Smith6-3 at 2013 Winter Universiade

SKIP
Kyle
Smith

Third
Thomas
Muirhead

Second
Kyle
Waddell

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Kyle Smith (Perth, UK) finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith lost 5-4 to Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, CAN), then responded with a 6-1 win over Markus Hoiberg (Oppdal, NOR). Smith won 9-5 against Xiuyue Ma (Harbin, CHN), then won 8-2 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Smith went on to lose 7-5 against Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE). Smith lost 8-4 to Christopher Plys (St. Paul, USA) where Smith responded with a 9-4 win over Italy's Marco Pascale. Smith won 6-4 against Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR), then won 7-6 against Mario Freiberger (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Winter Universiade, Smith take home 5.000 world rankings points, moving up 64 spots the World Ranking Standings into 127th place overall with 8.825 total points. Smith ranks 84th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.825 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	30	21	0	0.588	15-6	10-10	6-4	1-0	2-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	431	293	255	6.80	5.92	0.88	4.52	3.90	1.50	1.52	1.58

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	202	210	48	29	4-0	8-3	45-5	1.04	0.24	0.33	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	229	83	207	39	1-1	2-12	17-49	0.36	0.90	0.53	0.26

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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