Position:		Skip
Teammates:
Delivers:		Right-handed
Born:		Feb. 4, 1949, in Joensuu, Finland
Hometown:		Duluth, Minn.
Occupation:		Retired Employee Benefits Consultant
Education:		Graduate of Dartmouth College
Family:		Married, two children -- Aileen and Grant
Year started curling:		1975

CURLING HIGHLIGHTS

U.S. Club National Championships: 2011 (semifinalists) 2005, (champions)
Minnesota Club Men's Champions: 2005 & 2011
USCA Senior National Championships: 2003 (semifinalist), 2004 (semifinalist), 2006 (runner-up), 2009 (runner-up), 2011 (runner-up).
USSMCA Senior Championships: 2006 (3rd Event winner), 2007 (2nd Event winner), 2014 (1st Event runner-up)
Minnesota State Senior Champions: 2011 (champion); runner-up in 2001
Duluth Curling Club Men's Champions: 1987, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, & 2012, Runner-up 2002 and 2008
Duluth Curling Club Open Champions: 2014

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

U.S. Olympic Team Trials: 2009 (5th)
U.S. Women's National Championship: 2011, 2009
Junior B National Playdown: 2003 (champion) as coach of Chris Plys rink, 2002, 2001
2004 World Junior B Championships in Denmark (5-2) 3rd in pool
Junior Women's National Championships: 2004 (champion), 2003 (runner-up), 2002 (runner-up), 2001 (semifinalist) as coach of Aileen Sormunen rink

About Seppo Sormunen:

Curls out of: Duluth Curling Club

Personal goals: Win the U.S. Seniors, lower golf scores.

Curling highlight: Winning four out of four mixed bonspiels with his son and daughter

Other sports: Incline marathoner -- advanced class; member of SK8 Hard Racing Team of Northern Minnesota

Seppo was a member of the 1968 Minnesota All-State Sportswriters Hockey Team and was selected to the All-District Hockey Team in 1967 and 1968 while in high school.

Seppo has served as chairman of seven men's and women's state championships and of the 2001 U.S. Olympic Qualifier.

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