Aaron Squires
Aaron John Squires (born November 10, 1992 in Victoria, British Columbia)[1] is a Canadian curler from St. Thomas, Ontario. He formerly played on the World Curling Tour.
As a junior curler, Squires and his St. Thomas Curling Club rink of Jason Camm, David Easter and Curtis Easter won the 2013 Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships.[2] The team then represented Ontario at the 2013 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, where they posted a 7-3 record before losing a tie-breaker match to Manitoba's Matt Dunstone rink. Later in the year, Squires was added to the Jake Higgs rink at the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials Qualifying Tournament as an alternate.
In university, Squires skipped the Wilfrid Laurier University rink at the 2014 CIS/CCA Curling Championships. His Laurier rink finished the event with a 6-1 round robin record (tied with Dunstone's University of Manitoba rink). Following the round robin, Laurier would lose to the University of Alberta (skipped by Brendan Bottcher). Squires was named as a CIS Men's Curling All-Canadian. Squires rebounded this year after being unable to play in the semi finals and finals of OUA's last year due to an undisclosed illness by skipping his team to a gold medal performance at the 2015 OUA championships. His Laurier rink then competed at the 2015 CIS/CCA Curling Championships where they finished round robin with another 6-1 record. After defeating St.Marys quite handily in the semis, they fell short to the University of Alberta in the finals capturing the silver medal.[3]
Squires and his men's team of Matt Mapletoft, Spencer Nuttall and Fraser Reid qualified for the 2015 Ontario Tankard, his first provincial men's championship. To qualify, the team had to beat the former world champion Glenn Howard rink.[4]
Personal life
Squires works in sales for CIPG.[5]
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://www.ontcurl.com/competitions/past-champions.aspx?id=539[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://www.laurierathletics.com/peopleprofile.php?PeopleID=8442
- ^ http://www.stthomastimesjournal.com/2015/01/21/st-thomas-native-aaron-squires-preparing-for-ontario-tankard
- ^ 2017 Home Hardware RTTR Media Guide
External links
- Aaron Squires on the World Curling Tour database (archived)