Dale Matchett 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 from Alliston, Ontario

Alliston, Ontario

Alliston is a settlement in Simcoe County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is part of the Town of New Tecumseth since the 1991 amalgamation of Alliston and nearby villages of Beeton, Tottenham, and the Township of Tecumseth...

. Matchett is a former provincial junior curling champion and a regular on the World Curling Tour

World Curling Tour

The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

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Matchett is legally blind in his right eye following a surgery to remove the lens in his eye in 1996.

In his junior career, Matchett qualified for four provincial junior championships

Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships

The Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament. It is the provincial curling championship for curling teams aged 20 and under in Southern Ontario. The winning team represents Ontario at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships....

 (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996), winning in 1994 playing second for Joe Frans

Joe Frans

Joseph "Joe" Frans is a Canadian curler from Acton, Ontario. Frans is most notable for being a two-time provincial champion and for being suspended from competitive curling for cocaine usage....

. The team would then represent Ontario at the 1994 Canadian Junior Curling Championships

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....

, where they finished with a 7-4 record in 4th place.http://www.curling.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Juniors_Men_1994.pdf. The same year Matchett skipped his Bradford District High School

Bradford District High School

Bradford District High School is a public, English-language secondary school located in Bradford, Ontario. It is managed by the Simcoe County District School Board...

 team to the Ontario Schoolboy Championship.http://www.ontcurl.com/competitions/past-champions.aspx?id=420

Matchett and his team consisting of third Ryan Werenich, second Jeff Gorda, and lead Shawn Kaufman have won 10 Ontario Curling Tour Events since the fall of 2005.

Ontario Curling Tour Wins

• 2005 Brampton Classic
• 2006 Sudbury Open
• 2007 Gord Widdis Memorial Las Vegas
• 2008 OCT Championships
• 2008 KW Classic
• 2008 Nissan Classic
• 2008 Gord Widdis Memorial Las Vegas
• 2009 KW Classic
• 2010 Brampton Classic
• 2010 Nissan Classic

Although his team has had success on the Ontario Curling Tour, Matchett and team have suffered losses in the final of the OCT Championships, and the regional final of the TSC Stores Tankard in 2007.

Matchett and his rink have played in five Grand Slam events in his career. He did not make the playoffs until the 2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling

2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling

The 2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling was held from January 26–30 at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. This event was the third men's Grand Slam event in the 2010-11 curling season. The purse for this event was CAD$100,000...

, where he lost in the quarterfinal. He has played in two provincial championships - in 2006, finishing fourth and in 2011.