Aidan Oldenburg

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Aidan Oldenburg
Curler
Team
Curling club Chaska CC,
Chaska, MN [1]
Skip Daniel Casper
Third Luc Violette
Second Ben Richardson
Lead Aidan Oldenburg
Alternate Rich Ruohonen
Mixed doubles
partner		 Madison Bear
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic
appearances		1 (2026)
Medal record
Curling
Representing Flag of Minnesota.svg Minnesota
US Olympic Trials
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Sioux Falls
US Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Lafayette
United States National Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Duluth
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 East Rutherford

Aidan Oldenburg is an American curler from Mapleton, Minnesota. [2] He is currently the lead on Team Daniel Casper, and will be representing the United States at the 2026 Winter Olympics. He also notably wears different coloured neon headbands while competing on the ice. [3]

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Curling career

Juniors

Oldenburg in his junior career would notably skip a team out of St. Paul to a silver medal at the 2022 United States Junior Curling Championships, losing 5–3 in the final to Daniel Casper. [4]

Men's

Once aging out of Juniors, Oldenburg would join the Daniel Casper rink as their new lead alongside Casper, Luc Violette, and Ben Richardson. Team Casper would start to find their success in the 2025–26 curling season, starting the season by finishing second at the 2025 Trentino Curling World Cup, losing to Yannick Schwaller 7–6 in the final. Casper continued their strong start to the season by winning the Grand Slam of Curling Masters Tier 2 event, beating Kevin Koe 4–2 in the final. Their performance over the past two seasons qualified the team for the 2025 United States Olympic Curling Trials. At the Trials, Team Casper would go 4–2 in the round robin and beat the rink led by 2018 Olympic Champion and 5-time Olympian John Shuster in the best-of-three final series, winning the deciding Game 3 by a score of 7–5 after the two sides split the first two games. [5] This win qualified the Casper rink to represent the United States at the 2025 Olympic Qualification Event. The team would go on to win the Qualification Event, finishing 6–1 after round robin play and beating China's Xu Xiaoming 9–4, qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics. [6]

Mixed doubles

Oldenburg has also competed in mixed doubles with Madison Bear, notably competing at the 2025 United States Olympic mixed doubles curling trials, where they would qualify for the playoffs after finishing round-robin play with a 6–3 record. However, they would lose in the semifinal 7–5 to Sarah Anderson and Andrew Stopera, winning the bronze medal.

Personal life

Oldenburg began curling at age 10. [2] However, he was also well known at the Minnesota State Fair where Oldenburg juggled flaming torches to "We Didn't Start the Fire" in performances with his older brother that included a backflip. [2] [7] He also participated in 4-H as a child. [7]

Oldenburg outside of curling works as an environmental scientist on permitting for wind and solar projects nationwide, fulfilling a life-long dream that as a child, he would spend hours on projects involving animals and wildlife especially fish. [2] [7] Oldenburg graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with bachelor's degree in ecology in 2022, where he was captain of the Minnesota State Mavericks' varsity Valorant E-Sports team. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "USA Curling National Team Athletes". USA Curling. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Aidan Oldenburg". Team USA. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  3. ↑ Macklin Stern (December 8, 2025). "The Team Casper celebration that's sweeping the nation". NBC News. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Oldenburg runner-up at 2022 USCA Junior Championships". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Casper ends Shuster's memorable run by defeating 2018 Olympic gold medalist in USA Curling Trials final". TSN. November 17, 2025. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  6. ↑ Stern, Macklin (December 11, 2025). "Team Casper (USA) defeats Team Xu (China) to qualify for 2026 Winter Olympics". NBC News. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 "From the state fair 4-H stage to Olympic Trials". University of Minnesota. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
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