US Olympic Curling Team Leader to be honored in Vacaville
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August 18, 2010
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VACAVILLE, CA – The Wine Country Curling Club will honor and highlight the 2010 United States Women’s Olympic Team Skip Debbie McCormick at their annual Crush Bonspiel. The Bonspiel will be held at Vacaville Ice Sports (707) 455-0225, (vacavilleicesports.com) during Labor Day Weekend, September 3, 4, and 5. The public is encouraged to come and watch the cult sport that kept you up late at night during the last winter Olympics. There is no admission charge although donations are accepted.
Debbie, is a three-time Olympian, was World Champion in 2003, seven-time U.S. National Champion as well as a four-time U.S. junior champion and a 3-time medal winner at the World Juniors. Her husband Pete, an accomplished curler himself, will also be curling on the team. The balance of the four-person team will be two paraolympians from the 2010 USA Team. Local curler, Pat McDonald, a member of the Wine Country Curling Club and fellow wheelchair curler, Jacqui Kapinowski of Point Pleasant, N.J., will be curling with the McCormick’s. The 2010 US Paralympics Team took fourth in the Vancouver Games.
And if that isn’t enough Olympians, Edith Loudon of Perth, Scotland, a member of the Scottish Olympic Team at the 1998 Nagano Olympics where she competed against Debbie, will be defending her former two time Crush Bonspiel championships. Edith is a World Curling Federation Director representing the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (the oldest curling club in the world), which is the equivalent in curling to the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews Scotland in golf.
Thirty-two curling teams will be coming from all points across the United States and Canada. Many top-notch curlers will be vying for the title of “Champion of the Crush”. Other event attractions include the Opening Ceremonies on Friday at 6:00 PM that involve a “piping the teams on to the ice” by the Scarlet Brigade Pipe Band from Fairfield High School. Curling games are scheduled Friday 8:30a-10:30pm, Saturday 8:00a-4:30pm and Sunday 7am – 4:30pm. Five games are played at a time so there will be plenty of action!
Curling involves teams of four trying to knock an opponent’s 42-pound stone out of a circle and having your stones closest to the center to earn points. The sport was invented in Scotland in the sixteenth century. The exposure from the Olympics is drawing intense interest in the United States. Many curling clubs across the country have reported large increases in membership since the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Wine Country Curling Club (WCCC) based in Vacaville, CA. The club began four years ago after the Torino Winter Olympics. WCCC is a member of the Unites States Curling Association and Mountain Pacific Curling Association. Curling has had a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1958.
