Joseph Polo was born on December 10,1982 and is an American curler who is best known for winning a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and being the alternate on the gold-medal winning United States men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
11 Facts About Joe Polo
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Joe Polo was raised in Floodwood, Minnesota before moving to Cass Lake.
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Joe Polo learned to curl in nearby Bemidji at the age of 10 in the Bemidji Curling Club's Sunday Night Junior League.
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When Joe Polo transitioned from juniors to men's, he joined Pete Fenson's team at second.
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Joe Polo continued to play second on Fenson's team for another eight seasons, winning the United States Men's Championship three more times.
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Joe Polo won his sixth US title with Team Shuster at the 2017 United States Men's Championship and then the team finished the 2017 World Championship in fourth place when they lost to Switzerland in the bronze medal match.
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In 2016, Joe Polo teamed up with Tabitha Peterson to compete at the United States Mixed Doubles World Trials, a tournament to determine the US representative at the 2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Karlstad, Sweden.
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Peterson and Joe Polo finished the round-robin group play undefeated, losing to Russia's Alexander Krushelnitskiy and Anastasia Bryzgalova in the semifinals.
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Joe Polo has continued to compete in mixed doubles with Peterson since that first success.
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Joe Polo attended Bemidji State University and University of North Dakota, earning an engineering degree.
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Joe Polo's daughter is named after Ailsa Craig, an island off of Scotland and one of only two places that granite is quarried to make curling stones.