Morgan Currie (born May 20, 1964 in

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) is a Canadian curler from

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. In 1997, Currie won the Ontario Mixed Curling Championship throwing

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on a team skipped by Jim Hunker. The team finished with a 2–9 record at the 1997 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. Currie joined the

Bryan Cochrane Bryan Cochrane (born October 9, 1957 in Winchester, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Russell, Ontario. Cochrane is most notable for winning the 2019 World Senior Curling Championships for Canada, and skipping team Ontario at the 2003 Nokia B ...

senior men's team for the 2017–18 curling season at second. The team won the 2018 Ontario Senior Men's Curling Championship and represented Ontario at the 2018 Canadian Senior Curling Championships. The team went on to win the Canadian Seniors, qualifying the rink to represent Canada at the

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. The team went undefeated at Worlds, taking home the gold medal. The team won a second straight Ontario Senior title in 2019, and again represented Ontario at the 2019 Canadian Senior Curling Championships. There, they made it to the final where they lost to Team Saskatchewan, skipped by

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. Two members of the Cochrane Senior rink - Currie and third

Ian MacAulay Ian MacAulay (born March 25, 1964 in Souris, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian curler and ice technician from Ottawa, Ontario. He played second for team Ontario at the 2003 Nokia Brier. Earlier in his career, MacAulay won the 1993 Fairfield M ...

are both natives of Prince Edward Island (but are residents of Ontario). New rules by

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instituted for the 2020 curling season allowed curlers to represent the province of their birth (rather than just residency) for the

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. Because of this, the team brought in a new lead from PEI (

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) and kept Cochrane as their "import player" and played in the

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. The team won the Tankard, and qualified to represent PEI at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier.

Personal life

Currie is a retired chief of staff at the Competition Bureau of Canada. He is married to Cathy Piccinin, who played third on Currie's 1997 Ontario mixed team.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Currie, Morgan Living people 1964 births Curlers from Ottawa People from Summerside, Prince Edward Island Canadian male curlers Curlers from Prince Edward Island