GRAND NATIONAL CLUB INSIDE 2 Curling in the Bronx 3 Message from the President 4 GNCC Club Updates 9 Free Curling Software The Official Newsletter of the GNCC March 2014 | Vol. 25, No. 3 News 10 Curling Lands at Plymouth 11 GNCC Mixed Championships GNCC Spring Meeting 12 GNCC at USCA Nationals submitted by Sally MacKenzie

Set for May 16–18, the GNCC Annual Blocks of rooms are being held at the Also inside: GNCC Annual Meeting enrollment materials Spring Meeting will be held at the Dolce Dolce Hotel & Resort. Dolce is only 45 Resort & Hotel in Norwalk . minutes from City, 15 minutes All of the information for enrollment is from Stamford, and 25 minutes from included in this newsletter and can also be Westchester County Airport. Dolce offers GNCC Well-Represented found on the GNCC website. guests an idyllic retreat nestled on 66 at USCA Nationals Friday, May 16th, will feature golf during acres of rolling hills, lush meadows, the day, followed by the GNCC Quoits peaceful woods, and 120 guest rooms Congratulations go out to all 16 Competition and a President’s Reception with meeting and catering facilities on curlers who represented various in the evening, all held at the Dolce Resort site. Complimentary Internet service, GNCC clubs at the 2014 USCA & Hotel. restaurant, bar and National Championship, held in lounge, fitness center, Aston, PA. In addition to the hard On Saturday, May 17th, indoor pool, and work of the athletes, many GNCC we will have guest speaker , racquetball, volunteers worked diligently to ensure Danny Lamourex, who , billiards, and a successful event. To read more, see is the Director of Curing tennis courts are also all page 12. Club Development & available. Championship Services for the Canadian Curling The rooms that are Association. Danny will reserved for the meeting be discussing the hot are available with two topics of how to increase double beds or one king at the nightly rate of $109 plus 2014 Olympics are participation of volunteers, how to a Boon to Curling enhance the curling experience for new tax. To book your room, a customized link has been created for the GNCC curlers, successful board governance, and Clubs all over the GNCC have been (https://resweb.passkey.com/ how to give superior customer service experiencing enormous success Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_ to your members. Everyone is invited to through various Winter Olympics- new&eventID=11188314). You can also attend, and we encourage clubs to send related events, such as learn-to-curl reserve your room by calling the hotel as many members you want. Saturday sessions, mini-leagues, and more. directly at 877-813-4153. Mention the evening’s banquet dinner will feature a New clubs and dedicated facilities are GNCC to obtain the group discounted rate. buffet of chicken, beef, and vegetarian popping up throughout our region, All Rooms must be booked before the entrees, a salad bar, soup, potato/rice, and membership is growing. See cutoff date of May 2, 2014. vegetables, and gluten free choices. pages 4 through 9 for updates from On Sunday, May 18th, the GNCC General We are looking forward to seeing you at several clubs. Meeting will be held from 9:30 AM until Dolce Hotel & Resort in May! 3:30 PM. The Bronx is Sweeping Up adapted from NY Daily News and nhl.com

Future Olympians might have better luck going for the gold when the Bronx becomes home to the city’s first indoor curling rink. The borough will welcome the only year-round indoor ice curling facility on the East Coast, as part of the recently approved Kingsbridge National Ice Center, officials said. “We feel there is a great opportunity to grow the of curling in our area,” legend Mark Messier, CEO of the Kingsbridge National Ice Center, told The News. “We will be a state-of-the-art curling facility, and everything we need to make it that,” added Messier, who claims to follow the sport, which is reminiscent of shuffleboard but played on ice. “Kingsbridge will deliver.” “I think it’s going to be the cornerstone of curling development in the United States,” said Dean Roth, of CURLNYC, a partnership between KNIC Partners, the ice center’s developer, and the curlers, Granite & Ice Inc. “We anticipate having 2,000 curlers in the Bronx.” There are 11 official curling clubs in New York state, including the Long Island group and the Ardsley Curling Club in Westchester. Only six of the clubs have “dedicated ice,” a facility with ice that is only used for curling. There is currently only one other 12-month ice curling facility in the U.S. — The Four Seasons Curling Club at the Ice House in Blaine, Minn. Once completed, in 2017, the nine-rink Kingsbridge National Ice Center will be the largest ice- facility in North America.

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It has been a very To end the season, the GNCC Annual President Sally MacKenzie exciting curling Meeting will be taking place May 16–18 1st Vice President Chris Banino season for the GNCC. in Norwalk, CT. Everyone is invited to 2nd Vice President Dan Boerger We had over 89 hear our guest speaker on Saturday May Secretary Joel Leneker teams play in the 17th. This will be an exciting workshop Treasurer Gwen Krailo-Lyons 5-year and under focusing on how to recruit volunteers, events this year, 16 curlers represented provide club members the best customer Immediate Past President at the Men’s and Women’s Nationals, service, offer advanced learn-to-curl Dick Macartney and an overwhelming amount of programs for your new members, and At Large Directors George Shirk, prospective curlers come out to try run a successful board of governance at Maryann Vermeulen, Marj Moore curling at the Olympic open houses your club. More information is included offered by many in this newsletter, including how to GNCC News is published by the of our clubs. enroll and book your hotel room. Grand National Curling Club of The season has gone quickly and before The curling never completely stops in America, Inc. The newsletter is we know it, most of us will be pulling the GNCC. Many of the arena clubs will distributed free to members of the the plug and melting the ice. I would be curling throughout the summer, Grand National Curling Club. The like to take this opportunity to thank and there are some exciting summer annual subscription rate for non- the many volunteers at every club. bonspiels you can attend in addition to members is $10.00 (US). Advertising Without volunteers, the clubs would the GNCC Arena Club championships rates are available upon request. not exist. I would also like to thank the being held at Mount Washington Valley clubs who have hosted GNCC events and Curling Club in Conway, NH, in June. All correspondence should be sent to: GNCC Curling News playdowns. We really appreciate the time I wish everyone a safe and fun summer! your clubs have dedicated to our events. 46 Ledgewood Drive See you out on the ice next season! Norwalk CT 06850

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Contributors Sally MacKenzie, Howard Griffin, Diane Pouliot, Lori Dunnam, Frank Balas, Flo Sprinstead, David Hamilton, Dixon Freeman, Jacki Temple, Jay Flanders, Pete Morelewicz, Patrick Kittle, Pete Ellis, Rachel Howell

The official Equipment Supplier of the GNCC Master Webmaster(s) GNCC Club Updates Needed for the GNCC Website Equinox Curling Club by Diane Pouliot, President We are currently seeking someone with experience in Content Management The ECC of Manchester, VT, had a wonderfully surprised to have been System software (such as Joomla) who wonderful but brief curling season. Every contacted by the Berkshire Bank in town wants to work on a feature-rich website time we met, we offered a learn-to-curl to have an Olympic sport, specifically (trust me, there’s far more behind the session, and over the course of the winter curling, displayed at their main branch scenes than the average user sees). season, we held 14 sessions at regular throughout the Olympics. The Northshire curling times. bookstore, the oldest independent A lot of work is involved regarding bookstore in New England, allowed us to mailing lists, membership data, and We hosted 3 Open House/ Introduction to Curling 101 sessions during the have a booth in their lobby and provided event calendars. Contact Rob LeVine, several curling books for purchase. [email protected] if you Olympic season and garnered over 75 are interested or know someone who is. guests who took part. Our mission was to We were also recognized in the Equinox educate and advance the sport of curling Hotel Activities Magazine, which in our town and throughout the state. highlighted all the Olympic sports that We approached our local high school to one can experience in Vermont. Land bring the sport of curling into their Life Rover N/A held its wintertime conference Activities class which focused on Olympic here in Manchester during the Olympics Sports. Students and sports faculty and contacted us from the ads they had participated in a specially designed seen at the Equinox and in the news, workshop to learn the rules, history, leading us to custom design a team etiquette, and sportsmanship of the building learn-to-curl for them. Twenty game. More than 30 members of Burr of their executives had a wonderful time and Burton High School spent a week learning and playing the game. in classroom time and then two 2-hour The success of each of our events was sessions on the ice to bring this together. directly a result of the ECC members. The student body represented not only Many of them took the time to teach Manchester residents but also from their these sessions during their own home countries of Germany, England, curling times. It is the dedication of the and Jamaica. members to the sport and their love of Our sessions were well advertised. We the game that was imparted to each submitted articles with photos to every guest who curled with the ECC during major local and state wide newspaper, these Olympic days. Members posted and we contacted the State of Vermont scores and highlights, training tips, and Department of Tourism, including the general information regarding the game, Executive Director, with information on their own Facebook pages, as well as regarding the sport and an invite to come on the web page of the club. to learn and play. Working with our local We sent numerous posts to any site that Chamber of Commerce team here in would advertise an event. We also put up Manchester, we also became part of the posters all over the Bennington County “Manchester Merriment” program, which area and sent our notice of sessions started last November and ran until the to the NBC Gold Map. Additionally, first of January. our local TV station ran public service We set up a booth at the Manchester announcements for us. Street Festival this past fall, and we were Philadelphia Curling Club by Lori Dunnam

The Philadelphia Curling Club has had great success this year with its junior program and its graduates. Head coach Wayne Anderson has invested over 20 years in building a strong core of junior curlers and coaches. Four of his daughters (Sarah Anderson, Courtney Anderson Slata, Taylor Anderson, and Emily Anderson) won a berth at the Women’s Nationals in Aston, PA, this year and finished their week in 6th place. Philadelphia also had success at the GNCC Junior Playdowns at The Country Club in Boston this past December. The boys’ rink of Daniel Dudt, Cody Clouser, Phil Mack, and Andrew Dudt took the championship trophy home, and the second place rink of Scott Dunnam, Andrew Stopera (Ardsley), Steven Szemple (Plainfield), and Andrew Dunnam also qualified for Junior Nationals. On the girls’ side over at Broomstones, Sarah and Taylor Anderson along with teammates Kathleen and Leilani Dubberstein (Wisconsin) won the GNCC Junior Championship, and qualified for Junior Nationals as well. At Junior Nationals in Seattle in late January, our teams continued to make us proud. After an exciting week of play and many impressive games, the Dunnam rink took home the boys’ silver medal, and the Dudt rink finished sixth in the field of ten teams. On the junior girls side, the Anderson rink won the silver medal. The second GNCC girls’ team (Christine McMakin of Potomac, Jenna Burchesky of Broomstones, Allison Howell of Plainfield, and Lily Wadsworth of Broomstones) finished the week in sixth place and is looking strong for the future as well.

Cape Cod Curling Club Albany Curling Club by Frank Balas by Flo Springstead

We have a very successful 10-week Our Open House went very well, with Introduction to Curling membership over 400 visitors who tried curling. Many program that we run twice a year (fall & signed up for our upcoming Olympic winter), and it has been oversubscribed League which will be a 4-week league for the past several years. We keep a cap occurring on Sundays, at a cost of of 24 to 28 participants in each session $100.00 to join. Our hope is that many and do not have the ability to expand of these new curlers will fall in love with the program. Therefore, other than the sport and decide to join in the fall, encouraging people to drop by the club boosting membership and helping our during league play to watch, we have club continue to grow. elected not to hold any open houses this time around. We have leagues going 5 days a week (12 draws), the club is busy almost every weekend, and we have day curling Monday through Thursday. GNCC Club Updates continued

Triangle Curling Club by David Hamilton

The Triangle Curling Club of North Carolina is building a dedicated curling facility in Durham. The club is contracting with Accu-Steel, Inc. of Raleigh, NC and Everything Ice, Inc. of Salix, PA, to build a nearly 15,000 square foot facility housing four sheets of curling ice with a warm room and locker rooms. Plumbing for the warming kitchen and beverage center will also be roughed in for future development. The new building will be located at the northern tip of Research Triangle Park, which is just minutes from Raleigh-Durham International Airport and centrally located to the residents of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The club is hosting a ground-breaking ceremony on March 29, and the target date for opening the club for curling is mid- October. Triangle looks forward to hosting GNCC members at its bonspiels beginning this fall. Membership growth is a key element for opening and maintaining the new facility. To that end, the Olympics influence was a good success. Triangle attracted 304 participants at 3 open houses held just after the Olympics. Additionally, 260 people have already prepaid for 2-hour learn-to-curl sessions being held through April. Eighty-six of those sign-ups were people who first attended one of the 3 open houses. The club, which curls 2 nights per week, dedicated all of its sessions through the spring to learn-to-curls and pickup games for new member development. The club’s is to double in size going into the new building.

Pittsburgh Curling Club by Jacki Temple

Pittsburgh continues to function with the event, they cancelled Schenley’s only one draw per week, while we public skate sessions for that day in persevere with fundraising for our order to give us adequate time to hold own dedicated facility. Despite limited a worthwhile event. To boost publicity, available ice time, we got creative and we sent out press and photo opportunity managed to introduce over 600 people releases to the local news media. Every to curling during our various Olympic major TV news outlet, as well as our events. In addition to holding several local public radio station and both late-night sessions during our late-night newspapers, came out to do stories “vampire” league, we taught Pittsburgh about curling in Pittsburgh. Citiparks Penguins business partners at the Consol further helped us to promote the event Energy Center, we demonstrated curling by emailing the entire city staff, posting at the Highmark Blue Cross Blue shield about it on the city’s, the Citiparks, the headquarters, and we partnered with Mayor’s websites, and tweeting about Pittsburgh’s Citiparks program to host a it. They also printed flyers, programs, learn-to-curl at Schenley Park’s outdoor posters, etc., utilizing their own print rink. resources, saving our club a lot of money. As far as anyone recalls, it’s the first We are grateful to Citiparks and we’re time curling has occurred at Schenley. already looking forward to planning Citiparks was so excited to help us with another event with them next year. Atlanta Curling Club by Dixon Freeman

The Atlanta Curling Club faced a challenging and exciting year in 2013, three years removed from the previous Olympics and the club’s founding, beginning with our first full league of six organized teams and ongoing open curling (pick-up and learn-to-curl) events on non-league nights. Membership had reached a low, but participation by the active members was extremely high. After a successful league season, we went into the summer with limited ice time at our arena on the main hockey sheet. We saw this as an opportunity to learn about this larger sheet, including ice prep requirements and conditions, in a way that would serve us well for larger future events, including bonspiels. Summer conditions in the Deep South can be challenging for high-quality curling ice, but we were able to maintain interest through a series of on-ice events. Many of our members participated in a variety of summer bonspiels in NC and TN, and we were able to field a team in the GNCC Arena Club Championships in July at Bucks County Curling Club. Plans were made for the fall season to begin with learn-to-curl and open events, funneling into a Fall League that concluded in early December. A short Pre- Olympic Winter League (“OWL”) was conducted in January, with regular league play in February shut down in favor of Open House and Learn-to-curl events. Significant media coverage preceding and coinciding with the Olympics, including coverage from the NBC affiliates in Atlanta and Savannah and CNN, as well as a demonstration event in Centennial Olympic Park downtown in conjunction with Olympic sponsor Avaya, proved a tremendous boost to publicity. Thanks the support of our facility, the Marietta Ice Center, we were able to have 4 Open Houses and 7 learn-to-curls in February. Total attendance equaled 210 for the learn-to-curls (all sell-outs) and 539 for the Open Houses. We also had 2 private/corporate events with a total attendance of 50, meaning we brought nearly 800 new potential curlers through our club in that one month! This yielded 55 new members thus far, bringing our total membership to 89, and providing us with two full 40-person leagues and an eager list of substitutes to draw from when needed. Clearly, we are in our strongest position since our founding, and are looking to continue our momentum toward being able to make plans for a dedicated facility in the future. We will continue to strive to help curling grow in Atlanta and the South. GNCC Club Updates continued

Woodstock Curling Club by Jay Flanders

To kick off the Olympics, Woodstock was invited to be a part of Lake Morey’s Ice Sports University weekend. Guests enrolled for the weekend of January 24, 2014, and earned their “diploma” in the following “majors”: Pond Hockey, Curling, Ice Fishing, or Nordic Skating. “Minors” included Snow Shoeing and Cross Country Skiing. While club members were setting up equipment on Friday, Jack Thurston from WPTZ interviewed and filmed the group. See the great clip here: http://goo.gl/2V1pfZ. Several members from the WCC acted as Professors and Assistant Professors, teaching 1-hour learn-to-curl sessions. It was a very successful day of three sessions of 20 guests each. Learning on pond ice was very different than arena ice, but guests were enthusiastic and loved the experience of delivering and sweeping stones. For the final “exam” we had 16 guests sign up for a 1-hour game, despite snow falling quickly. Professors assisted teams with skipping advice while Assistant Professors were busy clearing snow off the pond surface! To continue the Olympic fever, Lake Morey Resort asked WCC to put together a Pondspiel for the weekend of February 14, 2014. Sixteen teams participated over the 3-day tournament and enjoyed the experience of curling on pond ice. We encountered some snowy weather throughout the weekend, but everyone took it in stride and enjoyed themselves at the beautiful Resort.

Potomac Curling Club by Pete Morelewicz

Potomac Curling Club welcomed over 800 guests during our public Open Houses and learn-to-curl sessions in February. The tremendous turnout was fueled by a coordinated media outreach and a heavy barrage of Tweets and Facebook posts. In advance of the Olympics, Potomac invited a slew of media outlets to promote our sport. Potomac was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, CNN, Comcast SportsNet, NBC and Fox affiliates from both Washington and Baltimore, the Washington Post, Washington Times, USAToday, various radio stations in Washington and Baltimore, plus an eight-ender worth of smaller local outlets. Many of our members were featured on TV and radio, and visitors coming to the club even recognized a few of them. The interest we generated for our public events was able to fill up all 72 spots in our “Curling 101” program, a comprehensive 7-week introduction to the game. Through Facebook and Twitter, we were able to reach out directly and answer questions. One particularly popular set of postings was our “curling term” series, in which we encouraged followers to share promos we created using fictitious curling terms. To see some of the coverage we received -- including a particularly viral animated gif of member Joe “Tony” Rockenbach -- visit http://www.curldc.org/our-club/press-clips/ Special thanks to Cathy Ritter and Pete Morelewicz, who coordinated the media outreach, and Laura Barrantes and Jacqui Beres, our social media mavens. Follow us at @curldc or www.facebook.com/potomaccurlingclub. Free Curling Software submitted by Howard Griffin

Mount Washington Valley Curling Club Over the past several years, the by Patrick Kittle Potomac Curling Club has developed We had a very successful Olympic Curling Experience. We had 115 people pre- custom written software to help register and pay online, and another 33 people walked in the day of the event, for manage our volunteer opportunities, a total of 148 participants. Six 45-minute sessions were held, with 15 minutes of open house crowds (huge crowds dry land instruction followed by 30 minutes on the ice delivering stones. We had are expected in February 2014), and 6 teaching stations to accommodate 30 people per session, although at the height other smaller event reservations. In of activity, we overloaded several stations without any problems. After each group 2012 the Chesapeake Curling Club finished their 30 minutes of stone delivery instruction and practice, we moved asked if I knew of a timer to help keep them to a full sheet where each person got one chance to deliver a stone the full friendly games and bonspiels moving length of the ice. Anyone with a stone in play got a $10 coupon towards our 3-week forward in a timely manner. I didn’t instructional league; a stone in the house got a free t-shirt, and biting the button know of one so a simple game timer got instructional league dues paid for by the club. Three bit the button, 15 got free application was developed to keep t-shirts, and many won the coupon. After the full sheet delivery, participants were friendly games and bonspiels moving welcomed into the warm room where we had cookies, hot chocolate, coffee, and along. A “virtual” strategy board other treats, and we sold shirts, hats, pins, and bumper stickers. We used this as our suitable for video projections for larger opportunity to answer questions about the instructional league and other general crowds was also developed. curling questions. Twenty-three new curlers signed up for the instructional league as All of the software developed by a result of our efforts, which will increase our club by 1/3 if they all return in the fall. the PCC is available to any club We put up posters advertising the event about a month prior to the date; our local or organization, absolutely free radio station donated public service radio spots for the two weeks leading up to the of charge. Point your favorite web event; we had two articles published in our local paper; we paid for a small banner browser to howardgriffin.org, try ad on the front page of the same paper, which ran two days before the event; a mass the applications out online, and then email was sent to over 2500 customers of a local business promoting the event about download any that you wish to use. a month in advance; and our local public access TV station ran some promo spots for us the week prior to the event. We chose not to teach anything about sweeping, or even handle orientation and turn. Instead, we focused solely on getting everyone as many chances to deliver a stone and be successful doing that. At our first night of the instructional league, the first hour was spent on the more traditional learn-to-curl syllabus, with sweeping, the four-step delivery, handle orientation, and game play details. The second hour was devoted to playing a shortened game. The last two nights of the instructional league will be simply game play; we have club volunteers that have been seeded among the new curlers to help coach and mentor them throughout the games. GNCC Represents at USCA Nationals by Sally MacKenzie

The GNCC was proud to have 16 curlers compete at the Men’s and Women’s Nationals in Aston, PA, at the Iceworks facility. Sponsoring a booth throughout the week, advertising information about our clubs, and selling GNCC pins, mittens, and T-shirts, we displayed a large map showing all of our clubs, which was very popular with the non-curling community interested in finding a club near their homes. We also displayed a large banner on the ice supporting our GNCC curlers. Many GNCC curlers also volunteered their time for officiating, ice crew, stats, learn-to- curl sessions, concession stands sales, and helping out at the GNCC booth. It was so great to see so many GNCC members out Photos by Jonathan Barbagallo there volunteering and watching the games throughout the week. (Norfolk Curling Club). Record-breaking ticket sales and sold-out Men’s and Women’s finals meant it was an exciting week, and we hope to see it come back to Pennsylvania in the future.

Proud Partners of the GNCC GNCC Mixed Championships by Rachel Howell Six teams representing 9 clubs competed in the 2014 GNCC Mixed Championship held February 6-9, 2014 at the Chesapeake Curling Club in Easton, MD. A single round robin was used, and there were no playoffs or tiebreakers needed. One slot to USCA Mixed Nationals was granted this year. The winners were the Stefanik rink (skip Michael Stefanik, vice Andrea Warr, second Dion Warr, and lead Lisa Nieradka) all from Schenectady Curling Club. At press time, they are representing the GNCC at the Mixed Nationals in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, March 15- 22, 2014, and we wish them the best of luck. Chesapeake Curling Club did an excellent job hosting the GNCC Mixed playdowns. Having very little experience with this type of event did not seem to deter the on-site chair, Dick Bemis, from organizing, scheduling, and executing a well-run event. Located in a public ice facility, the area for the timers was accessible to the public which presented some challenges, but the timers and officials managed their roles well. Kim Belf and FL Ettlin, the officials, did a great job keeping the games fair, on time, and without incident, as well as educating some of the on-lookers. The Chesapeake ice maker did a terrific job creating competitive ice for the event. The hard work and sacrifice that Chesapeake Curling Club members and volunteers gave for the GNCC Mixed Championships was greatly appreciated, and it is hoped that Chesapeake will volunteer their time and ice again for another GNCC Championship as a host club. As a result of a fairly “green” team (myself included) coordinating this event, we are able to improve on our responsibilities and guidelines to aide future host sites in running a successful event. The field of participants supported the process fully, and it was a real pleasure to watch and socialize with them during the event. The site for next year’s GNCC Mixed Championship is yet to be determined. Curling Lands at Plymouth by Pete Ellis About seven years ago, March 17–24, they held Douglass Coffin, from “Curling Experience” and LTC the Belfast Curling Club, evenings, with league play ventured to Waterville starting on March 25th. The Valley, NH, to do a curling new leagues will curl in three demonstration for David separate sessions on Tuesdays, Gyger. In the ensuing years Saturdays and Sundays. David remembered the The first “Curling Experience” demo and how much fun he had 75 new curlers on hand had curling. with four members of the A little more than a year ago, Mount Washington Valley Kim Nawin, from the USCA, Curling Club teaching, assisted announced that David Gyger by the newly trained folks from was now the Manager of the Plymouth State University ice Plymouth. Everyone had a great time, and the new program is arena. Remembering the earlier demo, he thought he would well underway. like to include curling at his new arena. The lesson we learned from this is “Keep doing those demos. After a year of conversations, emails, and visits, curling came You never know how or when they will bear fruit.” to Plymouth, NH. On March 16th, Chris Pollock and I ventured to Plymouth to instruct the core group at the new facility.