaskTel Tankard
The SaskTel Tankard is the Saskatchewan provincial championship for men's curling. The winner represents Team Saskatchewan at the Tim Hortons Brier. It is also known as the SaskTel Provincial Men's Championship. SaskTel became the sponsor in 2004 when it was known as the SaskTel Mobility Tankard...

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McKee and Bruce Korte
Bruce Korte
Bruce Korte is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is a three-time SaskTel Tankard provincial champion. A skip for most of his career, Korte now plays third for his former third, Darrell McKee....

 have long been team mates, and together, formed teams among the best in Saskatchewan. They have been on again-off again team mates since 1998. For most of that time, McKee played third for Korte, but beginning in 2009, McKee and Korte switched positions.

Korte and McKee played in their first Brier together in 2000, after winning the provincial championship, along with team mates Roger Korte
Roger Korte
Roger Korte is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He plays second for the Darrell McKee rink. Korte is a three-time provincial champion....

 and Rory Golanowski. The team finished the round robin off with a 5-6 record, short of the playoffs. Two years later, the team won to date, their only Grand Slam of Curling victory, winning the Masters of Curling
Masters of Curling
The World Cup of Curling is an annual curling men's bonspiel. It is one of the Grand Slam events on the World Curling Tour. It was formerly known as the Masters of Curling.The event became the World Cup in 2009...

 over Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton is a Canadian curler. Stoughton is a three-time Brier champion and two-time World champion as skip.-Career:...

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From 2002 to 2005, McKee left the team, but was an alternate for them when they made the Brier in 2004.

It would be ten years before McKee would win a second provincial championship, qualifying for the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier
2010 Tim Hortons Brier
The 2010 Tim Hortons Brier, the Canadian men's national curling championship, was held between March 6 until March 14, 2010 in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the Halifax Metro Centre...

 in Halifax. McKee's team consists of both Korte's and a new lead in Rob Markowsky.

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