Sébastien Jean Joseph Robillard (born October 19, 1981 in

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) is a Canadian curler from

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. 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 Julie Reddick, Kevin Flewwelling and Leigh Armstrong.

Men's

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

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for

Heath McCormick Heath McCormick (born August 7, 1976) is a Canadian- American curler from Sarnia, Ontario. Career McCormick began curling in 1992 as a junior in Ontario. He competed in the Ontario Junior Curling Championships five times, and won in 1996 playi ...

, Robillard played

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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

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for the 2010-11 season before forming his own rink in 2011. After skipping for one season, Robillard joined the

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rink, playing second in 2012. In their first season together, they played in the 2013 Canadian Direct Insurance BC Men's Curling Championship, losing in the semifinal. The next season, the team won the Coronation Business Group Men's ClassicCurlingZone
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skipping the team. Robillard left the team in 2014 to form his own rink for one last season in British Columbia. In 2015, Robillard moved back to Ontario, and joined the

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rink for the 2015-16 season, playing third for the team. After one season with Gardner, Robillard formed his own rink in 2016. Robillard won the 2018 Ontario Colts Championship, qualifying his rink for the

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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. Robillard joined the

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out of BC as third in 2024, where they qualified for the

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Personal life

Robillard attended the

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and currently works as a regional director for RBC. 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 i ...

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

External links

* {{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 Sportspeople from Port Coquitlam University of Ottawa alumni 21st-century Canadian sportsmen