Bemidji Curling Club
It is notable for its long line of champions in many competitions, including men's and women's rinks which represented the United States in the 2005 World Curling Championship and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Pete Fenson skipped the men's rink, which won the Olympic bronze medal, the first-ever medal in curling for the U.S. Cassandra Johnson skipped the women's rink, which lost to Sweden in the final match of the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship.
The building also holds a skating rink on the opposite side, separate from the curling club.
Near the end of the Great Depression and in the midst of the economic recovery of the New Deal, the Bemidji Curling Club was organized.
During the Winter Carnival of 1932, the Hibbing Curling Club put on a demonstration of the sport which not officially organized in Bemidji until a Sunday afternoon meeting at the Tourist Information Building on January 13, 1935.
Henry Krebs donated slabs for enclosing the one sheet of ice and a warming room at one end of the building.
Committees were established and the first draws consisted of fourteen rinks which began their play on January 20, 1935.
In 1979, due to lack of space and the need for kitchen facilities, a structural addition was made to the club.
Rich Reierson, Pete Fenson, Steve Fogelson and Pet Lapp also qualified for the playdown.
The junior men's team of Eric Fenson, Shawn Rojeski, Kevin Bergstrom and Ted McCann claimed the national title both in 1991 and 1992.
Also in 1992, the junior women's team of Erika Brown, Kari Liapis, Stacey Liapis, Bobbie Breyen and Debbie Henry claim the national crown, while Andy Borland, Liz Johnson, Tim Johnson and Jean Borland captured the national mixed championship.
- In 1993, Bemidji teams won the US junior women's title (a repeat for Brown's rink) and the US men's championship (Scott Baird, Pete Fenson, Mark Haluptzok and Tim Johnson).
The club sponsored the men's and women's national championship in 1996 – the City of Bemidji's centennial year.
