Brent Ross (born September 30, 1970) is a Canadian curler from

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. He currently plays

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for Team

Dayna Deruelle Dayna Deruelle (born June 17, 1982) is a Canadian curler from Brampton, Ontario. He currently skips a rink on the World Curling Tour. His team competes in various events on the Ontario Curling Tour throughout the season and competes annually in ...

on the

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Career

Early in his career, Ross won the Ontario Colts Championship in 1997. Ross

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ped his own rink on the World Curling Tour until 2007, when he joined the Jake Higgs rink, playing third on the team for the 2007–08 season, and then throwing fourth rocks (with Higgs throwing third) until 2014. The team played in their first

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event at the 2010 Players' Championship, where they lost all of their games. The next season, they played in the 2010 World Cup of Curling (now known as the Masters), going 2-3 and at the January 2011 Canadian Open, going 2-3 again. They didn't play in any slams during the 2011–12 season, but won the Barrie Sleeman Cash Spiel on the

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. The team played in two slams during the 2012–13 curling season, going winless at the 2012 Masters, and losing in a tiebreaker at the 2012 Canadian Open. In their last season together, the team won the 2013

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, then just an event on the Ontario Tour. They didn't play any slams that season, but played in the

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in an attempt to represent Canada at the

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. There, they finished with a 3-3 record, being eliminated from the triple knockout tournament. In 2014, Ross began skipping his own team, which he did until joining the Deruelle rink in 2018.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Brent Living people 1970 births Canadian male curlers Curlers from Ontario Sportspeople from Wellington County, Ontario