Campus has a club team, and, as a matter of fact, its members are the reigning champs in college curling. The Curling Club of UW–Madison (CCUW) officially became a club sport at the UW just ahead of the 2023–24 season, which the team capped off by winning the College Curling National Championship in March 2024. During this last bonspiel of the season, held up nort’ in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, the Badgers brought the hammer down on Princeton University in the final match, earning a sweeping 10-1 victory. Another UW system team, UW–Stevens Point, took fourth in a field of 16 teams from across the nation. Wisconsinites have a long history of throwing stones. The Badger yearbook explains there was a club formed as early as 1892, but references to campus curling clubs are spotty throughout the following century. These early curlers could not have foreseen Mason Maeder x’26 re-establishing a club through Snapchat 110 years later when he started his freshman year at the UW. The CCUW is currently working towards a chance to defend its title in 2025 — one more bonspiel, the Midwest Regional Championship in February, will determine this year’s national qualifiers. Good luck and good curling!