CHAMPION: Gray-Withers Wins USPORT Curling Canada University Championships

SKIP
Serena
Gray-Withers

Third
Catherine
Clifford

Second
Brianna
Cullen

Lead
Zoe
Cinnamon

Serena Gray-Withers (Edmonton, AB) won 10-7 over Celia Evans (Waterloo, ON) in the Final of the USPORT Curling Canada University Championships, held March 12 - 16 in Sudbury, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Gray-Withers won 8-3 over Allyson MacNutt (Halifax, NS) in the semifinals

Gray-Withers finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gray-Withers defeated Jenna Campbell (Fredericton, NB) 9-6, then won 10-5 against Bella Croisier (Sudbury, ON) and 12-2 against Olivia Wynter (Sackville, NS). Gray-Withers won 9-4 against Evans, then won 8-4 against Mahra Harris (Victoria, BC) and 10-8 against Maddy Warriner (Hamilton, ON). Gray-Withers won 7-6 against MacNutt in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USPORT Curling Canada University Championships Championship title, Gray-Withers earned 7.500 world rankings points. Gray-Withers move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 3.75 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 24th overall with 126.375 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gray-Withers ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 126.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	50	29	0	0.633	18-5	7-6	5-3	0-2	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	616	531	392	8.62	6.36	2.26	4.94	4.29	1.75	1.48	0.78

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	301	382	97	22	16-0	23-7	78-10	1.27	0.32	0.42	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	315	149	295	26	7-3	6-19	15-56	0.47	0.94	0.59	0.31

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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