Stern Reaches 2019 Boost National Quarters

Fourth
Briar
Huerlimann

SKIP
Elena
Stern

Second
Lisa
Gisler

Lead
Celine
Koller

Elena Stern (Oberwallis, SUI) qualified for the 2019 Boost National playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 9-3 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN).

Stern finished 4-0 in the 15 team Boost National qualifying round, held December 10 - 15, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Stern defeated Robyn Silvernagle (North Battleford, SK) 7-6, then won 4-3 against Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) and 5-3 against Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Stern won 6-2 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Stern earned 35.613 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Boost National. Stern move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 15.035 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 10th overall with 292.838 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Stern ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 210.526 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	4	1	0	0.800	2-1	1-0	2-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	39	25	23	6.41	5.90	0.51	4.62	3.59	1.39	1.64	1.79

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	21	18	8	4	0-0	0-2	5-0	0.86	0.38	0.29	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	18	7	15	3	0-0	0-1	2-3	0.39	0.83	0.60	0.28

2019: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Mabergs
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2017: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Selena Njegovan, Liz Fyfe, Kristin MacCuish
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON

Calgary's Kevin Koe won 6-1 over Scotland's Ross Whyte to win their opening event of the season.

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