Daniel Bruce (born January 14, 1999) is a

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curler originally from

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. He currently plays

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on Team

Ryan McNeil Lamswood Ryan McNeil Lamswood (born March 19, 2000) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He currently skips his own team on the World Curling Tour. Career McNeil Lamswood competed in five Canadian Junior Curling Championship ...

Career

Bruce competed in three

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in his junior career in 2018, 2019 and 2020. His best result came in 2020 skipping his own team of

at third,

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at second and Nathan King at lead. The team finished the round robin and championship pool with an 8–2 record, which qualified them for the playoffs. They defeated

Rylan Kleiter Rylan Kleiter (born July 4, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He currently skips his own team. Team Kleiter is known for their brightly coloured paint splash pants. Career Kleiter and his rink of Trevor Johnson, Joshua ...

of Saskatchewan in the semifinal before coming up short to

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's Manitoba rink in the final. It was the first time since 2011 that Newfoundland and Labrador qualified for the playoffs. Also in his junior career, Bruce won a silver medal at the 2019

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as third for

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. Out of juniors, Bruce joined the

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rink for the 2020–21 season. The team competed in the 2021 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard, where they lost in a tiebreaker to

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. In 2021, Bruce reunited with McNeil Lamswood and King to compete for the 2021-22 season. They beat Team

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to become the team to represent the Memorial University Seahawks at the 2022 Atlantic University Sport Curling Championships. They ended up placing runner-up to the Dalhousie Tigers team. In the

2022 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard The 2022 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard, the men's provincial curling championship for Newfoundland and Labrador, was held from February 8 to 13 at the RE/MAX Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The winning Nathan Young team re ...

the team failed to qualify for the play-offs; finishing with a 3-5 record.

Personal life

Bruce is currently (December 2022) a student at

Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and ...

. He currently lives in

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans and is the easternmost city in North America ...

Teams

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruce, Daniel 1999 births Living people Canadian male curlers Curlers from Newfoundland and Labrador Curlers from Ottawa People from Corner Brook Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni Sportspeople from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador