Daniela Jentsch

Daniela Jentsch (born 15 January 1982), (known as Daniela Driendl from 2011 to 2016), is a retired German curler from Füssen.

She was the skip of the German National Women's Curling Team.

Jentsch played in her first international competition in 1997 at the 1997 World Junior Curling Championships, as third for Natalie Nessler.

There, the team finished in eighth place with a 2–7 record.

When she was just 18, Jentsch participated in her first World Women's Curling Championship at the 2000 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, playing third for Petra Tschetsch.

There, the team finished the round robin with a 4–5 record, missing the playoffs.

She has skipped the German women's junior team to two "B" level gold medals in 2001 and 2002.

At the "A" level, she finished tenth in 2001 and fifth in 2002, just missing the playoffs.

Her first European Curling Championships was in 2002 at the 2002 European Curling Championships.

There, Jentsch skipped the German team to a 5–4 round robin record, just missing the playoffs.

She returned to the Euros two years later at the 2004 European Curling Championships but finished in ninth place with a 3–6 record.

Jentsch played third for her father at the 2006 European Mixed Curling Championships where they finished tenth.

The team struggled during the week, finishing the round robin in 10th place with a 3–8 record.

The next season, Jentsch would win her first World Curling Tour event, the Latvia International Challenger.

Jentsch did not return to any international competitions for nine years before playing in the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship.

Her team did not play in the European Championships that season, the Andrea Schöpp rink did.

But Jentsch's rink were the ones that represented Germany at the Worlds.

Her team of Analena Jentsch, Stella Heiß and Pia-Lisa Schöll beat top teams Sweden and United States before losing their last five games to finish with a record of 4–7.

Jentsch did play in the 2015 European Curling Championships as skip for the German team.

The team missed the playoffs with a 4–5 record but did qualify their country for the 2016 World Championship.

At the 2016 Euros, the German team finished 4–5 again which was once again enough to qualify for the 2017 Worlds.

The team would have their best World Championship so far.

Sitting at 5–4 with two games left, the Germans had a chance to qualify for the playoffs.

Unfortunately, they would lose their last two games to Scotland and Czech Republic, ending their chance of reaching the playoffs.

That season, the German team was met with disappointment.

But like in 2016, the team struggled at the World Championship, finishing in twelfth with a 3–9 record.

The following season, the German team would have success at the Europeans.

Jentsch reached the playoffs for the first time in her career with a 5–4 record.

In the semifinal, Jentsch curled 67% which would not be good enough to beat the Swiss team as they lost 6–4.

In the bronze medal game though, the Germans turned things around.

Jentsch curled a high 87% game en route to winning the bronze medal against Russia's Alina Kovaleva.

It was her first medal at an international competition.

Jentsch also won her second tour event this season.

Two months after the Europeans, the team won the Qinghai Curling Elite.

At the Worlds, her team of Emira Abbes, Klara-Hermine Fomm and Analena Jentsch were sitting at 4–6 after their tenth game with two still to go.

The team had another chance to clinch a playoff spot.

But once again they lost their next game eliminating them from contention.

The team did have a good final game though, beating eventual winners Switzerland 10–8 after scoring four in the last end.

They tried to qualify for the Olympic Games, at the 2018 Winter Olympic qualification event, but they finished with a record of 2–4, missing the playoffs.

The next season, the team once again qualified for the Worlds after going 3–6 at the Euros.