Auckland

26 Oct 2010 – The Northern Lights team of Lorne DePape, Dean Fotti and Jo Norman won a hotly contested Auckland Open Bonspiel over Labour Weekend, heading off J3 (Josh Dallow, Jon Jaksic and Jarred Jaksic) in a final match that was much tighter that the score of 10-5 would suggest.

18 Oct 2010 – For the third year running, Auckland Curling Club's Premier League Final was a last-stone thriller. And for the third year running, the skip of the winning team was a Scotsman called Kenny.

Last year Kenny Thomson led A.R.S.E. to a dramatic extra-end win to take the Cameron Shield, and this year Altitude's Kenny Williamson clinched the title with his last stone to repeat his team's 2008 victory.

13 Sep 2010 – The Shy Teds – Kieran Ford, Brett Sargon, Raegan Lupi and Jed Tan – came out of their shells to win a short and sharp 2010 Auckland Under-21 Curling Championship at Paradice Avondale on Sunday 12 September. But the result was in doubt until the last stone.

23 Aug 2010 – It was Auckland's Under-21 curlers who took the honours in the 2010 Auckland Mixed Doubles Curling Championship at Paradice Avondale on Sunday 22 August.

Chelsea Farley and Keswick Pearson won the trophy with a perfect record, while Chelsea's sister Tessa and Kieran Ford took the runner-up spot. Another Auckland junior, Eleanor Adviento, teamed up with 2006 Olympian Lorne DePape to claim third.

2 Aug 2010 – Even after the last stones had been played in the final round robin games at Auckland on Sunday 25 July, it was still unclear what the line-up would be when the 2010 Championship rounds started the following week.

The top three in each pool (plus one other) qualify for the A Division championship – but one pool had 3 teams tied for third place.

Kieran Ford at the 2010 Bonspiel

13 Jul 2010 – For the first time in the club was founded in 1996, Auckland Curling Club entered two teams in the Bonspiel called earlier this month.

New Zealand is one of the few countries where curling is still often played in the traditional crampit style. There are regular competitions on artificial ice (indoors at Dunedin and Gore, outdoors at Alexandra and Naseby), and other competitions are played on natural ice when the weather and ice conditions allow.

17 May 2010 – A record number of teams in this year's Auckland Curling league has created a welcome headache for club organisers.

Club president Peter Taylor says that curlers cannot get enough ice time for teams to play every week. "We now have 20 teams entered in our league", he said. "However, we can only accommodate two rounds of games - 16 teams - on a club night, so some sides are forced to sit out each week".

8 March 2010 – A record crowd filled the ice rink at Paradice Avondale for Auckland Curling’s public "Have A Go" sessions on Sunday evening. Exposure from TV coverage of the Vancouver Olympics was the key to the increased interest said Club President Peter Taylor.

"We had a lot of people say that they really got their first proper look at the game during the Winter Olympics coverage," said Mr Taylor. "And once they appreciated the skill and the subtleties of curling, people really wanted to try it out for themselves."

9 Dec 2009 – Auckland Curling finished its 2009 season with a Mixed Doubles mini-tournament last Sunday, played alongside the final rounds of the Auckland Under-21 Championship at Paradice Avondale.