Schneider Reaches Nutrien Ag Solutions Western Showdown Quarters

SKIP
Catlin
Schneider

Third
Sterling
Middleton

Second
Jason
Ginter

Lead
Alex
Horvath

Catlin Schneider (Victoria, BC) qualified for the Nutrien Ag Solutions Western Showdown playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 4-3 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI).

Schneider finished 3-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schneider defeated Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) 7-4, then won 6-2 against Mike McEwen (Saskatoon, SK) and 7-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Schneider earned 18.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Nutrien Ag Solutions Western Showdown. Schneider move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 13.75 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 33rd overall with 119.717 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Schneider ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 75.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	39	29	0	0.574	11-7	3-7	3-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	506	411	342	8.12	6.76	1.36	4.59	4.15	1.77	1.63	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	249	313	67	28	11-0	24-2	56-14	1.26	0.27	0.41	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	257	98	275	36	1-7	9-20	17-53	0.38	1.07	0.50	0.23

2023: Yannick Schwaller
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Yannick Schwaller, Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat
Geneve, SUI
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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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