2025-2026 Membership runs from September 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026
Membership Level |
Member Rate |
Per Game Fee Member |
Per Game Fee Non Member |
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Gold Level- includes drop in/pickup/practices, subbing, leagues, one-day member bonspiels, one entry for LTEC Bonspiel, locker, and broom holder (as available). Silver Level- includes drop in/pickup/practices, subbing, no leagues, and broom holder and locker as available. Bronze Membership (age 22 and up) - pay per use/session for each game, League, practice or Drop In. Includes broom holder. |
$1,000.00
$500.00
$100.00 |
$0
$0
$25 |
n/a
n/a
$30 |
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Student/Junior/Youth |
$40.00 |
$5-Youth |
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Reciprocal (With primary membership in a MoPac Club and Voting Rights for LTEC) |
$50.00 |
$25.00 |
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Social (come just for the fun) |
$40.00 |
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Per Game/Practice Fee |
$25.00 |
$30.00 |
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Punch Cards for play-10 Sessions |
$200.00 |
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Leagues tbd by # of games in series |
$150.00 |
Membership includes:
- One-year basic Membership for USA Curling and Mountain Pacific Curling Association, Curling News Magazine, and Insurance Access to
- Skills, Programs, and Coaching
- Eligible for all League Play, Bonspiels, and Club Events, including member-only events
- Right to vote in club elections and to serve on the Board of Directors
- Volunteering Opportunities
- Access to Locker and Broom holder Rentals
Curling Tips
I suggest the following steps to help you throw accurately (to throw "on broom"):
- Wait until your skip puts the brush head down on the ice and stops moving it around. You now have your target: it's that immobile brush head.
- When you get in the hack, you need to be facing that target! Make sure your hips are square to the target.
- Draw an imaginary line from your hack foot to your target. Note where your imaginary line intersects the tee line (the short line that goes through the center of the house).
- When you push off from the hack, you want to slide through that intersection point! First the center of the stone, and then your gliding foot, and then your trailing foot should all pass more or less through that point. That means that you and the stone are sliding toward your target. And it implies that the stone is pretty much lined up with both of your feet; if you're holding the stone way off to one side of your gliding foot, then it's probably not going to go where you want it to go.
- When you release your stone, it should continue merrily sliding straight toward your target. At some point, its rotation (remember that when you release your stone, you give it some gentle rotation!) will cause it to curve away from your target and right toward where your skip really wanted the stone to go.
In steps 2, 4, and 5, it's really easy to get focused on the center line (the long line going all the way down the ice through the center of the sheet). If you do that, then you'll be facing down the center line and/or sliding down the center line and/or releasing along the center line—and most likely none of those are what you want. I tell a lot of novice curlers that their toughest job is to ignore the center line.
Good curling,
Ray