Athletes

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Olympic Winter Games
4	Women	2002	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
5	Women	1998	Nagano, JPN
10	Women	2010	Vancouver, BC, CAN
World Championship
1	Women	2003	Winnipeg, MB, CAN
2	Women	2006	Grande Prairie, AB, CAN
2	Women	1996	Hamilton, ON, CAN
4	Women	2013	Riga, LAT
7	Women	2011	Esbjerg, DEN

Previous Names: Debbie Henry
Occupation: Athlete, Business Owner
Family: Husband Pete McCormick
Coach: Bill Todhunter [national] (athletego.com, 17 Jul 2013)
Sporting Relatives: Her husband Pete has represented the United States in curling. (teamusa.org, 13 Jun 2013) (www.usacurl.org, 09 Oct 2001)
Previous Olympics: Vancouver 2010, Salt Lake City 2002, Nagano 1998

Hobbies: Swimming, fitness, golf (usatoday.com, 17 Nov 2013; Twitter profile, 19 Sep 2013)
Education: Science - Madison Area Technical College, United States
Languages Spoken: English
Position Style: Third (usatoday.com, 17 Nov 2013)
Debut: 1996 for United States (worldcurling.org, 2013)

Additional Information

Start of sporting career
She began curling in 1988. (teamusa.org, 2013)

Reason for taking up this sport
She spent a lot of time around the sport as a girl because her father played. (usacurl.org, 13 Aug 2009)

Training
Her fitness work includes swimming, core strengthening, lifting weights and circuit training. (athletego.com, 17 Jul 2013)

Hero
Her father. (usacurl.org, 13 Aug 2009)В (www.usacurl.org, 09 Oct 2001)

Most influential person in career
Her father. (teamusa.org, 2013)

General
FROM SKIP TO THIRD
She skipped the US team at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, but a series of disappointing performances reduced her to tears after several of the matches. She decided to take a year's break from the sport before being invited to join childhood friend Erika Brown's team. While initially finding it difficult to play as a third rather than as skip, she has learned to trust Brown's judgement on the rink. "It was hard to give up the control of being a skip and trust in our skip that she's making the right calls and she's going to make that shot. The second year, it got a lot easier." (usatoday.com, 17 Nov 2013)

OCCUPATION
She runs a mobile curling products shop, which supplies equipment and apparel for the sport. (goldlinemobile.com, 2013)

OLYMPIC PROPOSAL
She met her husband Pete through curling. He proposed to her during the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, which was the first time she had competed at the event. The pair were married in 1999. (teamusa.org, 2013)

Social Media
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Curling

Women

Delivery: Right
Position: Third
Function: Vice-Skip