[4] McNelly as lead for Don Cooper's team won the United States men's curling championship in 1983, defeating Bud Somerville in the final.

[5] He was also two-time United States mixed curling champion curler.

McNelly was a long-time director of the United States Curling Association.

He served as U.S. Olympic Curling Team Leader in 2002 and 2006, and was for many years curling’s representative or alternate representative to the U.S. Olympic Committee.

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