CHAMPION: Shuster Wins 2023 USA Curling National Championships

Duluth, Minnesota

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

Games:	9
Record:	7W - 2L
PF/G:	7.88
PA/G:	6.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.76
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

John Shuster (Duluth, MN) won 8-3 over Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) in the Final of the USA Curling National Championships, held February 5 - 13, 2023 in Denver, Colorado.

Shuster finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster lost 10-6 to Jason Smith (Nashville, TN), then responded with a 8-7 win over Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN). Shuster won 10-3 against Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO), then won 8-3 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Shuster went on to lose 10-3 against Casper. Shuster responded with a 6-3 win over Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN). Shuster won 6-4 against Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USA Curling National Championships Championship title, Shuster earned 41.250 world rankings points. Shuster move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 39.375 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 183.192 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Shuster ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 167.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	47	26	0	0.644	11-8	12-7	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	544	473	350	8.69	6.43	2.26	4.80	4.15	1.81	1.55	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	272	353	81	30	13-1	29-3	66-16	1.30	0.30	0.45	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	272	120	269	27	2-2	9-17	21-59	0.44	0.99	0.54	0.28

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

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