John Allan Epping was born on March 20,1983 and is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario.
17 Facts About John Epping
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John Epping currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto.
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John Epping won the 2006 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship with Julie Reddick, Scott Foster and Leigh Armstrong.
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John Epping won the 2007 provincial mixed as well, but could not defend his national title.
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In 2010, John Epping parted from Middaugh to form his own team.
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John Epping competed in the 2018 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials with Sherry Middaugh, who replaced his usual mixed doubles partner Lisa Weagle, who had qualified in the team event with Rachel Homan.
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Team John Epping won the 2018 Masters, his fourth grand slam title, completing a career Grand Slam for John Epping by winning all four "majors".
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At the 2023 Tankard, John Epping's rink reached the semifinal, falling to eventual winners Team Mike McEwen.
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At the 2024 Ontario Tankard, Team John Epping made it to the semifinals, where they lost to an upstart Jayden King rink.
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John Epping would announce at the beginning of the season that he would be joining Ian McMillan and brothers Tanner and Jacob Horgan out of Sudbury in Northern Ontario.
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John Epping would go undefeated at the 2025 Northern Ontario Men's Provincial Curling Championship to win his first Northern Ontario title and go to the 2025 Montana's Brier.
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John Epping has found success in mixed doubles curling with partner Lisa Weagle.
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At the 2024 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, she and John Epping lost in the qualification playoff game to Nancy Martin and Steve Laycock.
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John Epping's mother is an avid curler, and his grandfather founded the Ennismore Curling Club just outside John Epping's hometown of Peterborough.
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John Epping is employed as a curling consultant with "John Epping Consulting".
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John Epping is openly gay, having coming out to his parents in the Fall of 2011, before telling his then-team in 2012, and coming out publicly in 2017.
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In 2020, John Epping was featured in the Men of Curling calendar where he fundraised for the non-profit organization LGBT Youthline.