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Born | October 26, 1960 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Curling club | Granite CC, Seattle, WA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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World Championship appearances | 2 (1990, 1992) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other appearances | World Senior Championships: 1 (2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tom Violette (born October 26, 1960) is an American curler from Issaquah, Washington and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. [1]
He is a 1992 World Men's bronze medallist, [2] a two-time United States men's curling champion (1990, 1992), and a 2015 World Seniors gold medalist.
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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1989–90 | Bard Nordlund (fourth) | Doug Jones (skip) | Murphy Tomlinson | Tom Violette | 1990 USMCC ![]() 1990 WMCC (7th) [1] | ||
1991–92 | Doug Jones | Jason Larway | Joel Larway | Tom Violette | 1992 USMCC ![]() 1992 WMCC ![]() | ||
1994–95 | Doug Jones | Murray Beighton | Ken Trask | Tom Violette | |||
1998–99 | Jason Larway | Travis Way | Joel Larway | Tom Violette | |||
1999–00 | Tom Violette | Curt Fish | Bard Nordlund | Murphy Tomlinson | Doug Jones | 2000 USMCC (DNQ) [4] | |
2003–04 | Wes Johnson | Leon Romaniuk | Colin Hufman | Ryan Beighton | Tom Violette | 2004 USMCC (13th) [5] | |
2011–12 | Tom Violette | Leon Romaniuk | Paul Lyttle | Steve Lundeen | |||
2014–15 | Lyle Sieg | Tom Violette | Ken Trask | Steve Lundeen | Duane Rutan | Greg Violette | 2015 USSCC ![]() 2015 WSCC ![]() |
2015–16 | Lyle Sieg | Tom Violette | Ken Trask | Steve Lundeen | Duane Rutan | 2016 USSCC ![]() | |
2016–17 | Lyle Sieg | Tom Violette | Ken Trask | Steve Lundeen | Duane Rutan | 2017 USSCC ![]() |
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