Aileen Sormunen
Quick Facts
Biography
Aileen Geving (born February 13, 1987 as Aileen Sormunen) is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota. She represented the United States on the women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics and earned her first national championship in 2020.
Career
Geving began curling in 1996. She was a national junior champion in 2004 and 2007.
Geving skipped a team at the 2005 United States Olympic Curling Trials and qualified for the playoffs in fourth place, but lost her page playoffs game against Patti Lank. She also competed at the 2010 United States Olympic Curling Trials, but finished outside of the playoffs at fifth place. She then played as third for Patti Lank at the 2010 United States Women's Curling Championship, and finished as the runner-up to Erika Brown.
Geving skipped her own team at the 2011 and 2012 United States Women's Curling Championships, finishing sixth and fourth, respectively. She and her then-third Courtney George switched positions the next year, and finished second at the 2013 United States Women's Curling Championship. Consequently, she and her team were selected to participate at the 2014 United States Olympic Curling Trials by the United States Curling Association's High Performance Program committee.
At the 2020 United States Women's Championship Geving earned her first national title, as lead for Tabitha Peterson. In the round-robin Team Peterson's only loss came against Jamie Sinclair but they then beat Team Sinclair in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game and again in the final.As United States Champions Team Peterson would have represented the United States at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship, but they lost that opportunity when the Championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also earned a spot at the final Grand Slam of the season, the Champions Cup, which was also cancelled due to the pandemic. Their qualification will instead carry over to the 2021 Champions Cup.
During the 2020 off-season the team announced that Tabitha Peterson would remain as skip when Roth returned from maternity leave. Roth will re-join the team as vice-skip at third, with Hamilton moving to second, Tara Peterson to lead, and Geving to alternate.
Personal life
Geving has a degree in organizational management from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is currently a business insurance client executive. She is married to Garrett Geving, and has one daughter.
Teams
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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2000–01 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda Jensen | Amanda McLean | Seppo Sormunen | 2001 USJCC | |
Nicole Joraanstad | Kirsten Finch | Katlyn Schmitt | Rebecca Dobie | Aileen Sormunen | Neil Doese | 2001 WJCC (7th) | |
2001–02 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda Jensen | Amanda McLean | Cyndee Johnson | 2002 USJCC | |
2002–03 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda Jensen | Amanda McLean | Cyndee Johnson | 2003 USJCC | |
2003–04 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda Jensen | Amanda McLean | Jessica Schultz (WJCC) | Cyndee Johnson | 2004 USJCC 2004 WJCC (4th) |
2004–05 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda Jensen | Amanda McLean | Cyndee Johnson | 2005 USJCC (5th) | |
2005–06 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda Jensen | Amanda McLean | 2006 USJCC (SF) 2005 USOCT (4th) | ||
2006–07 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Molly Bonner | Jordan Moulton | Monica Walker (WJCC) | Robert Fenson | 2007 USJCC 2007 WJCC (4th) |
2007–08 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Molly Bonner | Jordan Moulton | 2008 USWCC | ||
2008–09 | Aileen Sormunen | Molly Bonner | Jessica Schultz | Maureen Brunt | 2009 USOCT (5th) | ||
2009–10 | Patti Lank | Aileen Sormunen | Caitlin Maroldo | Jessica Schultz | 2010 USWCC | ||
2010–11 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda McLean | Miranda Solem | 2011 USWCC (5th) | ||
2011–12 | Aileen Sormunen | Courtney George | Amanda McLean | Miranda Solem | 2012 USWCC | ||
2012–13 | Courtney George | Aileen Sormunen | Amanda McLean | Julie Lilla | 2013 USWCC | ||
2013–14 | Courtney George | Aileen Sormunen | Amanda McLean | Monica Walker | 2014 USWCC (4th) | ||
2014–15 | Aileen Sormunen | Tara Peterson | Vicky Persinger | Monica Walker | Becca Hamilton (WWCC) | Scott Baird | 2015 USWCC 2015 WWCC (10th) |
2015–16 | Nina Roth | Aileen Sormunen | Monica Walker | Vicky Persinger | 2016 USWCC | ||
2016–17 | Nina Roth | Tabitha Peterson | Aileen Geving | Becca Hamilton | Cory Christensen(WWCC) | Ann Swisshelm | 2017 USWCC 2017 WWCC (5th) |
2017–18 | Nina Roth | Tabitha Peterson | Aileen Geving | Becca Hamilton | Cory Christensen(OG) | Al Hackner | 2017 USOCT 2018 OG (8th) 2018 Cont. Cup |
2018–19 | Nina Roth | Tabitha Peterson | Aileen Geving | Becca Hamilton | Tara Peterson | Howard Restall | |
2019–20 | Tabitha Peterson | Becca Hamilton | Tara Peterson | Aileen Geving | Nina Roth | Natalie Nicholson | 2020 USWCC |
2020–21 | Tabitha Peterson | Nina Roth | Becca Hamilton | Tara Peterson | Aileen Geving |