Alexander Justin Bruce Horvath (born February 26, 1998) is a Canadian curler from

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. He currently plays

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on Team Catlin Schneider. He is a former World and Canadian Junior champion.

Career

Horvath first curled competitively on the national level at the

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. That season, Horvath played

on the

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rink that won the BC Junior men's title. Representing British Columbia at the Canadian Juniors, the de Jong-led rink finished the event with a 5–5 record. Horvath joined the two-time Canadian Junior and defending World Junior champion Tyler Tardi rink in 2018, playing lead on the team. The rink began the season by winning the 2018

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World Curling Tour event. Later on in the season, the team won another provincial junior title. At the

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, the team won championship, Horvath's lone national junior title, but the third-straight for Tardi. The team lost just one game en route to the title, and defeated Manitoba's J.T. Ryan in the final. The team represented Canada at the

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. After posting a 7–2 round robin record, they won both playoff games, including defeating Switzerland's Marco Hösli rink in the final. The team played in the 2019 BC Men's Curling Championship as well that season, where they were eliminated after posting a 2–3 record. The team wrapped up the season by playing in the

2019 Champions Cup The 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup was held from April 23 to 28 at the Merlis Belsher Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It was the eighth and final Grand Slam event of the 2018–19 curling season. In the men's final, Brendan Bottcher defeated Kev ...

Grand Slam event, which they qualified for by winning the World Juniors that season. There, the team went win-less in their four matches. Horvath also won a BC Mixed Championship in 2019, throwing

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on a team skipped by Cameron de Jong. The team represented British Columbia at the

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, going 5-5. The 2019-20 curling season would have been the team's last year of junior eligibility, but they decided to make the jump to men's curling full-time, eschewing the junior ranks. In their first post-junior season, Team Tardi won the 2019

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on the World Curling Tour. The team also made the playoffs at the 2020 BC Men's Curling Championship, where they lost in the final to Jim Cotter. The season abruptly ended due to the

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, and Horvath was replaced by Jason Ginter on the team for the following abbreviated season. Horvath joined the

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rink for the 2022-23 curling season. In their first season together, the team won the

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and represented British Columbia at the

2023 Tim Hortons Brier The 2023 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship, was held from March 3 to 12 at the Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario. The defending champion Team Canada rink, skipped by Brad Gushue won the event, and will go on to re ...

. At the Brier, the team finished with a 3-5 record.

Personal life

Horvath works as an ice technician at the Victoria and Esquimalt Curling Clubs. He began curling at age three, and has claimed he was conceived after his parents "drank too many paralyzers" at an

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curling tournament. Outside of men's curling, Horvath coached the

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women's curling team in 2023.

References

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