Toby McDonald

Toby McDonald

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Team

Curling club

St. John's CC, St. John's, NL,
Bally Haly G&CC, St. John's, NL

Curling career

Member Association

Newfoundland and Labrador

Brier appearances

6 (1976, 1979, 1981, 1992, 1998, 2002)

World Championship
appearances

1 (1976)

Medal record

Curling

Macdonald Brier
Representing Newfoundland
	1976 Regina

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

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Events
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]
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

Record as a coach of national teams

Year	Tournament, event	National team	Place
2006	2006 Winter Olympics	Canada (men)

Awards

Ross Harstone Sportsmanship Award: 1998.^[7]
Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, appointed 2006.

References

^ "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

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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