Kauffman2-3 at 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling

SKIP
Connor
Kauffman

Third
John
Benton

Second
Aaron
Carlson

Lead
Matt
Wahl

Connor Kauffman (Blaine, MN) finished 2-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kauffman defeated Jed Brundidge (Chaska, MN) 8-5, then went on to lose 7-0 against Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN). Kauffman responded with a 5-4 win over Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO). Kauffman went on to lose 6-2 against Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN). Kauffman lost 10-3 to Caden Hebert (Eau Claire , WI) in their final qualifying round match.

Kauffman earned 1.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 207th place overall with 10.360 total points. Kauffman ranks 142nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	12	13	0	0.480	1-1	1-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	137	88	113	6.42	8.25	-1.82	4.23	4.53	1.52	1.82	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	73	55	42	11	1-1	3-3	10-6	0.75	0.58	0.23	0.36

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	64	33	71	6	0-7	3-3	5-7	0.52	1.11	0.53	0.34

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

Sudbury's Jake and Tanner Horgan will ply their trade elsewhere next season as John Epping and Ian MacMillan explore options for the future.

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