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Briarcliff Manor, NY
Northwestern University
Andrew Stopera grew up in New York and is a third-generation curler. His father, Bill Stopera, represented the United States at the 2012 men’s curling world championships. Stopera quit baseball in high school to pursue the family sport of curling full-time, which he says is a family thing: “My dad is a curler, his dad was a curler, it’s a family kind of thing.”
Like his dad, Andrew also qualified to represent the United States at the world championships by winning the 2025 national championships. The team, led by skip Korey Dropkin, finished 11th at the 2025 World Curling Men’s Championships.
Stopera had a decorated junior curling career, winning a silver medal for Team USA, as skip, at the 2017 junior curling world championships. His team would win three straight national junior men’s championships (2017-2019).
In mixed doubles, Stopera is a three-time national runner-up (2021-2023) and the 2025 U.S. Olympic Trials runner-up.
Andrew graduated from Northwestern in 2020 with a degree in economics. After college, he moved to Minnesota to pursue his dream of becoming an Olympian in curling. In addition to training, he works under his dad as an insurance broker.
Off the ice, he still is a fan of baseball, either cheering on his favorite team, the New York Yankees or playing softball with friends.
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