While growing up in South Burnaby, Bryan Miki was schooled in the art of curling by his father Fuji, who had won provincial and Canadian championships. Bryan’s superb shooting and sweeping skills landed him a spot as the second for skip Greg McAulay.

The team won a provincial title in 1998 and went on to represent B.C. at the Brier Canadian men’s curling championship in Winnipeg finishing tied for fourth with a 7-4 round-robin record before losing a tiebreaker to Saskatchewan.

They were back at the 2000 Brier, this time in Saskatoon. This time, though, they finished first in the round robin (9-2) and defeated legendary skip Russ Howard of New Brunswick in the final 9-5 with Miki curling 98 per cent. A few weeks later in Glasgow, Scotland, they again won the round robin (8-1) and downed Sweden’s Peja Lindholm 9-4 in the final making Miki a world champion.