Richards Reaches 2023 Alberta Curling Series

SKIP
Brette
Richards

Third
Blaine
DeJager

Second
Carly
Connor

Lead
Jordan
Henson

Brette Richards (Prince George, BC) qualified for the 2023 Alberta Curling Series - Event 2 playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-6 against Jessica Wytrychowski (Edmonton, AB). of the 2023 Alberta Curling Series - Event 2 in Beaumont, Alberta, Canada;

Richards finished 3-1 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Richards defeated Melissa Pierce (Edmonton , AB) 8-6, then went on to lose 7-5 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN). Richards responded with a 7-5 win over Tiffany Steuber (Edmonton, AB). Richards won 7-4 against Trina Ball (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Richards earned 6.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Alberta Curling Series - Event 2, moving up 21 spots the World Ranking Standings into 123rd place overall with 15.609 total points. Richards ranks 114th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	7	11	0	0.389	1-2	3-2	1-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	127	87	111	6.85	8.74	-1.89	3.78	5.20	1.81	1.68	1.02

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	69	73	36	8	4-0	4-4	14-5	1.06	0.52	0.36	0.33

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	58	14	75	5	0-2	1-4	2-17	0.24	1.29	0.47	0.17

2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Nicky Kaufman
Nicky Kaufman, Jennifer Van Wieren, Megan Anderson, Holly Baird, Pam Appelman
Edmonton, AB
2021: Casey Scheidegger
Casey Scheidegger, Cary-Anne McTaggart, Jessie Haughian, Kristie Moore
Lethbridge, AB

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