Colton Flasch

Colton Flasch (born February 27, 1991 in Biggar, Saskatchewan^[1]) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon. He is a former Canadian junior champion and currently plays second for the Steve Laycock team.

Junior career

After having curled with the Mike Armstrong junior rink, Muyres joined the Braeden Moskowy rink at second position in 2010. The team won the Saskatchewan Junior championships that year, earning the rink the right to represent Saskatchewan at the 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. At the Canadian Juniors, the team- which also included Kirk Muyres and Matt Lang- went undefeated (12-0) through the round robin, and proceeded to win the event by defeating Ontario's Mathew Camm in the final. The team would go on to represent Canada at the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships where they would find less success. The team found themselves in 4th place after the round robin with a 6-3 record. The team beat Norway (Steffen Mellemseter) in their first playoff match, but in the semi-final they lost to Switzerland (Peter de Cruz), and then lost to Norway again in the bronze medal game. After the World Juniors, the team played in their first Grand Slam event, the 2011 Players' Championship where they surprised many by making into the quarterfinals. After the season, Moskowy and Muyres graduated from the junior level. Lang and Flasch remained together, with Lang at skip and Flasch at second. They added Tyler Hartung and Jayden Shwaga.

Men's career

Following juniors, Flash joined the Steve Laycock rink at second, rejoining his former junior teammate, Kirk Muyres who is third on the team. Kirk's brother Dallan would play lead. In Flasch's first season with the Laycock rink, the team would play in all four Grand Slam events, making it to the semi-finals of the 2012 Masters of Curling. At the 2013 provincial men's championship, the team finished 4th. Following the season, the team had accumulated enough CTRS points to qualify for the "Road to the Road" 2013 Canadian Olympic pre-qualifying event. At "the Roar" the following season, the team placed fourth, which was not good enough to qualify for the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.

The Laycock rink would win the 2014 SaskTel Tankard men's provincial championship, sending the team to the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier, Flasch's first. At the Brier, the team narrowly missed the playoffs, after finishing the round robin with a 6-5 record.

In the 2014/2015 season the team had their best year yet finishing the season 4th in Canada and 5th in the world. The team qualified in the first three Geandslams with a runner up finish to Team Gushue. The Laycock team repeated as Saskatchewan champions and finished the round robin with a 8-4 record finishing 3rd in the round robin. They would lose the 3vs4 game to Team Canada but with the bronze medal.

Personal life

Flasch works as a Construction worker with K&S Contracting. He attended the University of Saskatchewan and Biggar Central School.

References

↑ http://www.teamstevelaycock.ca/about/colton-flasch

External links

Colton Flasch on the World Curling Federation database

Colton Flasch on the World Curling Tour database

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