[1] Swisshelm began curling at age ten at the Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago.

Playing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, they defeated the Canadians and Swisshelm earned her first World Championship medal.

In the semifinals the United States lost to the eventual silver medalists from Switzerland.

[2] Swisshelm and her team again qualified to participate at the United States Olympic Curling Trials in 2014,[7] finishing first in the round robin standings and defeating Allison Pottinger in a best-of-three series final to clinch the berth to the Olympics.

[9] Ann Swisshelm was born in Middletown, Ohio, and currently resides in Chicago with her husband Sean Silver.