Update: Our fundraiser has ended. Thank you to everyone who contributed! When our club was founded in 2010, we were loaned the eighty stones that we use to curl every week. Now the time has come to pay for those stones, and to do that we are asking for your help. Curling stones are not cheap, […]
The South Shore Curling Club was featured in the February 2014 issue of South Shore Living magazine in the Winter Survival Guide. On page 53 you’ll find our own Mary Beth Cordeiro (shot by Kieran Chapman) delivering a stone alongside information about our Learn to Curls.
The South Shore Curling Club kicked off the second half of our 2013-14 curling season on March 7 with a traditional bagpiper-led curlers’ parade. SSCC member/piper Chris Young led everyone in, and president Rob Costa led us in the traditional Drambuie toast. (Please forgive the not-so-great filming — I didn’t set the tripod up in the […]
For a variety of reasons, the South Shore Curling Club sent only a single team to the Worcester Cup bonspiel at The Country Club in Brookline, MA, February 28–March 3, 2014. Team Blauvelt consisted of: Gerrit Blauvelt (skip) Kieran Chapman (vice) Jamie Quinn (second) Mary Beth Cordeiro (lead) A win Friday night and a split […]
TV coverage of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games will include wheelchair curling: NBCSN will present 5.5 hours of wheelchair curling coverage from the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi. Coverage of wheelchair curling begins with Team USA against China on Wednesday, March 12 at 1:30 a.m. ET. NBCSN will also air the wheelchair curling final on Saturday, […]
If you’re interested in South Shore Curling Club merchandise, we’ve set up a CafePress shop where you can get SSCC gear: shirts, sweatshirts, mugs & drinkware … and we’ll be adding to it from time to time. Visit the shop at southshorecurling.com/shop
If our Learn to Curl registrations are any indication, the Winter Olympics has brought the level of interest in curling to an all-time high. We had two sold-out sessions on February 21 and 23, with another five LTC sessions planned for March. Here are some photos from our latest Learn to Curls; you can view […]
We are a day away from the official start of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and if you’re reading this then the question on your mind is probably: “When is curling going to be broadcast?” We’ve got the answers for you…get ready to set your DVRs! NBC Olympics TV Listings First, you can visit the official […]
Every four years the Winter Olympics rolls around and introduces more and more people to curling. That’s how many of our club members got interested in curling: we saw it on TV, wondered “what the heck is this?” and were strangely captivated by it. When we finally got the chance to get on the ice […]
The New York Times ran a slideshow about Ailsa Craig, an uninhabited 220-acre island off the Scottish coast. It has no inhabitants, no electricity, no fresh water and no arable land — nothing of value, it would seem, but for this: For a century and more, its quarries have been the source of the distinctive, water-resistant […]
