Craig Kochan

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Craig Kochan
Born	(1974-10-18) October 18, 1974 Marathon, Ontario
Team
Skip	Craig Kochan
Third	Phil Loevenmark
Second	Andrew Clayton
Lead	Geoff Chambers
Alternate	Bob Leclair

Craig Kochan (born October 18, 1974 in Marathon, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian curler from Toronto and Kapuskasing, Ontario. He has played competitively in both Northern and southern Ontario. He has won three Northern Ontario junior titles, a Northern Ontario mixed title and has played in six Ontario provincial championships and two Northern Ontario provincial championships.

Junior career

Kochan's junior career involved winning the Northern Ontario junior title three years straight in 1987, 1988 and 1989. This qualified him to represent Northern Ontario at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships each of those years. At the 1987 Canadian Juniors, Kochan and his rink of Craig Cordiner, Andy Davis and Mike Desilets finished the round robin with a 6-5 record, missing the playoffs. The Kapuskasing four-some returned to the Canadian Juniors in 1988 and this time finished the round robin with a 9-2 record, in first place. In the final they played against British Columbia's Mike Wood, and lost 6-2. At the 1989 Canadian Juniors, Cordiner and Davis were replaced by Greg Kawahara and Aaron Skillen and they curled out of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Kochan did not fare as well with this new line up, and once again finished 6-5, out of the playoffs.

Provincial playdowns

After his junior career, Kochan has played in provincial playdowns both in Northern and southern Ontario, but has yet to win a provincial men's title in either region. The closest he came to winning was at the 1995 Northern Ontario finals where he lost to Al Hackner. He did win the Northern Ontario mixed title in 2011, and skipped the Northern Ontario team (which also included Liz Kingston, Colin Koivula and Alissa Begin) to a 4-7 finish at the 2011 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship.

References

Persondata
Name	Kochan, Craig
Alternative names
Short description	Curler
Date of birth	October 18, 1974
Place of birth	Marathon, Ontario, Canada
Date of death
Place of death

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