Carla Casper (born 1946) is an American curler and Olympian. At the time of the 1988 Olympics, she was living in

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. In 1987

Lisa Schoeneberg Lisa Schoeneberg (born September 29, 1957) is an American curler and Olympian. She was a successful skip in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, leading her teams to two silver medals at the World Championships and represented the United St ...

invited Casper to join her team just two weeks before the tournament to determine Wisconsin's representative to the United States' first Olympic Curling Trials, replacing a teammate with a burst appendix. Casper joined as the team's

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, with Lori Mountford at

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Erika Brown Erika Lynn Brown (born January 25, 1973) is an American curler, currently residing in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She started curling in 1980 and throws right-handed. Career As a 15-year-old, Brown represent the United States at the 1988 Winter ...

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, and Schoeneberg as

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. Brown's father, World bronze medalist Steve Brown, was the team's coach and her mother, Diane, was the team's alternate player. The team won the tournament, earning a spot at the Olympic Trials in

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. They upset the top two teams from that year's

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to win the Trials and earn their spot as the American women's team at the 1988 Olympics. At the Olympic Games, where curling was a demonstration event, they finished fifth out of eight teams, with a 4–4 record. As skip of her own team Casper won the Wisconsin State Championship four years in a row, 1987–1990. Casper was named President of the United States Women's Curling Association, an organization with the purpose of promoting the sport of curling among women and youth, for 2000-2001.

Personal life

Casper is married to Tom Casper, a fellow curler and curling coach, and they have four children.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Casper, Carla Living people American female curlers Olympic curlers for the United States Curlers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Green Bay, Wisconsin People from Wild Rose, Wisconsin 1946 births 21st-century American women