Junior Program

Our Junior Program runs Sunday afternoons from January through March starting with a Junior Curling Clinic on January 5th, 2025.  The clinic will be a great review for those children with curling experience and a great introduction for beginners.  We will provide both on and off ice instruction touching on all the basics of curling: delivery, sweeping, rules, strategy, and etiquette.

2024-2025 Important Documents:

Sunday’s Draw Times

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Beginners Draw Time (Sundays) – Ages 7 to 10 or 11

  • Beginners and Juniors with 1 or 2 years or No experience.
  • Consists of Drills and Instruction and a 2 end game.
  • This league will begin with lite rocks and progress to the big rocks.
  • For children under 12, helmets (hockey or bike) are required

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Intermediate and Advanced Draw Time (Sundays) Ages 10 +

  • Intermediate and Advanced League Play
  • Consists of some Drills &/or Instruction and a 4 end game.
  • Intermediate – have had one or two years of curling experience in a junior program.
  • Advanced – have had more than 2 years of curling experience in a junior program.
  • For children under 12, helmets (hockey or bike) are required, it is strongly recommended that all juniors wear a helmet.

*For those players who are 11 or 12 years old and older, who have never curled before, I recommend attending both the Beginner and Intermediate Curling Clinic Sessions on January 5th. Then they usually can join their peers in the Intermediate sessions for the remainder of the season if they prefer, or maybe that will convince them that they would like to stay in the Beginner session?

Registration and Costs

  • All junior curlers are required to Register Online using the Curling I/O program.
  • Due to the limited number of spots available, players who are NEW to the Junior Program will be put on a waitlist on a first come first serve basis to give returning players a chance to retain their spot.
  • The cost to become a member of the Junior Curling Program is FREE with the purchase of a Chestermere Community Membership.
  • To inquire about availability for our 2025 season, and to receive the Registration Information please contact our Junior Coordinator, Marla Forth via email at juniors@chestermerecurling.com

Bonspiel

An in-house bonspiel will be tentatively held on Sunday, March 16, 2025 for all of our Junior Curling Program members.

Equipment

For children under 12, helmets (hockey or bike) are required, it is strongly recommended that all juniors wear a helmet.  All curlers should have stretchy warm pants, gloves, layers on top and bring a pair of CLEAN indoor shoes/runners to change into before going out to the ice surface, they should have a rubber sole and no buckles on them. You can bring your own curling equipment or you can use ours, we have brooms, sliders and stabilizers available for use.

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