Jake Walker (curler)
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| Born | March 14, 1989 | ||||||||||||||
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| Curling club | Annandale CC, Ajax, ON | ||||||||||||||
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| Member Association |  Ontario | ||||||||||||||
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Jake Walker (born March 14, 1989) is a
Minden, Ontario.[1]
He is a former Canadian Junior champion, and world junior bronze medallist.
As a Bantam-aged curler, Walker won the
Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships. The team would represent the province at the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec. Walker would lead the rink to a 9-3 round robin record, followed by winning the semi-final against Saskatchewan's Braeden Moskowy and the final against Manitoba's Alex Forrest. This earned the four-some a berth at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships in Flims, Switzerland, representing Canada. The team sneaked into the playoffs after a 6-3 round robin record left them in a tie with Norway's Steffen Mellemseter. They beat Norway, but lost to Switzerland's Peter de Cruz in the 3 vs. 4 game. This put the team into the bronze medal game, which they won, against China's Ji Yansong
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After his junior career, Walker focused on University Curling and his University of Waterloo team. Walker skipped Waterloo to 2nd place at the 2012 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, losing to the University of Alberta's Brendan Bottcher in the final. Walker would avenge this loss at the 2013 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, where he beat Bottcher to win the championship.
In 2013, Walker began curling on the
Travelers Tankard
appearance.
References
- ^ "University Of Waterloo - Jake Walker - 2012-13 Men's Curling". athletics.uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
- ^ "Past Champions". ontcurl.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
