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
Mixed doubles
partner		Aileen Geving
Career
Member Association United States
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 (USCA) 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] Violette, Richardson, and Harstad aged out of juniors after the 2019–20 season and for the following season got selected together, along with Chase Sinnett at third, as the USCA's new men's U-25 national team. The U-25 team program, which stands for under 25 years old, was added in 2020 as a new part of the High Performance Program with the intention of bridging the development gap between juniors and men's curling.[10]

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 VukichEvan McAuleyLuc VioletteKyle Lorvick2012 USJCC (6th)
2012–13 Jake VukichEvan McAuleyLuc VioletteNicholas ConnollyAlex FensonTom Violette2013 USJCC
2013–14 Jake VukichEvan McAuleyLuc VioletteKyle LorvickAlex FensonTom Violette (USJCC)
Travis Way (WJCC)		2014 USJCC
2014 WJCC (9th)
2014–15 Korey DropkinTom HowellMark FennerAndrew StoperaLuc Violette2015 USJCC
2015 USMCC (7th)
2015–16 Andrew StoperaLuc VioletteSteven SzempleWilliam Pryor2016 USJCC
2016–17 Andrew StoperaLuc VioletteBen RichardsonGraem FensonNicholas Connolly (WJCC)Mark Lazar2017 USJCC
2017 WJCC
2017–18 Andrew StoperaLuc VioletteBen RichardsonGraem FensonCaleb ClawsonMark Lazar2018 USJCC
2018 WJCC (4th)
2018–19 Andrew StoperaLuc VioletteBen RichardsonGraem FensonRiley FensonMark Lazar2019 USJCC
2019 WJCC (5th)
Andrew StoperaLuc VioletteAlex FensonLuc VioletteMark Lazar2019 WUG (8th)
2019–20 Luc VioletteRiley FensonBen RichardsonGraem FensonJon Harstad2020 USJCC
Luc VioletteBen RichardsonJon HarstadGraem FensonKevin TumaTyler George2020 WJCC (7th)
2020–21 Luc VioletteChase SinnettBen RichardsonJon HarstadTyler George
Jordan Moulton

Mixed
Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2015–16 Luc Violette Cora Farrell Ben Richardson Cait Flannery Tom Violette 2016 WYOG

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.
  10. "U-25 NATIONAL TEAM PROGRAM". Team USA. June 24, 2020. Retrieved September 18, 2020.


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