Cathy Cummins fires a rock down the ice at a wheelchair curling event hosted by Evergreen Curling Club Sept. 27 at the Lloyd Center in Portland. The club, with the help of the Disabled American Veterans, invited wheelchair athletes to learn the sport under the guidance of U.S. Paralympian Patrick McDonald and Canadian champion Vince Miele.
Last Sunday the Evergreen Curling Club hosted a learn-to-curl event for wheelchair athletes in Portland. With the help of the Disabled American Veterans, the club brought U.S. Paralympian Patrick McDonald up from San Francisco and Canadian champion Vince Miele down from Vancouver to teach the sport to first-time curlers in wheelchairs.
I recently updated my Sportsshooter page with some wheelchair curling photos, including the one above. Here are a couple of outtakes that didn't fit on that page.
[right] U.S. Paralympian Patrick McDonald communes with the ice before teaching the sport to first-time wheelchair curlers. [below] Canadian champion Vince Miele (left) shares a laugh with another curler.
Wheelchair curling at Evergreen Curling Club Saturday, October 03, 2009
Curling season begins! Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Yvonne Liske shows a new curler where to aim his throw Sept. 30 at the Evergreen Curling Club open house in Portland. About 70 novices came to the event for an introduction to the Olympic sport.
Tuesday night was the first open house event of the 2008-09 season for the Evergreen Curling Club. The club plays at the Lloyd Center ice rink from October through April.
The club is running a two-week "novice league" Oct. 7 and Oct. 14. The Fall league starts Oct. 21.
Sports Shooter update (again) Friday, June 15, 2007
I don't have any new images to post today, but I did update my Sports Shooter page with images from the curling and croquet events I shot earlier this week. Check it out at http://www.sportsshooter.com/matthewginn/.
And here is an image that I didn't have enough room for in my member gallery.
Peren Bjork calls the sweeping for Alex Paauwe (left) and Nick Williams June 12 during a reenactment of an 1847 curling match played at Fort Vancouver.
Curling reenactment Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Dressed in period costume, Evergreen Curling Club member Sean Henry delivers a stone Tuesday at the Lloyd Center during a reenactment of a curling game played at Fort Vancouver in 1847.
On a winter day 160 years ago, Hudson's Bay Company employees at Fort Vancouver played a game of curling against sailors from the Modeste, which was docked there at the time.
One of the HBC employees made a note of it in his log. According to his note, the sailors won the game by quite a margin.
Two weeks later, the sides squared off again, but there is no known record of the result.
Apparently this is the first known example of a team sport played in the Northwest. Tonight, with the assistance of the National Park Service, Evergreen Curling Club members challenged sailors on the Hawaiian Chieftain and Lady Washington tall ships to reenact the game.
Becky Horn (left) of the Hawaiian Chieftain and Tara Horn (no relation) of the Lady Washington sweep a stone Tuesday during a reenactment of a curling match played at Fort Vancouver in 1847.
Fort Vancouver supplied period costumes for the curling club participants. The players from the tall ships, which are in town for the Rose Festival, had their own costumes.
The participants played the game in the manner it would have been played in the 1800s, albeit on artificial ice in a shopping mall. They used corn brooms and threw the stones from a standing position without sliding from the hack.
Read more about the reenactment on the Evergreen Curling Club website. Check their links for even more information.
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