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Granite Curling Club (Seattle)
The Granite Curling Club in Seattle is one of only three dedicated curling clubs on the West Coast of the United States. Since its founding in 1961, Granite Curling Club has produced more U.S. national championships than any other U.S. club.J. CapleRomancing the stone ESPN Jan. 8th 2002 Most recent national championships *Women's Championship - 1988 Nancy Langley rink * Men's Championship - 2018 Greg Persinger rink * Men's Juniors - 2020 Luc Violette rink * Mixed National - 2016 Em Good rink * Senior Women's - 2010 Sharon Vukich rink *Mixed Doubles - 2012 Brady Clark and Cristin Clark * Senior Men's - 2020 Joel Larway rink Source World Championship medals Men's *1975 Silver Ed Risling rink *1967 Bronze Bruce Roberts rink *1961 Bronze Frank Crealock Dr. Frank William "Crea" Crealock (February 11, 1925 - April 14, 2016) was the skip on the Granite Curling Club curling team (from Seattle, Washington, United States) during the World Curling Championships known as the 1961 Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling . The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Vukich
Sharon Vukich is an American curler from Seattle, Washington. She is a two-time women's national Champion, two-time senior women's national champion, and one-time mixed doubles national champion. Curling career Vukich skipped her team to gold at the United States Championship twice, in 1980 and 1987. As champion she represented the United States at the World Championships those years, finishing in fourth and fifth place, respectively. She returned to national prominence with back-to-back gold medals at the United States Senior Championships in 2009 and 2010. At World's they finished sixth and fourth places, respectively. In 2010 she also won the Mixed Doubles National Championship with teammate Mike Calcagno. The 2010 World Mixed Doubles Championship was held concurrently with the World Senior Championship and Vukich competed at both. At World Mixed Doubles they finished in tenth place. Personal life Vukich's parents were curlers and helped found the Granite Curling Club i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Establishments In Washington (state)
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling Clubs In The United States
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called ''rocks'', across the ice ''curling sheet'' toward the ''house'', a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a ''game''; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each ''end'', which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends. The player can induce a curved path, described as ''curl'', by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and swee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyle Sieg
Lyle may refer to: People Surname * Lyle (surname) Given name * Lyle Alzado (1949–1992), American NFL All-Pro football player * Lyle Beerbohm (born 1979), professional mixed martial arts fighter * Lyle Bennett (1903–2005), head coach of the Central Michigan college football program from 1947 to 1949 * Lyle Berman (born 1941), professional poker player and business executive * Lyle Bettger (1915–2003), character actor known most for his Hollywood roles from the 1950s * Lyle Bigbee (1893–1942), outfielder, pitcher and halfback * Lyle Blackwood (born 1951), played in the National Football League with the Miami Dolphins * Lyle Boren (1909–1992), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma * Lyle Bouck (1923–2016), lieutenant of the I&R Platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th Infantry Division in World War II * Lyle Bradley (born 1943), former ice hockey center * Lyle Campbell (born 1942), linguist and leading expert on American Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Purvis
TED may refer to: Economics and finance * TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar Education * ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association ** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey ** Transvaal Education Department (TED) Entertainment and media * TED (conference) (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) * ''Tenders Electronic Daily'', a journal on government procurement in the European Union * Turner Field (The Ted), of the Atlanta Braves until 2017 Technology and computing * MOS Technology TED, an integrated circuit * TED Notepad, a freeware portable plain-text editor * Television Electronic Disc, an early Telefunken video disc * Transferred electron device or Gunn diode * TransLattice Elastic Database, a NewSQL database Transport * Teddington railway station, London, National Rail station code Other uses * Thyroid eye disease, aka Graves' ophthalmopathy * Tooheys Extra Dry, Australian beer * Turtle excluder device, for letting sea turtles es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Jones (curler)
Doug Jones is an American curler. He is a and a three-times United States men's curling champion (1988, 1990, 1992). Awards *USA Curling Male Athlete of the Year: 1990, 1992. Teams Men's Mixed References External links * Living people American male curlers American curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Crealock
Dr. Frank William "Crea" Crealock (February 11, 1925 - April 14, 2016) was the skip on the Granite Curling Club curling team (from Seattle, Washington, United States) during the World Curling Championships known as the 1961 Scotch Cup. Early life Crealock was born in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba in 1925, the son of William Crealock and Kathleen Beckett. He graduated from the medical school at the University of Manitoba and was trained as an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Iowa. While in the United States, he joined the United States Air Force in the mid-1950s as an officer, becoming a flight surgeon stationed at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas. Following his military service, he moved to Seattle where he established an obstetrician-gynecologist practise. Curling career Crealock led his team to a gold medal at the 1961 US National Championship in Grand Forks, North Dakota Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Farg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Roberts (curler)
Bruce Edward Roberts (June 23, 1942 – December 30, 2022) was an American curling, curler from Hibbing, Minnesota. Roberts won the and was a five-time United States men's curling champion (1966, 1967, 1976, 1977, 1984). Awards * United States Curling Association Hall of Fame: ** 1988 (as curler); ** 1994 (with all 1976 world champions team: third Joe Roberts (curler), Joe Roberts, second Gary Kleffman and lead Jerry Scott (curler), Jerry Scott). Personal life and death Bruce Roberts was employed as a primary school teacher. His younger brother, Joe Roberts (curler), Joe, was a curler too and Bruce's teammate. Roberts lived in Orr, Minnesota, and attended Bemidji State University. He taught in Duluth and Nett Lake (CDP), Minnesota, Nett Lake. Roberts had two children. Roberts died on December 30, 2022, at the age of 80. Teams Notes References External links * 1942 births 2022 deaths American male curlers World curling champions American curling champions Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Risling
Ed Risling is an American curling, curler. He is a and a 1975 United States Men's Curling Championship, United States men's curling champion. Teams Personal life His son Dale Risling is a curler too, he is a two-time United States Junior Curling Championships, United States junior champion (1981, 1982). References External links * Living people American male curlers American curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Larway
Joel Larway (born May 14, 1968, in Columbus, Ohio, United States) is an American curling, curler from Mukilteo, Washington. He is a and a three-times United States men's curling champion (1992, 2001, 2004). Awards *USA Curling Male Athlete of the Year: 2004. Teams Personal life His brother Jason Larway, Jason is a curler too. The two brothers curled together for many years. References External links * * Living people 1968 births Sportspeople from Columbus, Ohio American male curlers American curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants People from Mukilteo, Washington Sportspeople from the Seattle metropolitan area 20th-century American people 21st-century American people {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristin Clark
Cristin Clark is an American curler. At the international level, she curled for the United States at three World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships and one World Mixed Curling Championship. At the national level, she is a ten-time United States mixed champion curler and a three-time United States mixed doubles champion curler. Her women's team was the USA Curling Team of the Year in 2009 and 2012. Private life Clark's husband is fellow curler Brady Clark Brady William Clark (born April 18, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. Brady is a class of 1991 graduate of Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon and 1996 graduate of the University of San Diego, where he played college bas ...; together, they won the United States Mixed Championship ten times and the United States Mixed Doubles Championship three times. They have one son, Sean. (look at article "Swept up in love") Teams Women's Mixed Mixed doubles References External links * {{DEFAULTSOR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
