Colin Dow (born c. 1988) is a

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curler from

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. In 2009, Dow lost the final of the Ontario junior mixed championship to Mark Kean, his future skip. Dow played in his first provincial men's championship in 2010, playing second for the

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rink. The team would go on to make it to the final of the event, losing to

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in the final. Dow took the 2013-14 season off to focus on getting a Master's Degree from the

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. He returned in the 2014-15 season forming a new team with Ritchie Gillan, Brett Lyon-Hatcher and

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. They entered one WCT event, the 2014 Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel, which they won. This was the first WCT event that Dow won his career. Dow and his team qualified for the 2015 Ontario Tankard. His team surprised many by making it to the playoffs, after posting a 6-4 round robin record. Following the round robin, they beat

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in a tiebreaker match, but lost to the

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-skipped

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rink in the 3 vs. 4 game. In 2016, Gillan was replaced by Steve Allen. The team would not make it to another provincial. In 2017, Dow joined the Mark Kean rink at third. On the tour, the team won the

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The team played in the

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, just missing out on the playoffs. This team would only last one season, with Dow forming his own rink again in 2018 with Jordie Lyon-Hatcher, Brett Lyon-Hatcher and

. The team qualified for the

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, finishing with a 2-7 record.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dow, Colin Living people 1980s births Curlers from Ottawa Canadian male curlers