| Events at the 2012 United States National Curling Championships | ||
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Qualification for the 2012 United States Women's Curling Championship took place in one round in January in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The number of entrants to the national championships was cut down to ten teams through a challenge round.
Teams qualified for the women's nationals either by qualifying automatically as one of the top four teams on the World Curling Tour Order of Merit or by qualifying through the challenge round. The four teams that qualified automatically to the championships, an increase from last year's two teams qualified through the Order of Merit, were chosen based on the Order of Merit upon the conclusion of the Curl Mesabi Cash Spiel. [1] This year, the teams are those skipped by Erika Brown, Rebecca Hamilton, Patti Lank, and Alexandra Carlson. [2] The other six spots in the nationals will be awarded through competition in the challenge round. [1]
The challenge round was held with the double knockout provision in place. The double knockout provision states that a team is eliminated from qualifying for the nationals if the team has at least two losses in their win-loss record. If there are teams with less than two losses, they will play each other until the number of teams still able to qualify matches the number of qualification spots available.
Since there are more than ten teams registered to the nationals this year, the teams that did not qualify directly for the nationals competed to earn one of six remaining spots in the nationals through the challenge round, which was held from January 19 to 22 in Marshfield, Wisconsin. [1] The challenge round was held in a knockout format, as decided by the organizing committee. [3] The teams that advanced from the challenge round were those skipped by Maureen Stolt, Cassandra Potter, Janice Langanke, Allison Pottinger, Aileen Sormunen, Kimberly Wapola.
The challenge round was held from January 19 to 22 at the Marshfield Curling Club in Marshfield, Wisconsin. It was held in a triple knockout format. [3] Teams skipped by Maureen Stolt, Cassandra Potter, Janice Langanke, Allison Pottinger, Aileen Sormunen, and Kimberly Wapola advanced to the Nationals.
The following is a list of all teams registered to participate in the regional qualifiers. [4]
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Teams Directly to Nationals [2] | |
| First Knockout | Semifinals | Qualifier 1 | ||||||||||||
 Janice Langanke | 6 | |||||||||||||
 Kimberly Wapola | 3 | Janice Langanke | 6 | |||||||||||
| Allison Pottinger | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Janice Langanke | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Maureen Stolt | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Maureen Stolt | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Cristin Clark | 2 | |||||||||||||
| First Knockout | Semifinals | Qualifier 2 | ||||||||||||
| Shelly Kinney | 9 | |||||||||||||
 Amanda Tucker | 8 | Shelly Kinney | 2 | |||||||||||
| Cassandra Potter | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Cassandra Potter | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Nicole Reiser | W | Aileen Sormunen | 7 | |||||||||||
| Brigid Ellig | L | Nicole Reiser | 8 | |||||||||||
| Aileen Sormunen | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Second Knockout | Semifinals | Qualifier 3 | ||||||||||||
| Kimberly Wapola | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Nicole Reiser | 6 | Kimberly Wapola | 8 | |||||||||||
| Shelly Kinney | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Kimberly Wapola | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Janice Langanke | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Second Knockout | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Amanda Tucker | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brigid Ellig | 4 | Amanda Tucker | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Cristin Clark | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Amanda Tucker | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Allison Pottinger | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Allison Pottinger | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Aileen Sormunen | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Third Knockout | Qualifier 5 | ||||||||
| Shelly Kinney | 10 | ||||||||
| Cristin Clark | 6 | Shelly Kinney | 5 | ||||||
| Aileen Sormunen | 11 | ||||||||
| Third Knockout | Semifinals | Qualifier 6 | ||||||||||||
| Nicole Reiser | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Brigid Ellig | 8 | Brigid Ellig | 9 | |||||||||||
| Amanda Tucker | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Brigid Ellig | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Kimberly Wapola | 10 | |||||||||||||
Friday, January 20, 2:00 pm
| Sheet 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janice Langanke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | X | 6 |
Kimberly Wapola  | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 3 |
| Sheet 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelly Kinney | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Amanda Tucker | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Sheet 3 | Final |
| Nicole Reiser | W |
| Brigid Ellig | L |
Team Ellig was unable to field four registered players to start the competition, by rule an automatic forfeit.
Friday, January 20, 7:00 pm
| Sheet 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maureen Stolt | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Cristin Clark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Sheet 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janice Langanke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Allison Pottinger | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Sheet 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelly Kinney | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | X | X | 2 |
| Cassandra Potter | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | X | X | X | 9 |
Saturday, January 21, 9:00 am
| Sheet 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janice Langanke | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Maureen Stolt | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Sheet 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicole Reiser | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Aileen Sormunen | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Sheet 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Tucker | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | X | 13 |
| Brigid Ellig | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 |
Saturday, January 21, 2:00 pm
| Sheet 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cassandra Potter | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | X | 10 |
| Aileen Sormunen | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 7 |
| Sheet 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Tucker | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | X | X | X | 7 |
| Cristin Clark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | X | 1 |
| Sheet 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberly Wapola | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Nicole Reiser | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Saturday, January 21, 7:00 pm
| Sheet 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicole Reiser | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Brigid Ellig | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Sheet 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberly Wapola | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| Shelly Kinney | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Sheet 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Tucker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Allison Pottinger | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | X | 7 |
Sunday, January 22, 8:00 am
| Sheet 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberly Wapola | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | X | 4 |
| Janice Langanke | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | X | X | X | 11 |
| Sheet 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison Pottinger | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | X | 7 |
| Aileen Sormunen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelly Kinney | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Cristin Clark | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Sunday, January 22, 1:00 pm
| Sheet 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelly Kinney | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | X | 5 |
| Aileen Sormunen | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | X | X | X | 11 |
| Sheet 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigid Ellig | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | X | 9 |
| Amanda Tucker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
Sunday, January 22, 6:00 pm
| Sheet 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigid Ellig | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Kimberly Wapola | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
Courtney George is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota.
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