Sampson Reaches 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling

Chaska, Minnesota

SKIP
Ethan
Sampson

Third
Coleman
Thurston

Second
Jacob
Zeman

Lead
Marius
Kleinas

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	6.60
PA/G:	5.11
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) run at the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-2 loss to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN). of the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; Sampson advanced through the quarterfinals with a 6-3 win over Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI). of the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Sampson finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sampson defeated Mason Guentzel (Saint Paul, MN) 7-3, then won 6-5 against Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN). Sampson went on to lose 5-3 against Dropkin. Sampson responded with a 7-3 win over Nicholas Connolly (Seattle, WA) in their final qualifying round match.

Sampson earned 8.500 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 75th place overall with 54.250 total points. Sampson ranks 49th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	23	0	0.549	1-1	4-3	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	375	295	264	7.87	7.04	0.83	4.64	4.37	1.70	1.61	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	179	188	71	20	6-0	14-2	33-16	1.05	0.40	0.33	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	196	107	193	17	3-7	8-11	13-35	0.55	0.98	0.53	0.34

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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