Brett Gallant

Brett Gallant
Brett Gallant
	Curler
	Gallant in 2018.
Born	February 18, 1990; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Team
Curling club	Bally Haly G&CC, ; St. John's, NL
Skip	Brad Gushue
Third	Mark Nichols
Second	Brett Gallant
Lead	Geoff Walker
Alternate	Tom Sallows
Career
Brier appearances	6 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
World Championship; appearances	2 (2017, 2018)
Top CTRS ranking	1st (2016-17 & 2017-18)
Grand Slam victories	10: Masters (2014, 2017), The National (2015), Canadian Open (2014, 2017), Elite 10 (2016, Sept. 2018), Players' (2016), Tour Challenge (2017), Champions Cup (2018)
Men's curling
Representing Canada
World Championships
World Junior Championships
Tim Hortons Brier
Representing Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian Olympic Curling Trials
Canadian Mixed Doubles Olympic Curling Trials
Tim Hortons Brier
Representing Prince Edward Island
Canadian Junior Curling Championships
Canada Games

Brett Philip Gallant (born February 18, 1990 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.^[1] He currently plays second for the Brad Gushue rink.

Junior career

Gallant has represented Prince Edward Island in the Canadian Junior Curling Championships numerous times, winning the 2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships on his fourth attempt. Gallant won five straight provincial titles in P.E.I. from 2006–10. He holds the record for most all-time wins at the Canadian Juniors (48) which he set after his second win at the 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

At the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships, Gallant represented Team Canada, and after placing first after the round robin, lost in the final to Denmark's Rasmus Stjerne rink.

Gallant also won a bronze medal for P.E.I. at the 2007 Canada Games.

Gallant joined Brad Gushue's team during the 2012-13 season, and moved to Newfoundland and Labrador in the process. He was the third on the team until 2014, when he was demoted to second upon the return of Mark Nichols to the team. With the Gushue rink, Gallant has played in six Briers, winning in 2017 and in 2018 and finishing 2nd at the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier. Following the wins in 2017 and 2018, the team represented Canada at the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship, winning a gold medal and at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship where they won the silver medal. The team also played in the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing third. On the World Curling Tour, Gallant has won 9 Grand Slam events as a member of the team.

In April, 2016 Gallant and teammate Jocelyn Peterman won the 2016 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials after battling to a 12-8 win over Laura Crocker and Geoff Walker at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Sask. The new champions were playing in their first Mixed Doubles event together.^[2] The pair played in the 2018 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials, going undefeated in group play, but lost to the eventual champion John Morris / Kaitlyn Lawes pairing in the semifinal.

His parents are Kathie and Peter Gallant, Canadian former Mixed champions. He attended Memorial University in St. John's. He is in a relationship with fellow curler Jocelyn Peterman.^[3]

Brier: First Team All-Star, Second - 2018
World Men's Curling Championship: All-Star Second - 2017
Gallant was named Senior Male Athlete of the Year and was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Award (presented to the top overall Island athlete) at the 2016 Sport PEI Amateur Sport Awards.^[4]

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