Patti Wuthrich (born July 17, 1958 in
Winnipeg
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as Patti "Vande" Vandekerckhove) is a Canadian
curler and curling
coach
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Guidance/instruction
* Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities
* Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process
** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers
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from
Gimli, Manitoba
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.
As a junior curler, she won the 1974
Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The Canadian Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best junior-level curling team in Canada. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 21 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament.
The even ...
playing second for the
Chris Pidzarko rink. She won the playing lead for
Cathy Pidzarko.
She competed at the
1988 Winter Olympics
The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (french: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 ( bla, Mohkínsstsisi 1988; sto, Wîchîspa Oyade 1988 or ; cr, Otôskwanihk 1998/; srs, Guts ...
when curling was a
demonstration sport
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Demonstration spor ...
. The Canadian women's team won the gold medal, defeating Sweden in the final.
Patti Vandekerckhove was inducted into the
Canadian Curling Hall of Fame The Canadian Curling Hall of Fame was established with its first inductees in 1973. It is operated by Curling Canada, the governing body for curling in Canada, in Orleans, Ontario.
The Hall of Fame selection committee meets annually to choose induc ...
in 1986.
After retirement she began coaching teams on the national and international level, for example the team of
Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson (; born October 3, 1987 as Kerri Flett) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is the three-time reigning women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to vic ...
or the
Korean
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** ...
team of
Kim Eun-jung.
Personal life
She is married to well-known Canadian
ice maker
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Hans Wuthrich.
Minerva Tree Farms - Company
/ref> She is currently the owner of Minerva Tree Farms.
Teams
Record as a coach of national teams
Record as a coach of club teams
References
External links
*
*
Patti Wuthrich - Curling Canada Stats Archive
*Video:
** (YouTube channel "Curling Canada") (Video interviews with Jennifer Jones, Patti Wuthrich, Jill Brothers and Jenn Hanna after Draw 10 at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.)
** (YouTube channel "RT Sport"; November 8, 2010) (Curling is a fairly new sport for Russians but the country's sports bosses are keen for it to dominate at the next winter Games in Sochi. So, the National Olympic Committee has turned to Canada for help.) (with Patti Wuthrich, Hans Wuthrich, Jason Gunnlaugson and others)
Living people
1958 births
Curlers from Winnipeg
Canadian women curlers
Curlers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Olympic curlers of Canada
Canadian women's curling champions
Canadian curling coaches
People from Gimli, Manitoba
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