Curling has been a passion for Paul Madden from the time he joined the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School curling team in 1978.
He remembers local coaches and mentors like Bob Colliver, who ran the school program, and Carl Wallace, who provided many hours of support and drove curlers to competitions.
Wins were great, but Paul admits it was losing a close game that motivated him to aim for better outcomes. It was in 1980, his final year of high school at HHSS, when the team just missed an opportunity to compete in the Ontario Schoolboy Curling Championship.
Since those formative years, he went on, with his team mates, to compete in nine Ontario Men’s Curling Championships, achieving a gold medal in 1999. Other championship titles include the Ontario Senior Mixed Championship win in 2014, a series of silver and gold medals in the Ontario Senior Men’s Curling Championship from 2015 to 2024, and triumphs at the Canadian Senior Men’s Curling Championship with a silver medal in 2017 and gold in 2022.
Competing with the best curlers in the world, Paul and his teammates Howard Rajala, Rich Moffatt and Chris Fulton continued to dominate; winning gold at the Canadian Senior Men’s Curling Championship and the World Senior Men’s Championship (held in South Korea) in 2023 and gold at the Canadian Masters Curling Championships in 2024.
In 2018, Paul was honoured with induction into the Rideau Curling Club Hall of Fame. As a World Senior curler, Paul has played in Europe, North America and Asia representing Canada and making his hometown proud.
