Vancouver Curling Club

And just like that...the ice is melting and the 2025-26 curling season is officially in the books!

It's been a busy Olympic year. Whether you were a league regular, took part in a bonspiel or tried curling for the first time, thanks for being a part of the Vancouver Curling Club. We’re heading into "summer hibernation," but we’ll be back and ready to slide this September.

Enjoy the sun, and watch for registration, schedule and program updates at www.vancurl.com during the summer. ☀️🥌

From the lounge to the ice, our food and beverage manager Matt Shroenn has completed a five-week Learn-to-Curl program! Congratulations Matt for trying the game! "I played competitive rugby for 20 years and have back and knee issues," says Matt. "But stick curling let me still participate and be social."

Our learn-to-curl programs resume this fall - instruction and equipment are provided. Learn more at https://vancurl.com/index.php/curling/learn-to-curl

During National Volunteer Week, we celebrate volunteers and the time, talent and energy they share to strengthen inclusivity and wellbeing in our community. Thank you to our club volunteers for their contributions to our events, board and promotion of our sport!

Read about our efforts to contribute to Curling Canada's campaign to Grow the Game in 2026!

Curling boost in British Columbia

One club that was actively involved in the Grow the Game campaign was The Vancouver Curling Club, which saw huge success with a special post-Olympics Spring Learn to Curl program.

“The Olympics always has its usual burst growth impact, but through a focused strategy, we’ve definitely seen a higher than usual increase in new participation,” says Patrick Prade, Executive Director of the Vancouver Curling Club Association (VCCA).

The Vancouver Curling Club, the largest club in Canada with around 2,000 members, typically offers four quarterly Learn to Curl sessions across the season. The club added an additional five-week session in April/May that has around 100 participants, about the same as they had over an entire year in previous seasons.

“We have about 120 people in Learn to Curl each year. We have 100 people in April,” says Prade, who adds it’s “without a doubt” due to the well-timed community outreach efforts in parallel to the Olympics and Paralympics.

This season, VCCA partnered with 11 other curling clubs across the Lower Mainland to promote Try Curling through a new website, TryCurling.Today, that provides a list of clubs in the region and information on how to sign up for one-hour Try Curling sessions, Learn to Curl programs, or event rentals. With a minimal cost to each club, the website had 900 views and 350 click-throughs to individual clubs’ pages. Prade says they are hoping to expand the campaign this year, putting more advertising dollars behind it and hiring a specialist to manage it.

The one-hour Try Curling was created four years ago to leverage the 2022 Olympics and saw 800 participants at VCCA that season. This year, there have been over 1,800, including 100 on Curling Day in Canada alone on Jan. 31 at Vancouver Curling Club, which includes both the Hillcrest Centre and Marpole Curling Club, a partnership that grew out of high demand for the sport.

🥌 The post-Olympic & Paralympic curling buzz is real! We challenged you to and you delivered. 🙌

See how programs in Vancouver & Calgary are turning new fans into lifelong curlers.

Read the full story ➡ https://www.curling.ca/blog/2026/04/16/grow-the-game-campaign-builds-on-olympic-buzz-to-expand-curling-across-canada/

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🥌 L'engouement pour le curling après les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques est bien réel ! Nous vous avions mis au défi de et vous avez répondu présent. 🙌

Découvrez comment les programmes mis en place à Vancouver et à Calgary transforment les nouveaux fans en adeptes du curling à vie.

Lire l'article complet ➡ https://www.curling.ca/fr/blog/2026/04/16/la-campagne-joignez-le-jeu-profite-de-lengouement-olympique-pour-faire-croitre-le-curling-partout-au-canada/

We have completed our annual club championship weekend with two days of games with teams representing our leagues playing against each other. Thank you to all the teams for a great season and congratulations to the winners!

Club Championship:
Winner - PRCL 1 - Across the Face
Wade Carpenter
Patrick Prade
Sanya
Kevin Jeffers

Runner Up - Thursday Open 1 - aus der Schweiz
Nick Parrotta
Floyd Bardell
Leonard Furkus
Jack Morris

President’s Cup:
Winner - Thursday Open 3 - Gamblers
Oren Samuel
Steven Garfield
Darren Morris
Jack Serlin

Runner Up - Tuesday Women - Granite Girls
Corrie Belanger
Rachel Kim
Connie Leung
Deena Szostak

Our annual VCC Club Championships are taking place this weekend April 11-12. See the draw and results here: https://tinyurl.com/5djerynj

Congratulations to the BC teams for representing our province at 2026 New Holland Canadian Under-20 Curling Championships in Sudbury. A special mention to VCC curlers Erin Fitzgibbon and Taj Mckenzie!

Now that the Vancouver Canadians baseball season has arrived, and we are still on the ice at the Vancouver Curling Club, here's the annual reminder about parking restrictions at Hillcrest Centre during the baseball games.

For evening baseball games at 7:05 p.m., the parking restrictions start at 4 p.m. Dates: April 7-9, 21-23, 28-30.

For daytime baseball games at 1:05 p.m, the parking restrictions start at 10 a.m. Dates: April 10-12, 24-26, May 1-3.

Watch for signs and barricades as parking will be limited around Hillcrest Centre.

🥌Men’s Champions – !

Congratulations to Team Hiram from the Vancouver Curling Club on capturing the championship! 👏

Skip: Michael Hiram
Third: Stephen Bailey
Second: Adam Tumilson
Lead: Enrik Gagnon

Well played all week — champions! 💙

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Check out the photo gallery from this week's Curl BC BC Club Curling Championships! https://tinyurl.com/4ah63ssm

Please credit on social media if you use these photos. Thanks to Amanda for the great images!

2026 BC Club Curling Championships · Apr 1 – 4 📸 Shared album · Tap to view!