Steve Laycock
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Steve Laycock is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 curler
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

 from Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Saskatoon is a city in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. Residents of the city of Saskatoon are called Saskatonians. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344....

. He currently skips his team out of the Tartan Curling Club in Regina.

In 2003, Laycock skipped Team Saskatchewan to a Canadian Junior Curling Championship
Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The Canadian Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best junior-level curling team in Canada. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 20 as of December 31 in the year prior to the tournament....

 and a World Junior Curling Championship
World Junior Curling Championships
The World Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competition for both men and women occur at the same venue. The men's tournament has occurred since 1975 and the women's 1988...

. Since then, he has tried repeatedly to skip a team to the provincial men's championship in 2004, 2005 and 2006, but has been unsuccessful in all of his attempts. In 2006 he joined up with Simmons as his lead, and finally won a provincial championship in 2007. He would return again in 2008 and once more in 2011, this time throwing third stones and calling the game. Pat Simmons left the team at the end of the season, leaving Laycock to find a replacement third. Laycock announced the addition of Joel Jordison to his team for 2011/2012.

Laycock works as a courier for FedEx
FedEx
FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...

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