CHAMPION: Skrlik Wins 2023 Curling Stadium Alberta Tour Kick-off

SKIP
Kayla
Skrlik

Third
Brittany
Tran

Second
Geri-Lynn
Ramsay

Lead
Ashton
Skrlik

Kayla Skrlik (Calgary, AB) won 6-4 over Nancy Martin (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the Curling Stadium Alberta Tour Kick-off, held August 25 - 27, 2023 at the Leduc Curling Club in Leduc, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Skrlik won 5-3 over Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, NT) in the semifinals

Skrlik finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Skrlik defeated Gabby Wood (Edmonton, AB) 10-1, then won 8-5 against Kellie Stiksma (Edmonton, AB) and 7-5 against Abby Marks (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Stadium Alberta Tour Kick-off Championship title, Skrlik earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 22nd place overall with 153.000 total points. Skrlik ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	41	23	0	0.641	6-4	7-5	4-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	462	397	315	8.59	6.82	1.77	4.70	4.44	1.83	1.54	0.87

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	229	284	95	17	13-0	19-4	56-21	1.24	0.41	0.42	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	233	113	220	23	2-6	7-17	21-29	0.49	0.94	0.63	0.30

2023: Kayla Skrlik
Kayla Skrlik, Brittany Tran, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Ashton Skrlik
Calgary, AB
2022: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Jeremy Harty, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster , Mickey Pendergast
Calgary, AB
2021: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joshua Kiist, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB

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