The Charlotte Centre Curling Club is now accepting new members!
You must be a club member to participate in a league as a player or substitute. All club games are held at the Extreme Ice Center in Indian Trail.
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Charlotte Centre Curling Club Membership
Paid annually in November:
$89 via Cash or Check
$92 via Paypal (includes PayPal processing fee)
Benefits include:
- the use of all club equipment (no up-front equipment costs)
- insurance that covers your curling activities in the club
- membership in the Grand National Curling Club (GNCC), the US Curling Association (USCA), and US Women’s Curling Association (USWCA)*
- the right to participate in club activities, such as Learn To Curl events, league curling throughout the year, social events, skill-building activities and bonspiels**
* If you are a member for a full season
** Separate fees may apply for league play, events and activities
To register as a member of the club, click on the links below for the form, payment instructions and appropriate waiver for participation. Complete the form and follow the instructions for payment and submission. You will receive an email from the CCCC when your registration is received.
Charlotte Centre Curling Club Membership Application
Mailing Address:
Charlotte Centre Curling Club
12815 E. Independence Blvd., Suite C
Matthews, NC 28104
Still have questions about the fees? See below for a few Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How is the money from league fees spent?
A: Ice rental at any Ice House is expensive. The standard rental rate at Extreme Ice is $350 per hour. This is the same price charged at our previous location. When we hold a league, we are renting the ice for the time it takes our league to set up, play, and break down, which is roughly 3 hours. We are very fortunate that XIC is working with us in several ways to bear this expense. However, ice rental still costs the club hundreds of dollars per night of league play.
Q: Then why does it only cost $10 to play pickup games?
A: Pickup games are only possible when XIC has not been able to book the ice. XIC charges less than what the ice actually costs them per hour in order to bring people in the door. For them, some people on the ice at $10 per head is better than no people on the ice at all. What they lose in ice rental fees they recover in bar sales when our group comes to play. However, it is a break-even situation for them at best. Again, this is the generosity of XIC at work here. They have offered us this in order to help promote the sport of curling.
Q: Couldn’t we just do pickup games and forget league play?
A: No. XIC only offers pickup games for clubs that are utilizing the ice for league play as well. Remember, they only break even at best when we do pickup and they need to survive as a business. In addition, leagues are a part of our sport. Curling is a competitive sport and one of CCCC’s goals is to foster the growth of this sport – one day we are going to send a team to Olympic play-downs! You can’t do this with informal play.
Q: Doesn’t my membership fee cover part of the ice cost for league play?
A: No. Membership fees only cover part of the cost of running a curling club. In fact, at this point, your membership fees do not even cover all the basics.
Q: What other costs are there to running a club?
A: There are many more costs of running a curling club than you might think. We pay for many things, including liability and specialty insurance for the rocks, and fees to both the USCA and GNCC (the official curling organizations). We had attorney costs to assist with achieving our non-profit status in order to comply with IRS rules. We pay to rent rocks from the GNCC, and when they could not supply us with all the rocks we needed, we had to bite the bullet and purchase a set of rocks outright. All the brooms, stabilizers, sliders and other equipment had to be purchased. Even the circles that went into the ice at our first home had to be paid for by the club. The boxes the rocks live in, the scoreboards - all these things add up to a pretty penny!
Q: Is this more expensive than playing other ice sports?
A: Actually, no. Adult hockey leagues can cost hundreds of dollars per season, not counting the equipment each player must buy for themselves. Figure skating can run into the thousands with private lessons, cost of skates, costumes, etc. Compared to those sports, curling is far less expensive!
If you still have questions, please use the “Contact” form.
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