Heather Little, centre in the toque, provides curling tips to 11 year-old Jayden Wipf as she prepares to throw a rock. Thirteen year-old Kaylen Wipf and nine year-old Ella Andrew get ready to sweep the rock down the ice if needed.
Its had a few years absence, but a junior curling league is back at the Drumheller Curling Club to help young curlers learn the game.
A group of volunteers with the Drumheller Curling Club has helped bring back a Junior Curling League. The club’s Heather Little, who helps coach the young curlers, said they’ve had in mind to restart for awhile, and everything came together nicely to get the junior league up and running.
“I think it was about volunteers and having the right people in the right place and being prepared to put something together.”
Little said a junior league has been absent from the Drumheller Curling Club for a number of years, and the club has received a lot of postive responses in bringing the league for the young players back.
The club had compiled a list of names of people who had expressed interest in the junior league.
“We had a good number people to contact about getting them involved and having kids participate in the league,” said Little.
Twenty-five young curlers ended up taking part in the first session of the junior league, with most of the participants being from Drumheller.
The league finished its first six-week session December 15, and will begin a second six-week session in January.
The Junior Curling League is for kids ages eight to eighteen, and Little said there is room in the session that runs from January to March for new year for new curlers. Anyone interested in joining curling for the next session can call the curling club at 403 823-4848.
