The St. Paul Curling Club (SPCC) is an historic curling

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

 club located in St. Paul, MN on Selby Avenue. It is the curling club with the largest active membership in the United States at over 1200 members. It was first established in 1885, and the present St. Paul CC was established when the Capitol City Curling Club and Nushka Curling Club merged in 1912. It is the oldest curling club in Minnesota. The club hosted the 2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

-Monday, April 18:Draw 408:00Draw 721:30-Tuesday, April 19:Draw 915:00-Wednesday, April 20:Draw 1208:00Draw 1311:00Draw 1414:30-Thursday, April 21:Draw 1708:00Draw 1811:30...

 and the 2011 World Senior Curling Championships

2011 World Senior Curling Championships

-Bronze Medal Game:Saturday, April 23, 14:00-Gold Medal Game:Saturday, April 23, 14:00-Women:The women's tournament consisted of eleven teams playing a round robin tournament...

 in April 2011.

History

The first St. Paul Curling Club was incorporated on November 16, 1885. The first curling game held in St. Paul were played on the Mississippi River. The St. Paul Curling Club built its first facilities on Raspberry Island in 1891, and became a part of the Northwest Curling Association along with other clubs from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Illinois a year later. The original St. Paul CC closed in 1904 and was replaced by the Capitol City CC the next year. However, the Capitol City CC and the Nushka CC merged to form the new St. Paul CC in 1912, and permanent facilities were set up at a two-story clubhouse with six sheets of natural ice on Selby Avenue. Artificial ice was added in gradual stages from 1939-1947.

The Metro League and the Mixed League were formed in 1961 and 1962 to attract more curlers, but club membership dropped in the 1960s and 1970s, and there were discussions on disbandment. The club remained, though, and continued to renovate and expand its facilities. The club hosted the men's nationals in 1988, becoming the first club in the US to host every national curling championship event.

Leagues

The St. Paul Curling Club has a number of different curling leagues. All are club leagues.

• The Monday Ladder (open)
• Business Women (Tuesday)
• Open Cash (Wednesday)
• Business Men (Thursday)
• Mixed
  Mixed curling
  Mixed curling, also known as Coed curling, is the sport of curling, when played by men and women together. Some community and school level curling is mixed, while most top-level curling championships are divided into men's and women's divisions. A normal mixed team consists of 2 men and 2 women...
  
   League (Friday)
• Saturday Men
• Sunday Open
• Daytime League
• Little Rocks/Bantam League
• University/College League

Famous Members

• Allison Pottinger
  Allison Pottinger
  Allison Pottinger is an American curler from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She currently skips her own team, but is best known as having played for Debbie McCormick in multiple Olympics and World Championships. McCormick left the team in 2010. She competed in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in...
  
   - 2003
  2003 Ford World Women's Curling Championship
  -Draw 2:April 5, 2003 18:00-Draw 3:April 6, 2003 13:00-Draw 4:April 7, 2003 08:00-Draw 5:April 7, 2003 18:00-Draw 6:April 8, 2003 13:00-Draw 7:April 9, 2003 08:00-Draw 8:April 9, 2003 18:00...
  
   World Champion, 1996
  1996 Ford World Women's Curling Championship
  -Tie breaker:-Brackets:-Final:...
  
  , 1999
  1999 Ford World Women's Curling Championship
  -Brackets:-Final:...
  
  , and 2006
  2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship
  -Draw 2:March 18, 21:00-Draw 3:March 19, 09:00-Draw 4:March 19, 13:30-Draw 5:March 19, 18:30-Draw 6:March 20, 09:00-Draw 7:March 20, 14:00-Draw 8:March 20, 18:30-Draw 9:March 21, 09:00...
  
   World Championships runner-up, 2010 Olympian
  Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament
  -Semifinals:Thursday, February 25, 9:00 AM-Bronze medal final:Friday, February 26, 9:00 AM-Gold medal final:Friday, February 26, 3:00 PM- External links :*...
  
  , 2011 US Nationals
  2011 United States Women's Curling Championship
  -Teams:-Standings:Through Draw 9-Draw 1:Saturday, February 12, 4:30 pm-Draw 2:Sunday, February 13, 8:00 am-Draw 3:Sunday, February 13, 4:00 pm-Draw 4:Monday, February 14, 8:00 am-Draw 5:Monday, February 14, 4:00 pm...
  
   runner-up
• John Benton
  John Benton (curler)
  John Benton is an American curler from St. Michael, Minnesota. He started curling in 1975 and made his first US Junior National Championships in 1987. In 1998 he qualified for his first Olympic Trials where he was placed fifth...
  
   - 2009 US Men's National Champion
  2010 United States Olympic Curling Trials
  The 2010 United States Olympic Curling Team Trials/2009 U.S. Nationals were held February 21-28, 2009 at the Broomfield Event Center in Broomfield, Colorado...
  
  , 2010 Olympian
  Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament
  -Semi-finals:Thursday, February 25, 2:00 PM* - rock picked up debris-Bronze medal final:Saturday, February 27, 9:00 AM* - rock picked up debris-Gold medal final:Saturday, February 27, 3:00 PM...