Sampson Reaches 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling

SKIP
Ethan
Sampson

Third
Coleman
Thurston

Second
Jacob
Zeman

Lead
Marius
Kleinas

Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) run at the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-2 loss to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN). of the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; Sampson advanced through the quarterfinals with a 6-3 win over Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI). of the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Sampson finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sampson defeated Mason Guentzel (Saint Paul, MN) 7-3, then won 6-5 against Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN). Sampson went on to lose 5-3 against Dropkin. Sampson responded with a 7-3 win over Nicholas Connolly (Seattle, WA) in their final qualifying round match.

Sampson earned 8.500 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 75th place overall with 54.250 total points. Sampson ranks 49th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	23	0	0.549	1-1	4-3	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	375	295	264	7.87	7.04	0.83	4.64	4.37	1.70	1.61	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	179	188	71	20	6-0	14-2	33-16	1.05	0.40	0.33	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	196	107	193	17	3-7	8-11	13-35	0.55	0.98	0.53	0.34

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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