Tanner Horgan (born February 12, 1998 in Sudbury,

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) is a Canadian curler. He currently skips his own team.

Career

Juniors

As a bantam aged curler, Horgan won three Northern Ontario titles (2010, 2013 and 2015). In 2012, he won a provincial elementary school championship for all of Ontario, representing

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. Horgan won his first Northern Ontario junior title in 2014, earning him and teammates Nicholas Servant, brother

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and Maxime Blais the right to represent the region at the

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. There, he skipped the team to a 5-5 finish, missing the playoffs. The next year, Horgan again won the Northern Ontario title, this time with his brother Jacob at third and

Connor Lawes Connor Lawes (born July 14, 1996) is a Canadian curler from Sundridge, Ontario. He currently plays third on Team Pat Ferris. Career Lawes played for skip Tanner Horgan and represented Northern Ontario at the 2015 Canadian Junior Curling Cham ...

playing second. At the

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, Horgan again led Northern Ontario to a 5-5 record. Horgan went undefeated at the 2016 Northern Ontario Junior Curling Championships, winning his third straight title. The team lineup was relatively unchanged with

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added to the team in replace of Lawes. The team finally made the playoffs at that year's national juniors, after finishing the round robin in first place with a 9-1 record, earning them a bye to the final. However, Manitoba's

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rink proved to be the better team, defeating Northern Ontario 11-4 to claim the championship.

Men's

Horgan and his men's team of brother Jacob, Blais and lead Scott Foy qualified for the 2016 Northern Ontario men's curling championship, Horgan's first provincial. There, he led his team to a 3-4 record.

Personal life

Horgan is employed as an ice technician at Roy's Curling Ice Services. he is in a relationship with fellow curler

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and lives in

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. He attended

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.2018 Brier Media Guide His sisters

Tracy Fleury Tracy Fleury (born June 13, 1986, as Tracy Horgan) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season. In 2021, she led her team to a silver medal at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling ...

and Jennifer Wylie are also accomplished curlers.

Grand Slam record

References

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