Casper Reaches 2024 USA Curling National Championships Semifinals

SKIP
Daniel
Casper

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Chase
Sinnett

Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) run at the 2024 USA Curling National Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-5 loss to John Shuster (Duluth , MN). of the 2024 USA Curling National Championships in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States;

Casper finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Casper defeated Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) 9-4, then went on to lose 11-5 against Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI). Casper responded with a 11-6 win over Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Casper went on to lose 8-5 against Shuster. Casper lost 7-2 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) where Casper responded with a 7-4 win over Nicholas Connolly (Seattle, WA). Casper won 9-6 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Casper earned 21.250 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the USA Curling National Championships. Casper move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of -10.656 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 21st overall with 135.750 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Casper ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 135.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	42	21	0	0.667	7-5	7-2	3-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	440	380	284	8.64	6.45	2.18	5.11	4.05	1.69	1.60	0.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	203	259	54	20	5-0	22-5	52-7	1.28	0.27	0.43	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	237	121	230	17	4-6	5-15	17-39	0.51	0.97	0.57	0.33

2025: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Thomas Howell, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner , Mark Lazar
Duluth, MN
2024: John Shuster
John Shuster, Christopher Plys, Colin Hufman, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner
Duluth , MN
2017: John Shuster
John Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner, Joe Polo
Duluth, USA

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