United States Curling Association
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The United States Curling Association (USA Curling) is the national governing body of the sport of curling
in the United States
. The goal of the USCA is to grow the sport of curling in the United States and win medals in competitions both domestic and abroad. Curling’s recent popularity has swelled the USCA to more than 135 curling clubs and 13,000 curlers in the United States. The United States Olympic curling teams have seen success in recent years, most notably with the 2006 Olympic team, who captured the bronze medal in Torino under the guidance of skip Pete Fenson
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Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The goal of the USCA is to grow the sport of curling in the United States and win medals in competitions both domestic and abroad. Curling’s recent popularity has swelled the USCA to more than 135 curling clubs and 13,000 curlers in the United States. The United States Olympic curling teams have seen success in recent years, most notably with the 2006 Olympic team, who captured the bronze medal in Torino under the guidance of skip Pete Fenson
Pete Fenson
Peter Fenson is an American curler, skip of the men's rink which represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The rink took the bronze medal, the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in curling...
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Sponsors
The United States Curling Association is sponsored by corporate partners such as NikeNike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
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