The 27-year-old Andrew Stopera, a 2015 Hackley School graduate who later graduated from Northwestern University, followed his father and grandfather into curling. While his team can earn prize money and are given a yearly allowance by USA Curling, he and his teammates hold jobs that allow them to both pay their bills and pursue their passion. Stopera works in insurance. This contrasts with elite curlers in many other countries, who are either, in some instances, directly paid a full-time salary by their countries to curl and/or receive large government bonuses for strong finishes or are full-time curlers who are technically members of the military or police. But while he'd like to see more support for American curlers, Stopera isn't complaining. Curling has taken him from the Ardsley club to multiple parts of the world. Stopera, who now lives in Minnesota, is a three-year member of Team Dropkin, which scored a historic semifinals win at nationals, beating legendary curler John Schust...