Sista Hats
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WBM april 2018
The object of curling is to get the stones
into the house. All stones of the same
color closer to the center than the other
team's score points.
intriguing. There’s a lot of skill involved,
and it’s like a chess match. Both my wife
and I were interested. When we saw that
there was a curling club here and they did a
Learn To Curl, we signed up to check it out.
It’s fun. It’s not something that everybody
does.”
Allen did his Learn To Curl after the
Sochi Olympics and quickly got hooked.
So much so that you wouldn’t want to
compete against him if there were such a
thing as fantasy curling.
“I follow it like a lot of people follow
football,” he says. “There is a world tour.
Each country has their own champion-ships.
There’s worlds, there’s the Olympics.
There’s teams and there’s free agents. You
can actually really follow the sport like you
can follow any of the major sports here.”
The Wilmington curlers tend to be
Southerners who are relatively new to the
sport rather than snowbirds who brought
the sport with them.
Crowell is originally from Charlotte
and has lived in Wilmington for 39 years.
Jacobs is from Leland. Allen was born in
Tennessee and has lived most of his life in
North Carolina. Sarah Woods, another who
joined after the Sochi Olympics, was born
in Wilmington.
“It’s not something that’s common in
the Southern states,” she says. “I like the
strategy. It’s definitely like chess on ice. I
like the competitiveness. We have all walks
of life. I’m a student, I ride horses. We have
a dentist, we have architects, we have
retirees. We have people from all walks of
life come out here for curling.”
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