Hebert Runner-Up at 2025 FISU World University Games

SKIP
Caden
Hebert

Third
Jackson
Bestland

Second
Benji
Paral

Lead
Jack
Wendtland

Caden Hebert (Eau Claire, USA) lost 8-4 to Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen in the Final of the FISU World University Games, held January 15 - 23, 2025 in Turin, Italy. To advance to the championship game, Hebert won 8-4 over Josh Bryden (Regina, CAN) in the semifinals

Hebert finished 8-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hebert lost 4-3 to Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen, then responded with a 6-2 win over Jan Iseli (Solothurn , SUI). Hebert won 10-4 against Axel Landelius (Mjolby, SWE), then won 7-5 against Tianyu Meng (Harbin, CHN) and 6-5 against Giacomo Colli (Trentino, ITA). Hebert won 7-4 against Bryden, then won 6-4 against Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) and 7-4 against Great Britain's Arran Thomson. Hebert won 6-3 against JaeBeom Lee (Uiseong, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the FISU World University Games, Hebert take home 8.250 world rankings points. Hebert move up 11 spots after posting a net gain of 7.5 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 81st overall with 36.085 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Hebert ranks 78th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 29.813 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	36	21	0	0.632	0-1	2-0	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	421	316	246	7.51	5.84	1.66	4.32	4.09	1.74	1.43	1.59

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	214	229	68	40	12-1	14-1	38-13	1.07	0.32	0.37	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	207	87	178	27	2-2	6-7	11-36	0.42	0.86	0.63	0.28

Gyeonggi's Team Gim Eun-ji (Photo: Olympics) will represent Korea for a third straight season at the international level.

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