Amanda Gates (born March 26, 1986, in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian curler who currently coaches the Abby Deschene rinks on the World Curling Tour.
[2] In Gates' first appearance at the Scotties (2012 in Red Deer, Alberta), she won the Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award.
Gates went to play lead for the Team Horgan rink, who went on to represent Northern Ontario at the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.
[7] During the 2012–13 season, although Team Horgan was unsuccessful at the Ontario Scotties, they did win the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic.
[18] The team has had a successful start to their 2014–15 season, finishing third at the Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel[19] and qualifying for the playoffs of a Grand Slam event, the 2014 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic for a second time in their career making it to the quarterfinal before losing to former provincial rival Rachel Homan of Ottawa.
[20] At the 2014 DEKALB Superspiel in Morris, Manitoba, the team lost their opening match to Colleen Kilgallen before winning their next eight games.
[23] The team finished the tournament with a perfect 5–0 record, defeating city rival Kendra Lilly 4–3 in a close match.
[25] During the relegation round at the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, they defeated Kerry Galusha from the Northwest Territories 10–5 and then beat Sarah Koltun from the Yukon 7–5.
[26] In the pre-qualification final, they once again defeated the team from Yellowknife, 7–6, securing the right to represent Northern Ontario in the main draw at the Scotties for the first time.
[27] In the main event, they found some success defeating higher seeds such as Julie Hastings and Stefanie Lawton.
[28] After a blank in the eighth, Fleury was heavy on a tap attempt in the ninth end and gave up a steal of two points.
[36][37] Up 4–3 without hammer in the eighth and final end, the team forced Rachel Homan to execute a difficult draw to the four-foot through a port to win, which was made.
[41] In playdowns, the team failed in their attempt to repeat as Northern Ontario champions, losing to Krista McCarville in the final.
[46] Later that month, they picked up a win at The Sunova Spiel at East St. Paul World Curling Tour event.
[66] Team Enge played in the 2019 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts and made it all the way to the final where they lost to rival Krista McCarville 8–7.
[67][68] Gates joined the young team of Krysta Burns, Megan Smith and Sara Guy to compete in the 2020 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
The team did play in one tour event together prior to provincials, the Part II Bistro Ladies Classic where they finished 1–3.
As the reigning provincial champions, Team McCarville was given the invitation to represent Northern Ontario at the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but they declined due to work and family commitments.
[73] At the Hearts, they finished with a 2–6 round robin record, defeating Northwest Territories' Kerry Galusha and Yukon's Laura Eby.
That season they won the provincial title going undefeated and beating the Dylan Johnston team in the final at the Port Arthur Curling Club.