The 2018 Winter Olympics may be over, but your dream of becoming a world-class curler is just beginning.
The sport that everybody loves but nobody understands has earned a cult following in the Gateway City, and the St. Louis Curling Club is here for it. Becca Walters, curling club president, tells Riverfront Times that interest has grown steadily since the club's inception in 2010 but has exploded with this year's Winter Olympics, during which the U.S. men's team captured the gold medal.
"By the end of that first [Olympic] weekend, we had already filled all of the 'Learn to Curl' dates we had posted on the website, and that was about 400 spots," Walters marvels.
Even St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright is a fan:
If you didn't know that St. Louis has curling experts with mad skills, you're not alone.…