2nd Annual “The Crush” Bonspiel, August 29-31, 2008
By | May 22, 2008
August is a magical time of the year in the wine growing region of California for it is the beginning of the crush. To celebrate this exciting season, WCC cordially invites curlers to join them in 2008 THE CRUSH: Wine Country Bonspiel. Register as a team or individual.
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Pacific International Cup
By | April 22, 2008
From Gabrielle:
California’s teams had a solid showing at the Pacific International
Cup this year - both the men and women finished with 2-5 records and
the women won the sportsmanship award. Links and photos (with more to
come) on my website:
http://gabrielle.curling
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2008 World Men’s Championship
By | April 8, 2008
CurlCast Live Scoring
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Bay Area Curlers Participated in USWCA Event
By | March 21, 2008
This past weekend we held the annual “All American” which is an event that is sponsored by the United States Women’s Curling Association. This event is held across the country in all USWCA member clubs. Everyone schedules the activity differently, based on their own clubs’ ice availability and schedules. This year eleven teams signed up to participate. There were seven members from the San Francisco Bay Club in addition to seven women from the Evergreen Club in Portland.
Two, ten end games were played on Saturday, which included lunch and then appetizers following the afternoon game. A “Shoot Out” was held Saturday evening in order to determine winning teams. Points were allotted for wins in addition to points for the Shoot Out.
Participants from Northern California: Barbara Feist, Gabrielle Coleman, Pam Biesenthal
For many of these ladies, it was their first experience playing ten end games. Good fun was had by all and we appreciate that the women from both San Francisco and Portland joined us for the weekend.
The USWCA will host twenty Scottish women who will travel to the United States in January of 2011. The SCOT TOUR takes place every ten years. In 2006 twenty U.S. women competed in Scotland (Linda Draper was one of the members of that team) and five years from then, a group of twenty Scottish ladies will return to the United States. We have requested approval from the Granite Board to host this Tour in 2011. The Board has approved the request. While the Tour plans have only just been started, it is currently the hope that this group will travel to Seattle to play in our club, against our women, in addition to Portland and San Francisco and we will host the Closing Banquet here in Seattle. It will be the first time that a Scot Tour Team has traveled to Seattle.
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2008 Pacific Int’l. Cup
By | March 8, 2008
Team Markowski will represent California in the annual Pacific International Cup in British Columbia, Canada.
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Spring Curling
By | February 11, 2008
Spring session website is now LIVE.
League coordinator: Marko
By Dave Holt Marko and I have negotiated with the Ice Rink to have a smaller spring curling season that we can participate in before the other rink goes out of commission in late April. The cost for this 6 week season would be $110 and would cover the dates listed below. I need to know who is interested in this as it will be the last curling on WCC ice until the CRUSH. Please let me know who is interested and I will book it with the Rink.
Feb 22nd Learn To Curl
Feb 29th Break NO Curling
Mar 7th Open Curling
Mar 14th Open Curling
Mar 21st Open Curling
Mar 28th Open Curling
Apr 4th Open Curling
Apr 11th Open Curling
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Learn To Curl
By | February 11, 2008
Friday, Feb 22nd 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Learn To Curl (2.0 hours)
Wine Country Curling Club of Northern California is offering Learn-to-Curl clinic for first time curlers on Friday, February 22, 2008 8:00-10 pm at Vacaville Ice Sports Arena. Curling instructions will cover fundamentals of delivery, sweeping, rules of the game and safety on ice. The clinic will be run by USCA certified instructors, and will include a short video followed by ice instructions and shortened game.
Clinics cost $10 for. No reservation required. Interested individuals should bring warm, loose-fitting clothes and clean sneakers or rubber-soled shoes. All other equipments will be provided.
The Vacaville Ice Sports arena features five permanently painted curling rinks and recently hosted the first ever California curling tournament, The Crush Bonspiel, featuring teams from US and Canada including US National Men’s Team. The ice rink is located at 551 Davis Street, Vacaville. Telephone 707-374-3920. For further info email winecountrycurling@gmail.com or visit winecountrycurling.org, usacurl.org and vacavilleicesports.com
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MoPac Club Championships
By | January 14, 2008
by Dave Holt
I just wanted to share with you the results of the club championships that Team Markowski attended in Seattle. There were 5 teams from Mopac so there was a 4 game round robin with a 2 game playoff if required. Team Markowski started off the playdowns with a very impressive win 7-4 over a team from Idaho. The second game came against the defending MOPAC champions out of OREGON, this was a very competitive game that went back and forth and team Markowski tied it up at 6-6 with a nice 3 ender in the 6th end, we ended up losing the game 9-7 as they ran us out of rocks.
The third game was against a team from Arizona which was a very close game and was back and forth and in the end we lost that game 6-5. The fourth game against a team from San Jose we won 12-4. So end result we finished the competition with a 2-2 record which was good enough for 3rd place, the games were extremely competitive and you could not afford many mistakes. The ice was very consistent and had very nice curl which led to some excellent shots being made.
Overall this was a very good learning experience for our team and would recommend this level of competition to anyone who likes a challenge, and more importantly we showed the curling community that we have some great curlers in California.
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