Brayden Payette (born April 6, 2000) is a

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curler from

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. He currently plays

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on Team

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Career

Payette joined the

rink at second for the 2019–20 season with

Jordan Peters Jordan Peters (born December 12, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Rosenort, Manitoba. He currently plays third on Team Jacques Gauthier. Career Peters first represented Manitoba at the 2017 Canadian U18 Curling Championships as third for Brett W ...

at third and Zack Bilawka at lead. Before this, he played with Chase Dusessoy from 2015 to 2017 and skipped his own team from 2017 to 2019. The team lost in the final of the 2020 Manitoba Junior Provincials to Brett Walter but still got to compete at the

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, representing the second Manitoba team as

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and

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did not send teams. The team finished the round robin and championship pool with a 9–1 record which qualified them for the final. The team curled 92% which led them to a 8–6 victory over

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's Daniel Bruce. At the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships, the team finished the round robin in second with a 7–2 record. In the playoffs, they defeated

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in the semifinal and

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in the final to claim the gold medal.

Personal life

Payette currently works as an apprentice carpenter.

Teams

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Payette, Brayden 2000 births Living people Canadian male curlers Curlers from Manitoba Sportspeople from Brandon, Manitoba