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| Born | February 7, 1969 Trail, British Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Curling club | Victoria CC, Victoria, BC Juan de Fuca CC, Victoria, BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member Association |  British Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hearts appearances | 4 (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 1 (1991) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic appearances | 1 (1992 - demo) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melissa Soligo (born February 7, 1969, in Trail, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian curler and curling coach, currently living in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Soligo began curling at age 11. In her youth, she also played volleyball, basketball, field hockey and fastball.
She is a 1991 World women's silver medallist and 1991 Canadian women's champion.
She won a bronze medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics when curling was a demonstration sport. [1]
Her competitive curling career was cut short when she was struck by an intoxicated driver while she was walking. [2] She then made the choice to switch to coaching. Early in her career she focused on coaching junior teams in Canada. In 2002 she began coaching the South Korean curling teams where under her leadership the men's team won the Pacific Curling Championship. She has also been the national team leader of Curling Canada's wheelchair curling program, the coach of BC's wheelchair curling team and is currently a national coach, mentor coach and High Performance Director at CurlBC.
