Mooibroek Runner-Up at 2023 U25 NextGen Classic

SKIP
Sam
Mooibroek

Third
Scott
Mitchell

Second
Nathan
Steele

Lead
Colin
Schnurr

Sam Mooibroek (Whitby, ON) lost 6-4 to Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the U25 NextGen Classic, held August 29 - September 2, 2023 at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Mooibroek won 9-5 over Nathan Young (St. Johns, NL) in the semifinals

Mooibroek finished 5-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mooibroek defeated Ryan Parent (Calgary, AB) 8-1, then won 7-2 against Sam Steep (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) and 7-4 against Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB). Mooibroek won 9-0 against Daymond Bernath (Saskatoon, SK), then won 8-3 against Kleiter in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the U25 NextGen Classic, Mooibroek take home 16.500 world rankings points along with the $4,000CDN prize, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 29th place overall with 135.875 total points. Mooibroek ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 27.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	49	28	0	0.636	14-4	5-8	5-5	2-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	520	474	337	9.12	6.48	2.63	4.96	4.23	1.84	1.53	0.81

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	244	343	71	16	14-0	27-4	65-11	1.41	0.29	0.46	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	276	131	266	26	2-4	10-16	23-53	0.47	0.96	0.57	0.30

2024: Jordon McDonald
Jordon McDonald, Dallas Burgess, Elias Huminicki, Cameron Olafson
Winnipeg, MB
2023: Rylan Kleiter
Rylan Kleiter, Joshua Mattern, Matthew Hall, Trevor Johnson , Dean Kleiter
Saskatoon, SK
2022: Sam Mooibroek
Sam Mooibroek, Connor Deane, Nathan Steele, Colin Schnurr
Whitby, ON

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