The skip, in conjunction with the team, determines strategy. Based on the strategy, the skip holds the broom indicating where the player throwing must aim ("calling the shot"). When it is the skip's turn to throw, the vice-skip (usually the third, sometimes the second) holds the broom. The skip usually throws the last two rocks of the end, however some teams have the skip throwing in other positions.

The skip rarely does any sweeping, except in the house and behind the tee line. The skip is required to stay out of the playing area when it is the other team's turn, but may sweep stones in motion behind the tee line as a result of their shot. (In International rules, the skip, when he or she is not throwing, is the only player allowed to sweep their opponent's stones behind the tee-line.)

A Skip's Responsibilities

A skip has many responsibilities beyond sweeping behind the tee line. They provide overall leadership and strategic direction to the team . Not only that, a good skip must be able to comfrotably shoot last in the end. This can be a difficult feat, as shooting last can provide a huge advantage to a team but can also hurt the team significantly. A skip must know his/her team. A team could consist of any four people, however to be a good team, the members must know one another well enough to be able to understand how a shot might turn out dependant on how the person throws. In a skip's position, he/she must know how the person throws to adjust the amount of ice given and call shots according to the abilities of his/her team members. Along with this, the skip must be able to read the other team in order to play not only to his/her team's abilities, but to the other team's weaknesses. For example: a team that has trouble throwing takeouts plays a team with trouble throwing takeouts as well. A skip will try to play so that his/her team throws many draws (their strength) and forces the other team to make some takeouts (their weakness). A skip should be able to read the ice. They need to be able to change their calls as the ice changes throughout the game. A rock might hit a bump, spin funny, or take a different curl halfway down the ice. A skip should be able to know what to do when this occurs and be able to change their game accordingly. Timing is also an important part of the game. A skip can time the rocks (from hog line to hog line) to get a rough estimate as to how fast the rock is moving down the ice. For example, a "normal" sheet of ice has about a 15 second time between hog lines for a draw. This also relates to calling the line of the shot. The skip needs to be able to see where the rock is going, if the player is on line, and know what to do if the rock is off line, for example, call a "plan B" shot after the rock has been released. The skip has many responsibilities but none so important as staying one of the team. A skip may not sweep as much or be with the team most of the game but the skip still must stay fit and keep his/her relationship with the team strong to better the team.

1920s

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Gordon Hudson Gordon Hudson (curler) Gordon M. Hudson was a Canadian curler. He was a two-time Brier champion.Hudson was the first skip to win two Briers, which he won back to back in 1928 and 1929. Hudson grew up in Kenora, Ontario, and participated in many Manitoba Curling Association Bonspiels. In 1916, his family moved to Winnipeg...	Canada
Murray Macneill Murray Macneill Dr. Murray Macneill was a curler from Nova Scotia. He is the first skip to win the Brier, back in 1927. He began curling in his back yard while he was a boy in Saint John, New Brunswick. He was always competitive and went on to become one of the top curlers in Maritime Canada...	Canada
William K. Jackson	Scotland

1930s and 1940s

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Cliff Manahan Cliff Manahan Clifford Ross "Cliff" Manahan was a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta.Manahan grew up in Fort William, Ontario and moved to Edmonton in 1926. He won eight provincial titles and won two Briers- in 1933 and 1937. He was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1966.Manahan Clifford...	Canada
Ken Watson Ken Watson James Kenneth Watson, CM was a Canadian curler.Watson was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba and moved to Winnipeg later. He was the first man to skip his rink to three Brier championships in 1936, 1942 and 1949....	Canada
Pappy Wood Pappy Wood D. J. Howard "Pappy" Wood, Sr. was a Canadian curler.Wood played ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer in his youth, but is most notable for his curling achievements.One of Wood's most notable feats is participating in 71...	Canada

1950s

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Matt Baldwin Matt Baldwin Matthew M. Baldwin is a Canadian curler from Edmonton.Baldwin is a three time Brier champion, having skipped to the Canadian men's championship in 1954, 1957 and 1958....	Canada
Ernie Richardson Ernie Richardson Ernest M. Richardson, CM is a Canadian and world curling champion.Ernie Richardson was the skip of the Regina-based team made up of his brother Garnet and cousins Arnold, Wes Richardson, and Mel Perry who replaced Wes in 1963 due to back issues...	Canada
Billy Walsh	Canada

1960s

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Mabel DeWare Mabel DeWare Mabel Margaret DeWare is a Canadian politician, curler, and retired Senator.Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, she skipped her team to a New Brunswick and Canadian Curling Association Ladies Curling championship in 1963, forerunner to the Scott Tournament of Hearts.In 1978, she was elected to the...	Canada
Hec Gervais Hec Gervais Hector J. "The Friendly Giant" Gervais was a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. He was a two-time Brier champion and former World Champion....	Canada
Ina Hansen	Canada
Joyce McKee Joyce McKee Joyce McKee is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a five time Canadian champion.McKee won her very first provincial title as a skip in 1954, before the creation of a Canadian women's championship. She won again in 1960, earning the right to play at the Western Canada women's...	Canada
Ron Northcott Ron Northcott Ronald Charles "Owl" Northcott, CM is a three-time Canadian and World curling champion and a Hall of Fame member....	Canada
Ernie Richardson Ernie Richardson Ernest M. Richardson, CM is a Canadian and world curling champion.Ernie Richardson was the skip of the Regina-based team made up of his brother Garnet and cousins Arnold, Wes Richardson, and Mel Perry who replaced Wes in 1963 due to back issues...	Canada
Bud Somerville Bud Somerville Raymond "Bud" Somerville is an American curler. He is a two-time World champion, and five time American champion....	United States

1970s

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Hec Gervais Hec Gervais Hector J. "The Friendly Giant" Gervais was a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. He was a two-time Brier champion and former World Champion....	Canada
Don Duguid Don Duguid Donald G. Duguid is a Canadian champion curler. A three-time winner of the Canadian Brier and two-time World Curling Championships champion, Duguid won the Brier in 1965, 1970 and 1971, and the Worlds in 1970 and 1971...	Canada
Ed Lukowich Ed Lukowich Edward "Ed" Lukowich is a former champion curler. Lukowich is a two-time Brier champion. In 1986 his team won the World Curling Championship....	Canada
Jack MacDuff Jack MacDuff Jack MacDuff is an air traffic controller and curler.-Curling:The son of Jim and Eileen MacDuff, Jack was the skip of the 1976 men's curling team representing the province of Newfoundland and Labrador that won the Canadian Men's curling championship. It was the only time the province had won the...	Canada
Orest Meleschuk Orest Meleschuk Orest Meleschuk is a former Canadian curler. He was one of Manitoba's best curlers during the 1960s and 70's and has won a number of championships and major bonspiels...	Canada
Vera Pezer Vera Pezer Vera Pezer, BA, MA, PhD is the current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan. A sports enthusiast, Pezer is a Canadian softball champion, golfing contender, and curling champion. She has been inducted into both the Saskatchewan Sports Halls of Fame and the Canadian Curling Hall of...	Canada
Bud Somerville Bud Somerville Raymond "Bud" Somerville is an American curler. He is a two-time World champion, and five time American champion....	United States
Lindsay Sparkes Lindsay Sparkes Lindsay Sparkes is a Canadian curler. She is a three-time Canadian champion, world champion and Olympic demonstration champion....	Canada

1980s

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Helena Blach Lavrsen Helena Blach Lavrsen Helena Blach Lavrsen is a Danish curler, several times skip for the Danish team, Olympic medalist and European champion. She received a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She has obtained two medals at the World Curling Championships, and is European champion from 1994.-References:...	Denmark
Marilyn Bodogh Marilyn Bodogh Marilyn C. Bodogh is a Canadian curler, colour commentator and political candidate....	Canada
Kerry Burtnyk Kerry Burtnyk Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...	Canada
Rick Folk Rick Folk Richard Dale “Rick” Folk is a Canadian curler and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He is a two-time world curling champion....	Canada
Al Hackner Al Hackner Allan A. "Al" Hackner, nicknamed "the Iceman" is a Canadian Hall of Fame curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was born and raised in Nipigon, Ontario. He is a two-time Brier and World Champion skip...	Canada
Elisabeth Högström Elisabeth Högström Elisabeth Högström is a Swedish curler, world champion and five times European champion.-International championships:...	Sweden
Heather Houston Heather Houston Heather Houston is a Canadian curler and world champion.-International championships:Houston became world champion in 1989 as skip for the Canadian team...	Canada
Russ Howard Russ Howard Russell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...	Canada
Eugene Hritzuk Eugene Hritzuk Eugene Hritzuk is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is a former World Senior men's champion skip.Hritzuk has won two provincial championships as skip, once in 1985 and again in 1988. This qualified him for the Brier both times. At the 1985 Labatt Brier, he finished the round robin...	Canada
Patrick Hürlimann Patrick Hürlimann Patrick Hürlimann is a Swiss curler and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.He has received three medals at the World Curling Championships as skip for the Swiss team....	Switzerland
Colleen Jones Colleen Jones Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...	Canada
Anne Jøtun Anne Jøtun Anne Jøtun is a Norwegian curler and world champion. She participated on the silver team at the demonstration event at the 1992 Winter Olympics...	Norway
Connie Laliberte Connie Laliberte Connie Laliberte is a Canadian curler from Manitoba and world champion.-Championships:Laliberte became world champion in 1984 as skip for the Canadian team....	Canada
Ed Lukowich Ed Lukowich Edward "Ed" Lukowich is a former champion curler. Lukowich is a two-time Brier champion. In 1986 his team won the World Curling Championship....	Canada
Hammy McMillan Hammy McMillan Hammy McMillan is a Scottish curler and world champion. He won a gold medal as skip for the Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick. He has received five gold medals at the European Curling Championships...	Scotland
Linda Moore Linda Moore Linda Moore is a Canadian world champion curler. Since 1989, she has been a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and formerly Ray Turnbull .-Career:...	Canada
Anette Norberg Anette Norberg Anette Norberg is a Swedish curler from Nacka. She and her team are the current Olympic women's curling champions, having won the 2010 Women's Curling tournament in Vancouver...	Sweden
Eigil Ramsfjell Eigil Ramsfjell Eigil Ramsfjell is a Norwegian curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. Many consider him as one of pioneers in modern curling. He received a bronze medal as skip at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano...	Norway
Pat Ryan	Canada
David Smith David Smith (curler) David Smith is a Scottish curler.In his very first international competition, the 1982 European Curling Championships, Smith won a gold medal playing second for Mike Hay. Hay and Smith were still juniors at the time and they won three straight bronze medals at the World Junior Curling Championships...	Scotland
Bernie Sparkes Bernie Sparkes Bernard L. Sparkes is a former world champion curler.Sparkes's first major curling championship success came when he won the 1957 Alberta Schoolboys...	Canada
Pat Sanders Pat Sanders Pat Sanders is a Canadian curler and world champion.-Championships:Sanders became world champion in 1987 with the Canadian team.Her team won the 1987 Scott Tournament of Hearts, and reached the final in 1988, finishing second....	Canada
Andrea Schöpp Andrea Schöpp Dr. Andrea Schöpp is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She also lectures part-time in statistics at the University of Munich....	Germany
Ed Werenich Ed Werenich Edward Werenich is a Canadian curler. Nicknamed "The Wrench," Werenich has been known to be a colourful and outspoken character. Outside of curling, Werenich worked as a firefighter....	Canada

1990s

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Scott Baird Scott Baird Scott Baird is an American curler. At 54, he is the oldest American athlete to ever participate in the Winter Olympics, which he did at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Despite this feat, Baird was only the alternate for Pete Fenson's U.S. team and did not throw a stone. He still received a bronze medal,...	United States
Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final....	Canada
Helena Blach Lavrsen Helena Blach Lavrsen Helena Blach Lavrsen is a Danish curler, several times skip for the Danish team, Olympic medalist and European champion. She received a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She has obtained two medals at the World Curling Championships, and is European champion from 1994.-References:...	Denmark
Marilyn Bodogh Marilyn Bodogh Marilyn C. Bodogh is a Canadian curler, colour commentator and political candidate....	Canada
Maureen Bonar Maureen Bonar Maureen Bonar is a Canadian curler.Bonar is a four time provincial champion- twice as a skip.After having won the 1982 provincial junior championships as skip, Bonar joined up with Patti Vande as her lead and won the 1983 provincial championships earning them the right to represent Manitoba at the...	Canada
Kerry Burtnyk Kerry Burtnyk Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...	Canada
Markus Eggler Markus Eggler Markus Eggler is a retired Swiss curler from Münchenstein.Eggler was the skip of the Swiss team at the 1986, 1987 and 1989 World Junior Curling Championships. At the 1989 event, he won a bronze medal. He then skipped the Swiss team at the World Curling Championships in 1991, 1992 and 1994...	Switzerland
Rick Folk Rick Folk Richard Dale “Rick” Folk is a Canadian curler and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He is a two-time world curling champion....	Canada
Alison Goring Alison Goring Alison Goring is a Canadian curler.Goring is a former Canadian champion skip, having won the 1990 Scott Tournament of Hearts. She was also a successful junior curler, having won the 1983 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.Goring won her first provincial championship in 1990...	Canada
Elisabet Gustafson Elisabet Gustafson Elisabet Gustafson is a retired Swedish curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano...	Sweden
Heidi Hanlon Heidi Hanlon Heidi Hanlon is a Canadian curler from Saint John, New Brunswick.Hanlon is an 11-time provincial women's champion skip, provincial mixed champion and two-time provincial women's seniors championship. She became a Canadian champion for the first time by winning the 2011 Canadian Senior Curling...	Canada
Mike Harris Mike Harris (curler) Mike Harris is a Canadian curler. Mike Harris is the golf professional at The Donalda Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Ontario....	Canada
Guy Hemmings Guy Hemmings Guy Hemmings is a Canadian curler from Sorel. Hemmings is a popular curler who gained prominence after reaching the final of the Brier in 1998 and 1999...	Canada
Russ Howard Russ Howard Russell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...	Canada
Patrick Hürlimann Patrick Hürlimann Patrick Hürlimann is a Swiss curler and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.He has received three medals at the World Curling Championships as skip for the Swiss team....	Switzerland
Colleen Jones Colleen Jones Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...	Canada
Andy Kapp Andy Kapp Andreas "Andy" Kapp is a German curler from Unterthingau. After a number of unsuccessful tournaments at the Junior, Olympic and World Championship levels, Kapp surprised many by winning the 1992 European championship. The next year however, he finished only 7th, but at the 1994 World Championships...	Germany
Cathy King Cathy King Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...	Canada
Shannon Kleibrink Shannon Kleibrink Shannon Kleibrink is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy...	Canada
Connie Laliberte Connie Laliberte Connie Laliberte is a Canadian curler from Manitoba and world champion.-Championships:Laliberte became world champion in 1984 as skip for the Canadian team....	Canada
Patti Lank Patti Lank Patti Lank is an American curler from Lewiston, New York.-Career:Patti Lank began curling at the age of eleven and competed at her first US National Championships in 1994 and her team placed fourth. She has since gone on to compete in fifteen National Championships. In March 2010 she will compete...	United States
Peja Lindholm Peja Lindholm Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm is a Swedish curler. He is a three-time world champion skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004. He is also a two-time European champion and a former world junior champion .Lindholm announced his retirement from curling following the 2007 European Curling Championships...	Sweden
Kevin Martin Kevin Martin (curler) Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...	Canada
Hammy McMillan Hammy McMillan Hammy McMillan is a Scottish curler and world champion. He won a gold medal as skip for the Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick. He has received five gold medals at the European Curling Championships...	Scotland
Anne Merklinger Anne Merklinger Anne Merklinger is a retired Canadian curler from Ottawa. Merklinger is a two-time runner-up at the Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's championship. She curled out of the Rideau Curling Club....	Canada
Wayne Middaugh Wayne Middaugh Wayne Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario.Middaugh is a two-time world champion, once as second for Russ Howard in 1993 and as a skip in 1998. He has participated and won in seven and participated in 11 Briers- in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 as Russ Howard's second and in...	Canada
Gordon Muirhead Gordon Muirhead Gordon Muirhead is a Scottish curler and world champion. He was alternate for the Gold medal winning Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick, and silver medals in 1992, 1993 and 1995...	Scotland
Anette Norberg Anette Norberg Anette Norberg is a Swedish curler from Nacka. She and her team are the current Olympic women's curling champions, having won the 2010 Women's Curling tournament in Vancouver...	Sweden
Dordi Nordby Dordi Nordby Dordi Agate Nordby, , is a Norwegian right-handed curler from Snarøya. Nordby has amassed an array of medals in major international competitions over a career spanning three decades, including two world championship gold medals and two European championship gold medals.Having made her international...	Norway
Mirjam Ott Mirjam Ott Mirjam Ott is skip of the Swiss Olympic Curling Team. She has participated in several Olympic Games contests and has won numerous awards in many other curling events worldwide...	Switzerland
Vic Peters Vic Peters Vic Peters is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba and originally from Steinbach, Manitoba. He is a three time Manitoba curling champion, and one time national champion having won the 1992 Labatt Brier...	Canada
Eigil Ramsfjell Eigil Ramsfjell Eigil Ramsfjell is a Norwegian curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. Many consider him as one of pioneers in modern curling. He received a bronze medal as skip at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano...	Norway
Heather Rankin Heather Rankin Heather Rankin is a Canadian curler currently residing in Alberta.While living in Nova Scotia, Rankin won the provincial junior championships in 1984 and would skip the Nova Scotia team at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships...	Canada
Sandra Schmirler Sandra Schmirler Sandra Marie Schmirler, SOM , was a Canadian curler, who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler skipped her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year curling was a medal sport...	Canada
Lisa Schoeneberg Lisa Schoeneberg Lisa Schoeneberg is an American curler, several times skip for the American national team.She received silver medals at the World Curling Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1992, and again at the 1996 Ford World Curling Championships in Hamilton, as skip for the American team.She...	United States
Andrea Schöpp Andrea Schöpp Dr. Andrea Schöpp is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She also lectures part-time in statistics at the University of Munich....	Germany
Julie Skinner Julie Skinner Julie Skinner is a Canadian curler and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....	Canada
David Smith David Smith (curler) David Smith is a Scottish curler.In his very first international competition, the 1982 European Curling Championships, Smith won a gold medal playing second for Mike Hay. Hay and Smith were still juniors at the time and they won three straight bronze medals at the World Junior Curling Championships...	Scotland
Warwick Smith Warwick Smith Warwick B. Smith is a Scottish curler from Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross.Smith made his international debut at the 1996 World Curling Championships as the skip for the Scotland team...	Scotland
Jeff Stoughton Jeff Stoughton Jeff Stoughton is a Canadian curler. Stoughton is a three-time Brier champion and two-time World champion as skip.-Career:...	Canada
Julie Sutton Julie Skinner Julie Skinner is a Canadian curler and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....	Canada
Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi is a Finnish curler and politician.-Personal life:Uusipaavalniemi lives in Hyvinkää with his wife and three children. His older brother Jussi taught him how to curl.-Curling career:...	Finland

2000s

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Shawn Adams Shawn Adams Shawn Adams is a Canadian curler from Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia.Adams rose to curling prominence being runner-up in the 1992 Canadian Junior Championship, and then the next year, won the 1993 Canadian Junior Championship, however he was stripped of the championship because of alcohol...	Canada
Sherry Anderson Sherry Anderson Sherry Anderson is a Canadian curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan.Anderson has been to five Scott Tournament of Hearts, four as a skip. Her first Scotts were in 1994 when her team lost in the semi-final. Anderson returned the following year, but finished out of the playoffs at 6-5...	Canada
Jan Betker Jan Betker Janice "Jan" Betker is a Canadian curler. Betker is best known for playing third on the Sandra Schmirler rink that won three world championships and an Olympic gold medal in the 1990s...	Canada
Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final....	Canada
Todd Birr Todd Birr Todd Birr is an American curler.Birr relatively came out of nowhere when he skipped his team to a victory at the 2007 United States Curling Men's Championships beating out such teams as Olympic bronze medalist Pete Fenson and former national champion Jason Larway in the process...	United States
Kerry Burtnyk Kerry Burtnyk Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...	Canada
Cathy Cunningham	Canada
Mark Dacey Mark Dacey Mark Dacey is a Canadian curler from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but originally from Saskatchewan....	Canada
Luzia Ebnöther Luzia Ebnöther Luzia Ebnöther, born , is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...	Switzerland
Niklas Edin Niklas Edin Niklas Edin is a Swedish curler. He is one of the top skips in Sweden.In 2004 Edin skipped his Swedish team to a World Junior Curling Championship title. In the final Sweden defeated Stefan Rindlisbacher of Switzerland. The following year he was an alternate for the silver medal winning Swedish...	Sweden
Pete Fenson Pete Fenson Peter Fenson is an American curler, skip of the men's rink which represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The rink took the bronze medal, the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in curling...	United States
Randy Ferbey Randy Ferbey Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....	Canada
Brad Gushue Brad Gushue Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...	Canada
Jenn Hanna Jenn Hanna Jennifer Ann Hanna is a Canadian curler who curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts.-Personal life:...	Canada
Glenn Howard Glenn Howard Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...	Canada
Russ Howard Russ Howard Russell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...	Canada
Angelina Jensen	Denmark
Colleen Jones Colleen Jones Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...	Canada
Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (curler) Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...	Canada
Andy Kapp Andy Kapp Andreas "Andy" Kapp is a German curler from Unterthingau. After a number of unsuccessful tournaments at the Junior, Olympic and World Championship levels, Kapp surprised many by winning the 1992 European championship. The next year however, he finished only 7th, but at the 1994 World Championships...	Germany
Cathy King Cathy King Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...	Canada
Shannon Kleibrink Shannon Kleibrink Shannon Kleibrink is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy...	Canada
Kevin Koe Kevin Koe Kevin Koe is a Canadian curler. Originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, he now resides in Grande Prairie, Alberta and curls out of Edmonton, Alberta. He is the skip of the current World champion team....	Canada
Marie-France Larouche Marie-France Larouche Marie-France Larouche is a Canadian curler.Larouche is a former national junior curling champion, having won the title in 1999 with her team of Nancy Bélanger, Marie-Ève Létourneau, Valerie Grenier and Véronique Grégoire. Larouche won the championship after four previous unsuccessful attempts...	Canada
Kelley Law Kelley Law Kelley Law formerly known as Kelley Atkins and Kelley Owen is a Canadian curler from Coquitlam, British Columbia...	Canada
Stefanie Lawton Stefanie Lawton Stefanie Lawton is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. After an appearance at the 1997 Canadian Junior Championships, she would go on to win the 2000 Championships with the help of her team of sister Marliese Miller , Stacy Helm and Amanda MacDonald . At the worlds that year, she...	Canada
Jackie Lockhart Jackie Lockhart Jacqueline "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...	Scotland
Peja Lindholm Peja Lindholm Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm is a Swedish curler. He is a three-time world champion skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004. He is also a two-time European champion and a former world junior champion .Lindholm announced his retirement from curling following the 2007 European Curling Championships...	Sweden
Marla Mallett Marla Mallett Marla Mallett is a Canadian curler from Langley, British Columbia....	Canada
Kevin Martin Kevin Martin (curler) Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...	Canada
Rhona Martin Rhona Martin Rhona Martin MBE is a Scottish curler who has skipped the Scotland women's team at both the European and World Championships, but is most famous as the skip of the Great Britain team that claimed the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002.-Early career:For a long time best known in...	Scotland
Greg McAulay Greg McAulay Greg McAulay is a Canadian World champion curler from Richmond, British Columbia.McAulay has been to only two Briers in his career. At the 1998 Labatt Brier, he skipped his British Columbia team to a 7-4 finish before losing to Saskatchewan in a tie-breaker.Two years later, McAulay was back at...	Canada
Debbie McCormick Debbie McCormick Debbie McCormick is an American curler from Rio, Wisconsin. Although born in Canada, McCormick moved to Madison, Wisconsin, when she was very young...	United States
Jean-Michel Ménard Jean-Michel Ménard Jean-Michel Ménard is a curler from Quebec, Canada. Ménard is notable for being the first Francophone skip from Quebec to win the Brier - Canada's national curling championship- which he did in 2006.-Profile:...	Canada
Sherry Middaugh Sherry Middaugh Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....	Canada
John Morris John Morris (curler) John Morris is a Canadian curler, and Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medalist from Chestermere, Alberta. Morris plays third for the Kevin Martin team. Morris, author of the book Fit to Curl, is the son of Maureen and Earle Morris, inventor of the "Stabilizer" curling broom...	Canada
David Murdoch David Murdoch David Murdoch is a Scottish curler from Lockerbie. Murdoch and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith were the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions.-Background:...	Scotland
Anette Norberg Anette Norberg Anette Norberg is a Swedish curler from Nacka. She and her team are the current Olympic women's curling champions, having won the 2010 Women's Curling tournament in Vancouver...	Sweden
Mirjam Ott Mirjam Ott Mirjam Ott is skip of the Swiss Olympic Curling Team. She has participated in several Olympic Games contests and has won numerous awards in many other curling events worldwide...	Switzerland
Cassandra Potter	United States
Liudmila Privivkova	Russia
Andi Schwaller Andi Schwaller Andreas "Andi" Schwaller is a Swiss curler.Schwaller started playing curling in 1982. He plays in fourth position as a skip and is right-handed.- Teammates :2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games...	Switzerland
Kelly Scott Kelly Scott Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...	Canada
Warwick Smith Warwick Smith Warwick B. Smith is a Scottish curler from Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross.Smith made his international debut at the 1996 World Curling Championships as the skip for the Scotland team...	Scotland
Sebastian Stock Sebastian Stock Sebastian Stock is a German curler living in Burgdorf, Switzerland.Stock's junior career included a silver medal at the 1995 World Junior Curling Championships and a bronze medal the following year. In 1995 he played third for Daniel Herberg and they lost to Tom Brewster, Jr.'s Scotland team in...	Germany
Ralph Stöckli Ralph Stöckli Ralph Stöckli is a Swiss curler from Lucerne.Stöckli began a successful curling career at the junior level, winning a bronze medal at the World Junior Curling Championships as an alternate in 1994. In 1996, he was the Swiss skip and they won a silver medal, losing to James Dryburgh of Scotland...	Switzerland
Pål Trulsen Pål Trulsen Pål Trulsen is a Norwegian curler from Hosle in Bærum, and was the 2002 Olympic curling men's champion....	Norway
Thomas Ulsrud Thomas Ulsrud Thomas Ulsrud is a Norwegian curler.Ulsrud has curled professionally since 1983. In his second World Junior Curling Championship in 1988, Ulsrud skipped Norway to a bronze medal....	Norway
Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi is a Finnish curler and politician.-Personal life:Uusipaavalniemi lives in Hyvinkää with his wife and three children. His older brother Jussi taught him how to curl.-Curling career:...	Finland
Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu is a Chinese curler. She is the skip of the national team, and throws last rocks.-Curling career:Wang began curling in 2001. By 2004, she played in her first international event- skipping the Chinese team at the World Junior B Curling Championships...	China
Kelly Wood Kelly Wood Kelly Wood is a Scottish curler who has represented her home country and Great Britain and Northern Ireland on an International and Olympic scale....	Scotland

2010s

Skip	Representing
Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final....	Canada
Pete Fenson Pete Fenson Peter Fenson is an American curler, skip of the men's rink which represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The rink took the bronze medal, the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in curling...	United States
Amber Holland Amber Holland Amber Holland is a Canadian curler. Holland skipped Saskatchewan's team to a national women's championship in 2011 by defeating defending champion Jennifer Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts...	Canada
Glenn Howard Glenn Howard Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...	Canada
Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (curler) Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...	Canada
Kevin Koe Kevin Koe Kevin Koe is a Canadian curler. Originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, he now resides in Grande Prairie, Alberta and curls out of Edmonton, Alberta. He is the skip of the current World champion team....	Canada
Kevin Martin Kevin Martin (curler) Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...	Canada
Eve Muirhead Eve Muirhead Eve Muirhead is a Scottish curler. Muirhead is a four-time world junior champion, having won in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. She curls out of the Curling Club in Dunkeld, a small town just north of Perth.-World Junior Curling Championships:...	Scotland
Anette Norberg Anette Norberg Anette Norberg is a Swedish curler from Nacka. She and her team are the current Olympic women's curling champions, having won the 2010 Women's Curling tournament in Vancouver...	Sweden
Kathy O'Rourke Kathy O'Rourke Kathleen "Kathy" O'Rourke is a retired Canadian curler from Summerside, Prince Edward Island. She is a six-time provincial champion and is a former Canadian Mixed Champion....	Canada
Mirjam Ott Mirjam Ott Mirjam Ott is skip of the Swiss Olympic Curling Team. She has participated in several Olympic Games contests and has won numerous awards in many other curling events worldwide...	Switzerland
Andrea Schöpp Andrea Schöpp Dr. Andrea Schöpp is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She also lectures part-time in statistics at the University of Munich....	Germany
Christof Schwaller Christof Schwaller Christof Schwaller is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....	Switzerland
Rasmus Stjerne	Denmark
Ralph Stöckli Ralph Stöckli Ralph Stöckli is a Swiss curler from Lucerne.Stöckli began a successful curling career at the junior level, winning a bronze medal at the World Junior Curling Championships as an alternate in 1994. In 1996, he was the Swiss skip and they won a silver medal, losing to James Dryburgh of Scotland...	Switzerland
Thomas Ulsrud Thomas Ulsrud Thomas Ulsrud is a Norwegian curler.Ulsrud has curled professionally since 1983. In his second World Junior Curling Championship in 1988, Ulsrud skipped Norway to a bronze medal....	Norway
Stina Viktorsson Stina Viktorsson Stina Viktorsson is a Swedish curler from Umeå. She is a skip.Viktorsson had an accomplished Junior career in Sweden winning a bronze medal at the 2004 World Junior Curling Championships and a silver at the 2005 Juniors...	Sweden
Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu is a Chinese curler. She is the skip of the national team, and throws last rocks.-Curling career:Wang began curling in 2001. By 2004, she played in her first international event- skipping the Chinese team at the World Junior B Curling Championships...	China