Hailey Lachapelle leaves the blocks during Monday’s school curling lesson at the Williams Lake Curling Club.

Hailey Lachapelle leaves the blocks during Monday’s school curling lesson at the Williams Lake Curling Club.

School curlers pick up the game

Lake City secondary students are sharpening their curling skills as future, potential Olympic hopefuls.

  • Jan. 31, 2014 12:00 p.m.

As Canada and the rest of the world prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Lake City secondary students are sharpening their curling skills as future, potential Olympic hopefuls.

Mike Wilson’s Grade 7 physical education class recently took part in four curling sessions at the Williams Lake Curling Club.

Volunteer coaches from the WLCC said coming in to the school curling lessons with little to limited experience, it was remarkable to see how much they learned about how to play the game in just a short amount of time.

Grade 7 Ryanne Jones, when asked how she liked curling, simply said: “It was awesome.”

 

Williams Lake Tribune