Martin Crête
Martin Crête is a Canadian curler from Lévis, Quebec. He was the long time third for Jean-Michel Ménard from 2007 to 2018.Career
Crête played as a competitive junior skip near the beginning of his career, finishing as the runner-up at the 2002 Canadian Junior Curling Championships and in third place at the 2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. He also skipped Team Quebec at the 2004, 2005, and 2006 Canadian Junior Championships, finishing sixth, fourth, and fourth, respectively. He also competed in the 2006 Quebec men's provincial championship, finishing tied for fifth after a loss to Pierre Charette in the playoffs.
After he joined Jean-Michel Ménard as third, Crête went to his first Brier in 2008, where he represented Quebec under Ménard. They finished in sixth place with a 4–7 win-loss record. The team returned the next year, finishing in fifth place with a 7–4 win-loss record after losing the tiebreaker for the fourth place playoff spot against Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton. Crête and the rest of the team won the Quebec provincials again in 2013 and returned to the Brier, where, after a strong start, they finished in sixth place with a 6–5 win-loss record. The team won the Quebec Tankard again in 2014, and had a strong performance at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier, finishing 7–4 in the round robin, winning the 3–4 game, but losing in semifinal and the bronze medal game. The team won their third straight provincial Tankard in 2015. At the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier, they had to settle with a 6–5 record, missing the playoffs. They won a fourth straight Quebec Tankard in 2016, but had a rather lackluster 2016 Tim Hortons Brier, finishing with a 4–7 record. The team won their final Tankard in 2017 together. They had a strong performance at the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier, finishing with a 7–4 record, but that year it was not good enough to make the playoffs. The team lost in the final of the 2018 provincials to Mike Fournier, and did not make that year's Brier. At the end of the season, Ménard retired from competitive curling and Crête took over the team as skip. Replacing Crête at third would be Philippe Lemay.
In their first Tankard with their new lineup, Crête beat Fournier in the final, and represented Quebec at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier, where he led Team Quebec to a 3–4 finish, missing the championship round.Crête lives in Lévis, Quebec. He works as a Business Intelligence architect for Desjardins Group. He is married to fellow curler Véronique Brassard and has three children.
