OfflineCompete-At is now listing the USA Junior playdowns teams. It's a little tricky to navigate the site, but this is what I've gathered:
Junior Women: USCA filling nationals' field to ten teams - Wisconsin and GNCC get extra spots.
1) Alaska –
. 1.Team Gryder
. 2.Team Hufman
2) GLCA –
. 1.Team Buetens
. 2.Team Peckinpaugh
3) GNCC –
. 1.Team Anderson
. 2.Team Bareiss
. 3.Team Beebe
. 4.Team Ely
. 5.Team Morrison
. 6.Team Walker
4) Illinois –
. 1.Team Brown
. 2.Team Stewart
5) Minnesota –
. 1.Team Carlson
. 2.Team Christianson
. 3.Team Maki
. 4.Team Solem
6) MOPAC –
. 1.Team Schieber
7) North Dakota –
. 1.Team Kirkeby
. 2.Team Podoll
. 3.Team Tucker
8) Wisconsin –
. 1.Team A. Schaffer
. 2.Team B. Schaffer
. 3.Team Cucchiarelli
. 4.Team Franzen
. 5.Team Johnson
. 6.Team Koenig
. 7.Team Sorge
. 8.Team Spatola
. 9.Team Wallace
Junior Men: GNCC and Minnesota get extra spots
1) Alaska –
. 1.Team Birklid
. 2.Team Hall
2) GLCA –
. 1.Team Barber
. 2.Team Smith
. 3.Team Tomlinson
3) GNCC –
. 1.Team B. Clark
. 2.Team I. Clark
. 3.Team Corbett
. 4.Team Cousins
. 5.Team Dundt
. 6.Team K. Dropkin
. 7.Team S. Dropkin
. 8.Team Dunnam
. 9.Team Folkes
. 10.Team McMakin
. 11.Team Ours
4) Illinois –
. 1.Team Rahn
5) North Dakota –
. 1.Team Jensen
. 2.Team Kitchens
. 3.Team Roland
. 4.Team Workin
6) Minnesota –
. 1.Team Andrews
. 2.Team Bahr
. 3.Team Braun
. 4.Team Bromenschenkel
. 5.Team Plys
. 6.Team Rootes
. 7.Team Runing
. 8.Team Wald
. 9.Team Wright
. 10.Team Zarling
7) Washington –
. 1.Team Beighton
. 2.Team Thomas
. 3.Team Tomlinson
. 4.Team Vukich
8) Wisconsin –
. 1.Team Brown
. 2.Team Caldwell
. 3.Team Conrardy
. 4.Team Journeaux
. 5.Team Nelson
. 6.Team Schleicher
. 7.Team Wilberg
What are your thoughts?
I see that there are a lot of teams competing in most regions for both men's and women's. I am from the GLCA and am on team Barber as the second.
The Midland team in GLCA has had a whole year to improve their skills, and hopefully will provide a really good game for us.
Detroit has a mostly new team now from what I hear, and I am excited to see how they play.
I went to nationals once before in 2006 on team Kortebein, and we got squashed, and I'm excited to see a better example of how my team (which is three of the players from team Kortebein and one new player) has improved this year. I don't really think games within our curling club's league are an accurate measuring stick, so I will soon get to see how we do at regionals, and if we're lucky, nationals.