{"id":19,"date":"2016-02-24T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:27:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curling has been a club sport at Bowdoin for 15 years, welcoming curlers of all abilities (including ones who have never even seen snow)! We practice Thursday nights at 9pm on the Watson Arena rink and have some Sunday practices at Belfast Curling Club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-188\" src=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM-300x193.png\" alt=\"bowdoin curling team 2001\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM-1024x660.png 1024w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM-1536x991.png 1536w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM-1200x774.png 1200w, https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/curling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-16-at-10.56.13-PM.png 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In 2011, we were the College Curling USA 4th Division National Championship winner. 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