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

Millikin and Forge win Mixed Doubles

Sept 24th to 27th saw the Australian Mixed Doubles (MD) Championships hosted at the Maniototo Curling International rink in Naseby, New Zealand.

The event was Triple knock out, with a winner of the ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ events qualifying for the playoffs.

Team Lyn Gil & Steve Johns won both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ events, with Kim Forge & Hugh Millikin winning the ‘C’ event. This put pressure on the Forge/Millikin duo needing to win both playoff games to claim the championship.

The complete details are found at the blog here, and indeed Kim and Hugh will be representing Australia at the World Mixed Double Championships at Chelyabinsk, Russia after a couple of wins on the Finals day.

Kim Forge and Hugh Millikin win their first Mixed Doubles
National Championship and are off to Russia for
the World's in April 2010

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

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Vice President: John Theriault
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