Sydney Mullaney

Sydney Mullaney (born May 7, 2001) is an American curler from Concord, Massachusetts.

She currently plays second 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 2017, the team went undefeated at the national championship until the final where they lost 6–4 to Cait Flannery, settling for silver.

The following year, she joined the Susan Dudt rink where the team again went undefeated until the final before an 8–4 loss to Leah Yavarow.

At the end of the 2018–19 season, Mullaney teamed up with Hunter Clawson, Katherine Gourianova and Eli Clawson to compete in the 2019 United States Mixed Curling Championship.

At the championship, the team finished tied for fourth through the round robin with a 6–3 record.

They then won a tiebreaker against Ben Richardson before going on to beat the number one ranked Evan Workin rink in the semi-finals.

In the final, they came from behind to defeat Caitlin Pulli 9–5 to win the national title.

She also won the 2019 United States Mixed Curling Championship.

At the U18 level, Mullaney competed as lead for the Elizabeth Cousins rink.

In 2019, her last year of eligibility, her team won the gold medal after a 9–3 win over Samantha Jones in the championship game.

This earned them the right to represent the U.S. at the 2019 World Mixed Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland.

There, the team qualified for the playoffs with a 5–2 record.

In the round of 16, they lost to Switzerland's Manuel Siegrist 7–2, eliminating them from contention.

For the 2019–20 season, Mullaney and Dudt added Delaney Strouse and Rebecca Rodgers as their new front end.

Playing third on the team skipped by Dudt, 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.

Mullaney also played in the bubble for the 2021 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with partner Chase Sinnett.

After a 3–2 round robin record, the pair lost a tiebreaker to Monica Walker and Alex Leichter.

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.

In the semi-finals, they met the eventual champions Japan's Sae Yamamoto where they fell 7–3.

They bounced back in the bronze medal game, however, beating Norway in a 10–6 game.

Also during the season, Mullaney was selected to be the alternate for the Cory Christensen rink for the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship.

There, the team finished the round robin in fifth place with an 8–4 record.