| Joan Fish | ||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Mary Fish | |||||||||||||
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| Curling club | Granite CC, Seattle, WA | |||||||||||||
| Career | ||||||||||||||
| Member Association |  United States | |||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 2 (1980, 1987) | |||||||||||||
| Other appearances | World Senior Championships: 1 (2009) | |||||||||||||
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Joan Fish (also known as Mary Fish) [1] is an American curler from Seattle, Washington. She is a two-time women's national champion (1980, 1987) and former senior women's national champion (2009). [2]
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979–80 | Sharon Kozai | Joan Fish | Betty Kozai | Aija Edwards | 1980 USWCC  1980 WWCC (4th) [3] |
| 1986–87 | Sharon Good | Joan Fish | Beth Bronger-Jones | Aija Edwards | 1987 USWCC 1987 WWCC (5th) [4] |
| 2008–09 | Sharon Vukich | Joan Fish | Cathie Tomlinson | Aija Edwards | 2009 USSCC 2009 WSCC (6th) [5] |
Her sister-in-law Aija Edwards is also a curler, they are teammates on US and World women's and seniors championships. [6]
Sandra Marie Schmirler was a Canadian curler who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler also skipped (captained) her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year women's curling was a medal sport. At tournaments where she was not competing, Schmirler sometimes worked as a commentator for CBC Sports, which popularized her nickname "Schmirler the Curler" and claimed she was the only person who had a name that rhymed with the sport she played. She died in 2000 at 36 of cancer, leaving a legacy that extended outside of curling. Schmirler was honoured posthumously with an induction into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and was awarded the World Curling Freytag Award, which later led to her induction into the World Curling Federation Hall of Fame.
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