World Curling Academy

24/08/2023

The World Curling Academy has graduated eleven new Technical Coaches from the Lillehammer Youth Curling Camp. And what an amazing group representing Denmark, England, Estonia, Hungary, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, and Slovenia. World Curling Federation Lillehammer Olympic Legacy Sports Centre

03/03/2023

New webinar series with the Technical Commission!

07/10/2022

Relive the fun from the Youth Camp in Lillehammer 🥳 Lillehammer Olympic Legacy Sports Centre

The World Curling Federation, in cooperation with the Olympic Solidarity Programme of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and with the support of the L...

06/10/2022

Meet the latest European Ice Tech educators!

👋 From left to right: Asmus Jorgensen (DEN), Mark Callan (SCO), Ingvild Skaga (NOR), Ivan Moglia (ITA) and and Margrietha Voskuilen (NED)

28/09/2022

The World Curling Academy Ice Tech course in Korea has been a success! 👏 Well done on completing your certifications.

23/09/2022

Congratulations to these newly certified Ice Techs!

Thanks to Korea Curling and Mark Callan for teaching nearly 40 people how to make world class ice! 👏👏

24/08/2022

The World Curling Federation, in cooperation with the Olympic Solidarity Programme of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and with the support of the Lillehammer Olympic Legacy Sports Centre (LOLSC) and the Norwegian Curling Association as hosts, held the World Curling Academy Youth Training C...

19/08/2022

Not only did we have a camp running here in Lillehammer, Norway. We also were able to certify the first Technical Coach Level 1 graduates. Congratulations to the 8 Coaches and 4 Youth Leaders who will be able to use their skills to teach curling globally. The sport is lucky to have you.

19/08/2022

The first WCF Lillehammer Youth Curling Camp is now in the books. It has been six fantastic days of curling, learning, and most importantly, friendship.

We were honoured to have WCF President Kate Caithness virtually join the camp to wish all of those in attendance her best wishes. From there, it was back on the ice and we completely mixed up the teams so no team had two players from the same nation. It was hard to get the curlers off the ice to close the camp.

Thanks to everyone involved. The Spirit of Curling is alive and well in Lillehammer, Norway.

They say that a photo is worth a thousand words so I will let the photos do the talking.


World Curling Federation Lillehammer Olympic Legacy Sports Centre
Latvijas Kērlinga Asociācija (Latvian Curling Association) Curling Zemst Dansk Curling Forbund Australian Curling Federation KENYA curling federation Federatia Romana de Curling Belgian Curling Association Kerlingas Lietuvoje / Curling in Lithuania Монголын Кёрлингийн Холбоо/Mongolian Curling Federation

18/08/2022

It’s hard to believe we only have one more day of camp. Time flies when everyone is having so much fun.

The contributions that people make to ensure a great camp for the athletes are always appreciated but sometimes, some individuals go above and beyond. When we arrived at the curing rink today, Youth Leader Njål Kongssund, and Danish team coach Ulrik Schmidt, were preparing the ice for us. A big thanks from the whole camp.

Our class session today was all about planning. Teams determined their playing order and started to work on their season plans. Not a simple task when your goal is to get to the Youth Olympic Games.

The weather did not cooperate with our plans to hike to the Olympic ski jump but the weather looks better tomorrow so we can only hope for the best. Curling is an indoor sport so there was no problem getting on the ice twice today. The first session was all about practicing what’s been learned and the team coaches ran the athletes through multiple drills.

The second session was a game where teams were comprised of two players from one nation and two from another. What a great way to make new friends and enjoy some of the Spirit of Curling. During the session, a local videographer came by to work on a camp video and to take the camp photo (but you will have to wait until tomorrow’s post to see that photo).

Although dinner is usually non-eventful (no food fights… yet), it sure wasn’t tonight. WCF Vice President Bent Ramsfjell and his teammate Pål Trulsen joined the camp for a meal and to show their gold medal from the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Just a little more inspiration for the campers.

One more sleep, one more day of camp.


World Curling Federation Lillehammer Olympic Legacy Sports Centre Latvijas Kērlinga Asociācija (Latvian Curling Association) Federatia Romana de Curling Belgian Curling Association Curling Zemst Dansk Curling Forbund Australian Curling Federation KENYA curling federation Kerlingas Lietuvoje / Curling in Lithuania Монголын Кёрлингийн Холбоо/Mongolian Curling Federation