Timothy March (born April 28, 1987) is a Canadian curler from

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. He currently plays

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on Team

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Career

Youth

March skipped his high school team from Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate Institute to a provincial Schoolboy championship in 2005.

Men's

March played third on the

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team that were runners up at the 2010 The Dominion Curling Club Championship. The team had won the provincial curling club championship that year. March joined the Mark Kean rink in 2010, playing lead on the team. In 2011, the team played in their first

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event, the January 2011 Canadian Open. The team finished the event with an 0–5 record. Also that season, the team made it to their first provincial championship, the 2011 Dominion Tankard. There, the team finished with a 6–4 record, missing the playoffs. In the 2011–12 season, the Kean rink played in two slams, the 2011 World Cup of Curling (0-5 record) and the December 2011 Canadian Open (1-4 record). The team played in the

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Dominion Tankard, missing the playoffs with a 3–7 record. In the 2012–13 season, Team Kean had a better season on Tour, winning the

2012 KW Fall Classic The 2012 KW Fall Classic was held from September 20 to 23 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Curling Club in Waterloo, Ontario as part of the 2012–13 Ontario Curling Tour. The men's event was held in a triple knockout format, and the women's ...

and playing in four slams. They played in the 2012 Masters of Curling (0-5 record), the 2012 Canadian Open of Curling (semifinalists), the 2013 National (1-4 record) and the 2013 Players' Championship (0-4). The team did not qualify for the men's provincial championship that season. The rink played in the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, finishing with a 1–3 record, and not qualifying for the Olympic Trials. They then played in the 2013 Canadian Open of Curling, losing in the quarterfinals. The team disbanded mid-season, but March would play in two more Slams that year, playing lead for

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at the March 2014 National going 0-5 and playing lead for John Epping at the

2014 Players' Championship The 2014 Players' Championship was held from April 15 to 20 at the Consolidated Credit Union Place in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. It was the fourth and final Grand Slam of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour. On the men's side, Edmonton's ...

, losing in the quarterfinals. The next season, March remained on the Epping rink. Early on in the season, they won the 2014 Village of Taunton Mills

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. They played in five slams that season, making it to the semifinals of the 2014 Masters and 2015 Players' Championship, while missing the playoffs at the November 2014 National, the

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and the 2015 Elite 10. The team played in the

2015 Ontario Tankard The 2015 Ontario Tankard, the Southern Ontario men's provincial curling championship, was held from February 2 to 8 at the Dorchester Flight Exec Centre in Dorchester, Ontario. The winning Mark Kean rink represented Ontario at the 2015 Tim Horto ...

(men's provincials), making it to the final before losing to March's former skip, Mark Kean. In the 2015–16 season, Team Epping would play in seven Grand Slam events, winning the 2015 Meridian Canadian Open, the team's first Slam title. In the other slams, the team made lost in the finals of the

2016 Humpty's Champions Cup The 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup was held from April 26 to May 1 at the Sherwood Park Arena Sports Centre in Sherwood Park, Alberta. This was the final Grand Slam event of the 2015–16 curling season and is the seventh men's Grand Slam and the ...

, made it to the semifinals of the 2015 National, the quarterfinals of the 2016 Elite 10, while the team missed the playoffs at the

2015 GSOC Tour Challenge The 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge was held from September 8 to 13 at the Paradise Double Ice Complex in Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was the first Grand Slam event of the 2015–16 curling season for both the men's and women's World Curl ...

, 2015 Masters of Curling, 2016 Players' Championship. The team also played in the 2015 Canada Cup of Curling, where they made it to the semifinal. At the 2016 Ontario Tankard, the team again made it to the finals, but lost to Team

in the final. That season, the team also won the 2016

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. In the 2016–17 season, the Epping rink again played in all seven slams, making it to the semifinals of the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup, the quarterfinals of the 2016 WFG Masters and the 2016 Boost National, and missed the playoffs at the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge, 2017 Meridian Canadian Open, the 2017 Elite 10 and the

2017 Players' Championship The 2017 WestJet Players' Championship was held from April 11 to 16 at Ryerson's Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto. It was the seventh men's and sixth women's Grand Slam event of the 2016–17 curling season. Sweden's Niklas Edin won the men's ...

. Elsewhere on the tour, the team won the 2016 CookstownCash presented by Comco Canada Inc. and the 2016

Challenge de Curling de Gatineau The Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (formerly the Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau and the Challenge Casino Lac Leamy) is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, on the World Curling Tour. It is held annually in late October in the City ...

. At the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling, the team again lost in the semifinal. At the 2017 Ontario Tankard, the team lost in the semifinal against Wayne Tuck Jr. The team qualified for the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing in last place in the nine-team field, with a 2–6 record. In 2018, the team won the

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, making it to the

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. They finished the round robin in second place with a 9–2 record, earning themselves a spot in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game against Team Canada. They would go on to lose that game 6–2, dropping down to the semifinal game against Team Alberta skipped by

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. They would lose that game 6–4, earning themselves a bronze medal.

Personal life

March works as a senior accountant for Cathy L. Tune, CPA. He married Kim Tune in 2018.2018 Brier Media Guide He attended Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate Institute and

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:March, Tim 1987 births Curlers from Toronto Toronto Metropolitan University alumni Canadian male curlers Canadian accountants Living people Canada Cup (curling) participants Sportspeople from Scarborough, Toronto