Sébastien Robillard (born October 19, 1981 in

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) is a Canadian curler from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He currently plays

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on Team

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. He has played competitively in three provinces in his career, Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.

Career

Juniors

Robillard won the first ever Ontario provincial Bantam boys championship in 1998. In 2002 he won the now defunct provincial junior mixed championship skipping a team of

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, Kevin Flewwelling and

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Men's

After a few seasons of skipping teams out of Ontario and one season playing

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, Robillard played lead on the Quebec-based

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rink for the 2006-07 curling season. The team won the Tim Hortons Invitational Classic that season and played in the 2007 Quebec Men's Provincial Championship. After one season with Fowler, Robillard played third for

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in 2007-08 and for Michael Fournier in 2008-09. Robillard then moved to British Columbia, playing third for Andrew Bilesky for the 2010-11 season before forming his own rink in 2011. After skipping for one season, Robillard joined the Sean Geall rink, playing second in 2012. In their first season together, they played in the

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, losing in the semifinal. The next season, the team won the Coronation Business Group Men's ClassicCurlingZone
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. There, he led his rink of Ryan McCrady, Bowie Abbis-Mills and Andrew Denny-Petch to the playoffs, where they lost to Team Codey Maus.

Personal life

Robillard attended the University of Ottawa and currently works as a regional director for

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. His sister is also a world class curler

Melanie Robillard Melanie Robillard (born October 3, 1982 in Sussex, New Brunswick) is a curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She represented Germany at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, playing third for Andrea Schöpp. Currently, she lives in ...

who lives in Europe and was an Olympic curling athlete playing for Germany at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 and subsequently winning the Women World Curling Championships in 2010.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robillard, Sebastien Living people Canadian male curlers 1981 births Curlers from Quebec Curlers from British Columbia Curlers from New Brunswick Curlers from Ottawa People from Sussex, New Brunswick People from Port Coquitlam University of Ottawa alumni