Feature

I recently had the opportunity to chat with the people behind the Nordic Junior Curling Tour and the Lillehammer Youth Curling Camp to talk about this year’s camp.

We talked about the challenges of running a digital camp, creating a connection between the campers, showing that there are more pathways into sport than being an athlete and all their plans to grow the camp in the future.

Their ethos of creating good human beings, not just good curlers was a really inspiring aspect of our chat. The full feature is available on the World Curling Federation website.

When I work a curling event my writing is usually centred around digital media, or game and session reporting. It’s not often I get to spend the time to write feature articles for the World Curling Federation.

I’m working the World Mixed Curling Championship in Aberdeen this week and amongst all the usual jobs I have to do, a feature story made itself obvious to me. New Zealand Curling have started a programme where they send players to other countries for six months, to live and work in the curling community and learn as much as they can.

This week, two of those curlers were competing at the event and I had the opportunity to sit down with them to chat about the program, their background and their experiences so far.

If you’d like to read it, you can find it on the World Curling Federation website.