2014 U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS


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Olympic bound


Erika Brown, Debbie McCormick, Jessica Schultz, and Ann Swisshelm become first athletes nominated to Team USA for 2014 Olympic Winter Games


Story by Terry L. Kolesar, Editor, terry.kolesar@usacurl.org • Photos by Michael Burns Jr. (FARGO, N.D.) – Erika Brown, Debbie McCormick, Jessica Schultz, and


Ann Swisshelm are writing another chapter in their curling careers aſter winning the right to represent the United States at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Te Brown rink defeated Allison Pottinger’s team, 8-7, on Nov. 16 to


sweep the women’s playoffs at the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Curl- ing at Scheels Arena. “We all wanted to get back there [Olympics] that’s for sure. Everyone


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played so great all week, but the last three games we really played the best we could when we needed to. We played a great team and we just came through it,” said Brown, a seven-time U.S. national champion. Brown (Oakville, Ontario/Madison, Wis.) clinched the win for her team


with a draw into the four-foot with the final stone of the game. Tis will be the second Olympic Games appearance for Brown, who was vice skip on Team USA in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. She also was on the team in 1988 at age 15 when curling was a demonstration sport in Calgary.


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