{{short description|Swiss curler}} {{Infobox curler | name = Céline Koller | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|2|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Frutigen, Switzerland<ref name="Media Guide">{{cite web |url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2020/03/2020-World-Womens-Curling-Championship-media-guide.pdf |title=2020 World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website= |publisher=Curling Canada |access-date=2020-03-09 |quote=}}</ref> | Curling club = CC Oberwallis, Brig-Glis | Skip = | Fourth = | Second = | Lead = | Alternate = | Member Association = {{SUI}} | World Championship appearances = | European Championship appearances = | medaltemplates = }}

'''Céline Koller''' (born 7 February 1996) is a Swiss curler from Adelboden.

==Career== Koller first represented Switzerland on the international stage at the 2015 World Mixed Curling Championship, as lead for Yannick Schwaller. After going 7–1 in the round robin, they lost the quarterfinal game to Rasmus Wranå and Sweden. She returned two years later once again as lead for Schwaller. They were less successful this time, failing to make the playoffs after a 4–3 round robin record. Koller also played in the 2017 Winter Universiade where the Swiss team finished fourth.

The 2018–19 season was a breakout year for Koller and her team of skip Elena Stern, fourth Briar Hürlimann and second Lisa Gisler. They played in four Grand Slam of Curling events including winning the 2018 Tour Challenge Tier 2 and the 2018 Women's Masters Basel World Curling Tour event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=5315&teamid=126487&profileid=|title=Stern wins 2018 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 2|website=CurlingZone|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/post.php?postid=2141|title=Elena Stern wins Womens Masters Basel|website=CurlingZone|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref>

Team Stern followed their great season with an even better one for the 2019–20 season. They had a quarterfinal finish at the 2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic. They missed the playoffs at their next three events, the 2019 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and the inaugural WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup. Next, Team Stern played in the 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic and qualified for the playoffs threw the C side. They successfully defeated Eve Muirhead in the quarterfinals, Silvana Tirinzoni in the semifinals and Rachel Homan in the final to win the event. They also won the International Bernese Ladies Cup and the Schweizer Cup. For the first time ever, they qualified for the playoffs at a Grand Slam event where they lost to Tracy Fleury in the quarterfinals at the Masters. They also qualified for the playoffs as the number one seed at the National but they also lost in the quarterfinals, this time to Satsuki Fujisawa. Team Stern surprised many when they upset the defending world champion rink Silvana Tirinzoni in the 2020 Swiss Women's Curling Championship three times and defeated them in the final 6–4. The team was set to represent Switzerland at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship before the event got cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.tsn.ca/cp-newsalert-world-women-s-curling-championship-cancelled-1.1456723|title=World Women's Curling Championship Cancelled|website=The Sports Network|author=The Canadian Press|date=March 12, 2020|access-date=March 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://worldcurling.org/2020/03/wwcc2020-cancelled/|title=World Women's Curling Championship 2020 cancelled in Prince George, Canada|date=March 12, 2020|website=World Curling Federation|access-date=March 20, 2020}}</ref> The Swiss championship would be their last event of the season as both the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were also cancelled due to the pandemic.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thegrandslamofcurling.com/gsoc-cancels-remaining-events-of-2019-20-season/|title=GSOC cancels remaining events of 2019–20 season|website=Grand Slam of Curling|publisher=Grand Slam of Curling|date=March 13, 2020|access-date=March 20, 2020}}</ref>

The Stern team began the abbreviated 2020–21 season by winning the 2020 Schweizer Cup, defeating Team Tirinzoni in the final.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/post.php?postid=2673#1|title=Elena Stern repeats as Schweizer Cup champions|website=CurlingZone|access-date=April 26, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|UW_dDuPX3Mo|'''Video''' (full game): 2020 Schweizer Cup - Final - Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau) vs Elena Stern (Oberwallis)}}</ref> The team next played in the 2020 Women's Masters Basel, losing in the semifinals to Raphaela Keiser.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.curling-is-fun.ch/a.html|title=2020 Women's Masters Basel Scoreboards|website=Rinkmaster|access-date=April 26, 2021}}</ref> Two weeks later, they competed in the 2.0 Cup, a men's tour event as the sole women's team. They lost in the C Qualifier game to Sweden's Fredrik Nyman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=6736&teamid=149536&profileid=|title=Stern 2–3 at 2.0 Cup|website=CurlingZone|access-date=April 26, 2021}}</ref> At the 2021 Swiss Women's Curling Championship, the team could not defend their title, losing all five of their matches against the Tirinzoni rink.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.curling-results.ch/resultat/scl/2020-21/frauen/sm/|title=2021 Swiss Women's Curling Championship Results|website=Swiss Curling Association|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=February 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225215209/https://www.curling-results.ch/resultat/scl/2020-21/frauen/sm/|url-status=dead}}</ref> As they had won the Swiss Championship in 2020 but could not participate in the World Championship due to the cancellation, Team Stern played Team Tirinzoni in a best-of-five series to determine which team would represent Switzerland at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship. Tirinzoni defeated Stern three games to zero in the series, earning themselves the spot at the World Championship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.curling-results.ch/resultat/scl/2020-21/frauen/wm-trials/|title=2021 Swiss Women's Curling Trials|website=Swiss Curling Association|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=April 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426183356/http://www.curling-results.ch/resultat/scl/2020-21/frauen/wm-trials/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The team ended their season at the 2021 Champions Cup and 2021 Players' Championship Grand Slam events, which were played in a "curling bubble" in Calgary, Alberta, with no spectators, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thegrandslamofcurling.com/humptys-champions-cup-start-moved-to-thursday/|title=Humpty's Champions Cup start moved to Thursday|publisher=Grand Slam of Curling|author=Jonathan Brazeau|date=April 12, 2021|access-date=April 26, 2021}}</ref> The team finished winless in the Champions Cup and made the quarterfinals at the Players'.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thegrandslamofcurling.com/gushue-eliminates-edin-to-reach-players-championship-semis/|title=Gushue eliminates Edin to reach Players' Championship semis|publisher=Grand Slam of Curling|author=Jonathan Brazeau|date=April 24, 2021|access-date=April 26, 2021}}</ref>

==Personal life== Koller is employed as a tourism merchant.<ref name="Media Guide"/>

==Grand Slam record== {{Curling GS key}} {{clear}} {| class="wikitable" border="1" |- ! Event ! 2018–19 ! 2019–20 ! 2020–21 |- | Masters |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| DNP |style="background:#ffebcd;"| QF |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| N/A |- | Tour Challenge |style="background:#afeeee;"| T2 |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| N/A |- | The National |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| DNP |style="background:#ffebcd;"| QF |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| N/A |- | Canadian Open |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| N/A |- | Champions Cup |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| N/A |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |- | Players' |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#EFEFEF;"| N/A |style="background:#ffebcd;"| QF |}

==Teams== {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col"| Season ! scope="col"| Skip ! scope="col"| Third ! scope="col"| Second ! scope="col"| Lead |- ! scope="row"| 2014–15<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/player.php?playerid=30877&view=Teams#1|title=Céline Koller Past Teams|website=CurlingZone|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref> | Livia Schmid || Céline Koller || Alicia Guadaupi || Larissa Hari |- ! scope="row"| 2016–17 | Briar Hürlimann (Fourth) || Elena Stern (Skip) || Anna Stern || Céline Koller |- ! scope="row"| 2017–18 | Briar Hürlimann (Fourth) || Elena Stern (Skip) || Lisa Gisler || Céline Koller |- ! scope="row"| 2018–19 | Briar Hürlimann (Fourth) || Elena Stern (Skip) || Lisa Gisler || Céline Koller |- ! scope="row"| 2019–20 | Briar Hürlimann (Fourth) || Elena Stern (Skip) || Lisa Gisler || Céline Koller |- ! scope="row"| 2020–21 | Briar Hürlimann (Fourth) || Elena Stern (Skip) || Lisa Gisler || Céline Koller |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Sports links}} * [https://teamstern.ch/ Team Stern's Home Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805165004/https://teamstern.ch/ |date=2020-08-05 }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koller, Celine}} Category:Swiss female curlers Category:Living people Category:1996 births Category:People from Frutigen-Niedersimmental District Category:Curlers from the canton of Bern Category:Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Category:21st-century Swiss sportswomen