COLLEGE CURLING Busy times continue for college curling By Gordon Maclean, Chairman, College Curling Committee
won the 2016 USA Curling College Championship logo design contest. Her bold use of color combined with elements of the Minneapolis/
St.Paul sky- line emphasize the event’s location in suburban Chaska. For her effort, the RIT Curling Club will receive six BalancePlus Com-
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posite brooms and a broom bag from USA Curling sponsor Brooms Up Curling Supplies of Woodbury, Conn. A big thank you to Gary and Megan Suslavich for your continuing support of college curling. In the area of fundraising, the college curlers at Yale were one of the
“Monthly Winners” in the Zipcar “Students with Drive” contest. Te awards are given each month in three categories – academics, student life and community service, and are based on an online voting process. Yale won in the “Student Life” category. Te students won $5,000 in Zipcar transportation credits. Rumor is that
support from the Nutmeg Curling Club played a significant role in the Yale Students winning this award. THANK YOU to Nutmeg Curling Club for your support of college curling in general and the Yale College curlers, spe- cifically. Te Yale College curlers are now in the running for the grand prize,
which will be awarded from all 18 monthly winner in May 2016. Te grand prize winner will receive $5,000 in transportation and $10,000 in cash, for the use and benefit of the spplicant student group, club or organization, and $10,000 for their school’s General Scholarship Fund. On ice, the college bonspiel season has just begun. Penn hosted its “Back
s the season starts to gear up, the College Curling Program has been busy on ice and off. Off ice, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Flannery Allison
to School ‘Spiel” on Oct. 24 at the Philadelphia Curling Club and won the event with a 4-0 record. Upcoming college bonspiels in
November include the RIT College Bonspiel (Rochester CC, N.Y.) and Wisconsin-Green Bay College Bon- spiel, and in December, the fiſth An- nual Rice Lake (Wis.) College Bon- spiel. Tere is a long way to go and a lot
of bonspiels to play through before the invitations to the top 16 schools are sent out in mid February. We would like to welcome new
schools participating for the first time: Haverford College (Philadelphia), Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.), and Wellesley College (Welles- ley, Mass.). Good curling to you all. Q
Busiest college curling weekend ever
By Gordon Maclean, Chairman, College Curling Committee
berth in the 2016 USA Curling College Championship, March 13-15, in Chaska, Minn. Congratulations go out to the following event winners: t Denver Curling Club College Bonspiel (hosted by Denver Univer- sity) won by the University of Nebraska.
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t University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Turkey Spiel won by Michi- gan Technological University.
t Broomstones Curling Club College Bonspiel (hosted by Boston University) won by the University of Pennsylvania.
Tanks go out to those curling clubs willing to support the efforts of the
college curlers. Full event results and current standings plus other impor- tant information on U.S. College Curling may be found at
www.collegecur-
lingusa.org. Q
he weekend of Nov. 6-8 was the busiest weekend ever. Twenty- eight teams from 20 schools participated in three events across the country, earning a total of more than 170 points toward a
Upcoming uswca- sponsored events
68th National Women’s Bonspiel Junior Bonspiels
5-year and Under Bonspiels All-American Bonspiels
Circuit Event Participating Bonspiels Scot Tour
Friendship Tour
Please go to
www.uswca.org for complete details
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