Athlete Commission

The current members of the Commission are:

Chair, Harri Lill (Estonia)

Vice Chair, Chelsea Carey (Canada)

Collinda Joseph (Canada)

Dean Hewitt (Australia)

Eve Muirhead (Scotland)

Geir Arne Skogstad (Norway)

Geoff Walker (Canada)

Benoit Schwarz-van Berkel (Switzerland)

Kristin Moen Skaslien (Norway)

Tori Koana (Japan)

The role of the Athlete Commission is to communicate the interests of high-performance curlers and to act as the collective voice for those curlers. It works in cooperation with World Curling to achieve its mission.

The Athlete Commission acts as the link between high performance athletes, the Board, the Rules and Competition Commission as well as the IOC Athletes Commission.

The Athlete Commission strives to have diversity among its members. It comprises athletes of both genders and from all curling disciplines – women, men, world rankings mixed doubles and wheelchair.

When elected, members of the commission will serve terms of four year, unless specifically noted in the Commission Terms of Reference.

The Athlete Commission can be contacted by email, [email protected]

Commission Eligibility

To be eligible to run for the Athlete Commission, an athlete must have represented their Member Association in a World “A” Championship or Olympic/Paralympic Games in the prior five years in any of the five Olympic and Paralympic disciplines (women’s, men’s, mixed doubles, wheelchair, and wheelchair mixed doubles).

For the World Curling Team Ranking positions, an athlete must have played on a team ranked inside the top 25 at the end of the season on the World Curling Team Ranking System (WCTRS) during the election season (2025–2026) and the previous two seasons (2023–2024 and 2024–2025).