Matt_Perushek

Matt Perushek

Matt Perushek

American curler

Matthew Perushek (born December 8, 1987) is an American curler. He played second on Chris Plys' team that won the 2008 World Junior Curling Championship.

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Curling career

Perushek started curling in 1995. With teammates Chris Plys and Aanders Brorson, he won the Minnesota Junior State Championship in 2007, 2008, and 2009.[1] Each of those years his team continued on to win the United States Junior Championship.[2] He won the "All-Star Second" award at the 2008 and 2009 U.S. Junior National Championships.[3] Winning the United States Junior Championships earned Perushek the chance to compete in three World Junior Championships. In 2007, in Eveleth, Minnesota, his home town and home club, they finished in fifth place when they lost a tiebreaker to Denmark's Rasmus Stjerne.[4] The following year, now with Matt Hamilton at lead, World's was in Östersund, Sweden and after finishing the round-robin with a 7–2 record they defeated the number one seed Canada in the semifinals and the number two seed Sweden, skipped by Oskar Eriksson, in the final to win the gold medal.[5][6] The same team returned to the World Junior Championships one more time in 2009, in Vancouver, where they beat Sweden's Eriksson to win the bronze medal.[7][8] They also played at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2009, placing seventh.

References

  1. [1]
    "Junior Men's State Champions". Minnesota Curling Association. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  2. [2]
    "Minnesota sweeps national curling titles". Bemidji Pioneer. 2007-02-11. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  3. [3]
    "Matt Perushek". USA Curling. Archived from the original on January 1, 2016. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  4. [4]
    "World Junior Curling Championships 2007". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  5. [5]
    "World Junior Curling Championships 2008". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  6. [6]
    "Curling: Duluth-based team wins world championship". Duluth News Tribune. 2008-03-10. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  7. [7]
    "World Junior Curling Championships 2009". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  8. [8]
    Hautamaki, Mike (March 15, 2009). "Plys rink wins bronze". Mesabi Tribune. Retrieved August 26, 2020.


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