Missed registration for Fall 2026 leagues and don't want to wait until January to curl? We have good news — we have a few spots available in select fall leagues!

You can join the following leagues in progress:

• Sundays at 12 PM: 2 spots available
• Sundays at 4:30 PM: 1 spot available
• Sundays at 6:45 PM: 1 spot available

To register at a prorated rate, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We are continuing to move forward efforts to open a 5-sheet dedicated curling center in the Omaha metro at 7413 Irvington Road. The building is a new-build warehouse that is being constructed and will be available for leasing in August. The building has a 18,577sf space available that will easily accommodate 5 sheets with plenty of space for a warm room with tables and chairs, small bar, and bathrooms. (Read our recent updates from March and April).

Here are some of our latest updates:

We want to share an important update with you about Aksarben Curling’s efforts to build a dedicated curling community center in the Omaha metro.

Property identified and assessed
As you may recall from our March 2026 update, we identified a warehouse that is being constructed and will be online this August. The space is at 7413 Irvington Road not far from the I-680 and Irvington/Blair exit. Our team has conducted preliminary test fits for the 18,577sf space and it will easily accommodate 5 sheets and plenty of space for a warm room with tables and chairs, small bar, and bathrooms. The proposed lease rate is within our budget. The buildout costs are similar to that of the revised costs for The Courts volleyball space that we assessed in the fall and winter, and as such the space on Irvington Road is within our fundraising capacity. Moreover, the owner of the property is supportive of this space being used for curling. [read more]

Join us in celebrating the wedding of Paul Bernady and Linda Arthur! Paul and Linda have selected Aksarben Curling as one of their charitable recipients for wedding registry donations. Their team, The Cult of Cornbread, won their winter league and went on to have a winning record at the Katie Beck Cup Season Championship.

Paul and Linda would like to help fundraise towards Aksarben Curling's mission to build a dedicated curling facility in Omaha. This new facility would give us the opportunity to expand ice availability and programming, provide high quality curling ice, and better serve the community. Having a dedicated curling facility will help fulfill Aksarben Curling's mission to make curling a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by all ages, skill levels, and physical abilities, and build an inclusive and welcoming community through the spirit of curling.

Donate online with a credit card:

Donate with a check:

Mail a check payable to Aksarben Curling (note 'Bernady/Arthur' in the memo) to:

Aksarben Curling
PO Box 24458
Omaha, NE 68124

If you're looking for a way to beat the heat this summer, then join us for summer curling at Baxter Arena! We're coordinating three Summer Leagues in 2026:

• Monday Doubles at 5:45 PM: 9 weeks starting June 1
• Monday 7:30 PM: 9 weeks starting June 1
• Tuesday 7:00 PM: 8 weeks starting June 2

We will also have an open sheet for practice ice / drop-in curling on Mondays at 7:30 PM and Tuesdays at 7:00 PM. Browse practice ice dates and sign-up online on our Event Registrations page.

We want to share new updates with you about Aksarben Curling’s efforts to build a dedicated curling community center in the Omaha metro.

‘Office Hours’ this weekend with Aksarben Curling President Nic Swiercek
First, I want to share that I’ll be on hand at Baxter Arena this Saturday, March 14 during and between Saturday leagues (2pm-6:45pm) and Sunday leagues on March 15 (11:45am-7pm) to visit with members and share more about our vision for the project and our process thus far. Look for me off ice and around the bleachers. I’m happy to visit with folks, hear your ideas, and answer your questions. Read more:

We're coordinating four Spring Leagues in 2026:

• Mondays at 7 PM:  7 weeks starting March 16
• Tuesdays at 7 PM: 5 weeks starting March 31
• Wednesdays at 7 PM: 6 weeks starting March 18 — new league!
• Fridays at 7 PM: 4 weeks starting March 27

Registration opens on Saturday, February 28 at 10:00 AM.

Registration will be first-come, first-serve. You don't have to have a full team — our league coordinators will help form teams!

We want to share new updates with you about Aksarben Curling’s efforts to build a dedicated curling community center in the Omaha metro.

As you may recall from recent updates, we shifted our focus away from building a new facility to finding a space in the metro to retrofit and lease. We’ve secured updated ice making equipment costs, refined our projected operating budget for a lease model, and have been evaluating prospective properties and the total associated costs (equipment, buildout, labor and fees, reserve funds, etc). Read more:

In October 2025, Aksarben Curling had two teams compete in the 2025 USA Curling Arena National Championship at CurlVegas in Las Vegas, NV: Team Ridder on the men's side and Team Linke on the women's side. We're proud to have had Aksarben represented in both divisions at this year's championship!

Team Ridder
Doug Michel (lead), David Hill (skip, second), Nic Swiercek (third), Nic Ridder (vice, fourth), and Isaiah Jacobsen (alternate)

Team Linke
Ralph Roza (coach), Buffy Linke (skip), Kali Odd (alternate), Meredith Daniels (vice), Lois Imig (lead), and Julia Castle (second)

In August 2025, Team Ridder finished in the semi-finals at MACA Regional Playdowns and later qualified for nationals through the Last Chance Bonspiel at LaCrosse Curling in September 2025. In 2024, Team Ridder won the silver medal at the Arena National Championship in Wausau, WI and was looking to capture another medal in 2025. Team Ridder won all five of their pool matches (two in extra ends!) to finish pool play undefeated and secure a bye into the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, they defeated Grand Rapids Curling's Team Shlimovitz to face DFW Curling's Team Myers in the gold/silver game. After a close game tied after 6 ends, Team Myers pulled ahead with a 2-point lead after 7 ends to ultimately prevail with handshakes in the 8th end, securing the gold for DFW (their 6th!) and a back-to-back silver medal for Team Ridder and Aksarben Curling!

Congratulations to Team Ridder's Nic Ridder, David Hill, Doug Michel, Nic Swiercek, and Isaiah Jacobsen!

Aksarben's Team Linke finished third overall in the MACA Regional Playdowns and later qualified for nationals at the Last Chance Bonspiel at LaCrosse Curling in September 2025, going undefeated in their double round robin. While Team Linke did not advance from pool play at natioanls, Team Linke finished with the top DSC scores across all 24 teams in the women's and men's fields!

We're really proud of Aksarben Curling's curlers and all of the work they did to make it to the national stage and represent our club and community! Read more about this year's event at Stones and Stripes.

Special thank you to all of the Aksarben Curling members back home who cheered on Team Ridder and Team Linke remotely from Omaha at home and at our livestream watch parties! We continue to have the gold medalists of cheering back home!

Congratulation to all of the 2025 USA Curling Arena National Champions:

Men's division
Gold: Team Myers (DFW Curling, Mid-America Curling Association)
Silver: Team Ridder (Aksarben Curling, Mid-America Curling Association)
Bronze: Team Spangler (Mountain Pacific Curling Association)

Women's Division
Gold: Team Weber (Sioux Falls Curling, Dakota Curling Association)
Silver: Team Robertsons (DFW Curling, Mid-America Curling Association)
Bronze: Team Asis (Silicon Valley Curling, Mountain Pacific Curling Association)

Thank you to all of the amazing hosts at CurlVegas, all of the ice technicians who made the ice amazing all week, and all of the staff and officials at USA Curling for running such a great event!

The new 2025-2026 curling season kicks off this September! Here's our blog previewing the upcoming season! [read more]

The next Aksarben Curling member feature is none other than Erin Palmer! 

Erin was born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida where she grew up playing many sports like basketball, softball, and cross country. She got her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida (GO GATORS!) and currently works from home as a civil engineer for a firm out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Erin moved to Charlotte, where she married her now-husband, shortly after graduating from their separate universities. They moved to Lincoln, Nebraska two years ago so her husband could begin his law school education (and finally be an in-person Husker fan!). They currently reside in Lincoln with their Siberian husky, Ghost, and orange cat, Boba Fett. 

This spring, we're offering practice ice and drop-in curling for Aksarben Curling members who have a 2024-2025 season membership. One sheet will be open alongside the Friday 7pm league for 2 hours. Members may practice, run drills, scrimmage, or play pick-up games with other members (full games, doubles, etc.). Remaining dates include:

• Friday, July 25 at 7 PM
• Friday, August 1 at 7 PM

We will also have a drop-in practice for Aksarben Curling members on Tuesday, August 5 from 7pm-9pm. Members will pay at the Holland Ice concession stand ($10 for one hour, $20 for two hours).

Please plan to help with cleaning your sheet and putting away equipment once you are finished.

Note: We cannot guarantee that you will have enough people on hand to play with full teams.

Also members: Don't forget to sign up for our Substitute Curler list this summer (must be logged in to access). All members whose membership is current for the 2024-2025 season (good through August) can sub for free in our three Summer Leagues: Monday 5:45 PM doubles, Tuesday 7 PM, and Friday 7 PM.

This September, we're offering practice ice and drop-in curling for Aksarben Curling members who have a 2025-2026 season membership. Two sheets will be open alongside the Sunday 2:15pm league for 2 hours. Members may practice, run drills, scrimmage, or play pick-up games with other members (full games, doubles, etc.). Remaining dates include:

• Sunday, September 28 at 2:15 PM

Please plan to help with cleaning your sheet and putting away equipment once you are finished.

Note: We cannot guarantee that you will have enough people on hand to play with full teams.

Aksarben Curling is excited to feature Kali Odd!

Kali is originally from Loveland, CO, but has been in Nebraska for a while now. She is the oldest of four kids (shoutout to Kadia, Cleveland, and Abbey!) and considers her undergrad roommate’s family her own too (another shoutout to Zaidya, Caylan, Kitra, and Janea!). Kali earned her doctorate in gerontology from the University of Nebraska - Omaha in May 2024. Currently, she works for a nonprofit called The Collective of Hope which provides free grief support to the community. She is also an adjunct instructor for the Department of Gerontology at UNO. 

While Kali does miss the mountains and her family back in Colorado, she chose to stay in Omaha because of the amazing curling community! Kali began curling in January 2022. Later that year, she helped start the UNO

Throughout the history of Aksarben Curling, Sigrid Festersen led, served, and provided continuity from one generation to the next. She saw our organization through successes, setbacks, building moves, and explosive growth. Our Sigrid Festersen Volunteer of the Year Award provides a way for us to honor Aksarben Curling members who go above and beyond in the same spirit as she did.

This year, the Aksarben Curling Board of Directors voted to honor Nate Wendel with this award.

As an arena club, we totally lucked out when Baxter’s Ice Manager got hooked on curling. While much of what Nate does for us does fall under his official job duties, he has continuously gone above and beyond to bring us the best ice possible.

He’s dug into best practices for ice at arena clubs and educated his zamboni drivers on what we need for a good ice surface. And when it comes time to set up the ice for a league or event, Nate is always out on the ice to help.

During our ice’s most negative times, he was doing what he could to counteract the heaving beneath the floor. Nate’s research and outreach to other arenas ultimately led to a solution to the problem and brought our ice back to what it has been in the past – one of the best surfaces for curling in a non-dedicated facility. Better ice contributes to the overall health and continued growth of Aksarben Curling, and we appreciate all that Nate has done to give us the best curling experience possible.

About Sigrid Festersen
Throughout the history of Aksarben Curling, Sigrid Festersen led, served, and provided continuity from one generation to the next. She was a terrific curler and an advocate for women's curling everywhere. She saw our organization through successes, setbacks, building moves, and explosive growth.

All future success of curling in Omaha can be traced back to a foundation Sigrid was so deeply involved with. While we lost Sigrid in 2022, Sigrid’s spirit lives on within our organization.

Read more about Sigrid Festersen and her legacy with Aksarben Curling.

On April 11-13, 2025, Aksarben Curling hosted its Season Championship bonspiel at Baxter Arena. The event featured sixteen teams including the champions of our 12 fall and winter leagues, our top college league team, the 2023-2024 defending champs, and two wild card lottery teams.

Teams competed for the Katie Beck Championship Cup, our annual trophy honoring the legacy of Katie Beck, one of Aksarben Curling's most accomplished curlers. Read more about Katie Beck's legacy and curlers' memories of Katie Beck.

Teams played in 4-team groups that broke into semi-finals and finals. Participating teams included:

Group A
Freeze Agents (Fall Sunday 12pm champ)
Stone Cold FA (Winter Tuesday 8pm champ)
The Long Shots (Fall Sunday 2:15pm champ)
Dinosaur Means Stop (Wild Card)

Group B
Spice Curls (Winter Sunday 4:30pm champ)
One WorldRocks (Wild Card)
Stone Cold (Winter Sunday 2:15pm champ)
The Rajects (Winter Sunday 12pm champ)

Group C
Little Raise of Sunshine (Fall Tuesday 8pm champ)
Sweeping Death (Winter Sunday 6:45pm champ)
Buff N Stuff (Team Aksarben - Defending Champ)
The Ice Is Right (Winter Friday 7pm champ)

Group D
Sheets & Giggles (Fall Sunday 6:45pm champ)
Leave No Stone Unturned (Fall Sunday 4:30pm champ)
Love Hack—Sheet 52s (Fall Friday 7pm champ)
UNO Curling Club (College League champ)

Team Freeze Agents advanced out of Group A to play Spice Curls from Group B in the semi-finals, with Spice Curls defeating Freeze Agents to advance to the finals. Little Raise of Sunshine advanced from Group C to face Sheets & Giggles from Group D, with Little Raise of Sunshine besting Sheets & Giggles to reach the finals. In the Bronze match, Sheets & Giggles defeated Freeze Agents. In the Championship match, Spice Curls defeated Little Raise of Sunshine to secure the championship and Katie Beck Cup!

Congratulations to our season champions!

2024-2025 Season Champion
Spice Curls
John Cherek (skip), Elise Cherek (lead), Katie Ward (second), Jeff Cherek (vice)

2024-2025 Season Championship Runner-Up
Little Raise of Sunshine
Nic Swiercek (lead), Kaeli Samson (vice), Lisa Truesdell (skip), Matthew Truesdell (second)

2024-2025 Season Championship Third Place
Sheets & Giggles
Bill Cleary (vice), Brian Cotner (skip), Glenn Prince (third), Jay Johnson (lead)

2023-2024 Season Championship Fourth Place
Freeze Agents
Eric Newhouse (vice), Stacy Bliss (second), Tiffany Buge (lead), Erin Palmer (skip)