CHAMPION: Dropkin Wins 2025 USA Curling National Championships

Duluth, Minnesota

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Thomas
Howell

Second
Andrew
Stopera

Lead
Mark
Fenner

Games:	10
Record:	7W - 3L
PF/G:	8.92
PA/G:	5.06
Hammer Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) won 7-6 over Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) in the Final of the USA Curling National Championships, held January 27 - February 2, 2025 in Duluth, Minnesota. To advance to the championship game, Dropkin won 11-3 over John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in the semifinals of the 2025 USA Curling National Championships in Duluth, Minnesota;

Dropkin finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) 11-2, then won 10-0 against Wesley Wendling (Chaska, MN) and 7-2 against Timothy Hodek (Fargo, ND). Dropkin won 8-3 against Chase Sinnett (Minneapolis, MN). Dropkin went on to lose 5-4 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN). Dropkin responded with a 9-5 win over Shuster. Dropkin went on to lose 9-3 against Casper in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USA Curling National Championships Championship title, Dropkin earned 45.000 world rankings points. Dropkin move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 6.312 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 12th overall with 191.500 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Dropkin ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 191.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	52	41	0	0.559	13-6	9-6	5-4	2-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	694	508	453	7.32	6.53	0.79	4.45	4.05	1.64	1.61	1.50

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	336	379	78	54	10-1	23-2	77-11	1.13	0.23	0.39	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	358	129	375	50	3-7	14-21	7-88	0.36	1.05	0.48	0.24

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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