Madison Bear

Madison Bear (born April 26, 1997) is an American curler from Portage, Wisconsin. As a junior curler Bear was a two-time United States champion and a World runner-up.

Madison Bear
Curler
Born (1997-04-26) April 26, 1997
Portage, Wisconsin
Team
SkipMadison Bear
ThirdAnnmarie Dubberstein
SecondTaylor Drees
LeadAllison Howell
Mixed doubles
partner		Andrew Stopera
Medal record
Representing  United States
Women's curling
World Junior Curling Championships
2016 Copenhagen
United States National Championships
2016 Jacksonville
2019 Kalamazoo

Curling career

Bear first competed at the United States Junior Curling Championship in 2015, as skip of a team consisting of Jenna Burchesky at third, Allison Howell at second and Annmarie Dubberstein at lead. Despite being newcomers on the national stage Team Bear made it to the finals, where they lost to defending champion Cory Christensen.[1]

The following season Bear joined Christensen's team as lead. The team also included Sarah Anderson and Taylor Anderson.[2] With Team Christensen Bear won her first World Curling Tour event, going undefeated at the 2015 St. Paul Cash Spiel.[3] At the 2016 Junior National Championship Bear earned her first Junior National title when the team finished with a perfect 11–0 record, never even needing to play a full ten end game.[4][5] Winning Junior Nationals earned Team Christensen a spot at the Women's National Championship in Jacksonville, Florida, where they earned the fourth seed in the playoffs with a 3–3 round-robin record. They defeated Jamie Sinclair in the 3 vs 4 page playoff game[6] but then lost to Nina Roth in the semifinals, earning the bronze medal.[7]

Winning the Junior National Championship also earned Bear her first opportunity to represent the United States at the World Junior Championships in Copenhagen. Bear's team finished the round-robin with a 7–2 record, good enough for the second seed in the page playoff system. In the 1 vs 2 playoff game Team Christensen defeated the number one seed Canada, skipped by Mary Fay. This gave the United States a path straight to the final where they ultimately faced Canada again, this time losing 4–7 to earn the silver medal.[8]

For the 2016–17 season Bear was back to skipping her own team, this time composed of Cora Farrell, Cait Flannery, and Lexi Lannigan.[9] Team Bear got silver at the 2017 Junior Nationals, losing to Annmarie Dubberstein in the final. Bear still got to return to World Juniors though, as alternate for Dubberstein's team, and finished in 7th place.[10]

In her final season as a junior curler Bear joined back with her original juniors teammates, Dubberstein, Burchesky, and Howell.[11] They won the gold medal at the 2018 United States Junior National Championship, earning Bear her third straight trip to World Juniors.[12] At the 2018 World Junior Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland, Bear and her team just missed the playoffs, finishing in fifth place.[13]

Out of juniors for the 2018–19 curling season, Bear rejoined Christensen's team as lead. The team also got a new coach, Canadian Darah Blandford, in her first year with the USCA High Performance Program.[14] Team Christensen was chosen to represent the United States at the third leg of the Curling World Cup in Jönköping, Sweden; the Curling World Cup was a four-part international tournament held around the world throughout the curling season.[15] There they finished with a 3–3 record.[16] At the 2019 United States Women's Championship they finished the round-robin with a record of 5–2, good enough for the third seed in the page playoffs. In the 3 vs. 4 playoff game they defeated Stephanie Senneker's team by one point, 9–8. In the semifinal match against Nina Roth's team it came down to the last stone but as she did three years prior Roth came through with the win, resulting in the bronze medal for Team Christensen.[17][18]

Shortly after the season ended it was announced that Christensen's team was dissolving and Bear would again skip her own team. For the 2019–20 season Jenna Burchesky and Lexi Lanigan rejoined Bear, along with Katie Dubberstein and Emily Quello.[19] Bear failed to qualify for the 2020 United States Women's Championship, getting knocked out of the Challenge Round with a 2–3 record.[20] The next off-season brought another team change for Bear, in June 2020 the United States Curling Association announced she would be the skip of the new women'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 women's curling. Bear also was selected, along with teammate Andrew Stopera, to be the U-25 mixed doubles national team for the 2020–21 season.[21]

Teams

Women's
Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2014–15 Madison BearJenna BurcheskyAllison HowellAnnmarie Dubberstein2015 USJCC
2015–16 Cory ChristensenSarah AndersonTaylor AndersonMadison BearChristine McMakinDave Jensen2016 USJCC [22]
2016 USWCC [23]
2016 WJCC [24]
2016–17 Madison BearCora FarrellCait FlanneryLexi LaniganRebecca Miles2017 USJCC
Annmarie DubbersteinChristine McMakinJenna BurcheskyAllison HowellMadison Bear2017 WJCC (7th)
2017–18 Madison BearAnnmarie DubbersteinJenna BurcheskyAllison HowellLeah Yavarow[lower-alpha 1]2018 USJCC
2018 WJCC (5th)
2018–19 Cory ChristensenVicky PersingerJenna MartinMadison BearDarah BlandfordCWC/3 (5th)
2019 USWCC
2019–20 Madison BearJenna BurcheskyKatie DubbersteinLexi LaniganEmily QuelloDarah Blandford
2020–21[21] Madison BearAnnmarie DubbersteinTaylor DreesAllison HowellTyler George
Jordan Moulton

Mixed doubles
Season Male Female Events
2019–20 Madison BearAndrew Stopera2020 USMDCC
2020–21 Madison BearAndrew Stopera

Notes
  1. for WJCC

References
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  2. Kolesar, Terry (May 22, 2015). "High Performance Program team for upcoming season announced". USA Curling. Retrieved Jan 30, 2020.
  3. "Champion: Christensen wins 2015 St. Paul Cash Spiel". CurlingZone. Retrieved Jan 30, 2020.
  4. DeGeorge, Matthew (Jan 26, 2016). "Broomall's Anderson sisters curling national champions again". The Delaware County Daily Times. Retrieved Jan 30, 2020.
  5. "UW-BSC's Bear wins Junior National title". Baraboo News Republic. January 26, 2016. p. 8. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  6. "CURLING: Bear advances to semifinals at USA Curling National Championship". Portage Daily Register. Feb 11, 2016. Retrieved Jan 30, 2020.
  7. Davis, Terry (Summer 2016). "Brown, Clark rinks earn national titles". U.S. Curling News. p. 14. Retrieved Jan 30, 2020.
  8. "VoIP Defender World Junior Curling Championships 2016". World Curling Federation. Retrieved Dec 27, 2019.
  9. "Portage pair gunning for title". Portage Daily Register. January 14, 2017. p. B1. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  10. "VoIP Defender World Junior Curling Championships 2017". World Curling Federation. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  11. Davis, Terry (2017-05-19). "High Performance Program athletes for upcoming season announced". USA Curling. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  12. Potter, Doug (2018-02-04). "Violette, Richardson Repeat as National Junior Champs". Granite Curling Club. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  13. Monteith, Austin (2018-03-10). "US men take fourth at World Juniors". Grand Forks Herald. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  14. Pavitt, Michael (2018-08-21). "USA Curling add six coaches to high performance programme". Inside the Games. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  15. "TEAM SHUSTER THE STAR ATTRACTION FOR HOME CROWD IN OMAHA". Curling World Cup. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  16. "Curling: Duluth curlers out in World Cup". Duluth News Tribune. 2019-02-02. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  17. Davis, Terry (2019-02-15). "Finals set at 2019 National Championships in Kalamazoo". USA Curling. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  18. Perelman, Rich (2019-02-17). "CURLING: Schuster wins seventh U.S. Nationals title; Sinclair takes third straight". The Sports Examiner. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  19. "Bemidjians named to USA Curling High Performance Program". The Bemidji Pioneer. 2019-05-23. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  20. "Bear 2-3 at USA Women's Challenge Round". CurlingZone. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  21. "U-25 NATIONAL TEAM PROGRAM". Team USA. June 24, 2020. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  22. Davis, Terry (Spring 2016). "High Performance teams sweep to gold". U.S. Curling News. pp. 8–9. Retrieved Jan 3, 2020.
  23. "Brown wins 2016 USA Women's National Curling Championship". CurlingZone. Retrieved Jan 3, 2020.
  24. Davis, Terry (Summer 2016). "Double silver for Team USA". U.S. Curling News. p. 9. Retrieved Jan 3, 2020.


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