Coleman MacDonald

This year will see Coleman MacDonald of Williamstown sliding his way into his 52nd consecutive season of curling and the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame. The 80 year old has not missed a year of throwing MacDonald’s accomplishments and successes have been equalled by few others in the area.

In 2012, he reveived the 40 year pin for participation in the Moose Bonspiel hosted annually by the Alexandria Curling Club where he won All-Star skip in 1986. He also received the 20 year pin for participation in the Monctonian Bonspiel which, at its peak, hosted over 70 teams from Eastern Canada and the United States. As skip with his Lancaster team, he won the prestigious Lord Elgin Bonspiel in Montreal, a spiel that once hosted over 80 teams. Playing third, he was part of a team that won the 11th Annual Moose Bonspiel in 1975.

Along with his late wife Joan, they founded the Glengarry Cup that’s been running successfully for over 30 years. MacDonald has won many trophies and bonspiels in Glengarry, Vankleek Hill, Hawkesbury, Brownsburg and Morrisburg.

In 1997, he was granted a lifetime membership at the Lancaster Club where he was a member of the executive for 29 years. According to members of the Lancaster and District Curling Club of which he’s been a member since he started playing he’s been a popular skip and an excellent ambassador for the sport he’s so passionate about.

MacDonald recalled a year when he won 17 games in a row, inside the club and out.
As a leader in the sport, he truly recognizes that it’s team effort and its cohesion that produces success.

A farmer all his life, MacDonald’s been a cash cropper since 2002 and still curls twice a week despite knee injuries. Last year he won two bonspiels in Lancaster and feels as good about the sport as they day he started. 
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