Tennessee curlers earned second place at College Nationals (Division 3). UT has now had curlers...

Tennessee curlers earned second place at College Nationals (Division 3). UT has now had curlers earn medals at both nationals and regionals for at least three years running.

And by all appearances, curling will be a registered club sport at UT beginning in the fall, making Tennessee the first college in the South to have an official curling club.

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That's great!

Congrats

by golfballs03 on Mar 16, 2010 12:18 PM EDT reply actions

Is that the official hoodie

of UTK Curling? If so, where can I get one?

by ChattVol on Mar 16, 2010 1:42 PM EDT reply actions

We don't have official gear yet, but I'll keep that in mind.

That’s just a hoodie I got on clearance from the bookstore a year ago or so. However, we are planning on making up curling attire of some form. If that’s something that people might like to get, I can let you know once we have something. That probably won’t be until the fall, though.

However, I don’t want to use RTT as a platform for shilling curling stuff. It becomes a slippery slope for other ventures as well, so I’ll have to figure a different way around that.

by David Hooper on Mar 16, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions

It would be so cool...

to have a Univ. of TN Curling hoodie!

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti

by sddbaker on Mar 16, 2010 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Note to self:

Curling gear is cool. I’ll remember that.

by David Hooper on Mar 16, 2010 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions

You seriously expecting massive sales of curling-related apparel?

I mean, it is cool – especially because of the Winter Olympics and all, but

shilling for a few shillings from UT culring apparel isn’t going to be a huge breach of ethics.

by memphispete on Mar 17, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm lys-dexic s/b curling - not culring...

by memphispete on Mar 17, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions

No, I'm not.

We were going to create some team apparel – perhaps a t-shirt and a hoodie design. I just hadn’t though about offering the opportunity for non-curlers to buy it.

No, obviously there isn’t a serious market out there for UT curling stuff.

by David Hooper on Mar 17, 2010 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions