Vicky Persinger

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Vicky Persinger
Curler
Born (1992-06-01) June 1, 1992 (age 32)
Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.
Team
Curling club Fairbanks CC,
Fairbanks, AK [1]
Skip Tabitha Peterson
Third Cory Thiesse
Second Tara Peterson
Lead Vicky Persinger
Alternate Taylor Anderson-Heide
Mixed doubles
partner		 Daniel Casper
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
World Championship
appearances		6 (2015, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Pan Continental Championship
appearances		3 (2022, 2023, 2024)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2022)
Other appearances World Junior Championships: 1 (2013)
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Pan Continental Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Kelowna
United States Olympic Curling Trials
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Omaha
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Omaha
United States Women's Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Everett
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Fargo
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Wausau
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Jacksonville
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Cheney
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Kalamazoo
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Kalamazoo
United States Mixed Doubles Olympic Trials
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Eveleth
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Blaine
United States Mixed Doubles Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Wausau
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Seattle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Kalamazoo

Victoria "Vicky" Persinger (born June 1, 1992) is an American curler from Fairbanks, Alaska. [2] She currently plays lead on Team Tabitha Peterson. She is a three-time United States Women's National Champion.

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Career

Persinger competed in eight United States Junior Championships, winning gold at her last appearance in 2013. As national champions, they represented the United States at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Östersund, Sweden, where they finished in seventh place with a 4–5 record. [3]

Since aging out of juniors, Persinger has medalled at every Women's National Championship she has competed in, six in a row as of 2020. At her first Women's Nationals in 2015, she played lead for skip Aileen Sormunen, they were the number one seed in the page playoffs but lost to Erika Brown in the 1 vs 2 game and to Patti Lank in the semifinals to finish with the bronze medal. [4] Despite their third-place finish, Team Sormunen still earned the opportunity to represent the United States at the 2015 World Women's Championship because, of the top three teams at Nationals, they earned the most Order of Merit points throughout the season. [5] They finished in tenth place with a 3–8 record. [6]

At the 2016 Nationals, Persinger won silver with skip Nina Roth, losing the final to Erika Brown. [7] The next season Persinger joined Jamie Sinclair's new team at second, along with third Alex Carlson and lead Monica Walker. [8] Team Sinclair found success, winning the 2017 National Championship, but missed out on going to the World Championship due to Roth earning more points throughout the season. [9] They also played on the winning North American Team at the 2017 Continental Cup of Curling and made it to the quarterfinals of the last Grand Slam of the season, the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup.

The team started the 2017–18 season by winning the AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, a WCT event. At the 2017 United States Olympic Curling Trials, they missed their chance to play in the 2018 Winter Olympics when they lost a close three game final series to Nina Roth's team. [10] Later that season they defended their national title, winning the 2018 United States Women's Curling Championship. [11] Representing the United States at the 2018 World Women's Championship, they finished fourth, losing the bronze medal game to Russia's Victoria Moiseeva. [12] Persinger and Team Sinclair made history at the 2018 Players' Championship when they became the first American team to win a Grand Slam event. [13] They finished the season with another quarterfinal finish at the 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup. [14]

For the 2018–19 season, Persinger moved to playing third on Cory Christensen's team, which also included Madison Bear at lead and Jenna Martin at second. [15] The team's coach was Canadian Darah Blandford, in her first year with the USCA High Performance Program. [16] Team Christensen was chosen to represent the United States at the third leg of the Curling World Cup in Jönköping, Sweden; the Curling World Cup was a four-part international tournament held around the world throughout the curling season. [17] There they finished with a 3–3 record. [18]

At the 2019 United States Women's Championship, Persinger and Team Christensen finished the round-robin with a record of 5–2, good enough for the third seed in the page playoffs. In the 3 vs. 4 playoff game, they defeated Stephanie Senneker's team by one point, 9–8. The semifinal match against Nina Roth's team came down to the last stone, but Roth came through with the win, resulting in Persinger's second bronze medal. [19] [20] Persinger temporarily rejoined Sinclair's team, as alternate, for the 2019 World Championship where the team went 6–6, finishing in seventh place. [21]

Shortly after the season, however, it was announced that Christensen's team was dissolving; Martin decided to step away from competitive curling, Bear became skip of her own team, and Christensen and Persinger joined Sinclair's team. [22] So after one season away Persinger was back at second on Team Sinclair, now with Christensen at third, Taylor Anderson at lead, Sarah Anderson as alternate, and Cathy Overton-Clapham as coach. [23] [24] On the WCT the team won the Red Deer Curling Classic [25] and followed it a couple of weeks later by making it to the quarterfinals at the Curl Mesabi Classic, where they lost to Tabitha Peterson's team. [26]

At the 2020 United States Women's Championship, Persinger and Team Sinclair only lost one game in the round-robin, earning the number one seed in the playoffs. In the 1 vs. 2 page playoff, they lost to Tabitha Peterson's team, who they faced again in the final after defeating Ariel Traxler's junior team in the semifinals. Peterson defeated Team Sinclair a second time in the final, with a final score of 7–5, resulting in Persinger's second Women's Nationals silver medal. [27]

Personal life

Persinger started curling in 1997 when she was five years old. [2]

Persinger's cousin Greg is also an accomplished curler, having won the United States Men's Championship twice. [28] Her sister Tina [29] and cousin Chad are also curlers. All four played together and finished in fourth place at the 2015 United States Mixed Curling Championship. [30]

She graduated from University of Alaska Anchorage. She currently works as a contract specialist. [31]

Teams

Women's

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
2005–06 [32] Kaye HufmanLacy BirklidVicky PersingerPaige Sinicrope2006 USJCC (7th)
2006–07 [33] Kaye HufmanLacy BirklidVicky PersingerTina Persinger2007 USJCC (4th) [34]
2007–08Kaye HufmanLacy BirklidVicky PersingerTina PersingerKaty Sharpe2008 USJCC (5th)
2008–09 [35] Kaye HufmanVicky PersingerTina PersingerTressa Shuttleworth2009 USJCC (7th)
2009–10 [36] Vicky PersingerJennifer TaylorTina PersingerMeredith HazenChrista Czajka2010 USJCC (5th)
2010–11Vicky PersingerTina PersingerMeredith HazenKaitlin Fowler2011 USJCC (6th)
2011–12Vicky PersingerTina PersingerKaitlin FowlerBecky Hill 2012 USJCC (6th)
2012–13 Miranda Solem Vicky PersingerKarlie KoenigChelsea Solem Cory Christensen (WJCC)Mike Solem 2013 USJCC Gold medal icon.svg
2013 WJCC (7th)
2014–15 Aileen Sormunen Monica Walker Tara Peterson Vicky Persinger Becca Hamilton (WWCC) Scott Baird 2015 USWCC Bronze medal icon.svg
2015 WWCC (10th)
2015–16 Nina Roth Monica WalkerAileen SormunenVicky Persinger 2016 USWCC Silver medal icon.svg
2016–17 Jamie Sinclair Alexandra Carlson Vicky PersingerMonica WalkerTara Peterson (USWCC) 2017 Cont. Cup Gold medal icon.svg
2017 USWCC Gold medal icon.svg [37] [38]
2017–18Jamie SinclairAlexandra CarlsonVicky PersingerMonica Walker Jenna Martin (WCC)Scott Baird 2017 USOCT Silver medal icon.svg
2018 USWCC Gold medal icon.svg
2018 WCC (4th)
2018–19Cory ChristensenVicky PersingerJenna Martin Madison Bear Linda Christensen
(USWCC)		 Pete Fenson CWC/3 (5th)
2019 USWCC Bronze medal icon.svg
Jamie Sinclair Sarah Anderson Taylor Anderson Monica WalkerVicky Persinger Bryan Cochrane, Pete Fenson 2019 WWCC 2019 (7th)
2019–20Jamie SinclairCory ChristensenVicky PersingerTaylor AndersonSarah Anderson Cathy Overton-Clapham 2020 USWCC Silver medal icon.svg
2020–21Cory ChristensenSarah AndersonVicky PersingerTaylor AndersonCathy Overton-Clapham 2021 USWCC Gold medal icon.svg
2021–22Cory ChristensenSarah AndersonVicky PersingerTaylor AndersonCathy Overton-Clapham 2021 USOCT Silver medal icon.svg
2022 WWCC (5th)
2022–23 Tabitha Peterson Cory ThiesseBecca HamiltonTara PetersonVicky PersingerCathy Overton-Clapham 2022 PCCC (4th)
2023 WWCC (7th)
2023–24Tabitha PetersonCory ThiesseTara PetersonBecca HamiltonVicky PersingerCathy Overton-Clapham 2023 PCCC Bronze medal icon.svg
2024 WWCC
2024–25Tabitha PetersonCory ThiesseTara PetersonVicky PersingerTaylor Anderson-HeideCathy Overton-Clapham
Cory ThiesseVicky PersingerTara PetersonTaylor Anderson-HeideAileen GevingCathy Overton-Clapham 2024 PCCC

Mixed

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadEvents
2015 Greg Persinger Vicky PersingerChad PersingerTina Persinger2015 USMxCC (4th) [39]
2016Greg PersingerVicky PersingerQuinn EvensonCatharine Persinger2016 USMxCC Silver medal icon.svg [40]

Mixed doubles

SeasonFemaleMaleEvents
2016–17Vicky PersingerQuinn Evenson [41]
Vicky Persinger Jared Zezel 2017 USMDCC (5th)
2017–18Vicky PersingerJared Zezel 2017 USMDOT Bronze medal icon.svg
2018–19Vicky Persinger Chris Plys 2019 USMDCC Silver medal icon.svg
2019–20Vicky PersingerChris Plys 2020 USMDCC (5th)
2020–21 [42] Vicky PersingerChris Plys 2021 USMDCC Gold medal icon.svg
2021–22Vicky PersingerChris Plys 2021 USMDOT Gold medal icon.svg
2022 OG (8th)
2022–23Vicky PersingerChris Plys 2023 USMDCC Bronze medal icon.svg
2023–24Vicky Persinger Daniel Casper 2024 USMDCC (6th)
2024–25Vicky PersingerDaniel Casper

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