Four Minnesota teams with Olympic experience have qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials, including East Metro-based women’s squad, Team Peterson.
Team Peterson qualified by being one of the top three U.S. teams in the world rankings, No. 31 overall. The comprises sisters Tabitha Peterson and Tara Peterson, who grew up in Burnsville and cut their teeth at the St. Paul Curling club, as well as Cory Thiesse, Vicky Persinger and Taylor Anderson-Heide.
The Trails are scheduled for Nov. 11-16 in Sioux Falls, S.D., and feature four men’s and four women’s teams. The winning men’s and women’s teams will represent the U.S. at the Olympic Qualification Event in British Columbia, Canada, Dec. 6-19, where they will compete for the final two berths in the 2026 Games.
Duluth-based Team Shuster earned its berth last spring by winning the 2024 U.S. men’s nationals and finishing in sixth at the 2024 world championships. Skip John Shuster was part of teams that won an Olympic gold medal in 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and a bronze medal in Torino, Italy, in 2006.
Team Peterson competed in the 2022 Beijing Games and in Pyeongchang, finishing sixth and eighth, respectively.
Also qualifying from Minnesota were men’s sides Team Dropkin (Duluth) and Team Dropkin (Chaska).
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