We had an incredibly fun and festive weekend with junior curlers from both GCC and Evergreen Curling Club participating in the 2-day 2022 Junior Spiel. The novice division was a combination of fun, wacky games and regular 6 end games, some of which were played with Literocks and some with regular stones, which the intermediate division played traditional 8 end games.
| Winners | Springing the Trap | Cory Yalowicki, David Booth, Chris Bond, Adam Seymour |
| Runners-up | PulpoPepePatoYJohn | Pato Rugen, Pepe Rugen, Pulpo (Bag o Nails) Barksdale, John Rasmussen |
| B winners | Nut Jam |
After an incredibly successful 2022 5 & Under Bonspiel, GCC bonspiels are back with even more fun to come this season!
Registration for 2022 Spring season is open through April 3rd. Once logged in, you can follow the link on the home page to register. The short list is Sunday Novice, Monday Night, Tuesday Open Doubles, Wednesday Night, Thursday Morning, Thursday Night, Friday Happy Hour, and Friday Night. See Leagues for descriptions and more info.
We hope you're enjoying curling during the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, but did you recognize some familiar faces out there? Both Sean Beighton, US Men's and Mixed Doubles coach, and Colin Huffman, US Men's Alternate, are current Seattle residents and GCC members representing our country with the rest of the fine athletes competing this year. Our club has hosted a lot of press recently to talk about their journey and feature some of our own members including:
Congratulations to Team Dimmit (Andy Karsnia, Will Dimmit, Kate Fox, and Margee Will) for winning the Pacific NW Mixed Championship. In the final, they defeated Team Argetsinger from Evergreen Curling Club in an extra end. There were five teams competing for the title, three from Evergreen, one from Inland Northwest Curling Club, and one from Granite.
Congratulations to both Team Sherry (Greg Schatzman, Chris Sherry, Jeffrey Bruce, Tim Eng) and Team Zheng (Andrew Bell, Wangzi Ge, Alexander Lee, Bowen Zheng, Coach: Chris Sherry) for winning their respective 2021-22 PNWCA Club Men's and U18 Championships!
Long Time Member Wendall Harness died recently after a battle with heart disease.
He and his wife Lois became members of Granite upon moving to Seattle in 1991 and remained members until 2017. They started curling at the Nutmeg club in Connecticut - where Wendall served as president.
They viewed the club as their place of pleasure and were very proud of the club. Wendall particularly loved events that involved curlers of all ages. They help take care of the house and worked with both school programs and outreach events.
Undeterred by snow or COVID, four Senior Men’s teams played a spirited round robin that left three teams tied. The rink skipped by Chris Hester then won two playoff games to claim the first ever Pacific Northwest Curling Association Senior Championship. Chris’s other team members were: Phil Shryock, Jeff Wick, and Richard Palmason. Thanks to Stu Beck, who chaired the event, Joe Roberts and June Fox, our officials/bartenders, and Dave Leinweber and Keith Freeland, who provided great championship ice.
GCC hosted another fabulous and festive Holiday Spiel this year thanks to the hard work of our bonspiel chair Kathy Justice, our GCC Ice Crew, and all the volunteers. The "Prosecc-ho-ho-hos" won the main event this year with "Rudolph's Rebels" winning the B event, the "Holly Rockers" winning the C event, and "Ice is nice" winning the D event. For full scores, team info, and some great photos, head to our Holiday Spiel event page.
