“In curling you have two key variables, one is weight—how hard you push the stone and how fast you come out of the hack,” Lincoln said. “The other thing is your line—whether you’re making a curl along the right trajectory. This weekend it just seemed like we’d make one shot and we’d either have the weight or the line.”

The ‘A’ team consisted of Karigiannis, Charles Bornowski of the law school, Alex Duncan of Tufts, and a player that filled in for the weekend.

“It’s a very informal event,” Crawford said. “If [a team] can’t get a fourth member or they couldn’t come up, the locals would fill in for the player.”

The ‘A’ team advanced to the medal round by posting a 2-1 record in its round-robin pool with wins over St. Olaf’s and Wisconsin-Lacrosse and a loss to Wisconsin-Marathon County.

Harvard’s medal hopes ended with a loss to Wisconsin-Madison in the ‘B’ pool semifinals. The game was tied until Wisconsin scored four points in the sixth end. The Crimson still salvaged a bronze medal with a single-point victory over Wynona State.

Teams that didn’t place in medal ranks didn’t leave empty-handed. Curlers received pins from the hosting club, a tradition that results in pin collections.

Harvard’s teams were able to attend the national tournament after participating in a regional competition a month ago, where the Crimson earned silver and bronze medals.

Though curling is known for its regard in Canada, only four players on the two teams are Canadian. Some began curling as children while Crawford took the sport up as an alternative to injury.

“I started playing curling after my sixth concussion because hockey didn’t seem like it was the right thing to do anymore,” Crawford said.

Wendt started the curling club her freshman year, when she began curling at the Canadian Club of Boston in Brookline. In the following three years, Wendt has seen the membership double as curling became more publicized and therefore popularized.

“I’m just happy that it’s become a lot more popular in recent years,” Wendt said. “A lot more people are getting on the ice to give it a try and deciding that it’s a really fun sport.”