BONUS ONLINE-ONLY COVERAGE // // CHAMPIONSHIPS By Terry Kolesar, Editor
Mixed Doubles slides into Bismarck T
he Capital Curling Club in Bismarck, N.D., will host 18 teams for the 2013 USA Curling Mixed Doubles National Championship Dec. 6-9.
Te winning team will represent the U.S. at the 2013 World Mixed Dou-
bles Championship, which will take place April 13-20 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Te defending champions from Seattle highlight this year’s field of teams
as Brady and Cristin Clark go for their unprecedented fourth mixed dou- bles title and third straight. Games for mixed doubles are eight ends in length. Unlike traditional
curling, mixed doubles includes two players delivering five stones per end instead of eight for a four‐person team. Two stationary stones are set up prior to the first rocks being thrown – one as a center guard and one on the button. One player throws the first and fiſth stones while their partner throws the three rocks in between. Athletes can either get up and sweep their own stone or have the player in the house come out and sweep the stone. Tis event debuted at the world level in 2008 and is being considered as a future Olympic‐level discipline. Te U.S. has never won a medal at the world championship but the Clarks earned the U.S.’s top finish at the 2012 event when they finished fourth. Live scoring and possibly live webstreaming will be a part of this cham-
pionship event. Please visit the Capital Curling Club website at
www.capi-
talcurling.org or the USA Curling website,
www.usacurl.org, for updates. Here is a look at the competing teams and their hometowns and home
clubs. Team Buchbinder: Danielle Buchbinder (Buffalo, N.Y./Rochester CC)
and Michael Rupp (Buffalo, N.Y./Rochester CC) Team Charpentier: Brett Charpentier (St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul CC) and
Jennifer Westhagen (Seattle/Granite CC) Team Clark: Brady Clark and Cristin Clark (both of Lynnwood, Wash./
Granite CC) Team Doherty: Timothy Doherty (St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul CC) and Car-
ol Strojny (Mendota Heights, Minn./St. Paul CC) Team Floerchinger: Michael Floerchinger (Princeton, Minn./St. Paul
CC) and Kim Wapoloa (St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul CC) Team Gemmell: Alan Gemmell and Maymar Gemmell (both of Short
Hills, N.J./ Plainfield CC) Team Heier: Russell Heier (Bismarck, N.D./Capital CC) and Cynthia
Smith (Denver, Colo./Denver CC) Team Ivy: Barry Ivy (Livermore, Calif./San Francisco Bay Area CC) and
Britt Rjanikov (Wayland, Mass./Broomstones CC) Team Jukich: Andrew Jukich (Duluth, Minn./Duluth CC) and Tina
Kelly (Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji CC) Team Kizlyk: Darrick Kizlyk (Colorado Springs, Colo./Denver CC) and
Dena Rosenberry (Manitou Springs, Colo./Broadmoor CC) Team Konno: Miyo Konno (Monroe, Wash./Granite CC) and Steve Lun-
deen (Seattle/Granite CC) Team Legacie: Jesa Legacie (Devils Lake, N.D./Lake Region CC) and Ryan Flippo (Anchorage, Alaska/Fairbanks CC)
A participant at USA Curling’s inaugural Five Elements of Curling Technique Clinic exalts during the on-ice portion of the clinic, which took place in September at the Nutmeg Curling Club in Connecticut.
Capital CC). n SPORT EDUCATION
Team Mazzotta: Gary Mazzotta (Minneapolis, Minn./St. Paul CC) and
Carmen Delaney (Fargo, N.D./Fargo-Moorhead Curling Club) Team Olson: Scott Olson and Terese Olson (both of Littleton, Mass./
Broomstones CC) Team Pickle: Steve Pickle and Madonna Fitzgerald (both of Fargo, N.D./
Fargo-Moorhead CC) Team Smith: Tucker Smith (Bismarck, N.D./Capital CC) and Jillian
Walker (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mayfield CC) Team Stolt: Peter Stolt and Maureen Stolt (both of Plymouth, Minn./St.
Paul CC) Team Ussatis: Todd Ussatis and Sarah Felchle (both of Bismarck, N.D./
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