Curling competition at Wausau, Wisconsin
The 2021 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from May 19 to 23, 2021 at the Wausau Curling Club in Wausau, Wisconsin . The championship featured twenty four teams split into four pools of six. After the round robin, the top two teams from each pool qualified for the playoffs with the first place teams advancing to the seeding round.[ 1]
In the final, the pair of Vicky Persinger and Chris Plys defeated Madison Bear and Andrew Stopera 8–5 to claim the title.[ 2] Cory Christensen and John Shuster . Bear and Stopera went a perfect 7–0 in the tournament before dropping the final. To advance to the final, Persinger and Plys defeated the duo of Aileen Geving and Luc Violette 8–5 and Bear and Stopera topped Jenna Burchesky and Ben Richardson 7–2. All four teams that qualified for the semifinals qualified their teams for the 2021 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials which will be held in fall 2021.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic [ edit ] The event was originally scheduled to be held February 28 to March 6, 2021 at Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena in Irvine, California and also be the Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials for the 2022 Winter Olympics .[ 3] USCA announced that all remaining 2020–21 events would be either cancelled or postponed until late spring 2021. This postponement delayed the Mixed Doubles Championship until after the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Championship and so the 2020 champions, Tabitha Peterson and Joe Polo , were selected to represent the United States. This gave the team the opportunity to compete at Worlds which they missed the previous year when the 2020 World Mixed Doubles Championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .[ 4] Women's Nationals and Men's Nationals in a bio-secure bubble at Wausau Curling Club in Wausau, Wisconsin in May, 2021.[ 5] 2021 Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials from the National Championship and delay the trials until fall 2021.
Due to the pandemic, no qualification events were held and the qualification methods were modified. Any team that had qualified for the 2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship qualified for the event. Then, up to twelve teams that had at least one athlete in the top fifty of the World Curling Federation 's men's and women's rankings qualified. The remaining spots were selected by the top teams, not already qualified, from the WCF Mixed Doubles World Team Ranking System as of the close of registration.[ 5]
The teams competing in the 2021 championship are:[ 6]
Female
Male
Locale
Taylor Anderson Hunter Clawson
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nicole Avalon
Sean Franey
Oakland, California
Madison Bear Andrew Stopera Chaska, Minnesota
Nicole Bookhout
Dan Wiza
Madison, Wisconsin
Jenna Burchesky
Ben Richardson
Walpole, Massachusetts
Susan Dudt Daniel Dudt
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Audrey Foote
Blake Hagberg
Whitesboro, New York
Aileen Geving Luc Violette Duluth, Minnesota
Christine McMakin
Riley Fenson
Chaska, Minnesota
Clare Moores
Lance Wheeler
Denver, Colorado
Sydney Mullaney Chase Sinnett
Concord, Massachusetts
Anne O'Hara Coleman Thurston
Fairbanks, Alaska
Abigail Page
Aiden Oldenburg
Mankato, Minnesota
Vicky Persinger Chris Plys Fairbanks, Alaska / Chaska, Minnesota
Ann Podoll
Nathan Perry
Fargo, North Dakota
Kim Rhyme
Jason Smith Saint Paul, Minnesota
Rebecca Rodgers Daniel Casper Leyden, Massachusetts
Harley Rohrbacher
Nicholas Visnich
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jamie Sinclair Rich Ruohonen Chaska, Minnesota
Maureen Stolt Peter Stolt Plymouth, Minnesota
Delaney Strouse Nicholas Connolly
Midland, Michigan
Monica Walker Alex Leichter
Wayland, Massachusetts
Becca Wood
Shawn Banyai
Denver, Colorado
Leah Yavarow
Samuel Strouse
Midland, Michigan
Round-robin standings [ edit ] Final round-robin standings
Key
Teams to playoffs
Teams to tiebreakers
Pool A
W
L
4
1
3
2
3
2
2
3
2
3
1
4
Pool B
W
L
4
1
3
2
3
2
3
2
1
4
1
4
Pool C
W
L
5
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4
1
3
2
1
4
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4
1
4
Pool D
W
L
5
0
4
1
3
2
2
3
1
4
0
5
Round-robin results [ edit ] All draw times are listed in Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00 ).[ 1]
Wednesday, May 19, 5:30 pm
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Wednesday, May 19, 8:30 pm
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Thursday, May 20, 9:00 am
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Thursday, May 20, 12:00 pm
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Thursday, May 20, 4:00 pm
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Thursday, May 20, 7:00 pm
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Friday, May 21, 9:00 am
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Friday, May 21, 12:00 pm
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Friday, May 21, 4:00 pm
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Friday, May 21, 7:00 pm
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Saturday, May 22, 9:00 am
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The top team in each pool qualified for the seeding round. The winners of both games qualified directly for the semifinals while the losers dropped into the quarterfinals.[ 1]
To Semifinals
D1
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To Semifinals
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Saturday, May 22, 7:00 pm
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Qualification Games
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Qualification games [ edit ] Saturday, May 22, 7:00 pm
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Sunday, May 23, 9:00 am
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Sunday, May 23, 2:00 pm
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Persinger / Plys
Rodgers / Casper 
Foote / Hagberg
Rohrbacher / Visnich
Moores / Wheeler
Podoll / Parry
Strouse / Connolly 
Avalon / Franey 
Bookhout / Wiza