Curling club celebrates its first Olympian

After a couple hours on the ice, members of the Ardsley Curling Club engaged in “broom stacking,” or postgame socializing, on Jan. 5, while the star of many conversations that evening appeared cross-armed in a poster on the wall: Danny Casper, the 24-year-old longtime club member who will represent Team USA in curling at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, starting Feb. 6.

Tucked at the bottom of a hill beside the Ardsley Country Club parking lot off North Mountain Road in Dobbs Ferry, the curling club was established in 1932 with a core group of around 30 people; it now boasts over 180 members. Casper, who was raised in Briarcliff Manor and is now a resident of Richfield, Minnesota, is the club’s first member to qualify for the Olympics. Within his family, however, he is the third, following in the footsteps of a great-aunt, who competed in curling at Calgary in 1988, and a great-uncle, who coached the U.S. men's team at Nagano in 1998.