Our Club
Our mission is to develop recreational and competitive curlers of all ages and abilities, and be a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion in our sport.
Our Story
Our vision at the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club is to build a club as beautiful and diverse as our communities. We’re the oldest club in California and we've opened the newest facility in the state dedicated to curling.
Our roots go all the way back to 1958 and we have a proud tradition of erasing barriers to participation and growing our sport to include communities who have historically been left out of curling clubs and programs. Today, our members include people of every background and ability who work and live in every corner of the bay area, and range in age from their teens into their 80s.
In 2022 after decades without a sufficient, permanent home, our volunteer members completed a huge multi-year effort to build a dedicated curling facility — the very first in our region. Join us as we grow our club’s reach and make the Bay Area a destination for world-class curling.
Our Space
Our new facility in Oakland, California provides elite-level curling conditions and space to grow our sport and community.
Gender Inclusion
We respect every curler’s freedom to be themselves.
The San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club is dismayed by the proposed changes to the gender eligibility requirements for USA Curling national competitions and we stand in solidarity with our transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming family. People of all genders belong in our community and we hold firm to our vision that curling is for all ages, races, abilities and identities.
SFBACC welcomes curlers of all sexes, gender identities, and gender expressions to our club and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. We are working to revise our gender inclusion policy to reflect the inclusive principles of the spirit of curling and will adopt new policies as needed:
Transgender and non-binary members are free to participate in all club activities however they identify.
Gender identity will be treated with the same respect as all other identities, and our anti-harassment policy remains in place.
We reject any efforts to single transgender people out, to spread fear and division in our community. We pledge that going forward, we will refuse to host events with a restrictive gender policy.
We call on the USCA to fight for all its members and recommit to its work in preventing discrimination against any of its members, regardless of gender or sex, and to strengthen its policies that support transgender and gender non-conforming athletes.
We invite curlers of all genders to take a stand. SFBACC joins with curling and athletic communities across the country to speak out in solidarity with transgender athletes in our sports and our communities.
Board of Directors
Our 2026-2027 Board of Directors
Officers:
Jim Oller, President Emeritus
Sadie Scheffer, President
Violet Lingenfelter, Vice-President
Zack Hampton, Treasurer
Rob Young, Secretary
At-Large Directors:
Neil Adames
Ed Callan
Austin Hughes
Loreen Makishima-Wolf
Michelle Wang
We acknowledge that we are curling on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County.
