Ross Paterson

Ross Paterson (born March 13, 1984) is a retired Scottish curler from Glasgow.

Paterson represented Scotland at the 2005 World Junior Curling Championships, playing third for the Logan Gray rink.

After finishing the round robin with an undefeated 9–0 record, they lost in the semifinal against Canada, and settled for a bronze medal, after defeating the United States in the bronze medal game.

Paterson won his first World Curling Tour event at the 2006 Mercure Perth Masters, playing for the David Edwards rink.

Paterson would later join the Hammy McMillan rink, playing second.

He also won silver at the 2007 Winter Universiade and bronze at the 2005 World Junior Curling Championships in his junior career.

Paterson was the alternate on the British team skipped by John Hamilton at the 2007 Winter Universiade.

Paterson did not play in any games, but won a silver medal as a member of the team.

The team played in the 2010 European Curling Championships, finishing in fifth place.

In 2011, Paterson joined David Murdoch's rink at second, and finished fifth once again at the 2011 European Curling Championships.

Paterson played for Logan Gray once again, for two seasons between 2012 and 2014.

In 2014, he won the Perth Masters once again as a member of the team.

In 2014, Paterson joined the Tom Brewster rink.

The team won three events in their first season together, the Swiss Cup Basel, the Curling Masters Champery and the Dumfries Curling Challenge.

They would miss out on the playoffs at the 2015 Scottish Men's Curling Championship, finishing with a 4–5 record.

Team Brewster had a strong tour season during the 2015–16 season, beginning at the Baden Masters where they lost in the final to Sweden's Niklas Edin.

They next played in the 2015 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 2 event where they made it to the semifinals, losing out to Mark Kean.

The team played in the qualifier for the 2015 European Curling Championships, however, lost in the best-of-three final to the Kyle Smith rink.

Later on in the season, Team Brewster made two more tour finals at the Dumfries Challenger Series and the Aberdeen International Curling Championship where they lost to Bruce Mouat and David Murdoch respectively.

He is a two-time champion at the Scottish Men's Curling Championship, winning the title in both 2016 and 2022.

The team was successful at the 2016 Scottish Men's Curling Championship, however, only losing one game en route to claiming the championship title.

This earned them the right to represent Scotland at the 2016 World Men's Curling Championship, Paterson's first.

There, the team finished with a 5–6 round robin record, placing seventh.

The following season, Team Brewster earned two titles at the 2016 Karuizawa International and the 2017 Perth Masters.

They were also successful at the European qualifier, going on to represent Scotland at the 2016 European Curling Championships where they finished in sixth place.

Also during the 2016–17 season, Paterson joined the David Murdoch rink as their alternate for the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship after losing to them in the Scottish Championship.

They finished in sixth place with a 6–5 record, though Paterson himself did not play in any games.

Team Brewster concluded their season at the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup where they finished with a 1–3 record.

Paterson joined the Greg Drummond rink for the 2017–18 season as Drummond's third.

In their one season together, the team, consisting of Paterson, Drummond, Gregor Cannon and Michael Goodfellow finished runner-up at the Curling Masters Champéry and reached the semifinals of both the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic as well as the Qinghai International.

They competed in two slams, missing the playoffs at both the 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 2 and the 2017 Boost National.

They would finish second at the Scottish Championship after losing to the Bruce Mouat rink in the final.

During his career, he represented Scotland at four World Men's Curling Championships and four European Curling Championships, winning a bronze medal at both the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship and the 2019 European Curling Championships.

In 2018, he skipped his team to victory at the 2018 National Grand Slam of Curling event.

Paterson would, however, join the Mouat rink at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship, where they won a bronze medal.

For the 2018–19 season, Paterson formed his own rink with Kyle Waddell, Duncan Menzies and Michael Goodfellow.

The team had a successful first season on tour.

In their first few events together, they reached the semifinals of the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and the Red Deer Curling Classic as well as the final of the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic where they were defeated by the Glen Muirhead rink in an all-Scottish final.

Team Paterson played in six of the seven Grand Slam events during the season, finding the most success at the 2018 National where they defeated Team Bruce Mouat in the final, in the first all-Scotland Grand Slam final.

They also made the playoffs at two other Slams, reaching the semifinals of the 2019 Players' Championship and the quarterfinals of the 2018 Masters.