LIVIN “”” "In 2010, NBC was looking for a statistician for curling to help them, and USA Curling put my name forward. They interviewed me, and I convinced them I knew enough about the sport and knew what they were expecting me to have in terms of stats, and they said, 'Well, do you want to do this?' And now this is my fifth Olympics." Derek Surka (BS '94) is currently serving at NBC as a statistician for its coverage of the sport of curling. Semiretired after a 30-year career in aerospace engineering, Surka lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, Charrissa Lin, and is writing a novel set in the world of curling.