Melissa Soligo

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Melissa Soligo
Curler  ♀
Born	(1969-02-07) February 7, 1969 (age 55) Trail, British Columbia
Team
Curling club	Victoria CC, Victoria, BC Juan de Fuca CC, Victoria, BC
Curling career
Member Association	British Columbia
Hearts appearances	4 (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993)
World Championship appearances	1 (1991)
Olympic appearances	1 (1992 - demo)
Medal record Women's curling Representing  Canada Winter Olympics 1992 Albertville (demonstration) World Championships 1991 Winnipeg Representing  British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts 1991 Saskatoon 1992 Halifax

Melissa Soligo (born February 7, 1969, in Trail, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian curler and curling coach, currently living in Victoria, British Columbia.

Soligo began curling at age 11. In her youth, she also played volleyball, basketball, field hockey and fastball.

She is a 1991 World women's silver medallist and 1991 Canadian women's champion.

She won a bronze medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics when curling was a demonstration sport.^[1]

Her competitive curling career was cut short when she was struck by an intoxicated driver while she was walking.^[2] She then made the choice to switch to coaching. Early in her career she focused on coaching junior teams in Canada. In 2002 she began coaching the South Korean curling teams where under her leadership the men's team won the Pacific Curling Championship. She has also been the national team leader of Curling Canada's wheelchair curling program, the coach of BC's wheelchair curling team and is currently a national coach, mentor coach and High Performance Director at CurlBC.