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Hamilton "Hammy" McMillan Jr. (born 29 May 1992 in
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) is a Scottish curler from
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. He currently plays
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on Team
Bruce Mouat Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...
. With Mouat, McMillan Jr. has won gold at the world men's championship in and and has captured four
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championship titles (, , and ) and ten
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titles. He also earned a silver medal in the men's team event of the
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. He is also a former World Junior () champion.


Career


2012–2017

In his final two seasons of juniors, McMillan Jr. reached the semifinals and finals of the
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, losing out to the Kyle Smith rink on both occasions. Despite this, McMillan Jr. was invited to join Team Smith at both the and
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as their alternate. In 2012, the team went 7–2 through the round robin before losing the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game to Norway's
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. However, they avenged this loss in the bronze medal game when they defeated the same Norwegian team to finish third. In 2013, the team topped the round robin with an 8–1 record. They then beat Canada's
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in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game and then defeated Russia's
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to secure the gold medal. It was Scotland's first time winning the event since 1996. Although they did not win the Scottish junior championship, McMillan Jr. and his team of
Grant Hardie Grant Hardie (born 27 March 1992 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. He currently plays third on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Hardie has won gold at the world men's championship in and and has captured four European championship ...
, Jay McWilliam and
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found success on the men's tour during the 2012–13 season. The team had two semifinals finishes at the
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and the 2012 Edinburgh International and a quarterfinal finish at the 2013 Mercure Perth Masters. The following season, the Dumfries rink continued their success with two more semifinal appearances at the Curling Masters Champéry and the
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. After the team missed the playoffs at the 2014
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they disbanded, with McMillan Jr. joining the
Tom Brewster Thomas Brewster Jr. (born 10 April 1974) is a Scottish curler from Aberdeen, Scotland. He is currently the coach of the Kyle Waddell men's team. Career Brewster is a former World Junior champion, having won the title in 1995. The Scottish te ...
rink at lead for the 2014–15 season. The team, with third Glen Muirhead, second Ross Paterson and alternate Thomas Muirhead won three events in their first season together, the Swiss Cup Basel, the Curling Masters Champéry and the Dumfries Curling Challenge. They would miss out on the playoffs at the 2015 Scottish Men's Curling Championship, finishing with a 4–5 record. Team Brewster had a strong tour season during the 2015–16 season, beginning at the Baden Masters where they lost in the final to Sweden's
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. They next played in the
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Tier 2 event where they made it to the semifinals, losing out to
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. The team played in the qualifier for the
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, however, lost in the best-of-three final to the Kyle Smith rink. Later on in the season, Team Brewster made two more tour finals at the Dumfries Challenger Series and the Aberdeen International Curling Championship where they lost to
Bruce Mouat Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...
and
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respectively. The team was successful at the 2016 Scottish Men's Curling Championship, however, only losing one game en route to claiming the championship title. This earned them the right to represent Scotland at the 2016 World Men's Curling Championship, McMillan Jr.'s first. There, the team finished with a 5–6 round robin record, placing seventh. The following season, Team Brewster earned two titles at the 2016 Karuizawa International and the 2017
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. They were also successful at the European qualifier, defeating Team Murdoch two games to nil to qualify. At the
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, the team finished in sixth place with a 4–5 record. At the Scottish championship, they were not able to defend their title, losing in the 3 vs. 4 game to
Bruce Mouat Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...
. Team Brewster concluded their season at the
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where they finished with a 1–3 record. After the season, McMillan Jr. left the team to join the new Bruce Mouat rink with third Grant Hardie and second
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.


2017–2022

Team Mouat found immediate success to begin the 2017–18 season, going undefeated to claim the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard and the Oakville Fall Classic in back-to-back weeks. In both finals, the team beat the
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Korean rink. Later in the season, the Mouat rink would again beat Kim in another final, this time at the 2017 Boost National, the first Grand Slam event of the season. By winning the event, Team Mouat captured their first career Grand Slam title and became the second-ever non-Canadian team to win a men's Grand Slam event. The team followed this win with their fourth tour win of the season at the Dumfries Challenger Series back home in Scotland. In the new year, the team ran the table to win the 2018 Scottish Men's Curling Championship, defeating the
Greg Drummond Greg Drummond (born 3 February 1989 in Forfar) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently coaches the Ross Whyte rink. Career Drummond first appeared on the world stage as the alternate for the Scottish team at the 2007 World Junior Cur ...
rink in the final. They then faced the Kyle Smith Olympic team in a best-of-three playoff to determine who would represent Scotland at the
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. Team Mouat won the series two games to one, earning the right to represent the country at the men's worlds. In preparation for the world championship, the team won another tour event at the Aberdeen International Curling Championship, defeating
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in the final. At the world championship in
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, the team lost just one game in the round robin to Sweden's Niklas Edin. Their 11–1 record earned them a direct bye to the semifinals where they suffered a 9–5 defeat to Canada's
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. Despite this, they ended the week on a positive note with a dominant victory over Korea's Kim in the bronze medal game. The team ended the season at the
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and
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Slam events where they reached the quarterfinals and semifinals respectively. Team Mouat's first major bonspiel of the 2018–19 season came in September at the first leg of the Curling World Cup, where the team had a third-place finish. Two weeks later, they played in the 2018 Elite 10 Grand Slam event, where they won just one game. A month later, the team was more successful at the 2018 Masters Grand Slam, making it to the semifinals. A month later, they represented Scotland at the
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. After finishing the round robin with a 7–2 record, the rink beat Italy's
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and Sweden's
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in the semifinal and final to claim the gold medal. Team Mouat wrapped up the calendar year with another third-place finish at the
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of the Curling World Cup and a second-place finish at the
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. The National featured the first all-Scotland Grand Slam final as the Mouat rink faced Team Ross Paterson. The team began 2019 by winning the Mercure Perth Masters, followed by a quarterfinal finish at the 2019 Canadian Open. The team then returned to Scotland to defend their Scottish championship, which they won, sending them to the
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in
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,
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. There, the team had a slow 1–3 start, but they managed to turn things around to qualify with an 8–4 record. They then lost to Canada's
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in the first playoff round. To wrap the season up, Team Mouat lost in a tiebreaker at the
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and made it to the semifinals at the 2019 Champions Cup. The Mouat rink did not have a good start to the 2019–20 season as they failed to qualify as the Scottish representatives for the
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. They found better luck in Grand Slam play, however, making it to the semifinals of the 2019 Masters and the
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and the quarterfinals of the 2020 Canadian Open. The team won just one event on tour, defending their championship at the Mercure Perth Masters. In February, Team Mouat won the Scottish Men's Championship for a third year in a row. The team was set to represent Scotland at the 2020 World Men's Curling Championship on home soil in
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before the event got cancelled due to the
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. The Scottish championship would be their last event of the season as both the
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and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were also cancelled due to the pandemic. For much of the 2020–21 season, there was no tour due to the pandemic, but Team Mouat won a series of domestic challenges put on by the British Curling Association. A "curling bubble" was set up in
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, Canada, in the Spring, which hosted several events, including the
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and two slams. The Mouat rink represented Scotland at the 2021 Worlds, finishing with a 9–4 round robin record. In the playoffs, they beat Canada, and RCF (Russia), making it to the final, where they lost to Sweden, skipped by
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. A week later, Team Mouat played in the 2021 Champions Cup in the same bubble, winning the event, defeating Team
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(who had been Team Canada at the Worlds) to claim their second career Slam title. The team continued their impressive run in the bubble during the next event, the
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. They would go through pool play as the only undefeated team on both the men's and women's sides with a 5–0 record, earning the team a bye to the semifinals. They continued their undefeated streak in the playoffs, winning the semis and the finals against
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to win their second straight Slam title in just six days. In October 2021, McMillan Jr. and his teammates were named to the 2022 British Olympic team. They had another stellar season in 2021–22, starting the year by winning the 2021 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard and then following it up with the 2021 Masters, their fourth Slam title. The team then made another final at the
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which they lost to the Gushue rink. Next for the team was the
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where the team had another dominant performance, winning all eleven of their games en route to another gold medal. At the Olympics, the Mouat rink finished in first place through the round robin with a strong 8–1 record. In the playoffs, they beat the defending champion
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rink from the United States before losing the gold medal to Sweden, skipped by Niklas Edin. Team Mouat continued their success after the Olympics, winning their second slam of the season at the
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. The team was awarded the Pinty's Cup as the season's best Grand Slam team after their win. In their final event, Team Mouat faltered for the first time all season, failing to qualify for the playoffs at the 2022 Champions Cup.


2022–present

The Scottish team had a slow start to the 2022–23 season, failing to qualify at the 2022 Baden Masters and the
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. They turned things around at the
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with a quarterfinal finish and later a semifinal appearance at the Swiss Cup Basel. At the
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, the team succeeded in defending their title. After losing just one game to Switzerland's
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in the round robin, Team Mouat got their revenge by defeating the Swiss 5–4 in the gold medal game. The next month, they made it to the final of the 2022 Masters where they lost to
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. In their next event, however, they defeated the Italians in the final of the 2023 Mercure Perth Masters. After a quarterfinal appearance at the 2023 Canadian Open, Team Mouat went undefeated to claim their fourth Scottish men's championship, defeating the
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junior rink in the final. At the
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, the team had a 10–2 round robin record, enough for a semifinal bye. After defeating Retornaz in an extra end, the team shot a 96 percent game in the final to down Canada's Gushue 9–3 and claim the gold medal. It was Scotland's first world men's title since
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won the event in . After their world championship success, the team flamed out at both the 2023 Players' Championship and the 2023 Champions Cup, failing to qualify at both events. After their dismal finish to the previous season, Team Mouat turned things around with a hot start to the 2023–24 season, winning the 2023 Euro Super Series and the 2023 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard. In both finals, the team beat Scottish rivals Team
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. They faltered slightly by missing the playoffs at the
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but got back on track with a quarterfinal finish at the
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. Next for the team was the
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where they finished second through the round robin with a 7–2 record. They then beat Switzerland's Schwaller in the semifinals before defeating Sweden's Edin 6–5 in an extra end for their fourth European title. In January, they defended their title at the 2024 Mercure Perth Masters by once again defeating the Whyte rink. After having limited success at the previous three Slams, Team Mouat claimed their sixth title with an undefeated run at the 2024 Canadian Open, defeating the
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rink in the final. At the Scottish championship, the team could not defend their title as they lost out in the semifinal to Team Craik. Despite this, they were still chosen to represent Scotland at the
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over the Ross Whyte rink who had won the Scottish championship. Before Worlds, they claimed another tour title at the Aberdeen International Curling Championship. The team had a strong start to the world championship, finishing third overall with a 10–2 record. After defeating the United States in the first round, they lost both the semifinal and bronze medal game to Canada and Italy, failing to defend their title and finishing fourth. They ended the season with a semifinal finish at the 2024 Players' Championship. Team Mouat started the 2024–25 season strong, winning the
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over Gushue 10–3. The win gave the Mouat rink their first Tour Challenge win, and with it, Team Mouat had won a championship in each of the tour's five slams in their career. The Mouat rink continued their winning streak at the 2024 Canadian Open, again beating Gushue in the final 6–3, and going undefeated to win the title. Team Mouat would again represent Scotland at the
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, where the team would go 8–1 in the round robin, but lose to Germany's
Marc Muskatewitz Marc Muskatewitz (born 28 January 1996) is a German curler from Kempten. Career Juniors Muskatewitz started playing curling in 2003, where he had a successful junior career, where he skipped the German junior men's curling team at two European ...
9–7 in the final. The Mouat rink would rebound quickly, winning their third straight 2024-25 Grand Slam title, this time defeating
Brad Jacobs Bradley Robert Jacobs (born June 11, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Calgary, Alberta. He is an Olympic champion skip, having led Canada to a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Oly ...
Alberta-based rink in the
2024 National The 2024 KIOTI National was held from November 26 to December 1 at the Mary Brown's Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was the third Grand Slam event and second major of the 2024–25 curling season. Scotland's Bruce Mouat rin ...
final, 5–3. It was a career 9th Slam win for Team Mouat, who finished the event with a 6–1 record. Team Mouat would however lose their second-straight Scottish National Championship, losing to
Ross Whyte Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998 in York, England) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. Skipping his own team, Whyte has won silver at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships and won bronze at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships and ...
in the final 8–3. However, as the current #1 ranked team in the world, Mouat was again selected by Scottish Curling to represent Scotland at the
2025 World Men's Curling Championship The 2025 World Curling Championships, World Men's Curling Championship (66th) (branded as the 2025 Balkrishna Industries, BKT Tires World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 29 to April 6 at Temple Gardens Cent ...
. At the 2025 Worlds, the Mouat rink made the most of their selection, winning their second World Championship title, beating Switzerland's Schwaller 5-4 in the final.


Personal life

McMillan Jr. is employed as a curling development officer. He is the son of world champion
Hammy McMillan Hamilton "Hammy" McMillan (born 13 July 1963) is a Scottish curler and world champion. He won a gold medal as skip for the Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick.Grant Hardie Grant Hardie (born 27 March 1992 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. He currently plays third on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Hardie has won gold at the world men's championship in and and has captured four European championship ...
and
Bobby Lammie Robert "Bobby" Lammie (born 10 February 1997 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler, originally from Stranraer, who now resides in Stirling. He currently plays second on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Lammie has won gold at the world men's championsh ...
both play on his team. His cousin Robyn Munro is his
mixed doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, and badminton (where it is known ...
partner.


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