Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall (born July 10, 1997 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon. He currently skips his own team out of Victoria, British Columbia. He was a member of the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships gold medallist team.

Career Juniors In 2013, Hall and his rink of Phil Malvar, Mackenzie Reid and Cody McGhee won the Ontario Bantam Boys Championship. The team went on to represent Ontario at the 2015 Canada Games, where they picked up a silver medal. With this team, he won the Ontario Juniors again, and skipped Ontario at the 2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. There, the team won a tiebreaker match, and a semifinal before losing to British Columbia's Tyler Tardi in the final. Also in 2017, Hall led his Sir Wilfrid Laurier University men's curling team of Robert Lyon-Hatcher, Kenneth Malcolmson and Russell Cuddie to a 3–4 record at the 2017 U Sports/Curling Canada University Championships.

For his final year of juniors, Hall moved to Surrey, British Columbia to play for the then two-time Canadian and defending World Junior champion Tyler Tardi rink at second. The team started the season by winning the 2018 King Cash Spiel tour event. The team represented British Columbia at the 2019 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, winning a gold medal with just one loss along the way. The team represented Canada at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships, where they suffered just two losses en route to winning the gold medal. Between the Canadian and World Juniors, the team also made a run at the 2019 BC Men's Curling Championship, but failed to qualify for the playoffs. As World Junior champions, the team was invited to play at the 2019 Champions Cup Grand Slam event, where they were winless.

Men's After juniors, Hall returned to Ontario, forming a team of Alex Champ, Terry Arnold, Scott Clinton. The team qualified for the 2020 Ontario Tankard, the provincial men's championship, where he led his team to a 5–3 round robin record, before losing to Scott McDonald in a tiebreaker. Later in the season, he led his Wilfrid Laurier University team of John Willsey, Jordie Lyon-Hatcher, Graham Singer and Adam Vincent to an undefeated gold medal performance at the 2020 U Sports/Curling Canada University Curling Championships in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, beating the Dalhousie University Tigers in the final.

Hall later moved to Saskatchewan for the 2023-24 curling season, joining the Rylan Kleiter rink as second. The team finished in second place at the 2024 SaskTel Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship, losing to Mike McEwen 7–3 in the final. In their second season together, the team found even more success, winning the Tier 2 event of the 2024 Tour Challenge Grand Slam event. This win automatically qualified the team for the 2025 Masters Grand Slam event, where they finished with a 1–3 record. Shortly after their Grand Slam event, Kleiter also won their first SaskTel Tankard, beating Steve Laycock 8–5 in the final, qualifying them to represent Saskatchewan at the 2025 Montana's Brier.

Personal life In June 2020, Hall graduated with Dinstinction and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Honours Financial Mathematics from Wilfrid Laurier University. He is currently attending the University of Waterloo for a Masters of Mathematics in Computational Mathematics, specializing in the Implementation in Deep Neural Network Solutions of Financial Modelling Problems. Before attending Laurier, Hall went to Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute. While living in Surrey, he was a curling instructor at the Cloverdale Curling Club.