Aileen Sormunen

Aileen Sormunen
Curler
Born	(1987-02-13) February 13, 1987 Duluth, Minnesota
Team
Curling club	Duluth CC, Duluth
Skip	Aileen Sormunen
Third	Monica Walker
Second	Tara Peterson
Lead	Vicky Persinger
Alternate	Rebecca Hamilton
Career
World Championship appearances	1 (2015)
Medal record Women's curling Competitor for  United States United States Women's Curling Championship 2010 Kalamazoo Team 2013 Green Bay Team 2008 Hibbing Team 2012 Philadelphia Team 2015 Kalamazoo Team United States Olympic Curling Trials 2013 Fargo Team

Aileen Sormunen (born February 13, 1987) is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota.

Career

Sormunen began curling in 1996. She was a national junior champion in 2004 and 2007.

Sormunen skipped a team at the 2005 United States Olympic Curling Trials and qualified for the playoffs in fourth place, but lost her page playoffs game against Patti Lank. She also competed at the 2010 United States Olympic Curling Trials, but finished outside of the playoffs at fifth place. She then played as third for Patti Lank at the 2010 United States Women's Curling Championship, and finished as the runner-up to Erika Brown.

Sormunen skipped her own team at the 2011 and 2012 United States Women's Curling Championships, finishing sixth and fourth, respectively. She and her then-third Courtney George switched positions the next year, and finished second at the 2013 United States Women's Curling Championship. Consequently, she and her team were selected to participate at the 2014 United States Olympic Curling Trials by the national High Performance Program committee.^[1]

Personal life

Sormunen has a degree in organizational management from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is currently an Account Executive at Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC

Teams

References

External links

• Aileen Sormunen on the World Curling Tour database
• Aileen Sormunen on the United States Curling Association database