Marco Ferraro
Marco Ferraro (1955 in
Boucherville, Quebec
.
Ferraro grew up in
Chicoutimi, Quebec. At the Brier, the team would finish with a 4–7 record, missing the playoffs. As it happened, Ferraro was the only French speaking curler in the tournament, and was invited by RDS
to commentate games in that language. He worked for that network until 2009.
Also during the 1980s, Ferraro invented the "Marco Hack", which would become the official hack used in curling matches beginning in 1989. His first name "Marco" appears on these hacks which are a mainstay in the modern curling rink, appearing in about 95% of curling clubs around the world.[2][3]
From 2009 to 2015 Ferraro worked as marketing director and then as General Manager of Curling Quebec. Ferraro played lead for Quebec at the 2010 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, on a team skipped by Pierre Charette. The team would finish with a 6–5 record, missing the playoffs.
After an eight-month battle with brain cancer, Ferraro died in August 2017 at the
Notre-Dame Hospital
.
References
- ^ "Marco FERRARO Obituary - BEAUHARNOIS, QC | the Gazette". Legacy.com.
- ^ "Marco in every curling rink | the Belleville Intelligencer". Archived from the original on 2017-09-04. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
- ^ https://www.pressreader.com/canada/ottawa-citizen/20100326/285164354536152. Retrieved 14 December 2023 – via PressReader.
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