Jake Higgs 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 Harriston, Ontario

Harriston, Ontario

Harriston is a community in the town of Minto in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Although Harriston was formerly a village, it was amalgamated with Palmerston and Clifford to create Minto. The village has one public school , as well as shops and restaurants...

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Higgs played second for Wayne Tuck's mixed team, that won a provincial championship in 2008-09, giving them the right to represent Ontario at the 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship

2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship

The 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held November 9-16, 2008 at the Arniatok Arena in Iqaluit, Nunavut. It was the first national championships of any sport to be held in Nunavut. Two members of the winning team represented Canada at the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling...

. The team lost in the final to Sean Grassie's Manitoba rink. Higgs was also a member of the team that won the 2002 provincial mixed championship.

Higgs began skipping a men's team in 2008, which finished fourth place at the 2009 provincial championship

2009 TSC Stores Tankard

The 2009 TSC Stores Tankard was the 2009 edition of the Ontario provincial men's curling tournament. It was held on February 2-8 at the Woodstock District Community Complex in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada...

. In 2010, his team played in its first Grand Slam

Capital One Grand Slam of Curling

The Capital One Grand Slam is a series of curling bonspiels and are a part of the annual World Curling Tour. Grand Slams tend to offer the most amount of money out of all the bonspiels in the curling season, and usually feature the best teams from across Canada and around the World...

 event, losing three straight before being eliminated at the 2010 Players' Championships

2010 Players' Championships

The 2010 Grey Power Players' Championship was the last Grand Slam event of both the World Curling Tour and Women's World Curling Tour for the 2009-10 season. This was the eighteenth time the event took place, and the fifth time since it was switched to joint men's/women's format. The event was held...

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In his career, Higgs has won just one 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....

 event. He won the Bacardi Cashspeil in 2000 while playing lead for Heath McCormick.

Grand Slam record

Event	2009–10 2009-10 curling season The 2009–10 curling season began in September 2009 and ended in April 2010.-Season of Champions top three finishes:-Other events:-World Curling Tour events:-Women's World Curling Tour events:...	2010–11
World Cup	DNP	Q
Canadian Open BDO Canadian Open of Curling The BDO Canadian Open of Curling is an annual curling men's bonspiel. It is one of the Grand Slam events on the World Curling Tour.-Event names:*Telus Canadian Open: 2001*M&M Meat Shops Canadian Open: 2002*Canadian Open: 2003, 2005...	DNP	Q
The National The National (curling) The Swiss Chalet National is an annual curling men's bonspiel. It is one of four men's Grand Slam events on the World Curling Tour.-Champions:* Called the BDO Curling Classic**Maxime Elmaleh curled for the team in the final...	DNP	-
Players' Championships Players' Championships The Players' Championships is the final event on the World Curling Tour, and a part of the Grand Slam of Curling, being the only slam to feature both a women's and men's tournament...	Q	-

Key

• C – Champion
• F – Lost final
• SF – Lost semi final
• QF – Lost quarter final
• Q – Did not make playoffs
• DNP – Did not participate in event

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