CHAMPION: Kim Wins 2021 Alberta Curling Series: Avonair

SKIP
Soo-Hyuk
Kim

Third
Chang-Min
Kim

Second
Jae Ik
Jeon

Lead
Hak Kyun
Kim

SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR) won 7-2 over Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Alberta Curling Series: Avonair, held October 1 - 3, 2021 at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada.

Kim finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB) 7-3, then won 10-4 against Glen Hansen (Edmonton, AB) and 5-4 against Rob Maksymetz (Grande Prairie, AB). Kim won 6-2 against Michael Dahms (Airdrie, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Alberta Curling Series: Avonair Championship title, Kim earned 16.116 world rankings points along with the $2,042CDN first prize cheque, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 35th place overall with 69.138 total points. Kim ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.700 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	49	28	0	0.636	16-9	7-8	5-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	609	498	408	8.18	6.70	1.48	4.76	4.30	1.72	1.56	0.94

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	307	379	87	32	8-1	30-5	80-8	1.23	0.28	0.43	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	302	119	321	25	1-6	6-18	23-68	0.39	1.06	0.53	0.27

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: Kody Hartung
Kody Hartung, Tyler Hartung, Brady Scharback, Brady Kendel
Saskatoon, SK
2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
Uiseong, KOR
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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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