CHAMPION: Menard Wins 2011 Challenge Casino Lac Leamy

Gatineau/Levis, Quebec

SKIP
Jean-Michel
Menard

Third
Martin
Crete

Second
Eric
Sylvain

Lead
Philippe
Menard

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	11.33
PA/G:	4.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.77
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.21

Jean-Michel Menard (Gatineau/Levis, PQ) won 7-6 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste. Marie, ON) in the Final of the Challenge Casino Lac Leamy, held October 20 - 23, 2011 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Menard won 5-3 over Mark Kean (Toronto, ON) in the semifinals of the 2011 Challenge Casino Lac Leamy in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 7-3 over Pierre Charette (Saguenay, PQ) in the quarterfinals. of the 2011 Challenge Casino Lac Leamy in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

Menard finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Menard defeated Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) 7-1, then won 8-4 against Rob Rumfeldt (Guelph, ON) and 7-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Challenge Casino Lac Leamy Championship title, Menard earned 22.400 world rankings points along with the $9,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 13th place overall with 110.436 total points. Menard ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.400 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

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