Jonathan Beuk

[Jonathan (Jon) Beuk](http://www.popularpages.net/paysite_231.html) (born April 18, 1983 in Etobicoke, Ontario) is a Canadian curler and a Ph.D. candidate in the Neuroscience Program at Queen's University
Beuk is in the second year of his PhD and his academic research focuses on examining the neural basis of action control. He obtained his B.Sc.H. from the Psychology Program at Queen's University (2006). He then completed a M.Sc. degree also at Queen's in 2008.
Beuk is best known in the Ontario curling community for being a member of the Queen's University Golden Gael curling team for seven years and current coach. Beuk has been a part of one OUA championship team during the 2003-04 season and one CIS championship team in 2009-10.
In 2007-08 he skipped the Golden Gaels at the CIS championship to a 5-1 round robin record. However, they lost in the quarter-finals to former World Junior Champion Charley Thomas from the University of Calgary.
After an abysmal 2008-09 season and 2009-10 OUA season, the Beuk-led Gaels got a back door invite to the CIS championship after teams from Laurentian and Trent declined invitations. Riding Beuk's First Team All-Canadian shot making the Gaels placed first in the round robin before dispatching the Manitoba Bisons in the semi-final and former Canadian Junior Champion and World Junior Silver Medalist Brett Gallant and UPEI in the final to win the Canadian championship. This win qualifies Beuk and the rest of his team for the world championship 2011 FISU Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey.
Beuk has also had some success in mixed curling. He skipped his team to a third place finish at the 2009 Ontario Mixed Championships.
In Beuk's less-heralded junior career he was once disqualified by the Ontario Curling Association for submitting an illegal entry into the zone competition.

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