CHAMPION: Auld Wins Stu Sells Brantford NISSAN Classic

SKIP
Courtney
Auld

Third
Chrissy
Cadorin

Second
Cayla
Auld

Lead
Melanie
Ebach

Courtney Auld (Thornhill, ON) won 6-4 over Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, NT) in the Final of the Stu Sells Brantford NISSAN Classic, held December 1 - 4 at the Brantford Golf and Country Club in Brantford, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Auld won 8-5 over Kaitlin Jewer (Peterborough, ON) in the semifinals of the Stu Sells Brantford NISSAN Classic in Brantford, Ontario, Canada; and won 5-3 over Krysta Burns (Sudbury, NONT) in the quarterfinals. of the Stu Sells Brantford NISSAN Classic in Brantford, Ontario, Canada;

Auld finished 4-1 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Auld defeated Marteen Jones (Acton, ON) 4-1, then won 6-5 against Isabelle Ladouceur (Whitby, ON) and 5-4 against Marie Christianson (Halifax, NS). Auld went on to lose 7-1 against Elizabeth Cousins (Boston, MA). Auld responded with a 5-2 win over Julia Markle (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Stu Sells Brantford NISSAN Classic Championship title, Auld earned 26.250 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque. Auld move up 50 spots after posting a net gain of 23.62 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 73rd overall with 39.014 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Auld ranks 61st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 31.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	10	11	0	0.476	1-5	1-5	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	143	83	109	5.80	7.62	-1.82	4.27	4.69	1.36	1.63	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	75	56	46	7	2-2	1-3	7-7	0.75	0.61	0.15	0.36

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	68	27	63	8	0-2	2-3	3-9	0.40	0.93	0.65	0.29

2023: Courtney Auld
Courtney Auld, Chrissy Cadorin, Cayla Auld, Melanie Ebach, Leigh Armstrong
Thornhill, ON
2022: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Ye ji Seol, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Min Ji Kim, Dong ho Shin
Uijeongbu, KOR
2016: Jacqueline Harrison
Jacqueline Harrison, Janet Murphy, Stephanie Matheson, Melissa Foster, Nicole Westlund Stewart
Mississauga, ON

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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