Team USA of Korey Dropkin (Broomstones CC), Sarah Anderson (Phildelphia CC), Thomas Howell (Plainfield CC) and Taylor Anderson (Philadelphia CC) have finished the round robin a perfect 7 wins and 0 losses in the Blue Pool at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria (http://innsbruck2012.curlingevents.com).  They await the completion of the other Red Pool for the first round opponent in the final 8 playoff.  All of us here are very proud of the team and wish them the best of luck in the Playoff!

USA’s Twins Aim to Win Gold for Dad

Congratulations to Team Dropkin for winning the Winter Youth Olympic Games playdowns in Grafton ND!! Skip Korey Dropkin (Broomstones CC), vice Sarah Anderson (Philadelphia CC), second Thomas Howell (Plainfield CC) and lead Taylor Anderson (Philadelphia CC).  They had to qualify by defeating another well represented Philadelphia CC team, Team Dudt, skipped by Daniel Dudt (Philadelphia CC) with his second of Cameron Vike (Philadelphia CC), and their teammates from North Dakota, vice Katie Sigurdson and lead Madeleine Shaft, in a sudden death game on Sunday.  Both teams had an impressive 7 and 1 record in the round robin prior to their one game playoff  elimination game.

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Daniel Dudt and his rink of Cameron Vike, Phil Mack and Cody Clouser took top honors at the Philadelphia Junior Bonspiel.  Daniel and Cameron, having just returned from a very impressive 7 and 2 second place finish at the Youth Olympic Trials in North Dakota, continued their excellent play with their junior men’s playdown teammates.  Twelve teams competed in the bonspiel with representatives from Nutmeg, Potomac, Plainfield, Arsley and of course Philly.  The Dudt rink’s win in the final came over another junior men’s playdown team skipped by Tyler Oliver of Philadelphia and teammates Miles Hogarth (Nutmeg), Justin Arndt (Nutmeg) and Sean Tredinnick (Philly).

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Exciting news for the local curling community. Rarely do we get a chance to witness such high level curling locally.  Both the Women’s and Men’s 2012 USA Curling National Championships will be held in the Philadelphia area from 11-18 February 2012 at the IceWorks Skating Complex in Aston, PA.  Details about the event are at the event website located here: 2012usacurlingnationals.com.

Volunteers are still needed with applications due by 15 January 2012.  More information about volunteering is located here: 2012usacurlingnationals.com/volunteer.

The 3rd Annual Curl-a-thon was yet again a great success. Thank you to the co-chairs of the event, Jessica Todd-Marrone and Kate Remolde for leading such a fun and jam packed 24 hours of curling. The total tally is still be counted, but we far and exceeded our goal this year to help Jeff Harris’ charity of NTAF Mid-Atlantic Spinal Cord Injury Fund (http://www.transplantfund.org/). Thank you to everyone that helped through curling, volunteering, bidding on silent auction items, and hanging out at the club for the 24+ hours of fun!

Looking for Curling in Pennsylvania?  These are the clubs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:

Anthracite Curling Club
Bucks County Curling Club
Pittsburgh Curling Club
Philadelphia Curling Club

PCC too far? One of our members has arranged for curling to come to the Bucks County Ice Sports Center (formerly Face Off Circle) in Warminster, PA. Ice time is reserverd on Sunday evenings in the fall for league play and instruction, and will also be teaching classes through the end of the summer. Check out the schedule of curling classes and events on the BC Ice Sports Bucks County Curling Club website: http://www.buckscountycurlingclub.org/