CHAMPION: Kaufman Wins Northwest Territories Womens Championship

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

SKIP
Nicky
Kaufman

Third
Megan
Koehler

Second
Sydney
Galusha

Lead
Ella
Skauge

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	7.55
PA/G:	5.92
Hammer Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Nicky Kaufman (Yellowknife, NT) won 8-6 over Betti Delorey (Hay River, NT) in the Final Kaufman advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Northwest Territories Womens Championship, held December 17 - 22 at the Yellowknife Curling Club in Yellowknife, Canada.

Kaufman are currently . In their opening game, Kaufman plays Morgan Muise (Inuvik, NT) on Thursday at 9pm Delorey on Friday at 3pm Muise on Saturday at 3pm and Delorey at 9pm.

For winning the Northwest Territories Womens Championship Championship title, Kaufman earned 3.750 world rankings points, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 100th place overall with 18.549 total points. Kaufman ranks 107th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.075 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	11	18	0	0.379	0-1	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	234	146	192	6.24	8.21	-1.97	4.27	4.79	1.46	1.71	0.94

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	117	102	66	9	1-1	9-5	13-13	0.87	0.56	0.21	0.34

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	117	44	126	13	2-4	0-11	6-19	0.38	1.08	0.53	0.27

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