Denver curler heading to Beijing for Paralympics

While Denver’s passionate curling community rejoices in TV coverage of the sport at the Beijing Olympics, one member of the Denver Curling Club has been watching with eager anticipation.

Before the Denver Curling Center opened in 2014, Denver curlers had to rent ice time at a hockey rink in Littleton and there were only about 150 members, according to the club’s event coordinator and past president, Pam Finch. Within a year after moving into the new facility located between Lakewood and Golden, just north of the Sixth Avenue freeway, the club more than doubled in membership.

During the first weekend of the Olympics, the Denver club held an open house with 20 one-hour sessions selling out, attracting more than 600 people.Team USA wheelchair curler Pam Wilson moves a stone into place during practice at the Denver Curling Center Feb. 17, 2022. Wilson is headed to Beijing to compete in the 2022 Paralympics.

When Joyce McLaren enrolled her son, Justin, in a learn-to-curl night for teenagers at the Denver Curling Center almost six years ago, she just thought it was a sport he might enjoy trying. Justin liked it so much he joined a junior league, and it wasn’t long before Joyce McLaren was curling as well.

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