| Alek Bédard | |
| Birth Date: | 12 December 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Lacolle, Quebec |
| Curling Club: | Lacolle CC, Lacolle, QC[1] |
| Brier Appearances: | 1 |
| Top Cca Ranking: | 60th (2019–20) |
Alek Bédard (born December 12, 1996) is a Canadian curler from Lacolle, Quebec.[2]
Bédard won his first Quebec Junior Curling Championship in 2018, skipping his team of Louis Quevillon, Émile Asselin and Bradley Lequin.[3] This qualified them for the 2018 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, held January 13–21 in Shawinigan, Quebec. At the championship, Bédard led his team to a 4–2 round robin record, which was enough to qualify them for the championship pool. They then lost three of their four games, finishing the tournament in seventh place with a 5–5 record.[4] Team Bédard aged out of juniors the following season and began competing on the World Curling Tour. In their three events, they finished runner-up at the Finale du Circuit and reached the semifinals at both the Experience Curling Classic and the Vic Open Assurances Jean Gamache.[5] At the 2019 WFG Tankard, they missed the championship round with a 3–3 record.
During the 2019–20 season, Team Bédard competed in four tour events but only found success in one, the Challenge Casino de Charlevoix, where they reached the semifinals.[6] At the 2020 Quebec Tankard, the team qualified for the championship round with a 5–1 record. They then went 2–1 in their next three games, good enough to earn them a spot in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game. They then defeated Martin Ferland 9–8 in the 3 vs. 4 game, upset Mike Fournier 9–8 in the semifinal and beat Vincent Roberge 7–2 to claim the championship title.[7] [8] Their win earned them a berth to the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier in Kingston, Ontario.[9] There, they finished with a 1–6 record, only managing to beat Team Nunavut.[10]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, the 2021 provincial championship was cancelled.[11] Curling Québec then decided to select Team Fournier to represent Quebec at the 2021 Tim Hortons Brier, meaning Team Bédard would not have the opportunity to repeat as back-to-back provincials champions.[12]
Team Bédard had a strong start to the 2021–22 season, reaching the final of the Moosehead Classic. They then won the Challenge Nord-Ouest Air Creebec, beating the Jean-Sébastien Roy rink in the final game.[13] They had two more playoff appearances during the season at the Challenge Casino de Charlevoix and the Finale du Circuit where they reached the quarterfinals and semifinals respectively.[14] The Quebec Tankard was once again cancelled due to the pandemic and the Fournier rink was appointed as the provinces representatives, ending Team Bédard's season.[15]
Bédard is currently a computer science student at the McGill University. He also works as a programmer-analyst for GIRO Inc.[2]
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–14[16] | Alek Bédard | Bradley Lequin | |||
| 2014–15 | Louis Quevillon | Alek Bédard | Julien Ethier | Bradley Lequin | |
| 2015–16 | Louis Quevillon | Alek Bédard | Julien Ethier | Bradley Lequin | |
| 2016–17 | Alek Bédard | Louis Quevillon | Bradley Lequin | ||
| 2017–18 | Alek Bédard | Louis Quevillon | Émile Asselin | Bradley Lequin | |
| 2018–19 | Alek Bédard | Louis Quevillon | Charles Auclair | ||
| 2019–20 | Alek Bédard | Louis Quevillon | Émile Asselin | Bradley Lequin | |
| 2020–21 | Alek Bédard | Louis Quevillon | Émile Asselin | Bradley Lequin | |
| 2021–22 | Alek Bédard | Louis Quevillon | Émile Asselin | Bradley Lequin |