Terry Meek

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Terry Meek
Born (1962-11-03) November 3, 1962 (age 59)
Team
Curling club Calgary CC,
Calgary, AB
Skip Terry Meek
Third Ralph Brust
Second Greg Northcott
Lead Peter Innes
Career
Brier appearances1 (2009)
World Championship
appearances
1 (2009)
Medal record

Terry Meek (born November 3, 1962, in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. He is a former world silver medalist and is the current coaching consultant of the Cheryl Bernard rink (and is also her common law partner). He also skips his own team on the World Curling Tour.

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Career

Meek played in his first provincial championship in 1987. In 1993, he skipped his mixed team to a provincial championship, and lost the final of the 1993 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. Since then, Meek has played in 5 more (1994, 1999, 2003, 2008, 2011) provincial men's championships, but has yet to win the event. In 2009, he was invited to be the alternate on the Kevin Martin team, which won the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier and won a silver medal at the 2009 World Men's Curling Championship. Meek played in two games at the 2009 Worlds.

Personal life

Outside of curling, Meek was the founder of Thunder Energy, Ember Resources, Point Loma Resources, which were public listed oil, gas exploration and production company. Also President and CEO of multiple Private energy companies. He has two sons, Evan Pawlak and Connor Meek. [1]

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References

  1. "Terry Meek, Sleeping Giant Capital Corp: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg News .