Rhyme2-5 at 2024 USA Curling National Championships

SKIP
Kim
Rhyme

Third
Cait
Flannery

Second
Libby
Brundage

Lead
Katie
Rhyme

Kim Rhyme (Minneapolis, MN) finished 2-5 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rhyme lost 9-2 to Delaney Strouse (Traverse City, MI), droppimg another game, 9-7 to Christine McMakin (Minneapolis, MN) where Rhyme responded with a 10-4 win over Rachel Workin (Fargo, ND). Rhyme went on to lose 10-6 against Sarah Anderson (Minneapolis, MN). Rhyme responded with a 7-6 win over Elizabeth Cousins (Boston, MA). Rhyme went on to lose 10-3 against Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, MN). Rhyme lost 9-5 to Miranda Scheel (Fargo, ND) in their final qualifying round match.

Rhyme earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Rhyme move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of -4.781 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 85th overall with 24.438 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Rhyme ranks 85th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.438 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	16	19	0	0.457	1-5	1-1	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	226	171	169	7.57	7.48	0.09	4.60	4.51	1.64	1.66	0.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	116	116	57	11	0-1	8-3	29-14	1.00	0.49	0.35	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	110	55	112	9	2-1	2-7	12-27	0.50	1.02	0.49	0.30

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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