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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.
Her competitive curling career was cut short when she was struck by an intoxicated driver while she was walking. 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.
Personal life
Soligo has a bachelor of education degree with a major in physical education and geography from the University of Victoria.
Achieved her Level 5 Professional Coach Certification (one of only two in Canada who have this in curling).
Awards
Joan Mead Builder Award: 2018 ("for her contributions to curling as a player, coach and High Performance Director at Curl BC")
British Columbia Curling Hall of Fame: 1996, together with all of the Julie Sutton 1991–1993 team.
Teams and events
Record as a coach of national teams
References
External links
Melissa Soligo at World Curling
Melissa Soligo at Olympics.com
Melissa Soligo at Olympedia
Melissa Soligo at Team Canada
Melissa Soligo – Curling Canada Stats Archive
Melissa Soligo | Curling Canada
Melissa Soligo | Coaching Association of Canada Archived 2019-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
Home of Champions - Melissa Soligo - Trail Sports History
Four Foot Curling Camps (look at "Melissa Soligo")
Championship Victoria curler awarded 1.1 million | PARC: Promoting Awareness of RSD and CRPS in Canada
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- Scotties Tournament of Hearts
- List of World Women's Curling Champions
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- Jodie Sutton
- Elaine Dagg-Jackson
- British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts