Announcements

ACF Agenda for 9th April 2013 AGM by Laurie Weeden	22/03/2013 2:09 PM


Men and Women's Nationals 7 - 9 June 2013 - Team Nominations by Laurie Weeden	1/03/2013 8:12 PM


2013 Schedule for National Competitions by Laurie Weeden	23/02/2013 12:37 PM


AGM Notification for 9th April 2013 by Laurie Weeden	23/02/2013 11:37 AM


Photos from Pacific Asia Junior Curling Championships - 2013 by Ian Palangio	15/01/2013 9:46 PM

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2014 Winter Olympic Games Qualification System

The World Curling Federation has announced the qualification system for the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia deciding the 10 countries that will compete in both the Men's and Women's tournament.

In summary:

National Federations gain Qualification points at the 2012 and 2013 World Championships. The top 7 countries, plus Russia the host country will immediately qualify.

For countries that gained qualification points at the 2011, 2012, or 2013 World Curling Championships but DID NOT qualify in the top 8 above, will play off for the remaining 2 spots in a special Olympic Qualification Event.

Full details can be found in this document: http://www.curling.org.au/Shared%20Documents/2014%20Olympic%20Qualification/2014%20Olympic%20Curling%20Qualification.pdf

New Rocks in use at the Ice House

Mon Aug 2nd. Curling in Victoria took another huge step forward with the introduction of our new rocks at the Ice House in Melbourne. To celebrate this occasion a bonspiel was held with 70 curlers taking part. The curlers were led onto the ice courtesy of pipers from Scotch College and then the ceremonial first rock was thrown by the team of

George McDonald (our eldest curler representing curling's homeland - Scotland)
Britt-Marie Malmberg (representing Europe)
Dean Hewitt ( our youngest member representing The Pacific region)
Ellen Weir ( our founding member representing North America)

A great night was had by all with the overall winners being the team of Gerald Chick, Vaughan Rosier, Paul Meissner, Michael Kottek.
Special mention must go to the team of Michelle Sarkissian, Andrew Harris, Ari Cohen, and Rhiannon LaPorte who went from the bottom of the ladder in the Round Robin to 2nd place in the Bonspiel. A Fantastic effort. Congratulations!

Victorian Bonspiel Pictures

Australian Curling Federation

The Australian Curling Federation is the national governing body for the Winter Olympic sport of Curling in Australia. Within Australia there is regular curling in Brisbane, QLD and Melbourne, VIC. Sydney has a curling association and is working on getting a set of rocks to establish regular curling at an arena there.

Australia has Representative National Teams for Men's, Women's, Junior Men's, Junior Women's, Mixed Doubles and Senior Men's categories.

Officers

President: John Theriault
Vice President: Kim Forge
Victorian Curling Association Representative: Matt Panoussi
NSW Curling Association Representative: Ian Palangio
Queensland Curling Association Representative: Jay Merchant
Treasurer: Laurie Weeden

Member States

Membership of the Australian Curling Federation is open to incorporated state curling associations in Australia. Current members include:

Affiliations

The ACF is affiliated with the following National and International sporting organisations:

Contact an Association!

Association Name

Contact Details

NSW Curling Association

Ian Palangio

ipalangio@hotmail.com

Victorian Curling Association

Trevor Harris

victoria.curling@live.com

Queensland Curling Association

Jen Thomas

president@qldcurling.com.au