Toby McDonald
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| Curling club | St. John's CC, St. John's, NL, Bally Haly G&CC, St. John's, NL | ||||||||||||||
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| Member Association |  Newfoundland and Labrador | ||||||||||||||
| Brier appearances | 6 (1976, 1979, 1981, 1992, 1998, 2002) | ||||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 1 (1976) | ||||||||||||||
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Tobias F. "Toby" McDonald,[1] ONL (born c. 1949)[2] is a Canadian curler, curling coach and lawyer from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
At the national level, he won the 1976 Macdonald Brier, as a member of the first ever team from Newfoundland and Labrador to win the Brier.
He coached the Canadian men's curling team at the 2006 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal.
Teams
[edit]| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Events |
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| 1967–68[3] | Marty Dalton | Tobi McDonald | Douglas Ryan | Richard Feehan | CJCC 1968 (T10th) [4] | |
| 1975–76 | Jack MacDuff | Toby McDonald | Doug Hudson | Ken Templeton | Brier 1976  WCC 1976 (9th) | |
| 1978–79 | Jeff Thomas | Toby McDonald | Peter Hollett | Ken Thomas | Brier 1979 (11th) | |
| 1979–80 | Toby McDonald | Shelly McDonald | John Allan | Ann Bowering | CMxCC 1980  [5]
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| 1980–81 | Toby McDonald | Jim Miller | John Allan | Neil Young | Brier 1981 (11th) | |
| 1991–92 | Glenn Goss | Geoff Cunningham | John Allan | Neil Young | Toby McDonald | Brier 1992 (6th) |
| 1996–97 | Toby McDonald | Paul Withers | Lloyd Powell | Paul Green | [6] | |
| 1997–98 | Toby McDonald | Wayne Hamilton | Lloyd Powell | Paul Withers | Wayne Young | Brier 1998 (9th) |
| 2001–02 | Mark Noseworthy | Bill Jenkins | Randy Turpin | Ian Kerr | Toby McDonald | Brier 2002 (9th) |
| 2011–12 | Toby McDonald | Wayne Hamilton | Lloyd Powell | Paul Aitken | CMaCC 2012
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Record as a coach of national teams
[edit]| Year | Tournament, event | National team | Place |
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| 2006 | 2006 Winter Olympics |  Canada (men) |
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Awards
[edit]- Ross Harstone Sportsmanship Award: 1998.[7]
- Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, appointed 2006.
References
[edit]- ^ "Our Lawyers". McDonald & Hounsell Law Offices. Archived from the original on 2021-07-31.
- ^ "Newfoundland's year of glory". Regina Leader-Post. February 22, 1992. p. 23. Archived from the original on 2022-08-04. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
- ^ "NLCA Champions « Newfoundland & Labrador Curling Association".
- ^ "Ontario wins schoolboy curling title". Ottawa Citizen. February 24, 1968. p. 20.
- ^ "Dunstone's Manitoba rink prevails in marathon mixed curling final". Red Deer Advocate. March 24, 1980. p. 11.
- ^ Team Toby McDonald - Curlingzone
- ^ "Brier Awards & All-Star Teams (1965—2007)". Soudog's Curling History Site. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
External links
[edit]- Toby McDonald at World Curling
- Toby McDonald at Olympedia
- Toby McDonald on LinkedIn
- Toby McDonald – Curling Canada Stats Archive
- Short, Robin (2009-04-11). "No. 7: Jack MacDuff curling team". The Telegram. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- "Curling Volunteer Jack MacDuff just keeps on rolling". Internet Curling Club. Archived from the original on 2011-08-14.
- "Hal Walker". Calgary Herald. 1976-03-15. p. 13. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
- "Remembering the Jack MacDuff Brier triumph, 40 years later". CBC News. 2016-03-04. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11.
- "McDonald hopes province's long wait for another Brier title is about to end". SaltWire. 2016-03-11. Archived from the original on 2022-07-30.
- "Toby McDonald". Strathcona Cup. Archived from the original on 2022-07-30.
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