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The Curling Club Utrecht is the second biggest curling club in the Netherlands. It is located in Utrecht and is home to the Praxis Hammerheads.
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The Curling Club Utrecht is the second biggest curling club in the Netherlands. It is located in Utrecht and is home to the Praxis Hammerheads.
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Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet toward the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends.
Football Club Utrecht is a Dutch professional football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion Galgenwaard.
A bonspiel is a curling tournament, consisting of several games, often held on a weekend. Until the 20th century most bonspiels were held outdoors, on a frozen freshwater loch. Today almost all bonspiels are held indoors on specially prepared artificial ice.
Reg Wiebe was a Dutch Canadian-born curler and curling coach from the Curling Club Utrecht. In a middle of 2000s he was a skip of the Dutch national team. Wiebe has played in six European Curling Championships, including a 10th-place finish in the 1999 Championships as a third for Wim Neeleman. Wiebe has skipped the Dutch team to three European championships. In 2002 they finished 12th, in 2005 they finished 19th, and in 2007 they finished 17th.
Stephanus Robert "Steven" van der Cammen is a Dutch curler from the Curling Club Utrecht. He is the current third on the Dutch national team.
Christiaan Offringa is a Dutch curler from the Curling Club Utrecht. He played lead for the Dutch Junior team at the 2001 and 2003 "B" World Junior Championships, finishing 7th both times on a team skipped by Mark Neeleman. Offringa made his European Curling Championships debut in 2005 when he played lead for Reg Wiebe's 19th place team. He returned to the European Championships in 2006, remaining at lead while Wiebe and Steve van der Cammen swapped at third and skip. They improved slightly, finishing in 17th place.
Reinier Butôt is a former Dutch curler from the Curling Club Utrecht. He was the lead of the Dutch national team. In 2001, 2002 and 2003 he played third for Mark Neeleman at the World Junior "B" Curling Championships. All three years they finished 7th. Butôt was also an alternate on two European Championships teams: 12th place for Reg Wiebe in 2002 and 13th place for Floris van Imhoff in 2003. At the 2004 European Championships, Butôt played lead for Erik van der Zwan and they finished 15th. At the 2005 European Championships, he played second for Reg Wiebe's 19th place team.
Mark Rurup is a Dutch curler from Amsterdam who curls out of the Curling Club Utrecht. He is the third of the Praxis Hammerheads which is the Dutch national team. Rurup has played in 3 European Championships. In 2005 he was the alternate for Reg Wiebe, and finished 19th. In 2007, he was the team's lead, and finished 17th. In 2009, he finished 11th, playing third for Mark Neeleman.
Elisabeth Anna Maria "Ellen" van der Cammen is a Dutch curler from the Curling Club Utrecht. In 2001, she was an alternate for the team, skipped by Margrietha Voskuilen that finished 13th at the European Curling Championships. In 2002, she was the team's second in a 16th-place finish at the European championships. In 2004, as a third for Shari Leibbrandt-Demmon, the Dutch finished in 12th place. In 2005, they finished in 7th place. After the 2006 World Championships in Grande Prairie, AB, Canada, where the team ended 12th, she left the team in order to have more time for her personal life. She now works as a children's physiotherapist in Krimpen a/d IJssel, Netherlands.
Margrietha Voskuilen is a Dutch curler from the Curling Club Utrecht. She currently plays third for the Dutch national team.
Erika Doornbos is a Dutch curler. She plays for Curling Club Utrecht and plays lead in the Dutch national team. At the 2004 European Curling Championships, Doornbos was an alternate for Shari Leibbrandt-Demmon's 12th place team. In 2005, she was Leibbrandt-Demmon's second and they finished in 7th place.
The Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC), branded as Scottish Curling is a curling club in Edinburgh, Scotland. It developed the first official rules for the sport, and is the governing body of curling in Scotland. The RCCC was founded on 25 July 1838 in Edinburgh, and granted its royal charter by Queen Victoria in 1843, after she had witnessed a demonstration of the sport played on the polished ballroom floor of Scone Palace the previous year.
The Masters is a Grand Slam event on the men's and women's World Curling Tour. It is the second Grand Slam event and first major on the women's and men's tour. The event is an amalgamation of the men's World Cup of Curling and the women's Sun Life Classic. There was also a men's Sun Life Classic, which has been discontinued. The Sun Life Classic was an annual WCT event held every November at the Paris Curling Club, Brant Curling Club and the Brantford Golf & Country Club in the Brantford, Ontario area. The World Cup was a Grand Slam event and was held in various locations across Canada, and was also previously known as the Masters.
The North Grenville Curling Club Women's Fall Curling Classic is an annual women's bonspiel, or curling tournament, held in Kemptville, Ontario. It is held in early November and is put on by the North Grenville Curling Club. It was a World Curling Tour event from 2010 to 2019.
The 2012 Masters Grand Slam of Curling was held from November 14 to 18 at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre, the Brantford Golf & Curling Club, the Paris Curling Club, and the Brant Curling Club in Brantford and Paris, Ontario as part of the 2012–13 World Curling Tour. The majority of the women's Tier I round robin games and some of the men's Tier I round robin games was held at the Brantford Golf & Curling Club, while the remainder of the Tier I games and the playoffs round games were held at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre. The men's Tier II games and playoffs qualifiers was held at the Brant Curling Club, while the women's Tier II games and playoffs qualifiers was held at the Paris Curling Club and the Brantford Golf & Curling Club. It was held as the first Grand Slam event on the men's tour and the fourth on the women's tour.
The Avonair Cash Spiel is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton, Alberta. The tournament is held in a round robin format. The tournament started in 2013 as part of the World Curling Tour's regional developmental series of events.
The St. John's Curling Club is a curling club in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The club plays at the RE/MAX Centre in Central St. John's, on Mayor Ave. It is the largest curling club in the province.
The Black Diamond / High River Cash was an annual bonspiel on the men's World Curling Tour. It was held annually in late November / early December at the Oilfields Curling Club in Diamond Valley, Alberta and the Highwood Curling Club in High River, Alberta.
The Mother Club Fall Curling Classic is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's curling tour. It is held annually in late September at the Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg.
The Curling Store Cashspiel is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, held at the Lakeshore Curling Club in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. It has been an on and off event of the Men's and Women's World Curling Tour since 2004 under many different names. The tournament is held in a round robin format. In 2004, it was held as an open event to both men's and women's teams.