Olympic Fever is growing, so recently the Star-Ledger visited our club to get the scoop from PCC former president Don Baird, current president Dean Gemmell, and snap some league curling photos.
The article was published in their Tuesday, Feb. 2 edition as well as online. Please read the Star-Ledger online story and watch their video below!
If you’d like to try curling yourself, please plan to come to our Open House on Feb. 28, 2pm – 6pm.
Local curling club hopes Olympics will sweep some attention towards the little-known sport
If you’re new to the sport, you may wonder what all the yelling is about on the curling ice. In this video, U.S. Olympian John Shuster and bunch of science guys explains why we’re shouting all the time and much of the physics that makes curling work.
The 2010 Winter Olympics are nearly upon us and, if 2002 and 2006 are barometers, we expect that many people will seek out an opportunity to try curling — the world’s greatest sport — at our club.
Not only will we be hosting an Open House on February 28th from 2-6 PM but we’ll also be following up in March with a Learn-to-Curl program and an Instructional League for newcomers to the game. If you’ve always wanted to see if curling is the sport for you, this is the year to find out.
NY Japion, a weekly Japanese newspaper based in New York, sent a reporter to our recent new curler clinic. The featured article was published in the Jan. 8th edition and includes photos of John Wilman, John Pantina, and president Dean Gemmell. Aya Takeichi is quoted in the article. NY Japion is available online, and free printed editions are available at many Japanese establishments in the New York tri-state area. Thank you, Japion!
The Colbert Report has notified us that the curling segment filmed at our club will air tonight, January 4th, during the show’s first new installment of 2010! Stephen will interview the guys from the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team for Men’s Curling (John Shuster, Jason Smith, Jeff Isaacson, John Benton, Chris Plys) and then take to the ice to audition for the team.
The Plainfield Curling Club invites you to the 22nd Annual Robbie Burns Thrifty & Jean Marc Fluet Memorial Bonspiel January 21-24, 2010.
Come join in the fun of the Plainfield Curling Club’s annual bonspiel in honor or Scottish poet Robert Burns. There will be Haggis and Bridies with other traditional Scottish foods and Pipers too. The event offers every team a three game guarantee and a prize for all four event winners and the runner up. All Meals are included especially Saturday Night’s Scottish dinner delights and Trifle dessert contest.
A bonspiel in GNCC you won’t want to miss! Entry Fee $160 – A very “Thrifty” Bonspiel Price!
During a recent visit to our club, 2010 U.S. Mens Olympic Curling Team Member Chris Plys demonstrated this difficult curling trick which I’d never seen before! Watch him slide out of the hack backwards and spin around on the ice.
Chris will next appear on the Dec. 28th episode of Bank Of Hollywood, a new reality show from E! and producer Ryan Seacrest.
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