Education
Ann graduated from Drake University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Ann graduated from Drake University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
She is from Chicago. Ann is representing the United States in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. She has also been known as Ann Swisshelm Silver. Swisshelm began curling at age ten and was in the curling program and the Exmoor Country Club.
She made her United States debut in 1995 where her team placed fifth.
To date she has competed in 15 United States and will compete in her sixteen championship in March 2010. In 2001 her team improved to a fifth-place finish and a 5 – 4 record.
Her best performance at the World Championships came with her third appearance in 2003. In the Semifinals they defeated Team Sweden (skipped by future Olympic Gold Medalist Anette Norberg and advanced to take on Colleen Jones"s Canadian team in the final.
Playing in Winnipeg, Manitoba they defeated the Canadians and Swisshelm earned her first World Championship medal.
Olympics In 2002 Ann Swisshelm competed at her first Olympic Games. Team United States placed third after the Round Robin competition with a 6 – 3 record. In the semifinals the United States lost to the eventual Silver medalists from Switzerland.
In the Bronze Medal match they took on Kelley Law"s team from Canada.
The match ended with a 9 – 5 score with the Canadians taking the Bronze medal. Ann Swisshelm has returned to the United States Olympic Trials twice since the 2002 Olympics finishing second both times.
Swisshelm and her team qualified to participate at the 2014 United States Olympic Curling Trials, finishing first in the round robin standings and defeating Allison Pottinger in a best-of-three series final to clinch the berth to the Olympics. 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Kari Erickson, Skip Debbie McCormick, Third Stacey Liapis, Second Joni Cotten, Alternate 2003 Winnipeg World Championships Debbie McCormick, Skip Allison Pottinger, Third Tracy Sachtjen, Lead Joni Cotten, Alternate 2010 Swift Current World Championships Erika Brown, Skip Nina Spatola, Third Laura Hallisey, Lead Jessica Schultz, Alternate.