CHAMPION: MacIsaac Wins 2025 New Holland Canadian U20 Junior Championships

Halifax, Nova Scotia

SKIP
Calan
MacIsaac

Third
Nathan
Gray

Second
Owain
Fisher

Lead
Christopher
McCurdy

Games:	11
Record:	10W - 1L
PF/G:	10.21
PA/G:	3.44
Hammer Efficiency:	0.61
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.77
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Calan MacIsaac (Halifax, NS) won 7-2 over Rajan Dalrymple (Oromocto, NB) in the Final of the New Holland Canadian U20 Junior Championships, held March 23 - 30, 2025 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. To advance to the championship game, MacIsaac won 11-3 over Zach Atherton (Halifax, NS) in the semifinals of the 2025 New Holland Canadian U20 Junior Championships in Summerside, Prince Edward Island; and won 9-3 over Tyler MacTavish (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2025 New Holland Canadian U20 Junior Championships in Summerside, Prince Edward Island;

MacIsaac finished 7-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, MacIsaac lost 8-7 to Dalrymple, then responded with a 10-2 win over Simon Perry (St. John's, NL). MacIsaac won 8-4 against Noah Garner (Mississauga, ON), then won 11-2 against Harrison Hrynew (New Westminster, BC) and 9-4 against Brendan Rajala (Sudbury, NO). MacIsaac won 8-2 against Peter Hlushak (Spruce Grove, AB), then won 9-2 against Jack MacFadyen (Cornwall, PEI) and 9-1 against Jace Freeman (Virden, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Holland Canadian U20 Junior Championships Championship title, MacIsaac earned 3.750 world rankings points, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 108th place overall with 20.188 total points. MacIsaac ranks 108th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	32	15	0	0.681	5-2	3-1	2-0	0-1	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	381	320	242	8.40	6.35	2.05	4.44	4.28	1.89	1.48	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	199	238	62	28	10-0	18-3	45-10	1.20	0.31	0.43	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	182	82	180	21	2-3	9-10	13-34	0.45	0.99	0.60	0.24

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