USWCA NEWS Madison rink wins USWCA Senior National Bonspiel By Karen Ronk, Bonspiel On-site Chair


Curling Club Nov. 19-23 in Green Bay, Wis. with a total of 24 teams from all across the United States participating. Te kit party was held Wednesday at a beauti-


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ful historic home in downtown Green Bay where the Captain’s Walk Winery hosted wine tastings. Games began early Tursday morning aſter the opening ceremony. Games continued Friday and the event banquet was held that night at the Hyatt Main. Te semifinals were played Saturday eve- ning and the finals wrapped up the event Sunday morning. Here are the results: 1EW–Madison (Wis.): Cindy Godar, Star Pfiffner, Kathy Bodine, and Linda Fonger


he theme for the 33rd Annual Senior Women’s Bonspiel was ‘A Wine Fest’. Te event was hosted by the Green Bay


1ERU–Kettle Moraine (Wis): Judy Maier,


Carol Stevenson, Phyllis (Flip) Flemming, and Mary Rasmussen 2EW–St. Paul Bonnie Spielers (Minn.): Mau-


reen Guay, Jean McCann, Judy Olsen, and Myke Rachu. 2ERU–Broomstones Ladies (Mass.): Gwen


Krailo-Lyons, Nancy Jennett, Jamie Hutchin- son, Carolyn MacLeod, and Laurie Walters. 3EW–Nutmeg (Conn.): Karen Luckey, Diane


Muldowney, Heather Getty, Elizabeth Falsetti. 3ERU–Mayfield (Ohio): Liz Novak, Dianne


Coolidge, Tracie Moore, and Dee Montgomery. 4EW–Racine (Wis.): Barb Vanderleest, Gail


Armstrong, Paula Kalke, and Sandy Anton- neau. 4ERU–Bowling Green (Ohio): Ruth Brown, Martha Mazzarella, Sharon Gargasz, and Mary


New faces dominate Circuit


By Elizabeth Demers, USWCA Circuit Committee


bonspiels add to the fun. Kristin Smith (skip) and Linda Even (vice)


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from Milwaukee (Wis.) Curling Club have teamed up to make their first year on the Circuit one to remember. Tey followed a First Event runner-up finish in the Kettle Moraine Fall Fling with wins at the Milwaukee Women’s and Chi- cago Gloamin’ Gaels’, to take a commanding lead in the points standings. Even said that she joined the Circuit “aſter a bit


of arm-twisting from Kristin.” She had not previ- ously given the Circuit much thought since she hadn’t been planning to play in many women’s events. However, “this season we won our way into our own club women’s bonspiel, giving us an extra Circuit opportunity,” Even said. Teir initial Circuit successes led to other women’s bonspiels. “We decided when we signed up to do the Fall


Fling that we should consider the Circuit since we were already signed up to be in the Milwau- kee Ladies Kiltie—which in turn snowballed us to sign up for Chicago,” Smith said. Tey are also


s the USWCA Circuit roars into the second half of the season, new faces dominate the leaderboard, and new


playing in the Badger, where they won the third event, and the USWCA National bonspiel, wom- en’s events that are not part of the Circuit. With a record 18 bonspiels on the Circuit this


year, across all regions, there are more oppor- tunities than ever to win money and prizes. As Smith said, “I would do it again! I enjoy the bon- spiel atmosphere and the Circuit gets me more excited to sign up. I believe it also helps bonspiels get new teams, as we did spiels this year that we hadn’t done before. I hope the Circuit continues and grows. We are having a great time!”n


Two more events added to Circuit schedule


Te Circuit organizers are thrilled to wel-


come two more Wisconsin bonspiels this winter. Appleton Curling Club hosted their second annual women’s Winter Wonderland bonspiel in mid-January, won by Circuit member Debbie Lange’s Chicago Curling Club rink. Te Green Bay Curling Club’s re- nowned Shamrock women’s invitational will join the Circuit for the first time March 13- 15. Welcome, and good curling!


Troughout the 2014-15 season we are honoring curlers reaching 70 years of age as the U.S. Curling News marks its 70th year. Tis edition, we honor John Hanson (above) of the Itasca Curling Club in Grand Rapids, Minn., who wrote in to tell us that he’s been curling for about 35 years. “Curling re- ally makes the winters fly by,” Hanson said. Are you turning 70 this season? Send an email to curl- ingnews@usacurl.org.


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Madison’s team of (l-r) Cindy Godar, Star Pfiffner, Kathy Bodine, and Linda Fonger won the USWCA Senior National Bonspiel in November.


Glowacki. For complete details go to: http://www.uswca. org/senior-womens-bonspiel-2014. n


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