Geving/Violette4-5 at 2021 US Olympic Team Trials: Curling Mixed Doubles

Aileen Geving/Luc Violette (Duluth, MN) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Geving/Violette lost 9-4 to Jamie Sinclair/Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, MN), then responded with a 8-3 win over Becca Hamilton/Matt Hamilton (Madison, WI). Geving/Violette won 8-5 against Cory Christensen/John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Geving/Violette went on to lose 6-5 against Monica Walker/Alex Leichter (Boston, MA). Geving/Violette lost 8-5 to Sarah Anderson/Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) where Geving/Violette responded with a 7-5 win over Jenna Burchesky/Ben Richardson (Chaska, MN). Geving/Violette went on to lose 8-7 against Vicky Persinger/Christopher Plys (Fairbanks, AK). Geving/Violette responded with a 9-7 win over Madison Bear/Andrew Stopera (Chaska, MN). Geving/Violette went on to lose 7-2 against Tabitha Peterson/Joe Polo (Chaska, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Geving/Violette earned 9.887 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 778th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 9.886 after improving upon their best so far this season. Geving/Violette ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 28.078 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	11	9	0	0.550	3-3	4-4	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	140	129	114	9.21	8.14	1.07	5.14	4.86	1.79	1.68	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	67	95	29	0	3-0	11-3	16-4	1.42	0.43	0.45	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	73	34	85	0	1-3	1-9	5-9	0.47	1.16	0.57	0.33

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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