Bear3-7 at 2021 US Olympic Team Trials: Curling

SKIP
Madison
Bear

Third
Annmarie
Dubberstein

Second
Taylor
Drees

Lead
Allison
Howell

Madison Bear (Chaska, MN) finished 3-7 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bear defeated Jamie Sinclair (Charlotte, NC) 10-2, then went on to lose 8-3 against Delaney Strouse (Minneapolis , MN). Bear lost 8-4 to Kim Rhyme (Minneapolis, MN). Bear lost 8-5 to Cory Christensen (Chaska, MN). Bear lost 9-3 to Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, MN) where Bear responded with a 7-2 win over Strouse. Bear won 8-7 against Rhyme. Bear went on to lose 8-4 against Christensen. Bear lost 9-4 to Peterson. Bear lost 9-5 to Sinclair in their final qualifying round match.

Bear earned 3.687 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 123rd place overall with 13.764 total points. Bear ranks 118th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.959 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	18	20	0	0.474	4-4	6-5	2-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	298	233	231	7.82	7.75	0.07	4.70	4.56	1.66	1.70	0.74

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	145	164	66	11	8-1	8-3	31-15	1.13	0.46	0.35	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	153	69	165	11	0-6	6-15	9-23	0.45	1.08	0.53	0.31

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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