Green Mountain Curling Club

The Vermont Hat-spiel

Green Mountain Curling Club

Invites you to

The Vermont Hat-spiel

August 16, 2008

 

The ice has just been laid.  Hockey camp ends on Friday.  Curling starts on Saturday.  This is as good as it gets.

Arena Curling: Curl it if you can!

• 64 person maximum, open to all experience levels looking for fun

• Curlers sign up as individuals by preferred positions

• Teams are drawn out of a hat

• $25 per person fee includes two games and bbq dinner*

• Draws scheduled for 10:00, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45

• Great opportunity for experienced players to share their knowledge

• Curl with a diverse group of people from around the region

• Come for the day, stay for the weekend

(*There is no bar service, but bring your own beer or wine is allowed)

 

CREW Arena is located in Morrisville, Vermont.  This is located in the heart of the Green Mountains, just north of Stowe, and about 50-60 minutes from Burlington.   There is no end to the different activities in the area, which include hiking, antiquing, and visiting the Ben & Jerry’s factory to name a few.

 

If you are interested in having a great time, with a little summer curling sprinkled in, please send an email to curlvt@gmail.com. Include name, club, years experience, preferred positions, and a contact phone number.  The reply will be confirmation with an address for sending the registration fee.   For additional questions, email or contact Scot at (802) 238-9331.

Thank you for a second successful season of curling on Vermont!

THANK YOU all for helping make this second season of curling in Vermont such a great success!  With our final potluck and games on Friday, February 22nd, we closed out our second season of curling in Morrisville. We had a very successful season that saw growth in our own membership and also the launch of two new curling efforts in Woodstock and Rutland.  This year we also increased our fielding of GMCC teams to various bonspiels, sent a team up to Bedford Curling Club in Quebec on Friday nights, sent another team up to Lacolle Curling Club in Quebec on a regular basis and all in all increased the activity of curlers in Vermont!

While our curling in Morrisville is over for the season, we do still have a few more games going on at curling clubs up in Quebec. Why not consider joining the GMCC so that you'll get invited to those events?

Meanwhile, keep watching this site to find out how you can join in our third year of curling in Vermont starting this fall!

Green Mountain Curling Club Results - 2/16/08

Please post the following results in the Scoreboard section of the Free Press:

League Curling
Game 1: Vogelsang(3-1) 9 - Sitko(3-2)     8

Member Curling 8:00 am

Game 1: T.Smith        9 - Doble         4

Game 2: Orr               8 - Frank         8

Member Curling 10:00 am

Game 1: Orr               9 - Cogen        8

Game 2: Isaacson     11 - Sitko          10

Game 3: Vogelsang   11 - DeHond      3

No curling on this Saturday, February 9th

Something incredible is happening this weekend. We are sending 4 GMCC teams off to bonspiels throughout the region! We are incredibly thrilled to see this happen and wish our teams all the best. The unfortunate side effect of this is that we will have to cancel our regular curling on Saturday, February 9th. We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday, February 16th! Good curling!

Status of GMCC curling tomorrow (2/2) in light of the weather

Given that we are getting mixtures of snow, sleet, ice and freezing rain right now, we've decided to cancel the 8:00am draw tomorrow morning so that there will be more time in the morning for roads to be cleared before folks head to Morrisville. Here is the word from Thomas about the 10am and LTC clinic:

The 10:00am draw and the Learn-to-Curl clinic will take place as planned. We have a full line-up for 10:00am and have now a wait list. So if you are signed up for 10:00am and can’t make it, please cancel by 8:00am so that I can notify someone else.

For all of you who do head to Morrisville tomorrow for curling, we do hope you have a safe drive.

Green Mountain Curling Club Results - 1/19/08

Member Curling 8:00am
Game 1: Sitko          7 - Doble        3
Game 2: S. Allen      8 -  Rose          8

Member Curling 10:00am
Game 1: Rose            8 - Cogen      6
Game 3: Isaacson       7 - Sitko       5

Green Mountain Curling Club Results - 1/5/07

Member Curling 8:00am
Game 1: Orr             6 - Rose          6
Game 2: S. Allen      3 - Vogelsang  5

Member Curling 10:00am
Game 1: Rose            7 - Dollinger       6
Game 3: Voglesang    7 - Orr               4

Final Learn To Curl Clinic of the season - Feb 2, 2008

The GMCC is pleased to announce our final "Learn To Curl" clinic of the season to be held on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, at the LARC  arena in Morrisville, VT.  It will start at 9:00am and last about 3 hours.  You will learn the basics of throwing the stones, sweeping and generally playing the game.  The cost is $25 unless you have joined as a member, in which case it is included in your membership fee. Note that if you would like to just try out the sport, you can pay for the LTC clinic and then have that fee applied toward your membership fee if you decide to join later.

If you are would like to attend, please send an email to greenmountaincurlingclub@gmail.com so that we can get an idea of how many people are coming.  For information about how to get to the CREW arena and what clothing and shoes to wear, please see our Learn To Curl page.

Note that this will be our final Learn To Curl clinic for the 2007-2008 curling season. Our next clinics will be in the fall at the start of the 2008-2009 season.

New benefit to GMCC membership! A free subscription to CurlTV!

We were pleased to learn recently that the US Curling Association announced an agreement with CurlTV to provide a free subscription to every USCA member as part of their USCA dues. Given that when you join the Green Mountain Curling Club part of your GMCC membership fee goes to pay USCA dues, this CurlTV relationship is now available to GMCC members.

So what is CurlTV? Well, if you go to CurlTV.com you can watch curling games over the Internet on your PC. As the USCA news release says:

The CurlTV.com subscriptions - which will now be included with every USCA membership - will give U.S. curlers direct access to exclusive live coverage of curling events in North America and Europe that are otherwise not available on commercial television networks. The subscriptions also will give U.S. curlers 24/7 on-demand access to a huge library of more than 400 previously-recorded curling events from the past three years.

CurlTV.com programming also includes game analysis by world champion curler (and CurlTV.com president) David Nedohin, as well as player tips, skills development tools and educational resources. The retail value of a CurlTV.com annual subscription is normally $59.95.

If you are currently a GMCC member you will have received information from Rich indicating that he'll soon be distributing the relevant access codes. If you aren't a GMCC member, why not join now? In addition to playing in curling games and helping the growth of curling in Vermont, there's now lots of great curling you'll be able to watch on CurlTV!

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GMCC launches "Adopt A Rock" Program! Your chance to be part of GMCC history!

Over the summer, we took delivery on a brand new set of curling stones, fresh from their quarry in Scotland!  Anyone who has played with the stones this season knows that they are outstanding and a great addition to GMCC curling.  Since we obviously need to pay for these stones, we've embarked on an "Adopt A Rock" program that is common with many curling clubs where the handles will be engraved with the names and messages of sponsors.

This is your chance to be part of GMCC history!

There are only 16 stones - and already several have been claimed!  If you would like you - or your business - to be listed as a sponsor on this first set of curling stones in Vermont, please visit our Adopt A Rock page and download the pledge form now!