CHAMPION: Brown Wins 2016 USA Women's National Curling Championship

SKIP
Erika
Brown

Third
Allison
Pottinger

Second
Nicole
Joraanstad

Lead
Natalie
Nicholson

Erika Brown (Madison, WI) won 8-6 over Nina Roth (Blaine, USA) in the Final of the USA Women's National Curling Championship, held February 6 - 13, 2016 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Brown finished 5-1 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brown defeated Joyance Meechai (New York, NY) 8-6, then won 8-2 against Abigayle Lindgren (Grand Forks, ND) and 8-2 against Emily Anderson (Broomall, PA). Brown went on to lose 10-4 against Jamie Sinclair (Blaine, USA). Brown responded with a 9-5 win over Roth. Brown won 8-2 against Cory Christensen (Blaine, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USA Women's National Curling Championship Championship title, Brown earned 25.337 world rankings points, remaining in 19th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 230.400 total points. Brown ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 214.512 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

Canada's Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant (Photo: World Curling) took down the reigning gold medalists to stay on pace for top spot in the pool.

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