Tao1-2 at 2023 Saville U25 Challenge

SKIP
Johnson
Tao

Third
Jaedon
Neuert

Second
Zach
Davies

Lead
Adam
Naugler

Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tao lost 9-1 to Cole Adams (Calgary, AB), then responded with a 6-4 win over Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB). Tao went on to lose 7-4 against Ronan Peterson (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Tao earned 0.563 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Tao move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of -8.054 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 50th overall with 65.024 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Tao ranks 49th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	19	0	0.568	6-2	3-2	0-2	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	354	261	207	7.37	5.85	1.53	4.55	3.67	1.62	1.59	1.78

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	163	181	42	22	3-0	10-1	42-7	1.11	0.26	0.39	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	191	80	165	41	1-2	6-9	12-42	0.42	0.86	0.45	0.28

The Swiss Olympic rink (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) are off and running as they aim to top the podium in Cortina.

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