Luc Violette

Luc Violette (born March 8, 1999) is an American curler from Edmonds, Washington.[1] He is a five-time United States Junior Champion and was a silver medalist at both the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics and the 2017 World Junior Championships.

Luc Violette
Curler
Born (1999-03-08) March 8, 1999
Seattle, Washington
Team
SkipLuc Violette
ThirdChase Sinnett
SecondBen Richardson
LeadJon Harstad
Medal record
Men's curling
Representing  United States
Winter Youth Olympics
2016 Lillehammer
World Junior Championships
2017 Gangneung

Curling career

Violette started curling competitively at eleven years old.[2] At his first three appearances at the United States Junior Curling Championships Violette played second for Jake Vukich's team, culminating winning the championship in 2014. As Team USA at the 2014 World Championships, they finished in ninth place.[3]

As part of the United States Curling Association's Junior High Performance Program, Violette was the alternate for Korey Dropkin's team for the 2014–15 season. Violette earned his second Junior Nationals silver medal at the 2015 Championship, and then competed at his first United States Men's Championship, where they finished seventh. The next season, Violette and Andrew Stopera, who played lead for Team Dropkin the year before, formed a new team with Stopera as skip, Violette at third, Steven Szemple at second, and William Pryor at lead. The new lineup earned bronze at the 2016 Junior Nationals.

For the 2016–17 season, Team Stopera got a new front end, with Ben Richardson joining at second and Graem Fenson at lead. This line-up won the next three United States Junior Championships, 2017–2019.[4][5] Winning Junior Nationals earned them the chance to represent the United States at the World Junior Championships.[2] At the 2017 Worlds, they earned the silver medal when they lost to Lee Ki-jeong's South Korean team in the final. At the 2018 Worlds they made it to the bronze medal match but lost to Team Switzerland.[6] At the Worlds in 2019, their final as Team Stopera, they finished fifth.[7] Also in 2019 they played at the Winter University Games in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, where they finished in eighth place.[8]

Stopera aged out of juniors after the 2018–19 season and Violette took over as skip for the next season, with former alternate Riley Fenson becoming lead. Their success at the US Junior Championships continued, winning gold for the fourth year in a row. At the 2020 World Championships they finished in seventh place.[9]

Personal life

Violette's father Tom is also a curler, he is a two-time national champion and a bronze medalist at the 1992 World Men's Championship.

Teams

Men's
Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2011–12 Jake Vukich Evan McAuley Luc Violette Kyle Lorvick 2012 USJCC (6th)
2012–13 Jake Vukich Evan McAuley Luc Violette Nicholas Connolly Alex Fenson Tom Violette 2013 USJCC
2013–14 Jake Vukich Evan McAuley Luc Violette Kyle Lorvick Alex Fenson Tom Violette (USJCC)
Travis Way (WJCC)		 2014 USJCC
2014 WJCC (9th)
2014–15 Korey Dropkin Tom Howell Mark Fenner Andrew Stopera Luc Violette 2015 USJCC
2015 USMCC (7th)
2015–16 Andrew Stopera Luc Violette Steven Szemple William Pryor 2016 USJCC
2016–17 Andrew Stopera Luc Violette Ben Richardson Graem Fenson Nicholas Connolly (WJCC) Mark Lazar 2017 USJCC
2017 WJCC
2017–18 Andrew Stopera Luc Violette Ben Richardson Graem Fenson Caleb Clawson Mark Lazar 2018 USJCC
2018 WJCC (4th)
2018–19 Andrew Stopera Luc Violette Ben Richardson Graem Fenson Riley Fenson Mark Lazar 2019 USJCC
2019 WJCC (5th)
Andrew Stopera Luc Violette Alex Fenson Luc Violette Mark Lazar 2019 WUG (8th)
2019–20 Luc Violette Riley Fenson Ben Richardson Graem Fenson Jon Harstad 2020 USJCC
Luc Violette Ben Richardson Jon Harstad Graem Fenson Kevin Tuma Tyler George 2020 WJCC (7th)

Mixed
Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2015–16 Luc Violette Cora Farrell Ben Richardson Cait Flannery Tom Violette 2016 WYOG
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References
  1. "Luc Violette". USA Curling. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  2. Patterson, Nick (February 12, 2017). "Local youth ushers in start of USA curling nationals in Everett". HeraldNet.com. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  3. "World Junior Curling Championships 2014". World Curling Federation. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  4. Jung, Tristan (March 15, 2019). "High-level curlers face thin margins, tough travel schedule". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  5. Haggerty, Nancy (February 1, 2019). "Curling: Briarcliff's Stopera leads his team to third straight U.S. Junior National title". lohud.com. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  6. Monteith, Austin (March 10, 2018). "CURLING: Sinclair, Persinger teams win Nationals". The Jamestown Sun. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  7. "World Junior Curling Championships 2019". World Curling Federation. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  8. "U.S. men finish eighth at World University Games". USA Curling. March 8, 2019. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  9. "World Junior Curling Championships 2020". World Curling Federation. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
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