Fairbanks curler Vicky Persinger has earned a place on the U.S. team that will compete in the Winter Olympics in China in February.
According to USA Curling, the 29-year-old Fairbanks resident and 34-year-old Chris Plys of Duluth, Minn., will represent the United States in mixed doubles in Beijing.
Persinger is a fourth-generation curler who learned the sport at the Fairbanks Curling Club.
The U.S. Olympic Trials champions secured the spot by defeating Russia in the finals of a mixed doubles qualification event in the Netherlands earlier this month.
The Bejing games will be Persinger’s first. Plys competed in the 2010 Olympics.
Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.
