Mary Mattatall (born April 22, 1960, in

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) is a

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curler and coach from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Career

Juniors

Mattatall won the 1979 Nova Scotia junior women's title with teammates Faith Tregunno, Susan McCurdy and Debbie Jennex.

Mixed

Mattatall has found the most success in her curling career representing Nova Scotia at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. She won the event twice, in 1995 and

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, both times throwing third stones for skip Steve Ogden. She also placed second at the 1985 Canadian Mixed, throwing third for Dave Jones. She last played in the mixed at the 2014 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship playing third for Rob Harris, finishing in sixth place.

Women's

Mattatall won her first Nova Scotia Tournament of Hearts in 1989, playing third for

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. At the 1989 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian national women's championship, the team would finish the round robin with a 7–4 record, and lost in a tiebreaker match. Mattatall returned to the national Tournament of Hearts in 1990 as an alternate for Heather Rankin, though she did not play in any games. The Jones rink would win the Nova Scotia Hearts in 1991 and would play at the 1991 Scott Tournament of Hearts, where they finished with a 5–6 record in 7th place. They won again in 1992 and finished with a 6–5 record (6th place) at the

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. Mattatall was invited to join the Jones rink as an alternate at the

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, but finished in last place with a 2–7 record. Her new rink of Angie Bryant,

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and Heather Hopkins won the 1998 Nova Scotia Tournament of Hearts. The team represented Nova Scotia at the

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. They would finish with a 4–7 record, good enough for 10th place. Mattatall later joined the

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team as third, winning another provincial title in 2005. The team would finish with a 5–6 record, in 8th place. Mattatall would be invited to be the alternate player for Nova Scotia (skipped by

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) at the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. She would play in two matches. The team finished in 10th. In 2015, Mattatall would switch to skipping again, and at the age of 56, her seniors team of

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and

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won a surprise victory at the

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, sending them to the

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. That same year, Mattatall and her team would win the provincial women's seniors title, and will represent Nova Scotia at the

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. On the

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, Mattatall has won two tour events, the 2004 Sobeys Curling Classic (playing third for Zinck) and the 2015

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Coaching

Mattatall has coached the Nova Scotia junior women's curling team skipped by Taylour Stevens since 2019. The team is representing Canada at the World Junior Curling Championship 2023 in Fussen Germany.

Personal life

As of 2017, she worked as a manager with Public Services and Procurement Canada. She has since retired.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mattatall, Mary 1960 births Living people Canadian curling coaches Canadian mixed curling champions Canadian women curlers Sportspeople from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Curlers from Halifax, Nova Scotia