From April 26-28, we welcomed 26 teams to our Open Doubles Spiel. Congratulations to our event winners, who all hailed from Granite Curling Club!
Champions: Chris Bond and Cristin Clark
Runner-Ups: Luc Violette and Kyla Pritzl
B Winners: Margee Will and Adam Seymour
C Winners: Sam O'Mullane and Carl Hartung
Kevin Neumann, Anna Jensen, Zach Kehres, and Karen Juhl won the Evergreen CC's 5-And-Under Qualifier, which secured them a spot in Nationals. Matt McLaughlin, Suzanne McLaughlin, Sonja Wesche,and Thorsten Frank secured their Nationals slot in the PNWCA 5-And-Under Qualifier, and they've since picked up Will Dimmit as their 5th. Both teams will represent GCC at the USA Curling's 5-And-Under Nationals from April 24-28, 2024 in Chaska, MN.
From April 20-27, three Granite Curling Club members will compete in the World Curling Senior National Championships in Östersund, Sweden.
Darren Lehto joined Team Farbelow, the USA Senior National Champions, to represent USA again on the world stage. Chad Johnson was asked to represent the Nigeria Curling Federation. He looks forward to representing his ancestral land as well as promote curling to a group of people who are underrepresented. Peter Garbes is curling with Team Philippines. This marks the historic debut of a Philippine team at a Senior Worlds event. Good curling to all three teams! Learn more about the event and view line scores on WCF's website.
From April 4-7, we hosted our April Spiel - Off to the Races. Congratulations to our winners!
Champions: And Away They Go from Granite CC and Victoria CC (Ryan Sykes, Madisson Lank, Nick Coleman, Glen Allen)
B Event Winner: Team Picanté from Vancouver CC (Stephan Funk, Randall Noble, Chad Findlay, Barry Trischuk)
C Event Winner: They're Pulling Ahead from Peace Arch CC (Chris Harrison, Simon Potts, Joel Macdonald, John Reeves)
D Event Winner: Tails of WHOA! WHOA! from Granite CC (Liam Barksdale, John Rasmussen, William Rugen, Lisa Rugen)
Cory Yalowicki, Shelby Williams, Jordan Williams, and Aryn Grause won the PNWCA Mixed Playdown hosted by Evergreen Curling Club in January. They are representing the region at USA Curling Mixed Nationals from April 10-14 at Denver Curling Club.
Spring League is just around the corner. We run a variety of spring programming which starts the week of April 8th and continues to the week of June 17th. Be aware that leagues do fill, and managers can also choose to waitlist early to ensure full teams. Register as soon as you can!
You will need a GCC account to register! To do that, see the bottom of the Membership page . This page includes LOTS of helpful information, including a link to fees. Descriptions are on the Leagues page. Email the Leagues Coordinator if you need help with choosing one!
On March 2-3, we hosted our 5 & Under Bonspiel - Games of Stones. We had 60 curlers participate in this 4-end game, two-day event. Congratulations to the winners!
Pool A Winner: House Lannister - John Massman, Raven MacDaniels, Carolyn Beranek, Cole Kopca [Coach Steven Corcoran]
Pool B Winner: House Targaryen - Kristen Lee, Andrew Parrish, Micah Jenkins, Mike Williams [Coach Sam Sparks]
Pool C Co-Winner: BAWGOT - Amanda Willey, Cheryl Crandall, Cyndi Parrish, Emily Kopca [Coach Katie Kauffman]
Pool C Co-Winner: House Greyjoy - Miyoko Baensch, Jesse Landers, Chris Riley, Peter Garbes [Coach Suzannah Klaniecki]
At the Senior Women's National Championship, Lisa Rauliuk, Lori Markham, Jiyoung Lee, and a curler from the east coast finished the round robin tied for second place with a 5-2 record. They ended the event with a 4th place finish, a strong showing for GCC.
Shannon Brown, Kaitie Kovach, Karen Dunkerley, Alex Chow, and Anna Jensen won the PNWCA playdown hosted at GCC for a slot at the Women's Club Nationals in Fargo, ND. Team Schaak from Evergreen CC won the Men's division.
From the athletes to the ice crew, we are beyond proud of all the current and past Granite Curling Club members who participated in USA Curling's National Championships from January 29th to February 4th in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Colin Hufman (Team Shuster) - Gold Medalist
Luc Violette and Ben Richardson (Team Casper) - Bronze Medalists
Nick Connolly and Chris Bond (Team Connolly)
Dave Leinweber (National Ice Crew)
