Jeff Isaacson is an internationally elite curler

Curling

Curling 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...

 from the United States

United States

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. He graduated in 2001 from Mesabi East High School in Aurora, Minnesota

Aurora, Minnesota

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He currently plays Second on John Shuster

John Shuster

John Shuster is an American curler and Olympic medalist from Chisholm, Minnesota. He received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...

's team which won the US Olympic Trials in February 2009 and earned a spot on the 2010 United States Olympic Team. In addition to John Shuster his other teammates are John Benton

John Benton (curler)

John Benton is an American curler from St. Michael, Minnesota. He started curling in 1975 and made his first US Junior National Championships in 1987. In 1998 he qualified for his first Olympic Trials where he was placed fifth...

 and Jason Smith

Jason Smith (curler)

Jason Smith is an American curler from Cape Coral, Florida.He was formerly the third, , of John Shuster's team. His other teammates were Jeff Isaacson and John Benton . As a member of this team, he won the 2009 U.S...

. Chris Plys

Chris Plys

Christopher Plys is an American curler. Plys, who started to curl in 1998, used to curl with Aanders Brorson, Matt Perushek, and Matt Hamilton. He has been in six State Curling Championships, taking first in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009...

 joined the team as alternate after the Olympic Trials.

By winning the 2010 US Olympic Trials, his team also qualified for the 2009 Curling World Championships held in Moncton, Canada. Isaacson and his team finished with a 7–4 record. They lost a tiebreaker match against Team Norway to qualify for the semifinals and finished fifth overall.

Teammates

2009 Moncton World Championships

2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

The 2009 Ford Men's World Curling Championship was held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada from the 4th to the 12th of April, 2009 at the Moncton Coliseum...

2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The curling competition of the 2010 Olympics was held at Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre in Vancouver. It is the fifth time that curling was on the Olympic program, after having been staged in 1924, 1998, 2002 and 2006...

• John Shuster
  John Shuster
  John Shuster is an American curler and Olympic medalist from Chisholm, Minnesota. He received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...
  
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• Jason Smith
  Jason Smith (curler)
  Jason Smith is an American curler from Cape Coral, Florida.He was formerly the third, , of John Shuster's team. His other teammates were Jeff Isaacson and John Benton . As a member of this team, he won the 2009 U.S...
  
  , Third
• John Benton
  John Benton (curler)
  John Benton is an American curler from St. Michael, Minnesota. He started curling in 1975 and made his first US Junior National Championships in 1987. In 1998 he qualified for his first Olympic Trials where he was placed fifth...
  
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• Chris Plys
  Chris Plys
  Christopher Plys is an American curler. Plys, who started to curl in 1998, used to curl with Aanders Brorson, Matt Perushek, and Matt Hamilton. He has been in six State Curling Championships, taking first in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009...
  
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