Patti Lank

Patti Lank
Patti Lank
Curler
Born	July 4, 1964 (age 59); Midale, Saskatchewan
Team
Curling club	Niagara Falls CC, Niagara Falls, ON
Skip	Patti Lank
Third	Nina Spatola
Second	Caitlin Maroldo
Lead	Molly Bonner
Alternate	Mackenzie Lank
Curling career
World Championship; appearances	5 (1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2010)
Medal record
Women's Curling
World Curling Championships

Patti Lank (born July 4, 1964 in Midale, Saskatchewan) is an American curler from Lewiston, New York.

Career

Patti Lank began curling at the age of eleven and competed at her first US National Championships in 1994 and her team placed fourth. She has since gone on to compete in fifteen National Championships. In March 2010 she will compete in her sixteenth US Nationals. Patti Lank has won the United States title four times (1997, 1999, 2002, and 2004) and competed in the World Championships held in those years.^[1]

At her first world championships, held in Berne, Switzerland in 1997, she and her team placed sixth with a 4 - 5 record. She won the silver medal two years later losing to Elisabet Gustafson's Swedish team in the final. 1999 remains her best finish. Patti Lank also placed seventh at the 2002 Worlds and fourth in 2004.

In 2011, Lank and her new team went through the 2011 US Nationals round robin with an 8-1 record, and defeated Allison Pottinger in the final to win the nationals and represent the US at the 2011 Worlds in Esbjerg, Denmark.