Pittsburgh Curling Club

Current logo & pin design of the Pittsburgh Curling Club
Location	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Arena	Island Sports Center 7600 Grand Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15225
Established	2002
Club type	Arena
USCA region	Grand National Curling Club
Sheets of ice	Five
Website	http://www.pittsburghcurlingclub.com

The Pittsburgh Curling Club (or PCC) is a curling club located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is one of only four curling clubs in Pennsylvania, the other three being the Philadelphia Curling Club, the Bucks County Curling Club, and the Anthracite Curling Club (formally the Scranton Curling Club). The PCC is an arena curling club that was founded in 2002 with 12 members, and as of 2009 it has grown to include over 120 members.

The Pittsburgh Curling Club was founded in May 2002, after months of emails and discussions between several ex-pat Canadians and local Pittsburgh residents. The twelve founding members rented ice for 26 weeks at Robert Morris University (RMU) Island Sports Center to start offering Learn-to-Curl sessions. Initially, the members had to draw the curling sheet lines and circles by hand prior to playing their games. But as of 2006, the lines are painted on the ice prior to the start of the season.

In 2007, the Pittsburgh Curling Club received its 501(c)(3) status as a charitable organization. The mission of the club is:

...to teach, develop, promote and encourage the sport of Curling; to develop youth and adult programs that lead to local, national and international competition; to coordinate and develop interscholastic competition; and to teach the sport to youth organizations as well as to interested adults by creating public awareness and appreciation for the sport.

The PCC curls at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Center, which is on Neville Island, west of Pittsburgh, and has two indoor rinks (Clearview and Olympic) and two semi-enclosed, multi-purpose rinks (Stadium and Garden). From late fall to early spring, the PCC uses the Stadium rink. In September and April, the warmer weather causes the PCC to move to the indoor Olympic rink. The PCC's summer bonspiel TropiCurl is held in the Clearview rink.

In the 2015-2016 season the club ran its Can-Am and Vampire leagues on Saturdays, and held multiple Learn-to-Curl sessions for hundreds of participants.

The PCC Can-Am League runs from October to March. Currently it is structured as an open league and takes the ice at 9PM each Saturday during the season. As an open league, any combination of men, women, youth, junior, and/or wheelchair curlers can form a team. The club also runs a Vampire league session from 11PM each Saturday till 1AM Sunday which offers opportunities for additional pick up games and practice.