40 Facts About Glenn Howard

Glenn William Howard was born on July 17,1962 and is a retired Canadian curler who is one of the most decorated curlers of all time.

Glenn Howard has won four world championships, four Briers and 17 Ontario provincial championships, including a record eight straight, from 2006 to 2013.

Glenn Howard has made 20 Brier appearances, playing in a total of 227 games, the third most of any curler.

Glenn Howard has won a career 14 Grand Slams, won the 2001 TSN and 2013 Dominion All-Star Skin Games and the 2010 Canada Cup of Curling.

Glenn Howard won the 1984 Ontario University Athletics Association title skipping the University of Waterloo curling team.

Glenn Howard played third for his older brother Russ for the first time at the 1983 Ontario Labatt Tankard provincial championship, representing the Bala Curling Club, due the club's small annual dues of $25 per player.

The Glenn Howard rink won their second straight provincial title in 1987, defeating Ed Werenich in the final after beating Paul Savage in the semifinal.

Glenn Howard ended up sharing the all-star third award for the tournament.

Glenn Howard was named as the tournament's all-star third.

Russ Glenn Howard moved to Moncton, New Brunswick in September 1998 after joining a company that was building a housing development on a golf course.

Glenn Howard formed his own Ontario-based team in 2000 with 1998 Olympic silver medallists Richard Hart and Collin Mitchell who had left the Mike Harris rink, plus Collin's brother Jason at lead.

Glenn Howard spared for his brother's New Brunswick-based team at the 2001 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, as the team's regular second, Rick Perron could not play due to a knee injury.

Glenn Howard played third on the team, with regular third James Grattan moving to second.

Team Glenn Howard was one of 18 rinks in the country to boycott the Brier in 2002 and 2003 due to a lack of prize money and inability to have sponsors.

Glenn Howard won his second slam at the 2004 National, defeating Jeff Stoughton in the playoffs.

Glenn Howard's team continued its dominance at the 2007 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.

Team Glenn Howard won their third straight Masters in November 2008, beating Koe again in the final.

Glenn Howard became only the third skip to win a career Grand Slam, having won all four Grand Slam majors, when he won the 2009 Canadian Open.

Glenn Howard lost just one game en route to winning the 2009 provincial championship, including beating former teammate Peter Corner in the final.

Glenn Howard lost both games, as well as his next playoff game against Jeff Stoughton's Manitoba rink.

Glenn Howard was facing two Saskatchewan stones, which were too far apart and too even to take out both.

Glenn Howard won his lone career Canada Cup championship in 2010, beating Kevin Martin in the final.

Glenn Howard won his 11th Grand Slam title at the 2012 Canadian Open of Curling, defeating future Olympic gold medallist Brad Jacobs in the final.

In January, Glenn Howard won the 2013 All-Star Skins Game, his second career TSN skins game as a skip.

The event featured random teams, and Glenn Howard was teamed up with John Morris, Carter Rycroft and Steve Gould.

Team Glenn Howard would go on to lose to Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton in the page playoff and to eventual Brier champion, Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs in the semi-final.

Glenn Howard won his 14th career Slam at the March 2014 National, defeating Brad Gushue in the final.

Unfortunately, Glenn Howard himself suffered a snowmobile accident that winter, breaking several ribs in the process, and so the team invited Wayne Middaugh to come out of retirement to skip the team.

Glenn Howard still attended the event with the team, and used his role to voice his displeasure with the team not being notified that the rocks had been 'papered' during the event despite other rinks being aware.

Glenn Howard threw some stones for the team in their game against the Yukon.

In July 2022, Glenn Howard underwent surgery to fix meniscus and tendon issues in his knee.

At the 2023 Ontario Tankard, the Glenn Howard rink went undefeated in pool play and in the championship round, only to lose in the final to the Manitoban Mike McEwen, and his Toronto-based rink which consisted of former Team Glenn Howard member Brent Laing, and former teammate Richard Hart's son, Joey.

In December 2023, while playing in the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic, Glenn Howard's knee "seized up" after playing in four games.

Glenn Howard's injury forced him to miss the rest of the tournament, in which son Scott led the shorthanded team to win the event.

In 2016, Glenn Howard was announced as the tactical coach of Team Eve Muirhead's Scottish rink.

Glenn Howard coached Muirhead rink at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where they were the Great Britain Women's Curling team.

Glenn Howard continued to coach the team when Jones was replaced by Chelsea Carey, until the team disbanded in January 2025.

At the last minute, Glenn Howard was added as an assistant coach of the Swiss team at the 2025 World Men's Curling Championship.

Glenn Howard is married and has two children, who are both curlers themselves, Scott and Carly.

Glenn Howard made a guest appearance on the CBC comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie on the season 2 episode titled "Jihad on Ice".