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Greg Persinger
Greg Persinger (born February 26, 1978) is an American curler. He was born in Fairbanks, Alaska. He was a member of Team USA at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship. At the 2020 United States Men's Championship Persinger and Team Ruohonen earned a silver medal, losing to John Shuster John Shuster ( ; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. He led Team USA to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first American team to ever win gold in curling. He also won a bronze medal at the 2006 Wi ... in the final. Teams Grand Slam record References External links * Living people American male curlers 1978 births Sportspeople from Fairbanks, Alaska American curling champions {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbanks Curling Club
Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the population of the city proper at 32,515, and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 95,655 making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska after Anchorage. The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States, located by road ( by air) south of the Arctic Circle. Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system. History Native American presence Athabascan peoples have used the area for thousands of years, although there is no known permanent Alaska Native settlement at the site of Fairbanks. An archaeological site excavated o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shuster
John Shuster ( ; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. He led Team USA to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first American team to ever win gold in curling. He also won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin."Torino 2006 – Results, Curling" – ''cbc.ca'' (Retrieved on March 21, 2008) He has played in five straight (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022) and nine World Curling Championships (2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021). Curling career Pete Fenson rink and ...
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Chris Plys
Christopher Plys (; born August 13, 1987) is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota. He is a Junior World Champion and two-time National Men's Champion. He was the alternate for the United States men's team at the 2010 Winter Olympics and a member of both the men's team and the mixed doubles team at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Career Plys started curling in 1998 at the age of eleven. He competed at seven Junior National Championships in a row, winning five of them, including four in a row as skip to finish his junior career. This gives him more junior national titles as skip than any other junior male. As US Champion, he competed at four World Junior Championships. In his first, 2006, Plys took ninth place in Jeonju, South Korea. The next year, in 2007, he took fifth place in Eveleth, Minnesota. And finally in 2008, Plys won the gold medal in Ostersund, Sweden. At his final Junior Worlds in 2009 he again medaled, taking the bronze. Plys also competed at the World Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 United States Olympic Curling Trials
The 2017 United States Olympic Curling Trials were held from November 11–18, 2017 at Baxter Arena in Omaha, Nebraska. Five teams qualified for the men's tournament and three teams qualified for the women's tournament. The winner of each tournament represented the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea. Road to the Trials USA Curling used a number of selection criteria to determine which teams would qualify for the Olympic Trials. If an American team placed in the top five at the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship or 2017 World Women's Curling Championship, that team would automatically qualify for the Olympic Trials. The John Shuster and Nina Roth rinks qualified via this method. Next, teams had an opportunity to qualify for the Olympic Trials by placing in the top 15 of the World Curling Tour Order of Merit standings for the 2016–17 season. No US teams placed high enough in these standings to automatically qualify in this manner. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 United States Olympic Curling Trials
The 2013 United States Olympic Curling Trials was held from November 10 to 17, 2013 at the Scheels Arena in Fargo, North Dakota. The trials were held to determine the women's team that will represent the United States at the curling tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the men's team that will represent the United States at the qualification event for the 2014 Winter Olympics curling tournament. Road to the Trials Teams on the men's and women's sides will qualify to the Olympic Trials in one of two ways. Teams will be able to qualify directly to the Trials by finishing in either first or second place at the 2012 and 2013 National Curling Championships, or they will qualify indirectly through selection by the United States Curling Association's High Performance Program (HPP) Selection Committee. The HPP Selection Committee's selections will be based on prior performance at World and National Championships, Order of Merit rankings, and performance in World Curling Tour eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Tilker
Philip "Phil" Tilker (born April 18, 1977, in Bracebridge, Ontario) is a Canadian-American curler. He was a member of Team USA at the World Men's Curling Championship in 2013 and 2018. Tilker played lead on the Brady Clark rink from 2012 to 2017, and has played in the same position on the Rich Ruohonen rink since then. At the 2020 United States Men's Championship Tilker and Team Ruohonen earned a silver medal, losing to John Shuster John Shuster ( ; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. He led Team USA to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first American team to ever win gold in curling. He also won a bronze medal at the 2006 Wi ... in the final. Personal life Tilker works as a software engineer, and lives in Seattle with his wife and son. He became a naturalized American citizen in 2012. Teams Men's Mixed References External links * Living people 1977 births People from Bracebridge, Ontario American male curlers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Lehto
Darren Lehto (born May 17, 1968) is a Canadian-American curler from Athabasca, Alberta. He won the 2013 United States Men's Curling Championship, earning the chance to compete at the 2013 World Men's Championship in Victoria, British Columbia. They finished ninth at World's. At the national level Lehto has also won the 2005 United States Mixed Curling Championship and the 2020 United States Senior Curling Championship. The latter means he will again play on the world level, representing the United States at the 2020 World Senior Curling Championships in Kelowna, British Columbia Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan word ''ki ... in April, 2020. Teams Men's Mixed Personal life Darren Lehto started curling in 1984 at the age of 16. He moved from Canada to the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Beighton
Sean Beighton (born November 22, 1988) is an American curler from Seattle, Washington. Career During his years of junior eligibility, Beighton was active as a skip. He won the national junior championship in 2010, which gave him the opportunity to represent the United States at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships, where he finished in ninth place with a 1–8 win–loss record. Beighton also skipped a team which included former national university champion Blake Morton at the qualifying tournament for the 2013 Winter University Games, but finished third. Beighton played at the 2011 United States Men's Curling Championship as second under Jason Larway, but finished in ninth place and earned the nickname 'Chester.' He was also the national mixed championship in 2012. As third for Brady Clark, Beighton won his first national championship title, the first for the Granite Curling Club since 2004. Beighton and his team then represented the United States at the 2013 Ford Wo ... [...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] |
Jason Larway
Jason Larway (born March 23, 1970) is an American curler from Lynnwood, Washington. He is a and a four-times United States men's curling champion (1989, 1992, 2001, 2004). In addition to representing the United States at the , winning the National Championship in 2001 should have qualified Larway to compete at the 2001 United States Olympic Curling Trials but the entire team was deemed ineligible because, as a Canadian living in the United States, teammate Greg Romaniuk was eligible for the National Championship but not for the Olympics. Larway instead attempted to earn a spot at the Trials through the National Olympic Qualifier, which he gained entry to through the Washington State Regional Qualifier. But he had to miss the National Qualifier because it occurred at the same time as the 2001 World Men's Championship. Larway, with fellow curler Rich Ruohonen acting as his attorney, filed a grievance with the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Curling Associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Kauffman
Doug Kauffman (born September 18, 1973) is an American curler from Hayward, California. At the national level, he is a two-time United States men's curling champion (2001, 2004). Kauffman picked up curling in his late twenties while living in Seattle, having seen it on television and then watching the 1997 National Championship live at the local Granite Curling Club. Teams Personal life Kauffman married to Katie, they have one son Connor. He works as Director of Golf at the Members Club at Aldarra. He started curling in 1998 when he was at the age of 29. In the past he has coached his son's U-18 team, composed of skip Connor Kauffman along with Andrew Bell, Alex Couckuyt and Arjun Thomas. References External links * Living people 1969 births Sportspeople from Hayward, California American male curlers American curling champions {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Hufman
Colin Hufman (born May 15, 1984) is an American curler. He was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and resides in Seattle. He has been a USA Curling Board member since August 2017 and USA Curling Athlete Representative for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee Athletes Advisory Council since December 2020. Career In 2002, Hufman won the United States Junior Championship, playing third for Leo Johnson's team. Representing the United States at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Kelowna, Canada, they finished in ninth place with a 3–6 record. Hufman has won numerous medals at the United States Men's Championship, including gold twice. In 2016 he won playing second for skip Brady Clark, but runner-up John Shuster earned enough points to earn the chance to represent the US at the World Championship that year. In 2018, Hufman won his second gold medal, this time playing second for Rich Ruohonen. At the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Team Ruohonen finished in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
