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Andrew Gittis (born November 2, 1998) is a
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curler from
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,
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. He is currently the
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of the
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men's curling team in university curling and on the
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. Gittis is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, and is now living in Canada full-time.


Curling career

Gittis began his curling career in
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where he learned to curl. He represented
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at the 2016 U18 International Curling Championships, finishing in 7th place. The next year, Gittis reached the 2017 USA Junior Curling nationals and the 2017 USA U18 Curling Nationals where his team won the bronze medal, and he won the sportsmanship award as voted on by fellow curlers. Around the same time, he got the opportunity to meet
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who discovered that Gittis was also a Canadian Citizen and asked him to consider attending to the University of Alberta and trying out for their curling team. This is what led Gittis to his current position in Alberta on the Golden Bears Curling team. Since moving to Alberta, Gittis has won two bronze medals at the 2019 and
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USPORTS National Championship alongside
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, Christopher Kennedy, Glenn Venance, Caleb Boorse, and current teammate
Desmond Young Desmond Young (born March 6, 2000, in Frederiction, New Brunswick) is a Canadian curler from Banff, Alberta. He is currently the third of the Alberta Golden Bears men's curling team in university curling and on the World Curling Tour. Young wi ...
. As a junior curler, Gittis won a provincial junior championship in 2020 playing with
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, Young, and Gabriel Dyck. Representing Alberta at the
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, Gittis and team Alberta finished in 4th place overall with a 6-4 record, which allowed his three younger teammates to be selected as a part of Team Canada at the 2021 World Junior Curling Championships. Gittis is now aged out of junior curling and will continue to play on the world curling tour with Jacques, Young, and Dyck, where they had previously been the runner-ups of the 2019
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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gittis, Andrew 1998 births Living people American male curlers Canadian male curlers Curlers from Edmonton Alberta Golden Bears players Sportspeople from West Chester, Pennsylvania American emigrants to Canada 21st-century American sportsmen 21st-century Canadian sportsmen