Colin Hodgson

Colin Hodgson
Colin Hodgson
	Curler
	Hodgson (green) discusses a shot with Carruthers and Jeff Stoughton in 2018.
Born	June 8, 1990; Edmonton, Alberta
Team
Curling club	West St. Paul CC, ; West St. Paul, MB
Skip	Reid Carruthers
Fourth	Mike McEwen
Second	Derek Samagalski
Lead	Colin Hodgson
Career
Brier appearances	2 (2015, 2018)
Top CTRS ranking	2nd (2016-17)
Grand Slam victories	1: Champions Cup (2016)
Men's Curling
Representing Alberta
Canada Winter Games

Colin Sterling-Wyatt Hodgson is a Canadian curler who resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba but is originally from Lacombe, Alberta.^[1]

Career

While briefly living in Calgary,^[2] Hodgson's junior years saw him skip the Albertan team at the 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, finishing in sixth place with a 6–6 win-loss record. He also won a gold medal at the 2007 Canada Winter Games.

Hodgson would later move to Airdrie, Alberta and played third for Charley Thomas for a year. Following that season, he joined Reid Carruthers as the lead on his new team in 2014. The team represented Manitoba at the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier, finishing in 10th place. While at the Brier, he won the Ford Hot Shots competition, taking home a 2015 Ford F-150 XLT.^[3] The next season the team won the 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup, Hodgson's first Grand Slam title. Later that year they would win the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling.

Hodgson was a columnist for The Curling News,^[4] and also commentates on CurlingZone. He is trained as a chef and attended the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and Lacombe Composite High School. He owns his own curling apparel business called "Dynasty Apparel".

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