Bottcher7-2 at 2013 Winter Universiade

Edmonton, Canada

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Mick
Lizmore

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Games:	11
Record:	8W - 3L
PF/G:	8.15
PA/G:	6.09
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.28

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, CAN) finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Kyle Smith (Perth, UK) 5-4, then won 10-2 against Xiuyue Ma (Harbin, CHN) and 10-4 against Markus Hoiberg (Oppdal, NOR). Bottcher won 7-6 against Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR), then won 7-1 against Italy's Marco Pascale and 8-5 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Bottcher went on to lose 10-3 against Christopher Plys (St. Paul, USA). Bottcher lost 9-5 to Mario Freiberger (Zug, SUI) where Bottcher responded with a 10-3 win over Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 4.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Winter Universiade, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 27th place overall with 79.810 total points. Bottcher ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 35.860 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	39	32	0	0.549	19-8	11-19	10-10	5-0	1-4

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	544	375	334	6.89	6.14	0.75	4.38	4.10	1.58	1.50	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	256	278	64	31	4-0	15-1	58-12	1.09	0.25	0.34	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	288	97	270	52	3-5	5-16	14-47	0.34	0.94	0.61	0.22

USA's Smith, Farbelow ready to take the ice at World Senionr Curling Championships

[EDEN PRAIRIE, MN, April 23, 2026] -- THE ACE & Company World Senior Men's & Women's Curling Championships, open to curlers 50 years of age and older, gets underway today in Geneva, Switzerland, with the United States represented by two teams with extensive experience in the event.