Susan Dudt

Susan Dudt (born November 8, 2002) is an American curler from Malvern, Pennsylvania.

She is currently the alternate on Team Delaney Strouse.

She is a two-time champion of the United States Junior Curling Championships, going on to win the bronze medal at the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships and the 2023 Winter World University Games.

In 2015, Dudt competed in the playdowns for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics with teammates Eli Clawson, Rane Anderson and Andrew Gittis.

The team finished 1–4 through the round robin, not advancing to the playoffs.

Also during the 2015–16 season, at just 13 years old, Dudt and her junior team of Annmarie Dubberstein, Jenna Burchesky and Allison Howell made it all the way to the semi-finals of the national junior championships before losing to Melissa Runing.

The following season, Dudt began skipping her own team of Sarah Ogawa, Katherine Gourianova and Nadezhda Tschumakow after previously playing lead.

The team did not qualify for the playoffs at the junior championship, finishing with a 3–4 record.

After just one season at skip, Dudt returned to playing front end for the 2017–18 season, playing second on a team skipped by Beth Podoll.

The team, with third Emily Quello and lead Rebecca Rodgers finished 7–2 through the round robin at the junior championship, enough to earn them a spot in the 1 vs. 2 game.

They then lost 7–5 to Madison Bear before dropping the semi-final 6–5 to Abbey Kitchens, eliminating them from contention.

Later that season, the team had enough points to qualify for the 2018 United States Women's Curling Championship, Dudt's first national women's championship.

They finished in fifth place out of the eight competing teams with a 3–4 record.

Still of U18 age, Dudt formed a team with teammate Rebecca Rodgers, Anna Cenzalli and Sydney Mullaney for the 2018 United States U18 Curling Championships.

After an undefeated round robin record and semi-final victory, they lost to Leah Yavarow 8–4 in the final.

The next season, Dudt, Quello and Rodgers joined forces with a new skip Ariel Traxler.

At juniors, the team again finished third after a semi-final loss to Cait Flannery.

They also qualified again for the 2019 United States Women's Curling Championship where they finished in sixth place with a 2–5 record.

In her last year of eligibility for U18's, she skipped her team of Sydney Mullaney, Nadezhda Tschumakow and Alina Tschumakow to the gold medal after a 9–3 win over Samantha Jones in the championship game.

For the 2019–20 season, Dudt combined her U18 and junior teams, forming a new team with third Sydney Mullaney, second Delaney Strouse and lead Rebecca Rodgers.

They reached the semi-finals of the St. Paul Cash Spiel and represented the U.S. at the 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite where they finished 0–7.

In the new year, Strouse took over skipping duties on the team with Dudt moving down to second.

The change paid off as the team won the 2020 United States Junior Curling Championships, winning 9–8 in the final against Alaska's Cora Farrell.

This qualified them to represent the States at the 2021 World Junior Curling Championships, however, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

They ended their season by playing in the 2020 United States Women's Curling Championship where they finished 2–5 through the round robin.

The following season, Leah Yavarow joined the team at third, shifting Mullaney down to second and Dudt to alternate.

Despite the limited number of events due to the pandemic, Team Strouse won the lone tour event they played in, the contender round of the US Open of Curling.

They also played in the 2021 United States Women's Curling Championship which was held in a bio-secure bubble at the Wausau Curling Club in Wausau, Wisconsin in May 2021.

They finished with a 2–4 record, not advancing to the playoffs.

Dudt also played in the bubble for the 2021 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with her brother Daniel Dudt.

The siblings qualified for the playoffs with a 4–1 record before losing in the qualification game to Jenna Burchesky and Ben Richardson.

Team Strouse began the 2021–22 season by capturing a second U.S. junior title, going undefeated to win the event.

After going 5–0 in the round robin, they beat Samantha Jones in the semi-final before defeating Katherine Gourianova in the gold medal game.

They also earned qualification into the 2021 United States Olympic Curling Trials by winning the Mayfield qualifying event, beating Christine McMakin in the final qualifier.

Before the Trials, Leah Yavarow was replaced on the team by Anne O'Hara who became the team's new third.

At the Trials, they finished tied for fifth with a 3–7 record.

In January, the team was set to compete in the 2022 World Junior-B Curling Championships, however, an outbreak of COVID cases in the men's event forced the women's event to be cancelled.

Because of this, the World Curling Federation named the top three ranked nations who had not already qualified for the world championship as the qualifiers, with the United States being one of them.

In May 2022, they represented the U.S. at the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships.

Through the round robin, the team finished in second place with a 7–2 record, suffering losses to Latvia's Evelīna Barone and the top ranked Norway's Eirin Mesloe.