 (STEVENS POINT, Wis.) - Two wheelchair curling teams will compete to be named Team USA at the 2006 U.S. Wheelchair National Championship beginning Friday at the Utica Curling Club in Whitesboro, N.Y.
Competing are teams skipped by Jim Pierce and Mark Taylor. The teams will compete in a best two-out-of-three competition. The winning team will represent the U.S. at the World Wheelchair Championship Feb. 17-24 in Sollefte, Sweden.
Pierce (North Syracuse, N.Y.) competed at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games with teammates Augusto Perez (East Syracuse, N.Y.), Jimmy Joseph (Hartford, N.Y.) and Danell Libby (Sprakers, N.Y.). The team won a wheelchair bonspiel in Ottawa last weekend. |
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