Bradley Thiessen
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's curling | ||
Representing  | ||
| Winter Universiade | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2013 Trentino | |
Representing  | ||
| Tim Hortons Brier | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2018 Regina | |
Bradley "Brad" Thiessen (born March 1, 1990 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian curler. He is a long-time member of the Brendan Bottcher rink, currently throwing second stones for the team.
Junior career
Thiessen was a member of the Bottcher rink at the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, representing Alberta. There, the team finished with a 6-6 record. Thiessen aged off the team, and was not a member of the team when Bottcher won the 2012 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. However, remained with Botcher in university curling, playing on the University of Alberta team which won a bronze medal at the 2011 CIS/CCA Curling Championships, gold at the 2012 CIS/CCA Curling Championships and silvers at the 2013 CIS/CCA Curling Championships and 2014 CIS/CCA Curling Championships. The team represented Canada at the 2013 Winter Universiade, where they won a bronze medal.
Men's career
Thiessen has won four World Curling Tour events as a member of the Bottcher rink. They won the 2012 Red Deer Curling Classic, the 2013 Spruce Grove Cashspiel, the 2014 HDF Insurance Shoot-Out and the 2015 German Masters. They played in their first Grand Slam of Curling event at the 2013 Canadian Open of Curling, where they won just one game. Later that season, they played in the 2014 Syncrude National, where they again won just one game. In the 2014-15 season, the team played in three Slams, making it to the semifinals in all three, the 2014 The National (November), the 2014 Canadian Open of Curling and the 2015 Players' Championship. The next season, they played in four Slams, making it to the quarterfinals in two (the 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge and the 2015 Meridian Canadian Open). In the 2016-17 season, they again made it to the quarterfinals at the 2017 Meridian Canadian Open.
The rink played in their first Boston Pizza Cup, the Alberta men's curling championship in 2013, where they won just one game. In 2014, they again won just one game. They found more success in 2015, making it all the way to the final before losing to Kevin Koe. In 2016, they made it to the semifinal where they lost to Koe. With Koe winning the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier and representing Team Canada as defending champions at the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier, the way was paved for the Bottcher rink to win the 2017 Boston Pizza Cup. The team did just this, going undefeated en route to their first provincial championship. The team would go on to represent Alberta at the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier. At the Brier, the team finished with a 3-8 record, missing the playoffs.
Team Bottcher qualified as Team Alberta for the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier, held from March 3 to 11, 2018 at the Brandt Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. The team had n 6-1 round robin record, and had to fight through the 3 vs. 4 game beating Brad Jacobs (Northern Ontario) and John Epping (Ontario) in the semifinals in the playoffs to make it to the final, where they would lose to Brad Gushue of Team Canada 6 to 4. [1]
Mixed curling
Thiessen was a member of the Alberta team which won the 2016 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. The team's skip was Mick Lizmore, who had been a member of the Bottcher rink until 2014. The team represented Canada at the 2016 World Mixed Curling Championship, losing in the quarterfinals.
Personal life
Thiessen works as a web developer for LawDepot. He is married to fellow curler Alison Thiessen, who was a member of their Canadian Mixed championship team. [2] Thiessen is a graduate of the University of Alberta.[3]
External links
- Brad Thiessen on the World Curling Federation database
- Bradley Thiessen on the World Curling Tour database
- Bradley Thiessen on the CurlingZone database