| Dean Joanisse | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 8, 1971 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Team | |
| Curling club | Royal City CC, New Westminster, BC |
| Skip | Dean Joanisse |
| Third | Grant Dezura |
| Second | Brendan Willis |
| Lead | Neil Cursons |
Curling career  | |
| Brier appearances | 2 (2001, 2007) |
| Top CTRS ranking | 23rd (2015-16) |
Dean A. "Skippy" Joanisse [1] (born December 8, 1971) is a Canadian curler from Maple Ridge, British Columbia. [2]
Joanisse is most notable for skipping his British Columbia team to the 1989 Canadian Junior Curling Championships title, qualifying him to represent Canada at the 1990 World Junior Curling Championships. At the World Juniors, he lost to Peja Lindholm's team from Sweden in the bronze medal final.
Joanisse also skipped two teams to the Brier. At the 2001 Nokia Brier his team finished with a 4-7 record. He would make the Brier again in 2007, where he would also finish at a 4-7 record. He qualified for the 2007 Brier by defeating Greg McAulay 8–6 in the BC final. [3]
Joanisse's profession is a curling artist.
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Kevin Martin, nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian retired curler from Edmonton, Alberta, an Olympic, World and four-time Canadian champion and a member of the World Curling Hall of Fame. He is considered by many commentators and former and current curlers to be the greatest curler of all time. He is also known for his rivalries with Randy Ferbey/David Nedohin, the best Alberta provincial rivalry ever as the two teams were generally regarded the best in the world from 2002 to 2006; his rivalry with Jeff Stoughton, perhaps the most famous all prairies rivalry ever which spanned over 2 decades from 1991 to 2014; with Glenn Howard from 2007 to 2014, perhaps the best two team rivalry in Canadian curling history, and his rivalry with Sweden's Peja Lindholm from 1997 to 2006, perhaps the best ever men's Canada-Europe rivalry.
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