Richards Reaches 2024 Saville U25 Challenge Quarters

SKIP
Gracelyn
Richards

Third
Sophia
Ryhorchuk

Second
Rachel
Jacques

Lead
Amy
Wheatcroft

Gracelyn Richards (Edmonton, AB) qualified for the 2024 Saville U25 Challenge playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 9-3 against Yuina Miura (Nayoro, JPN). of the 2024 Saville U25 Challenge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Richards finished 2-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Richards defeated Suhyeon Kim (Uiseong, KOR) 8-4 to advance to a A-Qualifier game where they lost 5-4 against Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) to drop into a B-Qualifier game where they responded with a 7-2 win over Alberta's Abby Whitbread to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

Richards earned 3.750 world rankings points for their Top 6 finish in the Saville U25 Challenge. For week 17 of the event schedule, Richards did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Richards ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	22	23	0	0.489	2-1	4-3	3-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	346	249	267	7.20	7.72	-0.52	4.28	4.57	1.68	1.69	1.16

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	168	181	75	13	6-1	13-4	32-13	1.08	0.45	0.33	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	178	68	192	27	3-9	2-11	10-34	0.38	1.08	0.50	0.25

Sudbury's Jake and Tanner Horgan will ply their trade elsewhere next season as John Epping and Ian MacMillan explore options for the future.

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