Team Gushue

Brad Gushue (Skip)

Name: Brad Gushue
Position: Skip
Age: 23
Years Curled: 10
National Appearances: 9 (95,96,98,99,00,01,03,04,05)
World Appearances: 2 (98,01)

Career Highlights
· 2005 Newfoundland Tankard Champion
· 2004 All Star Skip at Nokia Brier
· 2004 Newfoundland Tankard Champion
· 2003 Newfoundland Tankard Champion
· 2002-2003 St. John’s Super-League Winner
· 2002 Travel Spiel Champion
· 2002 McCain’s Superspiel Semifinalist.
· Six time Newfoundland Junior Champion
· 2001 World Junior Champion
· 2001 Canadian Junior Gold Medallist
· 2000 Canadian Junior Silver Medallist
· 1999 Canadian Junior Bronze Medallist
· Three Canadian Junior All-Star Awards (96,99,00)
· 1999 Ken Watson Canadian Sports Man-ship Award Winner
· 1999 Canadian Fair Play Award Winner
· 1998 World Junior Champion
· 2001 St. John’s Athlete of the Year
· Awarded St. John’s Freedom of the City Honour
· 2001 Finalist for Canadian Junior Athlete of the Year

Source: http://www.teamgushue.com/

Brad Gushue (Skip)

Brad Gushue (born June 16, 1980 in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian curler. Gushue along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam will represent Canada in curling in the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Gushue is a six-time (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001) provincial junior curling champion in his home province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the last five as skip. In 2001, he would not only win the provincial championship, but the national championship and world junior championships as well. Gushue was also the alternate for John Morris at the 1998 World Junior Championships which Morris won.

After his junior career, Gushue quickly became one of his province’s best curlers. Gushue would qualify for the 2003 Nokia Brier where he finished with a 6-5 record. By the 2004 Nokia Brier, Gushue proved not only was he one of the best curlers in Newfoundland, but one of the best in Canada, when his team finished with an 8-4 record. The following year, Gushue qualified for the 2005 Tim Hortons Brier where his team once again finished 6-5.

At the end of 2005, Gushue had brought in former world champion Russ Howard for the Canadian Olympic trials. Howard was given the right to call the teams’ shots as a skip would, but he would play second, replacing Mike Adam. This would prove to be a successful move, as the team would win the trials. Gushue defeated Jeff Stoughton’s team in the final on December 11th, 2005, qualifying him to represent Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Gushue is currently a contractor for Encon Construction.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Gushue