Casper2-3 at 2021 USA Olympic Trials Mayfield Qualifier

SKIP
Daniel
Casper

Third
Ethan
Sampson

Second
Samuel
Strouse

Lead
Coleman
Thurston

Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) finished 2-3 in the 11-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Casper defeated Nicholas Connolly (Pittsburgh, PA) 7-6, then went on to lose 9-4 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Casper lost 12-2 to Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) where Casper responded with a 11-5 win over Benjamin Levy (Detroit, MI). Casper went on to lose 11-3 against Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI) in their final qualifying round match.

Casper earned 1.795 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Casper gained 0.483 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 3 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 167thplace overall with 10.455 total points. Casper ranks 98th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.337 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	32	20	0	0.615	5-3	4-2	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	405	331	278	8.17	6.86	1.31	4.74	4.12	1.72	1.66	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	207	217	75	33	6-2	12-6	47-7	1.05	0.36	0.37	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	198	114	203	13	3-6	6-14	25-39	0.58	1.03	0.50	0.34

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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