Doug Pottinger (born September 18, 1973) is a Canadian-American
curler from
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Eden Prairie is a city southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County and the List of cities in Minnesota, 16th-largest city in the U.S. state, State of Minnesota, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it has a ...
. He is originally from
Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon () is the second-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the southwestern corner of the province on the banks of the Assiniboine River, approximately west of the provincial capital, Winnipeg, and east of the ...
, Canada.
At the national level, he is a 2004
United States men's curling champion.
Teams
Men's
Mixed doubles
Personal life
Pottinger met his wife
Allison at the
1995 World Women's Curling Championship, where he was working on the ice crew and she was the alternate for
Lisa Schoeneberg
Lisa Schoeneberg (born September 29, 1957) is an American curler and Olympian. She was a successful skip in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, leading her teams to two silver medals at the World Championships and represented the United St ...
's team. Allison is a two-time Olympian and 2003 World Champion. They have two daughters.
He started curling in 1983 when he was at the age of 10.
Pottinger works as business manager for BRANDT.
References
External links
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Living people
1973 births
Sportspeople from Brandon, Manitoba
American male curlers
American curling champions
Canadian male curlers
Curlers from Manitoba
Continental Cup of Curling participants
Canadian emigrants to the United States
People from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Sportspeople from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area
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