2021 United States Women's Curling Championship

2021 United States Women's
Curling Championship
2021 United States Women's ; Curling Championship
Host city	Wausau, Wisconsin
Arena	Wausau Curling Club
Dates	May 26–30
Winner	Team Christensen
Skip	Cory Christensen
Third	Sarah Anderson
Second	Vicky Persinger
Lead	Taylor Anderson
Coach	Cathy Overton-Clapham
Finalist	Jamie Sinclair
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The 2021 United States Women's Curling Championship was held from May 26 to 30, 2021 at the Wausau Curling Club in Wausau, Wisconsin. The event was held in conjunction with the 2021 United States Men's Curling Championship.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

The event was originally scheduled to be held February 6 to 13 at the ImOn Ice Arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.^[1] In August 2020, a derecho damaged the arena and the COVID-19 pandemic caused the repairs to be delayed significantly enough to necessitate moving the championships to a different venue.^[2] In December 2020 the United States Curling Association (USCA) announced that, due to the continuing pandemic, the Men's, Women's, and Mixed Doubles National Championships would be postponed until May 2021 and would be conducted in a bio-secure bubble. Typically, the winner of the National Women's Championship would represent the United States at the World Championship, but this postponement moved the national championship after the 2021 World Women's Championship and so the USCA offered the spot at World's to the 2020 champion, Team Peterson.^[3] The site of the bubble for the championships was later announced to be Wausau Curling Club in Wausau, Wisconsin.^[4]

Qualification

Due to the pandemic, no qualification events were held and the qualification methods were modified. The top eight women's teams, determined by the World Curling Federation's World Team Ranking System, were invited to compete.^[3] Seven of the eight teams accepted the invitation.^[5] Typically, the qualification methods would be the top four teams from the World Team Ranking System, the top three teams from a qualification event, and one team from the Junior Championship.

Teams

The seven teams competing in the 2021 championship are:^[5]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Coach	Locale
Madison Bear	Annmarie Dubberstein	Taylor Drees	Allison Howell		Amy Harnden	Chaska, Minnesota
Cory Christensen	Sarah Anderson	Vicky Persinger	Taylor Anderson		Cathy Overton-Clapham	Chaska, Minnesota
Christine McMakin	Jackie Lemke	Jenna Burchesky	Maya Willertz	Nicole Prohaska	Sandra McMakin	Fargo, North Dakota
Kim Rhyme	Elizabeth Brundage	Cait Flannery	Katie Rhyme		Bill Rhyme	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jamie Sinclair	Monica Walker	Cora Farrell	Elizabeth Cousins		Mark Lazar	Charlotte, North Carolina
Delaney Strouse	Sydney Mullaney	Rebecca Rodgers	Leah Yavarow	Susan Dudt	Courtney George	Midland, Michigan
Ariel Traxler	Anne O'Hara	Sara Olson	Elizabeth Janiak	Katherine Gourianova	Leland Rich	Fairbanks, Alaska

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Skip	W	L
Jamie Sinclair	6	0
Cory Christensen	5	1
Madison Bear	3	3
Christine McMakin	2	4
Delaney Strouse	2	4
Kim Rhyme	2	4
Ariel Traxler	1	5

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00).^[6]

Draw 1

Wednesday, May 26, 8:00 am

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Ariel Traxler	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	X	3
Kim Rhyme	2	0	1	0	2	2	0	3	X	X	10

Sheet 5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Christine McMakin	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	X	6
Jamie Sinclair	1	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	2	X	10

Sheet 6	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Madison Bear	0	2	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	8
Delaney Strouse	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	7

Draw 2

Wednesday, May 26, 4:00 pm

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Christine McMakin	0	2	1	0	0	2	1	5	0	X	11
Delaney Strouse	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	X	8

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Rhyme	0	1	0	3	1	1	1	0	2	X	9
Madison Bear	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	4

Sheet 6	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Ariel Traxler	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	X	1
Cory Christensen	3	4	3	0	2	X	X	X	X	X	12

Draw 3

Thursday, May 27, 8:00 am

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Madison Bear	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	2	1	X	9
Ariel Traxler	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	4

Sheet 5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Cory Christensen	2	2	0	1	2	2	X	X	X	X	9
Christine McMakin	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet 6	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Rhyme	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	5
Jamie Sinclair	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	7

Draw 4

Thursday, May 27, 4:00 pm

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Cory Christensen	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	2
Jamie Sinclair	0	1	2	0	3	0	1	1	X	X	8

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Ariel Traxler	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	2	X	8
Christine McMakin	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	1

Sheet 5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Delaney Strouse	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	7
Kim Rhyme	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	6

Draw 5

Friday, May 28, 8:00 am

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Rhyme	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	X	X	4
Christine McMakin	0	0	2	3	0	3	0	2	X	X	10

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jamie Sinclair	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	X	7
Delaney Strouse	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	X	5

Sheet 5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Madison Bear	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	X	X	3
Cory Christensen	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	X	X	8

Draw 6

Friday, May 28, 4:00 pm

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jamie Sinclair	0	4	2	1	0	2	X	X	X	X	9
Madison Bear	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	2

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Cory Christensen	0	2	1	1	3	0	3	X	X	X	10
Kim Rhyme	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	1

Sheet 6	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Delaney Strouse	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	8
Ariel Traxler	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	7

Draw 7

Saturday, May 29, 8:00 am

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Delaney Strouse	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3
Cory Christensen	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	6

Sheet 5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jamie Sinclair	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	X	6
Ariel Traxler	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2

Sheet 6	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Christine McMakin	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Madison Bear	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	5

Playoffs

Semifinal			Final

			1	Jamie Sinclair	6
2	Cory Christensen	7	2	Cory Christensen	8
3	Madison Bear	6

Semifinal

Sunday, May 30, 9:00 am

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Cory Christensen	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	7
Madison Bear	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	6

Final

Sunday, May 30, 2:00 pm

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Jamie Sinclair	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	6
Cory Christensen	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	8

2021 United States Women's Curling Championship
Cory Christensen 1st United States Championship title

References

^ O'Brien, Mike (August 7, 2019). "Cedar Rapids named host city for 2021 National Curling Championships". KCRG. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
^ "2021 National Championships Host Site". USA Curling. November 17, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-05-12. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "USA CURLING 2020-21 CHAMPIONSHIPS UPDATE". USA Curling. December 3, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
^ "2021 MEN'S, WOMEN'S, AND MIXED DOUBLES NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS". USA Curling. March 29, 2021. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
^ ^a ^b @usacurl (May 4, 2021). "Meet the seven women's teams that have qualified for the 2021 #USACurling Women's National Championship!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ "USCA Men's & Women's National Championships, May 25 – 30, 2021". USA Curling. Retrieved May 16, 2021.

[1] O'Brien, Mike (August 7, 2019). "Cedar Rapids named host city for 2021 National Curling Championships". KCRG. Retrieved May 11, 2021.

[2] "2021 National Championships Host Site". USA Curling. November 17, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-05-12. Retrieved May 11, 2021.

[:1-3] "USA CURLING 2020-21 CHAMPIONSHIPS UPDATE". USA Curling. December 3, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2021.

[:0-4] "2021 MEN'S, WOMEN'S, AND MIXED DOUBLES NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS". USA Curling. March 29, 2021. Retrieved May 11, 2021.

[:2-5] @usacurl (May 4, 2021). "Meet the seven women's teams that have qualified for the 2021 #USACurling Women's National Championship!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[6] "USCA Men's & Women's National Championships, May 25 – 30, 2021". USA Curling. Retrieved May 16, 2021.

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