Ha Runner-Up at 2023 World University Games: Lake Placid 2023

SKIP
Seungyoun
Ha

Third
Hyerin
Kim

Second
Taei
Yang

Lead
Sujin
Kim

Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) lost 6-4 to Yu Han (Beijing, CHN) in the Final of the World University Games: Lake Placid 2023, held January 13 - 21, 2023 in Lake Placid, New York. To advance to the championship game, Ha won 10-4 over Fay Henderson (Dumfries, GBR) in the semifinals

Ha finished 8-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ha defeated Abby Marks (Edmonton, CAN) 6-5, then won 7-5 against Sae Yamamoto (Sapporo, JPN) and 7-6 against Delaney Strouse (Minneapolis, USA). Ha went on to lose 5-2 against Henderson. Ha responded with a 11-1 win over Australia's Kirby Gill. Ha won 15-1 against Carmen Perez (San Sebastian, ESP), then won 6-5 against Emma Moberg (Stockholm, SWE) and 5-3 against Corrie Huerlimann (Zug, SUI). Ha won 8-6 against Han in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the World University Games: Lake Placid 2023, Ha take home 13.750 world rankings points. Ha move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 1 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 22nd overall with 132.215 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ha ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 120.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	57	33	0	0.633	13-7	7-9	6-4	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	706	596	422	8.44	5.98	2.46	4.75	3.77	1.78	1.59	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	332	386	86	58	18-0	25-3	70-15	1.16	0.26	0.41	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	374	210	336	47	11-4	13-25	24-72	0.56	0.90	0.50	0.34

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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