Sterling Middleton

Sterling Middleton (born December 8, 1998) is a Canadian curler, originally from Fort St. John, British Columbia.

Growing up in the Peace Region of British Columbia meant that Middleton was eligible to curl competitively out of B.C.

[1] Middleton was chosen to be play lead on the Canadian team at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, along with skip Mary Fay, Tardi and Karlee Burgess.

The pair made it to the quarter-finals before losing to the eventual gold medallists of Yako Matsuzawa of Japan and Philipp Hösli of Switzerland.

The team represented Canada at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships, where they finished the round robin with a 6–3 record, but lost to Norway in a tiebreaker game.

That year, Tardi and Middleton also represented British Columbia at the 2017 Canadian U18 Curling Championships,[1] losing just one round robin game.

However, they were not successful in the playoffs, losing in the semifinal, but rebounded in the bronze medal game, defeating Saskatchewan's Rylan Kleiter.

After posting a 7–2 round robin record, they won both playoff games, including defeating Switzerland's Marco Hösli rink in the final.

They played in his first Grand Slam event at the 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup by virtue of winning the World Junior championship.

The team played at the 2022 BC Men's Curling Championship, where they were eliminated in the C1 vs. C2 page playoff game against Jim Cotter.

[2] In their first season together, the team won the 2023 BC Men's Curling Championship and represented British Columbia at the 2023 Tim Hortons Brier.