Kyle Doering (born December 14, 1995) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He currently the second on Team Aaron Sluchinski. He is a former Canadian junior champion and World junior bronze medallist.
Career
Youth
Doering's first major curling accomplishment was at the 2011 Canada Winter Games, where he led his Manitoba rink of Colton Lott, Derek Oryniak, and Lucas Van Den Bosch to a bronze medal. The same rink won the Manitoba Junior Championship in 2012 and represented the province at the 2012 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. At age 16, Doering was the youngest skip there.[3] He led his rink to a 9–3 round-robin record, putting them in a tiebreaker match against Nova Scotia's Stuart Thompson. They beat Nova Scotia,[4] sending them to the semifinal against Northern Ontario, skipped by Brennan Wark, which they lost 7–3.[5] Doering skipped at the 2013 Manitoba Juniors as well, losing in the semifinal, and made it to the quarterfinals in 2014.
Doering won a second Manitoba junior title in 2016 playing second for Matt Dunstone. Representing Manitoba, the team, which also consisted of Colton Lott and Gordon lost just one game at the 2016 Canadian Junior Curling Championships en route to a national title. The team then went on to represent Canada at the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships. There, the team lost two round-robin games, then lost the 3 vs. 4-page playoff game against Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller. The team had a re-match against Switzerland in the bronze medal game, which they won. Off the curling rink, Doering and the team's alternate Wade Ford ended up saving the life of a local Danish construction worker, after he was pinned under a backhoe-type machine. The two were walking from their hotel to the curling rink at the time, along with Doering's grandfather. Doering's grandfather, Ford, and a passer-by lifted the machine, while Doering pulled the worker out, thereby saving his life.[6]
In 2016, Doering joined the Braden Calvert junior rink. The team played in the 2017 Manitoba junior finals, where they lost to J. T. Ryan in the final.[7]
While still a junior, Doering played one season for the Jason Gunnlaugson rink in 2014–15, playing second on the team. The rink played in the 2015 Safeway Championship, Doering's first trip to the Manitoba Men's Championship. There, Team Gunnlaugson won five games and almost made it to the playoffs. The following season, as a member of the Dunstone junior rink, Doering played in the 2016 Viterra Championship, that year's provincial men's championship. There, the team made it all the way to the final before losing to Mike McEwen in the Manitoba final. On the World Curling Tour, the team won the Bernick's Miller Lite Open event that season.
In 2016, Gunnlaugson took over the team, with Doering continuing to play second on the team. The team played in the 2017 Viterra Championship. There, the team made it to the playoffs but lost to Trevor Loreth in the 3 vs. 4 game. On the tour, the team won the Performance Spider Midweek Special earlier in the season.
After the COVID-19 pandemic abbreviated 2020–21 season, Doering joined up again with Simmons for the again for the 2021–22 curling season.[8] They played in the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials, where they finished with a 4–2 round-robin record. The team made the playoffs, where they lost in the B Semifinal to Glenn Howard. The team's third Colton Lott later took over the team that season and led them at the 2022 Viterra Championship. Lott led the team all the way to the final, where they lost to Mike McEwen. Doering was asked to be the alternate for Team McEwen at the 2022 Tim Hortons Brier, where they represented Manitoba.[9] It was Doering's first trip to the Brier. Doering played in one game, and the team was eliminated after losing a tiebreaker. Doering joined the Alberta-based Team Karsten Sturmay to wrap up the season. They played in the 2022 Champions Cup Grand Slam event and finished 1–4.
Doering attended Garden City Collegiate in Winnipeg,[6] and then the University of Winnipeg.[12] He currently works as a community relations officer with the Winnipeg Humane Society. He is in a relationship with Ashley Groff.[1]