CHAMPION: Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga Wins 2024 Southern States Mixed Doubles

Games:	8
Record:	7W - 1L
PF/G:	10.52
PA/G:	6.72
Hammer Efficiency:	0.37
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.45

Katherine Gourianova/Jaime C Vidaurrazaga (Wayland, MA) won 8-7 over Anne Pifer/Neil Pifer (Charlotte, NC) in the Final of the Southern States Mixed Doubles, held December 28 - 31, 2024 at the Charlotte Curling Association in Charlote, United States. To advance to the championship game, Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga won 6-5 over McKenna Nathan/Tanner Nathan (Sarnia, ON) in the semifinals of the 2024 Southern States Mixed Doubles in Charlote, North Carolina, United States; and won 8-3 over Nicole Bookhout/Dan Wiza (Madison, WI) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Southern States Mixed Doubles in Charlote, North Carolina, United States;

Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga finished 4-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga lost 7-5 to Abbey Carlson/Sam Curtis (Huntsville, AL), then responded with a 10-4 win over Namini Chaudhari/Girithar Anthay (Hyderabad, IN). Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga won 9-3 against Harley Scebbi/Vincent Scebbi (Cleveland, OH), then won 8-6 against Michelle Coates/David Coates (Charlotte, NC) and 7-4 against Julia DiBaggio/Nicholas Visnich (Cleveland, OH) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Southern States Mixed Doubles Championship title, Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga earned 3.750 world rankings points along with the $4,012CDN first prize cheque. For week 23 of the event schedule, Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga did not improve upon their best events, improving from 385th to 364th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.563 total points. Gourianova/Vidaurrazaga ranks 311th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.563 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2024: Katherine Gourianova
Katherine Gourianova, Jaime C Vidaurrazaga
Wayland, MA
2023: Taylor Anderson-Heide
Taylor Anderson-Heide, Ben Richardson
Chaska, MN
2022: Taylor Anderson-Heide
Taylor Anderson-Heide, Ben Richardson
Chaska , MN
2022: BriAnna Weldon
BriAnna Weldon, Sean Franey
Denver, CO
2019: Jocelyn Peterman
Jocelyn Peterman, Brett Gallant
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Katie Cottrill
Katie Cottrill, Shawn Cottrill
Listowel, ON

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