Shuster9-1 at 2021 US Olympic Team Trials: Curling

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

John Shuster (Chaska, MN) finished 9-1 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster defeated Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN) 9-0, then won 9-3 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) and 9-5 against Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN). Shuster won 8-4 against Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK), then won 8-7 against Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) and 11-3 against Dunnam. Shuster won 9-5 against Ruohonen, then won 8-4 against Persinger. Shuster went on to lose 6-1 against Dropkin. Shuster responded with a 11-4 win over Brundidge in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the US Olympic Team Trials: Curling Championship title, Shuster earned 26.719 world rankings points, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 21st place overall with 153.053 total points. Shuster ranks 26th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 62.121 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	27	13	0	0.675	13-3	6-5	2-2	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	322	262	197	8.14	6.12	2.02	4.69	4.22	1.74	1.45	1.09

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	161	203	47	20	7-2	12-0	46-9	1.26	0.29	0.46	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	161	59	150	15	1-1	2-7	9-29	0.37	0.93	0.64	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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