The Granite Curling Club in Seattle is one of only three dedicated

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clubs on the

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. Since its founding in 1961, Granite Curling Club has produced more U.S. national championships than any other U.S. club.J. Caple
Romancing the stone
ESPN Jan. 8th 2002

Most recent national championships

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- 1988

Nancy Langley Nancy Langley (in marriage Nancy Richard) is an American curler. At the national level, she is a four-time United States women's champion curler (1979, 1981, 1983, 1988). She competed for USA on four . She is the first woman inductee as "cur ...

rink * Men's Championship - 2018

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 ...

rink * Men's Juniors - 2020

Luc Violette Luc Violette (born March 8, 1999) is an American curler from Edmonds, Washington. He is a five-time United States Junior Champion and was a silver medalist at both the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics and the 2017 World Junior Championships. Curli ...

rink * Mixed National - 2016 Em Good rink * Senior Women's - 2010

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 ...

rink *

Mixed Doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...

- 2012

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 ...

and

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 The World Mixed Curling Championship is the world ...

* Senior Men's - 2020

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 ...

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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 Scotch Cup. Early li ...

rink *1992 Bronze Doug Jones rink Junior Men's *1981 Bronze Ted Purvis rink Senior Men's *2015 Gold Lyle Sieg rink Source

References

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External links

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