Ladies Branch

Welcome to the Royal Club Ladies’ Branch Page where you can find out what is happening in Ladies’ curling within Scotland.

The Ladies’ branch of the Royal Club fosters and encourages the game of curling within Scotland for female curlers and promotes worldwide friendship among female curlers. Through our ice centres a representative of each sits on the Ladies’ Standing Committee (LSC) along with a merchandising officer and  executive of President, Vice President, Junior Vice President and Treasurer. Through our committee we also provide representatives to the various Royal Club committees. We gain and give of knowledge and opinions to the various committees which in turn form part of the running of our Royal Club. At our monthly meetings the business of LSC and the Royal Club is discussed and in turn brought back to the ice centres for distribution to curlers through our representatives.

We run the Henderson Bishop Trophy with the finals taking place in Inverness hosted by Northern County Ladies’ in Febrauary. The venue being decided upon by a bid process through LSC.  Qualifiers for the final take place at ice centres throughout the season with the draw for these being carried out by the LSC executive. The Morton Trophy with the final being held in Kirkcaldy in March is also run through LSC divided into sections, North, South, East and West. The games played within the sections are organised by the Morton Secretaries from each ice centre.  The Unders and Overs competition being a rink consisting of two players under 25 years of age and 2 over, encompassing the role of Ladies Branch to foster and encourage our game of curling, is also organised by our committee.

LSC assist in the forming of teams to contest the Connie Miller Trophy which is one of the trophy’s played for during The Four Nations weekend. The Connie Miller is played between England and Scotland, presently held by England. The weekend will take place at Greenacres in January.

The European qualifiers take place in Perth in October. In January the Scottish Junior Final will be played in Aberdeen. The Scottish Senior Ladies Final in Lanarkshire and Scottish Ladies Finals in Perth both in February.

Ladies Branch sell a range of merchandise which assists with our commitment to our sport, this being available through ice centre representatives and our merchandising officer.

Ladies’ Branch can be followed through our facebook page The Royal Caledonian Curling Club Ladies’ Branch  and The Royal Club website.

Best Wishes for a the season 2011 – 2012

Claire McLaren Ladies ‘ Branch President