Marquette junior Tom Howell traveled to Taarnby, Denmark with Team USA last month for the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships. Howell and the U.S. team won the silver medal, going 8-1 in pool play and beating Switzerland in the semi-finals before falling to Scotland in the gold medal game.
It was Howell’s third trip to the World Junior Curling Championships with the U.S., where the team finished 5th in 2012 and 7th in 2013. Howell believes the experience of those first two championship competitions helped him and the team finally take home a medal.
“(In 2012) I was younger and playing with people who were 20 and 21, so I was the young gun just kind of following around the older guys,” Howell said.