The Bay Area Curling Club has become a launchpad for curlers representing their home countries, which have no previous connection to curling.
From left to right: Amar Masalmeh, Jose Sepúlveda, Adriana Camarena and Sudheer Reddy; representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Puerto Rico, Mexico and India, respectively. Photo by Kelly Waldron.
He quickly took to the sport and saw the opportunity to compete at a national level, since no one else from Puerto Rico hoped to do so. The island’s only year-round ice rink was permanently closed in 2017 after it was extensively damaged during Hurricane Maria. This weekend, for instance, Adriana Camarena, a Mission resident and Mexico City native, will be flying to Kelowna, Canada, to compete for Team México in the Pan Continental Curling Championships in the A division, a direct qualifier to the world championships — the World Cup of curling. and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.“It’s just unusual because we are becoming a little club of emerging countries of curling,” said Camarena.
“You complement your opponent,” said Camarena, “That’s a great shot, now it’s my turn to make a good one.”
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