Shuster Reaches 2025 USA Curling National Championships Semifinals

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Colin
Hufman

Lead
Matt
Hamilton

John Shuster (Duluth, MN) run at the 2025 USA Curling National Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 11-3 loss to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN). of the 2025 USA Curling National Championships in Duluth, Minnesota;

Shuster finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster defeated Chase Sinnett (Minneapolis, MN) 9-2, then won 8-3 against Timothy Hodek (Fargo, ND). Shuster went on to lose 8-7 against Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN). Shuster responded with a 11-6 win over Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Shuster won 9-2 against Wesley Wendling (Chaska, MN). Shuster went on to lose 9-5 against Dropkin. Shuster responded with a 6-5 win over Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Shuster earned 25.500 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the USA Curling National Championships, remaining in 16th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -23.563 after improving upon their best so far this season. Shuster ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 150.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	39	26	0	0.600	12-1	4-4	1-1	2-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	483	401	306	8.30	6.34	1.97	4.80	4.06	1.73	1.56	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	229	296	57	28	9-1	20-2	63-11	1.29	0.25	0.46	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	254	105	249	27	3-4	7-19	12-42	0.41	0.98	0.59	0.28

2025: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Thomas Howell, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner , Mark Lazar
Duluth, MN
2024: John Shuster
John Shuster, Christopher Plys, Colin Hufman, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner
Duluth , MN
2017: John Shuster
John Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner, Joe Polo
Duluth, USA