Morris, Earle

Year Inducted / Année Intronisé:

2016

Province / Province:

Ontario

Category / Catégorie:

Curler/Builder

Biography / Biographie:

Earle Morris has devoted his adult life to sport of curling, impacting the game in a number of different areas of play, coaching and national performance programming.

“Wow! What an honour!” said Morris, who’ll be coaching Team Canada (featuring his son John Morris at third) at the Tim Hortons Brier in his hometown of Ottawa. “I am humbled and proud to be selected. I have been in love with the sport and the people of curling forever, so it is amazing to be chosen for doing something I enjoy so much!”

His curling career was highlighted by his history-making achievement as the first man to represent three different provinces at the Brier: Manitoba in 1980, Quebec in 1982 and Ontario in 1985, a feat now matched by his son and Ryan Fry.

Morris’s remarkable coaching career includes mentoring Canadian champions John Morris (juniors in 1998), Rachel Homan (juniors in 2010, Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2013 and 2014) and Pat Simmons (2015 Brier).  Those teams won one world championship, two world silver medals and two world bronze medals.

Morris spends much of his time working with adults and youth at the recreation level, including being a major influence on Curling Canada’s Adult Learn To Curl programme, which is changing the look and feel of curling clubs across the country. His concept to replace the traditional one-day fall course with this new programme, and the creation of a curriculum to train the trainers in Canadian curling centres, has been a game changer for curling.

Additionally, Earle was the General Manager of the Canadian Curling Association from 1987 to 1989.