MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD) has awarded Minneapolis as the host of the 2025 World Deaf Curling Championships. The event, slated to take place between April 22-May 5 at the Four Seasons Curling Club, located within the Fogerty Ice Arena in Blaine, Minnesota, will welcome the top Deaf curlers from ten nations.
Since its first appearance as a demonstration sport in the 2007 Salt Lake City, Curling has been a fast-growing sport in the Deaf community globally, attracting nearly a dozen teams from throughout the world at the 20th Winter Deaflympics. To build on this positive momentum, USADSF is excited to partner with USA Deaf Curling and the Four Seasons Curling Club to host the 2025 World Deaf Curling Championships.
The Local Organizing Committee (OC), led by Chair Elizabeth Matthews, is formed by a collaboration between the USA Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF), USA Deaf Curling, and the local competition venue, the Four Seasons Curling Club (FSCC). Each of our organizations and the OC are thrilled and excited to welcome participants, fans, and the Deaf sports world to the vibrant city of Minneapolis.
With a population of over 400,000 people, Minneapolis sits on both sides of the mighty Mississippi River, with the famed Saint Anthony Falls at its center. Located at the
traditional, ancestral, and present-day land of the Dakota people, Minneapolis has long had a close relationship with water and ice. The Falls provided the power needed to operate industrial flour mills, powering the city’s growth throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Cold and harsh winters also powered the growth of curling as a winter pastime in the late 19th century, and an important source of recreation for laborers working in local mills, lumberyards, and ice companies. This legacy makes Minneapolis a historic location the 2025 World Deaf Curling Championships.
Four Seasons Curling Club (FSCC) is a premier curling club in the United States, a former U.S. Olympic Training Center, and the first curling club in the country to operate year-round.
The dedicated curling ice, located within the Fogerty Ice Arena in Blaine, Minnesota, features six curling lanes.
In their endorsement letter, USA Curling CEO, Dean Gemmel and Events Director, Aaron Kaylor wrote, "“The Four Seasons Curling club is in the heart of the U.S. curling community and we believe that it will be an excellent host venue.”
Previously, FSCC played host to the 2021 Mixed Doubles qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Trials, the 2017 Mixed Doubles U.S. Olympic Trials, and the 2014 NBC Sports Network Curling Night in America / U.S. Grand Prix.
Additionally, the Organizing Committee will host an awards banquet at the historic Charles Thompson Memorial Hall in nearby St. Paul, designed by the Deaf Architect Olof Hanson in 1916 as a purpose-built Deaf Club. Over a century old, Charles Thompson Hall is today the longest-running Deaf Club in America, and a national historic landmark.