Almida de Val

Almida Winquist de Val (born 12 September 1997) is a Swedish curler from Sundbyberg.

She currently plays third and is vice skip on Team Isabella Wranå, also known as Team Panthera.

de Val played in the World Junior Curling Championships in 2014, 2017 and 2018 as a member of Team Isabella Wranå.

In 2014, her team of Isabella Wranå, Jennie Wåhlin, Elin Lövstrand, and Fanny Sjöberg had a fourth-place finish after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia.

de Val was the alternate on the team but played no games.

With this team, she won a gold medal at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships.

de Val has studied engineering at the Swedish Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, where she received her Master's degree in 2021.

She was back at the event in 2017 as the official second of the team, replacing Lövstrand.

The team made it all the way to the final and defeated Scotland's Sophie Jackson to win the gold medal, and lost just two round robin games in the process.

The same team went undefeated the next year in the round robin but ended up losing to Canada's Kaitlyn Jones in the final.

This team also represented Sweden at the 2017 Winter Universiade, where they took home the bronze medal and again in 2019, winning the gold medal.

As World Junior champions, the Wranå team qualified for the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup, de Val's first Grand Slam event.

The team did not qualify for the playoffs but did win one game.

The team won their first World Curling Tour event at the 2018 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic.

A month later, they won the Paf Masters Tour.

Throughout the 2018–19 season, the team played in four slams, failing to qualify in any of the four.

They won one game at the 2018 Tour Challenge, one game at the 2018 National, no games at the 2019 Canadian Open, and one game at the 2019 Champions Cup.

de Val represented Sweden one more time at the juniors in 2019 as the fourth for Tova Sundberg, who threw third stones.

They placed sixth.

Also during this season, the team won the 2019 Winter Universiade.

Team Wranå had a successful 2019–20 season, winning two tour events (the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic and the Paf Masters Tour once again) and finishing second at the Women's Masters Basel and the Glynhill Ladies International.

They played in two slam events, winning one game at both the 2019 Tour Challenge and the 2019 National.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Team Wranå only played in one tour event during the abbreviated 2020–21 season.

The team competed at the 2020 Women's Masters Basel, where they missed the playoffs with a 1–2 record.

In December, they played Team Hasselborg in the Sweden National Challenge, where they won by a score of 17–12.

The Swedish Women's Curling Championship was cancelled due to the pandemic, so Team Hasselborg was named as the Swedish Team for the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship.

After the season, longtime lead Fanny Sjöberg stepped back from competitive curling and Maria Larsson joined the team as their new lead.

In their first event of the 2021–22 season, Team Wranå reached the final of the 2021 Euro Super Series where they lost to Rebecca Morrison.

They also reached the semifinals of the 2021 Women's Masters Basel before being eliminated by Denmark's Madeleine Dupont.

After missing the playoffs at the 2021 Masters, Team Wranå made the playoffs at a Grand Slam event for the first time at the 2021 National before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by Kelsey Rocque.

Elsewhere on tour, the team reached the semifinals of both the Red Deer Curling Classic and the International Bernese Ladies Cup.

At the Swedish Eliteserien in February, the team defeated Tova Sundberg to claim the event title.

They also beat Sundberg in the final of the 2022 Swedish Women's Curling Championship in March.

Team Wranå wrapped up their season at the 2022 Players' Championship Grand Slam where they once again qualified for the playoffs.

They lost to Tracy Fleury in the quarterfinal round.

After the season, Jennie Wåhlin stepped back from competitive curling and was replaced by Linda Stenlund.

The revised lineup of the team saw Wranå and de Val continue at skip and third while Larsson moved up to second and Stenlund slotted in at lead.

Team Wranå finished third at their second event of the 2022–23 season, the 2022 Oslo Cup, defeating Marianne Rørvik 6–2.

In September, the team competed in the European Qualifier best-of-seven series against Team Hasselborg, which they lost 4–1.

They then had a quarterfinal finish at the 2022 Women's Masters Basel after a previously unbeaten record.