Almida de Val

Almida Winquist de Val (born September 12, 1997) is a Swedish curler from Stockholm.[3] She currently plays third and is vice skip on Team Isabella Wranå, also known as Team Panthera. With this team, she won a gold medal at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships. de Val is currently studying engineering at the Swedish Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm where she will be receiving her Master's degree during 2021.

Almida de Val
Curler
Born (1997-09-12) September 12, 1997
Gothenburg, Sweden
Team
Curling clubSundbybergs CK,
Sundbyberg, SWE[1]
SkipIsabella Wranå
ThirdAlmida de Val
SecondJennie Wåhlin
LeadFanny Sjöberg
Mixed doubles
partner		Oskar Eriksson
Career
Member Association Sweden
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing  Sweden
World Junior Curling Championships
2017 Gangneung
2018 Aberdeen
Winter Universiade
2019 Krasnoyarsk
2017 Almaty
Swedish Women's Championship
2018 Skellefteå
2019 Jönköping
2020 Jönköping[2]

Career

de Val played in the World Junior Curling Championships in 2014, 2017 and 2018 as a member of Team Isabella Wranå. In 2014, her team of Isabella Wranå, Jennie Wåhlin, Elin Lövstrand and Fanny Sjöberg had a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. de Val was the alternate on the team but played no games. She was back at the event in 2017 as the official second of the team, replacing Lövstrand. The team made it all the way to the final and defeated Scotland's Sophie Jackson to win the gold medal, and lost just two round robin games in the process. The next year the same team went undefeated in the round robin, but ended up losing to Canada's Kaitlyn Jones in the final. This team also represented Sweden at the 2017 Winter Universiade, where they took home the bronze medal, and again in 2019 winning the gold medal. de Val represented Sweden one more time at the juniors in 2019 as the fourth for Tova Sundberg who threw third stones. They placed sixth.[4]

As World Junior champions, the Wranå team qualified for the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup, de Val's first Grand Slam event. The team did not qualify for the playoffs but did win one game. The team won their first World Curling Tour event at the 2018 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic.[5] A month later, they won the Paf Masters Tour.[6] Over the course of the 2018–19 season, the team played in four slams, failing to qualify in any of the four. They won one game at the 2018 Tour Challenge, one game at the 2018 National, no games at the 2019 Canadian Open and one game at the 2019 Champions Cup. Also during this season, the team won the 2019 Winter Universiade.[7]

Team Wranå had a successful 2019–20 season, winning two tour events (the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic and the Paf Masters Tour once again) and finishing second at the Women's Masters Basel and the Glynhill Ladies International.[8][9][10] They played in two slam events, winning one game at both the 2019 Tour Challenge and the 2019 National.[11][12]

In the Sweden National Challenge competing against Team Hasselborg, conducted the 11-13 December 2020, Team Wranå came out the winner in this highly competitive match between the top two Swedish women's curling teams.

In mixed doubles curling, de Val and partner Oskar Eriksson began the 2020-21 curling season by winning the 2020 Oberstdorf International Mixed Doubles Cup.[13]

Grand Slam record
Key
C Champion
F Lost in Final
SF Lost in Semifinal
QF Lost in Quarterfinals
R16 Lost in the round of 16
Q Did not advance to playoffs
T2 Played in Tier 2 event
DNP Did not participate in event
N/A Not a Grand Slam event that season
Event 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP
Tour Challenge DNP DNP Q Q
The National DNP DNP Q Q
Canadian Open DNP DNP Q DNP
Players' DNP DNP DNP N/A
Champions Cup Q DNP Q N/A

Teams
Season Skip Third Second Lead
2013–14[14] Greta AurellTilde VermelinCamilla SchnabelAlmida de Val
2014–15 Almida de Val (Fourth)Camilla SchnabelTilde VermelinGreta Aurell (Skip)
2015–16 Almida de Val (Fourth)Camilla SchnabelTilde VermelinGreta Aurell (Skip)
2016–17 Isabella WranåJennie WåhlinAlmida de ValFanny Sjöberg
2017–18 Isabella WranåJennie WåhlinAlmida de ValFanny Sjöberg
2018–19 Isabella WranåJennie WåhlinAlmida de ValFanny Sjöberg
2019–20 Isabella WranåAlmida de ValJennie WåhlinFanny Sjöberg
2020–21 Isabella WranåAlmida de ValJennie WåhlinFanny Sjöberg

References
  1. "Team de Val/Eriksson". Facebook. Svensk Curling. September 5, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  2. https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?eventid=6424&eventtypeid=82&view=Main#1
  3. "Team Wranå". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  4. "2019 World Junior Curling Championships". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  5. "2018 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  6. "2018 Paf Masters Tour". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  7. "2019 Winter Universiade". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  8. "WCT Recap:Sweden's Team Isabella Wranå win second event of the season". TSN. November 4, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  9. "2019 Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  10. "2019 Paf Masters Tour". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  11. Jonathan Brazeau (November 8, 2019). "Hasselborg, Koe qualify for KIOTI Tractor Tour Challenge Playoffs". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  12. Jonathan Brazeau (December 12, 2019). "Carey escapes with win over Tirinzoni at Boost National". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  13. "2020 Creating Oberstdorf International Mixed Doubles Cup". CurlingZone. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  14. "Almida de Val Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
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