The Senior Women's Friendship 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.
This tour began in 1990 as a collaboration between the USWCA (led by Winnie Bloomquist 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.
Friendship Tour 2024
The 2024 USWCA Senior Women's Friendship Tour to Canada will take place in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec from Novemeber 3-14, 2024. Sixteen U.S. curlers will begin the tour in Toronto and end in Montreal, with stops at eight curling clubs in the two provinces. For more specific information, visit the 2024 Friendship Tour Page
Selection Plan
Selection plan for tour members.
- A club may turn in as many applications as they wish. The final draw for the tour position will be 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, and 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.
- 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.