CHAMPION: Bottcher Wins 2023 ATB Okotoks Classic

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) won 4-3 over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the ATB Okotoks Classic, held September 22 - 24, 2023 at the Okotoks Curling Club in Okotoks, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Bottcher won 8-1 over Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2023 ATB Okotoks Classic in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada; and won 7-4 over Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) in the quarterfinals.

Bottcher finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Cole Adams (Calgary, AB) 8-4, then won 9-6 against Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB) and 5-3 against Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ATB Okotoks Classic Championship title, Bottcher earned 45.000 world rankings points along with the $14,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 2nd place overall with 440.750 total points. Bottcher ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 78.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	53	21	0	0.716	11-4	9-1	3-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	547	445	294	8.14	5.37	2.76	4.64	3.64	1.75	1.48	1.72

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	260	332	34	51	15-0	19-1	61-3	1.28	0.13	0.45	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	287	113	260	43	4-3	4-16	17-48	0.39	0.91	0.61	0.26

2023: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert , Paul Webster
Calgary, AB
2022: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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