Betty Kozai | |
Birth Date: | 12 October 1928 |
Curling Club: | Granite Curling Club (Seattle) |
World Championship Appearances: | 1 (1980) |
Betty Kozai (October 12, 1928 – January 18, 2021) was an American curler from Seattle, Washington.
Kozai won the US national championship in 1980, on a team skipped by her daughter Sharon. That team went on to finish in fourth place at that year's world championship.[1] She returned to international competition at the age of 81, representing the United States at the 2010 World Senior Curling Championships.[2]
Kozai was a founding member of Granite Curling Club in Seattle, and curled there until the last years of her life.[3] [4] Her three daughters and four grandchildren have also been long-time curlers at Granite.[5]
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events | |
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1979–80 | Betty Kozai | 1980 USWCC (4th) | ||||||
2009–10 | Linda Cornfield | Susan Curtis | Betty Kozai | Dani Thibodeaux | ||||
Sharon Vukich | Mary Colacchio | Susan Curtis | Betty Kozai | Dani Thibodeaux | Kenneth Thomson | (4th) | ||
2012–13 | Sharon Vukich | Linda Cornfield | Colleen Richardson | Betty Kozai | 2013 USSCC (4th) |