Casper Runner-Up at 2025 USA Curling National Championships

SKIP
Danny
Casper

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Aidan
Oldenburg

Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) lost 7-6 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) in the Final of the USA Curling National Championships, held January 27 - February 2, 2025 in Duluth, Minnesota.

Casper finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Casper defeated Wesley Wendling (Chaska, MN) 9-2, then won 10-4 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) and 8-7 against John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Casper won 6-5 against Timothy Hodek (Fargo, ND), then won 7-5 against Chase Sinnett (Minneapolis, MN) and 5-4 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN). Casper won 9-3 against Dropkin in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the USA Curling National Championships, Casper take home 33.000 world rankings points. Casper move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of -0.93799999999999 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 147.875 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Casper ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 147.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	50	22	0	0.694	9-1	8-2	3-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	519	440	295	8.48	5.68	2.79	5.01	3.89	1.69	1.46	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	253	324	52	33	9-1	24-1	69-5	1.28	0.21	0.46	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	266	116	243	24	1-3	5-11	19-50	0.44	0.91	0.60	0.31

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