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Friendship Tour
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2006 Senior Women's Friendship tour to Manitoba, Canada
Back Row l-r: Roberta Crain (Albany, NY CC); Jean Vorachek (Grand Forks, CC); Nancy Wilhelm (Blackhawk CC); Carolyn Macleod (Broomstones, MA CC); Karen Miller; Claire Janiga (Detroit CC); Luci Schey (Mayfield CC) Saralee Schneck (Philadelphia CC).
Front Row l-r: Barbara Hamm (Milwaukee CC); Janet Farr (Cleveland Skating Club); Debbie Sather (Fairbanks CC); Jeannie Boriland (Bowling Green); Marj Yalowickie (Seattle Granit CC); Joan Twigg (Potmac CC); Bobbie Greenspan (AKSARBEN CC); Catherine Offinger (Cape Cod, MA CC)
2000 Senior Women's Friendship/Canadian Tour Team |
This tour offers a unique opportunity for Canadian and American women age 50 or older, to enjoy a friendly, competitive curling experience, make new friends who enjoy the sport of curling and learn more about their curling neighbors.
The Exchange began in 1990 and was collaboration between the USWCA led by Winnie Blomquist of the Grand Forks Curling Club in North Dakota and the Canadian Curling Association. It operates on a three-year rotation between the two countries.
The most recent Friendship Tour was in November, 2006. Sixteen members of the United States Women's Curling Association (USWCA) were selected to participate in a curling tour of the Manitoba Province of Canada where four United States women's curling teams competed against Canadian women curlers in nine venues throughout the Province. The sixteen women were selected from the Five Regions of the USWCA.
This year, November 4th-14th, the USWCA will host a Friendship Tour of 16 Canadian women curlers from Manitoba at eight USWCA-member curling clubs in Wisconsin and in the Central Region.
The next Friendship Tour providing USWCA Women the opportunity for friendly competition in Canada will be 2012. For more information about the USWCA Canadian Friendship Tour contact: friendship@uswca.org
Friendship Tour 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Arrive in Milwaukee, WI
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Arrive in Milwaukee Curling Club, Mequon, WI
Opening Ceremonies
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Blackhawk Curling Club, Janeville, WI
Friday, November 6, 2009
Madison Curling Club, Madison, WI
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Kettle Moraine Curling Club, Hartland, WI
Saturday, November 8, 2009
Chicago Curling Club and Exmoor Curling Club, IL
Monday, November 9, 2009
Travel to Detroit, MI
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Detroit Curling Club, Detroit, MI
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Mayfield Curling Club, South Euclid, OH
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Cleveland Skating Club, Cleveland, OH
Friday, November 13, 2009
Mayfield Country Club, South Euclid, OH
Closing Ceremonies
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Travel home
Selection plan for tour members
- A club may turn in as many applications as they wish. The final draw for the tour position will by made by lottery.
- The draw will be made using all applicants accepted by the Committee as having completed the application form satisfactorily and including the necessary reference materials.
- Names will be put into four boxes according to the area in which the club is located (West - Wisconsin - Central -East).
- Four names from each area will be drawn first to compose the tour team. The first name from a club will be accepted. The second name from the same club will be set aside to be used in the draw for alternates if there are not enough names from at least eight individual clubs in the box.
- The draw will be conducted by the Committee in the presence of the USWCA President and a USWCA Rep, randomly asked and ineligible to take part in the tour.
- All members of the USWCA, age 50 or over are eligible to apply. Previous international curling tour persons will be considered if there is a shortage of first-time applicants.
- Tour officers -captain, secretary, treasurer, social chairman (i.e. entertainment) will be selected by the Committee.
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