Marc Kennedy

Kennedy was born in St. Albert, Alberta. He is a Canadian Winter Games champion[3] and three-time provincial junior champion. He won his first provincial men's championship with Kevin Martin in 2007. As a junior, he played second for Carter Rycroft at the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championships and played third for Jeff Erickson at the 1999 and 2001 Canadian Juniors.

In 2003 Kennedy was an alternate for the 2003 Winter Universiade gold medal winning team from Brandon University skipped by Mike McEwen.

After 2-time World Junior Champion John Morris moved to Alberta in 2003, Kennedy joined his team at second position. In 2004, they lost the Canada Cup final to Randy Ferbey.

In 2006, both Morris and Kennedy joined 2-time Brier champion Kevin Martin on his new team.

In 2008, Kennedy won the Brier and the World Championships as a member of the team. They repeated their Brier win in 2009 going undefeated for a second straight year and setting a record for consecutive Brier games won (26) previously held by the Ferbey foursome.

In 2010, Kennedy won an Olympic Gold Medal in Vancouver with Kevin Martin, John Morris and Ben Hebert as Team Canada defeated Thomas Ulsrud of Norway 6-3 in the Gold Medal Game.

After a win at the Alberta provincials, Kennedy headed with Team Martin to the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier. They went through the round robin with a 9-2 win-loss record, and lost the page 3 vs. 4 playoff game to Ontario and the bronze medal game to Newfoundland/Labrador. Kennedy left the Brier prior to the bronze medal game because he and his wife were expecting a new child.

In 2013, Kennedy and Team Martin won the Alberta provincials with a close win over Kevin Koe, to earn a berth in the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier in their hometown Edmonton. On the first day, Kennedy won the Ford Hot Shots skills and shot-making competition that precedes the start of round-robin play.[4] The team played in the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing third.

Following Kevin Martin's retirement from curling in 2014, Kennedy joined Team Kevin Koe at third. They played in their first Brier together in 2015, finishing with a 6-5 record, missing the playoffs. In December 2015, Kennedy, along with his teammates, claimed the first berth in the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials with their Canada Cup victory in Grande Prairie, AB. The team continued their winning ways that season by winning the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier and a gold medal at the 2016 World Men's Curling Championship. Representing Team Canada as defending champions, the team lost in the final of the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier.

The team would go on to win the 2017 Olympic Trials, and represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing fourth.

Following the 2017-18 season Kennedy announced he would be taking a break from competitive curling to heal injuries and focus on family. [5] He subsequently took a position as national team program performance consultant with Curling Canada.[6] He was invited to play third for team Brad Jacobs at the 2018 Canada Cup, to fill in for Ryan Fry, who took a couple of events off, following unsportsmanlike behaviour from an event he played in.[7] Kennedy's addition to the team worked out, and they would win the event.[8] Kennedy announced in March 2019 that he would join Team Jacobs to replace Ryan Fry for the next three curling seasons. [9] In their first event, the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, the team went undefeated up until the final where they would lose to Team Epping. Team Jacobs won three straight Grand Slam events, at the Tour Challenge, National and the Canadian Open. They would unsurprisingly win the 2020 Northern Ontario Men's Provincial Curling Championship, going in as the number one seed. At the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, they battled through two tiebreakers before losing to Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue in the 3 vs. 4 game, all within the same day.

Kennedy is married to his wife Nicole Kennedy (née MacDonald), and they have two daughters.

Kennedy has a marketing degree from the University of Alberta. He was a franchise owner for M&M Meat Shops until he sold his business in 2012 to focus more on curling. He currently works as a real estate agent for Sarasota Realty.[10] Kennedy is a Hec Gervais Scholarship winner, as well as a Can Fund recipient[11] He is also currently an MBA Student at the University of Alberta.[12] Marc and Nicole began a youth bonspiel in 2016 called the Marc Kennedy Junior Classic which is held in St. Albert and Edmonton. Going into its fifth year the spiel sees over 200 athletes participating (52 teams). The Bonspiel has seen a spin off program in 2018 (Over The Pond) introducing international teams selected through the Nordic Jr Curling Tour. Two Canadian teams are also selected and visit the year end event in Sweden.

Kennedy currently works as a coaching consultant for Curling Canada.[13]

• Canadian Curling Championship First Team All Star(Second) 2007
• Canadian Curling Championship First Team All Star(Second) 2008
• World Curling Tour MVP 2008
• Canadian Curling Championship First Team All Star(Second) 2009
• University Of Alberta

Award of Excellence 2010

• Canadian Curling Championship

First Team All Star(Second) 2011

• Canadian Curling Championship Second Team All Star(Second) 2013
• Canadian Curling Championship Second Team All Star(Second) 2015
• TSN Top Male Second Of All Time 2019
• TSN #8 Top Male Player Of All Time 2019

• Marc Kennedy at International Olympic Committee
• Marc Kennedy at Olympedia
• Marc Kennedy at World Curling Federation
• Marc Kennedy at CurlingZone