The San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club celebrated another successful year of curling in California by hosting an open bonspiel over Memorial Day weekend, May 28-30, 2010. This Golden Anniversary Bonspiel was a huge success and was attended by 28 teams. Fourteen teams traveled from various clubs and locations across North America to join fourteen local teams in the fun and competition.

Powell River is having a summer spiel August 5-8, 2010. It's located on the coast five hours from Vancouver. See their flyer for more info!

The Golden Gate Bonspiel was held over Memorial Day weekend and was a great success. Twenty-eight teams participated with teams coming as far as Ontario and the Yukon. Congratulations to the Granite Busters for winning the A event. Complete results can be found here.

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Thank you to everyone who ran and who voted, and a huge thank you to all our out-going officers.

Board of Directors 2010-2011
President, Brent Halpenny president@bayareacurling.com
Vice President, Nikki Larrabure vp@bayareacurling.com
Secretary/Treasurer, Gabrielle Coleman gabrielle@bayareacurling.com
At-Large, Brian Zaitz corpevents@bayareacurling.com
At-Large, Wesley Seeger wes@bayareacurling.com
At-Large, Davinna Ohlson davinna@bayareacurling.com
At-Large, Thomas Vogelsang thomas@bayareacurling.com

Team Sieg (Lyle Sieg, Gabrielle Coleman, Barry Ivy and Candace Seip) finished 5th at the US Mixed National Championships in Chicago. The team would like to thank club members for all the supportive emails and texts!

Congrats to the first California-majority US Women's National Championships curling team! Team Coleman (Gabrielle Coleman, Ann Drummie (Potomac), JoDee Dike-Johnson, Karen Officer) finished with a 3-6 record. The ladies also finished 2nd in the Draw Shot Challenge and Gabrielle Coleman was the women's recipient of the Ann Brown Sportsmanship Award.

Thank you to all our participants and volunteers who joined us last night. You were a great group and we hope you'll join us for lessons and leagues! more photos coming in the next couple of weeks

Thank you to the whole NBC team, and especially reporter, Kris Sanchez, and photographer, Allan Waples, who joined us this morning. And a huge, huge thank you to our volunteers! (We're still looking for folks for next Friday's live shot.... )

Today is the first day of curling at the Olympics. Go Team USA!