History in the Making: The Club's Second 8-Ender!

For every sport, there is one outstanding nearly impossible achievement that its athletes one day strive for. In curling, this achievement is known as an eight-ender – a rare feat where one curling team scores eight points in a single end requiring them to place all eight of their stones closest to the center button.

Often compared to scoring a 200-yard hole-in-one shot in golf or a triple bulls-eye in archery or a 300 game in 10 pin bowling, an eight-ender is an elusive occurrence in curling. This achievement is said to “push the limits of curling probability,” but is known to happen in the rarest of occasions.

The Chesapeake Curling Club is proud to announce it had only its second eight-ender occur on February 3, 2007, during the Mid-Atlantic Curling Association Friendly Bonspiel. The team included John Schmidt and Jeanne Henkel, of the Chesapeake Curling Club; and Melanie Dubberley and Dave Caper, of the Plainfield Curling Club. The first was in the mid-1980s when Chesapeake’s team of Wick Dudley, Chet Whitlock, Ross Roloson and Brett Shortall scored an eight-ender against a Potomac Curling Club team.

The club congratulates these curlers on this outstanding and elusive achievement.

Read a story that ran in the local Star Democrat about the event.

The Chesapeake Curling Club is a member of:
Grand National Curling Club	U.S. Curling Association	U.S. Women's Curling Association