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West Fargo, ND
Growing up in North Dakota, Bailey Vaydich started curling at 8 years old. She was the high school girls champion of the Dakota Territories (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota) in 2025.
On the international level, Vadich is the lead for Team Johnson. 2025 was a breakout year for this team, as they won their first U18 title in January and participated in their first U.S. nationals later that month, where they placed fifth and narrowly missed a playoff spot after losing a tiebreaker match. In March, they won their first junior national championship. Six months later, they qualified for their first U.S. Olympic Trials in women’s curling by winning the U.S. Curling pre-trials event.
When Korey Dropkin watched the U.S. men’s curling team make history at the Olympic Winter Games Torino 2006 — becoming the first American squad to win an Olympic medal (bronze) — he was just 10 years old, a kid in the basement of his parents’ Massachus...
John Shuster can count on one hand how many Olympic Games he’s been to. But that will have to change if he qualifies for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. The five-time Olympian would tie the record for most Winter Olympics attended by a U....
February 6, 2025, marked the official one-year-out date from the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, and Team USA will know its first two athletes that will have the "hammer” advantage on qualifying for those games in a few short days. As of late...
Top notch performances by Team USA athletes at Olympic venues throughout the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 provided further proof that the legacy of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 is alive and thriving. The U.S. Youth Olympic men's...
It’s not every day that teenage curlers Ella Wendling and Benji Paral get to compete on the same sheets that the U.S. men’s curling team, nicknamed “The Rejects,” made famous during the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.That’s why they’re not takin...
