Tom Violette | |
Gender: | M |
Birth Date: | 26 October 1960 |
Curling Club: | Granite CC, Seattle, WA |
World Championship Appearances: | 2 |
Other Appearances: | 1 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Tom Violette (born October 26, 1960) is an American curler from Issaquah, Washington and Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
He is a, a two-time United States men's curling champion (1990, 1992), and a 2015 World Seniors gold medalist.
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events | |
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1989–90 | Bard Nordlund (fourth) | Doug Jones (skip) | Tom Violette | 1990 USMCC (7th)[1] | ||||
1991–92 | Doug Jones | Tom Violette | 1992 USMCC [2] | |||||
1994–95 | Doug Jones | Tom Violette | ||||||
1998–99 | Jason Larway | Joel Larway | Tom Violette | |||||
1999–00 | Tom Violette | Curt Fish | Bard Nordlund | Murphy Tomlinson | Doug Jones | 2000 USMCC (DNQ)[3] | ||
2003–04 | Ryan Beighton | Tom Violette | 2004 USMCC (13th)[4] | |||||
2011–12 | Tom Violette | Leon Romaniuk | ||||||
2014–15 | Tom Violette | Ken Trask | Steve Lundeen | Greg Violette | 2015 USSCC [5] | |||
2015–16 | Lyle Sieg | Tom Violette | Ken Trask | Steve Lundeen | Duane Rutan | 2016 USSCC | ||
2016–17 | Lyle Sieg | Tom Violette | Ken Trask | Steve Lundeen | Duane Rutan | 2017 USSCC |
Tom Violette started curling in 1974, when he was 14 years old.
His son Luc Violette is a curler too. He played for United States in four and at the 2019 Winter Universiade.