Scottish Heavy Athletics

 

Links to Scottish Heavy Athletics websites:

(Thanks to Bruce Locken)

 

Scottish Curling

 

MoPac - Mountain Pacific Curling Association's Google Group

TIME's Sean Gregory learns how to hurl some Scottish stone down a sheet of ice with the U.S. Olympic Curling Team.

The Wine Country Curling Club goal is to promote the sport of curling in Solano, Napa and neighboring counties. During curling season, the club curls on Saturday evenings 6 PM to 11PM at Vacaville Ice Sports in Vacaville, Ca. WCC accepts people of all physical abilities. Previous experience is not required. WCC is a member of the United States Curling Association and Mountain Pacific Curling Region

Our HOUSE is at Vacaville Ice Sports, 551 Davis Street, Vacaville, CA 95688 - 707-374-3920

WCC Website

Email WCC

Yahoo Mailing List

Club Telephone: (707) 638-7005

Click for An Intro to Curling

Curling involves teams of four trying to knock an opponents 42 pound stones out of a circle and having your stones closest to the center to earn points.

COME LEARN TO PLAY THE COOLEST OLYMPIC SPORT IN TOWN.

Inquiry can be made by calling Jerome Larson (707) 374-3920 or email at jlcurler@frontiernet.net.

San Francisco Curling Club

 

Shinty

Come play Scotland's oldest team sport - Camanachd also known as Shinty. The club is open to male and female participation, no previous experience is required. We have loaner equipment and periodically schedule new player sessions to focus on basic skills and rules of the game.

Camanachd, also known as Shinty, has been played in the Highlands of Scotland for over 2000 years. It's a game of the stick and ball variety, similar to Field Hockey and Irish Hurling. There is also a similarity to Golf, in fact Golf is believed to have evolved from Shinty. Shinty played properly is more aerial than Field Hockey due to the wedge-shaped head of the Shinty Stick (called Caman in Scots Gaelic). Check out our website for photos of camans and the rules of the game as well as our schedule. We have a wide range of ability from beginning level players of various ages to experienced players who have played in Scotland. So far we are mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area, with teams in the South Bay, Peninsula and the East Bay.

Northern California Camanachd Club - e-mail

US Camanachd - e-mail

The governing body for Camanachd in Scotland

Note: Skye Camanachd (team) will be coming over for the 2009 Pleasanton Games to play and we are heading over in Sept after Pleasanton to compete in Scotland. www.skyecamanachd.com/