Ana Arce is a photographer and former skip of the
AndorraAndorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...
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curlingCurling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
team. She now plays on the
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national team.
Photography
She produced the
Ana Arce Team Sponsorship Calendar 2006 featuring nude or semi-nude photographs of women curlers from a variety of countries including
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Daniela JentschDaniela Jentsch is a former skip of the German national women's curling team. She has skipped the German women's junior team to two "B" level gold medals in 2001 and 2002. She has curled once at the world championships level, in 2000 as a third for Petra Tschetsch. They finished sixth...
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Melanie RobillardMelanie Robillard is a curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.-Career:She curled for Jenn Hanna's team in 2000 as her lead. They would lose in the provincial junior finals that year. In 2002, Robillard skipped her own team to the provincial junior finals, but lost...
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Lynsay RyanLynsay Ryan is a talented musician/singer/songwriter. She has produced two albums and has performed across Canada. Her Myspace website myspace.com/LynsayRyan has received over 7 million hits...
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Kasia SelwandKatarzyna "Kasia" Selwant is the former Polish national curling team lead. In 2005, she posed for a calendar to promote women's curling. She played in both the 2004 and 2005 European Curling Championships for skip Krystyna Beniger...
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Claudia TothClaudia Toth is the Austrian national curling team skip. She once turned down an offer to pose for the German edition of Playboy....
. She produced a second calendar for 2007 which included
Christine KeshenChristine Keshen is a Canadian curler from Invermere, British Columbia)Keshen played lead for Team Canada, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
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Linn GithmarkLinn Githmark is a Norwegian curler who has skipped her country to a world junior title, and also played on the Norwegian team that won a silver medal at the world championships....
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Debbie McCormickDebbie McCormick is an American curler from Rio, Wisconsin. Although born in Canada, McCormick moved to Madison, Wisconsin, when she was very young...
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Jackie LockhartJacqueline "Jackie" Lockhart is a Scottish curler who has competed prolifically in major international competitions for Scotland, and for the Great Britain team that competes at the Olympic Winter Games.Having made her international debut at the 1983 European Championships, she went on to claim a...
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Curling
Arce played in the 2002, 2003 and 2004
European Curling ChampionshipsThe European Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments held in Europe between various European nations and hosted by the European Curling Federation. The European Curling Championships are usually held in early to mid December...
for Andorra. Skipping the team, she placed 17th, 15th and 21st respectively. In 2005, she moved to the Spanish team. Her first international debut for Spain was at the 2005
European Mixed Curling ChampionshipThe European Mixed Curling Championships is a mixed curling tournament held annually in the autumn for European nations. The first tournament was held in 2005.-Results:...
playing lead for Antonio De Mollinedo Gonzalez. Spain finished 16th. Her debut for Spain at the European Championships happened a few months later. She played third for Ellen Kittelsen, and the team finished 17th. In 2006, with the same skips, Arce placed 20th at the European Mixed and 17th at the European Championships. At the 2007 European Mixed, she placed 21st on De Mollinedo's team. She wouldn't play at the European Championships again until 2009, finishing 19th on Kittelsen's rink. In the mean time she placed 13th at the 2008 European Mixed and 9th at the 2009 event respectively. In 2008, the team was skipped by José Luis Hinojosa de Torres-Peralta and she was the team's female alternate. The 2009 team was skipped by De Mollinedo again.
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