How to join

My name is Gary Sondergaard. I am the Membership chair of the club and can be reached at the club address info@racinecurlingclub.com if you have further questions. We have several leagues available. For leagues with multiple times, you would usually curl once per week at one of the times. However, it could happen that you curl twice in a week or have a bye, depending on how many teams we get. Our season is split into two halves ("Fall" from early November to mid January and "Spring" from mid January to early April.) Each team will play at least 8 games of eight ends per half -- more if you make the playoffs except the Rookie league which plays 4 - 6 end games. That's about two hours per game. We pick new teams each half. If you curl here long enough, you will curl with everybody and against everybody. There are no dynasty teams at the Racine Curling Club! With that said, here are the leagues:

Our Mixed curling league plays on Friday and Saturday evenings. Last Spring, start times were 7 pm Friday and 5:30 & 7:30 pm Saturday and will probably be similar this fall. In this league couples usually curl together, but teams may be filled out with individual curlers.

Our Saturday curling league plays on Saturday mornings at 10:00 to noon. In this league you may request a person or persons with whom you would like to curl and we will try to fulfill that request.

On weeknights at 7:00 pm we have two open leagues where individual curlers are picked by the skips (team captains) to be on their teams. One league is scheduled for Mon/Wed and the other for Tue/Thur. If we have enough interest, the Mon/Wed will be split into two distinct leagues – one being ladies only!

On Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30, we have our Rookie league. Teams in this league are usually made up of two experienced and two new curlers in their first two years. It is semi-instructional; we will stop play to explain things to the new players as well as giving newer players the chance to play in the skip's position from time-to-time to get a different perspective on the game that you would not be able to get in a regular league before curling for a few years. We still play for the championship, but it is much more relaxed.

We also have Junior Curling available Saturday afternoon for youngsters from 12 to 18.

Our dues at this time are:
$95 per half for curlers in their first two halves (1^st year);
$145 per half for curlers in their 3^rd and 4^th halves (2^nd year);
$190 per half for experienced curlers; and
$50 per year for juniors.

There is no "per league charge." That means a person can curl in the rookie league only for $95 or that person could curl in the rookie league, both weeknight leagues, the Saturday league and mixed league and the total cost would be $95.

I would recommend coming to an open house or setting up some other learn to curl opportunity where you can try the sport and talk to me or one of our other members to figure out what would work best for you. (click here for learn to curl info)

See you on the ice!