Trevor Schumm (born c. 1967) is a Canadian-

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n curler and baseball coach and scout. At the international level, he is a curler; the team, skipped by Hugh Millikin represented Australia at the

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s. Schumm grew up on a farm near

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. He played baseball, ice hockey and

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in his youth, and was the quarterback of his high school's football team. He then played junior college baseball at Allan Hancock College, played in spring training for the

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, and both played and coached at

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. The returned to Alberta to coach there, and then moved to Australia in 1995, taking a job with the

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academy of sport, and worked as a youth baseball coach. In 2000, he coached the Australian team at the

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. There, he was involved in a brawl between the Australian and Cuban teams, and was kicked out of the tournament by the

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. In 2008, he became a scouting coordinator for the San Diego Padres. Schumm comes from a football family. His father Howie and uncle

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played for the

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and the Calgary Stampeders.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schumm, Trevor Living people Sportspeople from Sydney Australian male curlers Pacific-Asian curling champions 1960s births Curlers from Edmonton Canadian emigrants to Australia Canadian baseball players People from Spruce Grove Cornell Big Red baseball players Cornell Big Red baseball coaches Canadian baseball coaches Allan Hancock Bulldogs baseball players San Diego Padres scouts