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Duane Rutan from Superior Wisconsin, as a curler, was on the Gold Medal winning American team, (skipped by Lyle Sieg) at the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships (Sochi Russia). Also was on the as gold medal team (Lyle Sieg) winning the 2015 Club National Curling Championships (Fargo, North Dakota). This was the the 2015 United Curling Association Team of the Year (Lyle Sieg, Tom Violette, Ken Trask, Steve Lundeen, Duane Rutan, and coach Greg Violette) https://www.usacurling.org/team-of-the-year

In the same year, he was on a team skipped by Paul Pustovar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pustovar made a tie breaker round at the US Mens National Championships (Kalamazoo, MI). Additional curling career events included qualifying for the 2014 Mens National Championship in Aston PA (Paul Pustovar). Prior events included, a Bronze medal at the 2012 Mixed national curling championships with skip Andy Jukich (Portage WI). Also, qualification at the 1999 and 1994 Mens Curling Championship (Duluth MN) and the 1975 Junior National Championship with (Geoff Goodland).