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Harvard has some of its own exceptional curlers, among them third-year Law School student and Ec 10 TF Charles P. Bronowski. Originally a collegiate hockey player at Rutgers University, Bronowski started curling four years ago. He helped Harvard’s Curling Club place third in the College Nationals two years ago and is currently a member of the Broomstones Club, which curls five times a week in Whaling, Mass...
...game of rocks, ice, special brooms and strategy. The sport is played between two teams of four that slide 42-pound granite rocks down a 140-by-15 foot sheet of ice toward a target. “It is kind of like chess on ice,” Bronowski says. “You basically want your rock closest to the dot, but you have to think three or four rocks in advance because your rock can be knocked...
Naturally, players do not throw this huge projectile across the ice, but rather slide it from a crouched-down starting position that involves sliding on one foot and somehow not falling over. As Bronowski more elegantly explains, the move looks kind of like an eagle soaring. Players can alter the direction of the rock by curling their wrist left or right, while their teammates assist as well by sweeping the ice in front of the traveling rock for a nice, smooth ride...
...While Bronowski is no longer an official member of the Curling Club, the aspiring financial lawyer curls with the group occasionally and is optimistic about its rock-throwing potential. “They’re only a few years away from placing in nationals again,” he says...
...club will have to do it without him, though. Next year Bronowski will go from Harvard to a job at a Wall Street law firm. He has the job all lined up and he’s already narrowed down the neighborhood where he’d like to live. “Next to the curling club, of course,” he says...