Bemidji's Team Berg takes silver in back-to-back tournaments at Club, U20 Nationals
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Apr. 6—BEMIDJI — After 18 games in 11 days, Team Berg is heading back to Bemidji with some hardware.
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The Bemidji Curling Club-based team, consisting of Nia Berg, Ella Willford, Solvieg Berg and Carol Chance, finished with a silver medal at both the Club National Championship in Chaska and the U20 Junior Women's National Championship in Bismarck, North Dakota.
At Club Nationals March 25-29, Team Berg competed against 11 other teams from across the country. It went 3-2 in pool play, then won the quarterfinal match 9-0 in four ends and the semifinal match 9-1 in six ends.
In the championship, Team Berg faced off against Team Roth, which claimed the gold medal 8-2 in six ends.
Its skip, Nina Roth, is a two-time Olympian. She was the skip for Team USA at PyeongChang in 2018 and took third in Beijing in 2022.
One day after the Club Nationals Championship, Team Berg traveled to Bismarck to compete in the U20 Women's Nationals from March 30 through April 4.
Team Berg went 4-3 in pool play, once again qualifying for the playoffs. In the quarterfinals, Team Berg won 8-5 over Team Treynor, going to the semifinals against Team Stopera.
The match came down to an extra end, with Team Berg getting the edge 9-7 to head to the championship against Team Pekowitz.
Team Pekowitz won 5-3 in seven ends, clinching Team Berg's second silver medal in less than two weeks.
After its second-place finish, Team Berg won the Curtis Cup Sportsmanship Award, given to the team that exemplifies the spirit of curling through respect, fairness and camaraderie both on and off the ice.
Solveig Berg would also win the Katie Beck Memorial Award, given to a junior curler who shows coachability, good sportsmanship, a positive attitude and a commitment to competitive junior curling.
U20 Women's Nationals is the last competition for Team Berg's 2025-26 season. The team has been competing all across North America since September, getting first-place finishes in the Rice Lake Competitors Spiel, U20 Qualifiers, Manitoba Junior Curling Tour, Blue Ox Bonspiel, Minnesota Club Playdowns, Curling Rocks Junior Spiel, Minnesota State High School Curling Championship and the U20 Tour Championship.