Robert Harris (born September 26, 1963 in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348 ...
) is a Canadian
curler.
Harris played second for
Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey (born June 22, 1966) is a Canadian curler originally from Saskatchewan. He was based at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Dacey is a former Canadian men's curling champion skip, having won the 2004 Nokia Brier. He ...
's men's team from 2002 to 2007 and from 1998 to 1999. Harris also played Mixed with Dacey around this time. Harris, Dacey, third
Heather Smith-Dacey and lead
Laine Peters won the
Canadian Mixed Curling Championships in 2002 after having gone to the tournament the two previous years. Playing for Dacey's men's team which included
Bruce Lohnes at third and
Andrew Gibson at lead, Harris won three provincial championships (2003, 2004, 2006), a
Brier
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in 2004 and a bronze medal at the
World Curling Championships
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the same year.
Harris along with Dacey, Lohnes and Gibson also participated in two
Continental Cups, in 2004 and 2005. They were on the losing side in 2004, but won the event as part of team North America in 2005.
Prior to playing for Dacey, Harris skipped his own rink, except for one season which he played third for
Shawn Adams
Shawn Adams (born April 4, 1974 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler from Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia.
Career
Adams rose to curling prominence being runner-up at the 1992 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, and then the next y ...
.
Harris is also a NCCP Level II Coach and has represented the Province of Nova Scotia, coaching Junior Men's Teams in 1990, 1991 and 2010.
Harris is a Project Manager at the I.T. consulting firm
Keane Canada. Harris retired from competitive men's curling in 2007, but is active in senior's play.
Grand Slam Record
References
External links
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CCA Stats Archive*
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Curlers from Nova Scotia
1963 births
Living people
Brier champions
Canadian mixed curling champions
Sportspeople from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadian male curlers
Continental Cup of Curling participants
Canada Cup (curling) participants
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