CHAMPION: Schwaller Wins 2024 RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown

SKIP
Xenia
Schwaller

Third
Selina
Gafner

Second
Fabienne
Rieder

Lead
Selina
Rychiger

Xenia Schwaller (Zurich, SUI) won 7-6 over Michelle Englot (Regina, SK) in the Final of the RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown, held December 12 - 15, 2024 at the Swift Current Curling Club in Swift Current, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Schwaller won 4-3 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitmami, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2024 RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 7-3 over Kayla MacMillan (Victoria, BC) in the quarterfinals.

Schwaller finished 3-0 in the 17-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schwaller defeated Serena Gray-Withers (Edmonton, AB) 7-2, then won 7-1 against Danielle Inglis (Ottawa, ON) and 7-2 against Delaney Strouse (Traverse City, MI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown Championship title, Schwaller earned 45.000 world rankings points along with the $12,000CDN first prize cheque. Schwaller move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 37.5 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 8th overall with 260.453 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Schwaller ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 184.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	61	37	0	0.622	9-6	4-4	5-0	4-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	727	553	479	7.61	6.59	1.02	4.54	4.29	1.68	1.54	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	369	406	114	46	11-2	27-3	82-11	1.10	0.31	0.37	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	358	147	365	39	0-10	10-19	29-74	0.41	1.02	0.53	0.27

2025: Silvana Tirinzoni
Alina Paetz, Silvana Tirinzoni, Carole Howald, Selina Witschonke , Pierre Charette
Aarau, SUI
2024: Xenia Schwaller
Xenia Schwaller, Selina Gafner, Fabienne Rieder, Selina Rychiger , Andreas Schwaller
Zurich, SUI
2023: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung, KOR
2022: Silvana Tirinzoni
Alina Paetz, Silvana Tirinzoni, Carole Howald, Briar Schwaller
Aarau, SUI

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