Alex Forrest (born February 13, 1989) is a

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curler from

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. Until 2020, he played third for the

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rink.

Career

Juniors

Forrest made his first and only

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appearance in 2010 skipping Team

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. The team finished the round robin in first place only suffering two losses to Northern Ontario and Saskatchewan. This meant the team had an automatic bye to the final. There, they faced Ontario who they had previously beaten in the round robin. Unfortunately, the team gave up two in the final end to lose the game 8–7. Forrest curled an average 80% during the round robin, which was second among skips.

Men's

Forrest played second for the

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rink for the 2014–15 season, which would be Stoughton's last. The team played in four

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events but only qualified in one, the 2014 Masters. At the 2015 Manitoba provincials, the team qualified for the championship round as the third seed. They defeated

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6–4 in the 3 vs. 4 game before being eliminated in the semifinal by the Mike McEwen rink. The following season Forrest went back to skipping his own team. At the 2016 Viterra Championship, his rink of Travis Bale, Ian McMillan and

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failed to make the final four championship round after losing the Double Knockout qualifier against Matt Dunstone 7–3. Forrest joined Dunstone the following season with McMillan and Njegovan to try to qualify for the Brier again at the 2017 Viterra Championship. But once again, his team would be bested in the Double Knockout round, this time to

. For the 2017–18 season, Forrest would once again stay with McMillan and Njegovan but would bring on Gunnlaugson to skip the team. The team had a successful Grand Slam season, playing in every slam and qualifying in six of the seven events including winning the 2017 Tour Challenge Tier 2. However at the 2018 Viterra Championship, the team struggled going 1–2 in the Double Knockout bracket and missing the playoffs. The team had a less successful following season, only playing five slam and qualifying in one of them. At this years provincials, the team qualified for the Championship Round as the number one seed. But they fell apart in the playoffs, losing the 1 vs. 2 game against

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and the semifinal against

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. The team did get to represent Canada at the Second Leg of the 2018-19 Curling World Cup, where they went 1–5. The team won the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker to start the 2019–20 season. They also won the

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and the

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. Forrest won his first Provincial title at the 2020 Viterra Championship after defeating the Mike McEwen rink 7–4 in the final. Team Gunnlaugson represented Manitoba at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, where they finished in eighth place with a 5–6 record.

Personal life

Forrest works as a project manager/carpenter for Vantage Builders. He is married to D'Arcy Forrest and has two children, Mila and Bates.

Teams

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Forrest, Alex 1989 births Canadian male curlers Living people Curlers from Winnipeg Canadian carpenters 21st-century Canadian people