Alexander Justin Bruce Horvath[2] (born February 26, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Victoria, British Columbia. He is a former Canadian and World Junior champion.[1]
Career
Horvath first curled competitively on the national level at the 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. That season, Horvath played lead on the Cameron de Jong rink that won the BC Junior men's title.[3][4] Representing British Columbia at the Canadian Juniors, the de Jong-led rink finished the event with a 5–5 record.[1]
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 King Cash SpielWorld Curling Tour event.[5] Later on in the season, the team won another provincial junior title.[4] At the 2019 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, the team won championship, Horvath's lone national junior title, but the third-straight for Tardi.[6] 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 2019 World Junior Curling Championships. After posting a 7–2 round robin record, they won both playoff games, including defeating Switzerland's Marco Hösli rink in the final.[7] The team played in the 2019 BC Men's Curling Championship as well that season,[8] where they were eliminated after posting a 2–3 record.[9] The team wrapped up the season by playing in the 2019 Champions CupGrand Slam event, which they qualified for by winning the World Juniors that season. There, the team went win-less in their four matches.[10]
Horvath works as an ice technician at the Victoria and Esquimalt Curling Clubs.[1] He began curling at age three, and has claimed he was conceived after his parents "drank too many paralyzers" at an Esquimalt curling tournament.[18]
