CHAMPION: Jacobs Wins 2026 U.S. Steel Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
Brad
Jacobs

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Brad Jacobs (Calgary, CAN) won 7-3 over John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in the Final of the U.S. Steel Pan-Continental Championships, held October 19 - 26, 2025 in Virginia, Minnesota. To advance to the championship game, Jacobs won 5-4 over Xiao Ming Xu (Beijing, CHN) in the semifinals

Jacobs finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jacobs defeated Xu 10-4, then won 10-3 against Marc Pfister (Manila, PHI) and 14-6 against Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gyeong-Buk, KOR). Jacobs won 7-1 against Sean Becker (Naseby, NZL), then won 8-2 against Australia's Hugh Millikin and 8-3 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Jacobs won 6-5 against Shuster in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the U.S. Steel Pan-Continental Championships Championship title, Jacobs earned 45.750 world rankings points, remaining in 4th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -0.21899999999999 after improving upon their best so far this season. Jacobs ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 161.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	39	13	0	0.750	2-0	1-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	425	340	220	8.00	5.18	2.82	4.78	3.53	1.67	1.47	1.69

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	213	266	21	38	6-0	15-0	61-1	1.25	0.10	0.47	0.09

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	212	74	199	34	1-1	3-7	17-52	0.35	0.94	0.54	0.23

2025: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert, Tyler Tardi
Calgary, CAN
2024: Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu, Xueqing Fei, Zhi Yu Wang, Zhichao Li, Jianjun Ye, Weidong Tan
Beijing, CHN
2023: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker, Jim Cotter, Caleb Flaxey
St. John's, CAN
2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker, Nathan Young
St. John's, CAN