Cory Thiesse

Cory Thiesse
Born (1994-12-01) December 1, 1994 (age 29)
Team
Curling clubDuluth CC,
Duluth, MN[1]
SkipTabitha Peterson
ThirdCory Thiesse
SecondTara Peterson
LeadVicky Persinger
AlternateTaylor Anderson
Mixed doubles
partner
Korey Dropkin
Curling career
Member Association United States
World Championship
appearances
4 (2017, 2022, 2023, 2024)
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances
2 (2019, 2023)
Pan Continental Championship
appearances
2 (2022, 2023)
Olympic
appearances
1 (2018)

Cory Thiesse (née Christensen; born December 1, 1994) is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota.[2] She currently plays third on Team Tabitha Peterson. She is a three-time defending U.S. women's champion, winning titles in 2021, 2023 and 2024. Thiesse was one of the top junior women's curlers in the United States, playing in six national junior championships and winning four of them.[3] She was the alternate on Nina Roth's 2018 United States Olympic team.

Thiesse is a former world mixed doubles champion, winning the title in 2023 alongside partner Korey Dropkin.[4] She also won a bronze medal at the event in 2019 with partner John Shuster.

  1. ^ "USA Curling National Team Athletes". USA Curling. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
  2. ^ "Cory Christensen". USA Curling. Archived from the original on January 30, 2015. Retrieved Jan 3, 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :12 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "United States win World Mixed Doubles gold medals". World Curling Federation. April 29, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.