Patti Wuthrich (born July 17, 1958, in WinnipegPatti Vande | Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website as Patti "Vande" Vandekerckhove) is a Canadian curler and curling coach from Gimli, Manitoba.
As a junior curler, she won the 1974 Canadian Junior Curling Championships playing second for the Chris Pidzarko rink. She won the playing lead for Cathy Pidzarko.
She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics when curling was a demonstration sport. The Canadian women's team won the gold medal, defeating Sweden in the final.
Patti Vandekerckhove was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1986.
After retirement she began coaching teams on the national and international level, for example the team of Kerri Einarson or the Korean team of Kim Eun-jung.
Personal life She is married to well-known Canadian ice maker Hans Wuthrich.Gimli's Ice Man from Manitoba | What Travel Writers SayMinerva Tree Farms - Company She is currently the owner of Minerva Tree Farms.
Teams Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Events 1973—74 Chris Pidzarko Cathy Pidzarko Patti Vandekerckhove Barbara Rudolph CJCC 1974 1975—76 Patti Vande Denise Ledoyen Connie Laliberte Donna Rogalski CJCC 1976 (4th) 1976—77 Patti Vande Cindy Jensen Colleen Clark Connie Laliberte CJCC 1977 (? th) 1977—78 Cathy Pidzarko Chris Pidzarko Iris Armstrong Patti Vandekerckhove 1978—79 Christine Pidzarko Rose Tanasichuk Iris Armstrong Patti Vande 1979—80 Donna Brownridge Patti Vande Carolyn Hall Connie Laliberte (7th) 1982—83 Patti Vande Carol Dunstone Iris Armstrong Maureen Bonar (4th) 1987—88 Linda Moore Lindsay Sparkes Debbie Jones Penny Ryan Patti Vande OG 1988 1995—96 Maureen Bonar Gerri Cooke Allyson Bell Patti Wuthrich (5th)
Record as a coach of national teams Year Tournament, event National team Place 2014 2014 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships (women)
Record as a coach of club teams Season Skip Event Place 2015–16 Kerri Einarson 2016–17 Kerri Einarson 2016 Canada Cup of Curling 2018–19 Kerri Einarson 2018 Canada Cup Kerri Einarson Wild Card Game 2019–20 Kerri Einarson
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External links
Patti Wuthrich - Curling Canada Stats Archive Video: (YouTube channel "Curling Canada") (Video interviews with Jennifer Jones, Patti Wuthrich, Jill Brothers and Jenn Hanna after Draw 10 at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.) (YouTube channel "RT Sport"; November 8, 2010) (Curling is a fairly new sport for Russians but the country's sports bosses are keen for it to dominate at the next winter Games in Sochi. So, the National Olympic Committee has turned to Canada for help.) (with Patti Wuthrich, Hans Wuthrich, Jason Gunnlaugson and others)