Dan Giancola was born and raised in Niagara.
A former placekicker in the Canadian Football League, Dan made his CFL debut with the Toronto Argonauts during the 1999 season as a 29 year-old rookie. At the time Giancola became a kicker in the CFL, he worked as a clerk at a grocery store in Niagara. In his rookie season, Dan kicked 48 field goals while also going 28 for 28 on extra point converts and recording 9 singles. The 181 points he accumulated that season were 5 points shy of the CFL record for most points scored by a first year player. In 2000, Giancola tried out with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, but was cut during training camp. He went on to play for the B.C. Lions and Ottawa Renegades and returned to the Argos to finish his career in 2004. The Argonauts would go on to win the Grey Cup that season with Dan as the backup kicker. He also won a Grey Cup in B.C.
He was signed by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2009, five years after his last CFL stint, but suffered a groin injury that kept him out for most of training camp, and was released in June. He began fundraising to help fill a void after his playing days ended. Since 2011, Dan has been a personal trainer, first at a gym in St. Catharines, and has been operating his own fitness gym, BTO Performance, for the past seven years. http://btoperformance.com/
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