Richards Reaches Saville U25 Challenge Quarters

SKIP
Gracelyn
Richards

Third
Sophia
Ryhorchuk

Second
Rachel
Jacques

Lead
Amy
Wheatcroft

Gracelyn Richards (Edmonton, AB) qualified for the Saville U25 Challenge playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-6 against Abby Marks (Edmonton, AB). of the Saville U25 Challenge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Richards finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Richards lost 6-4 to Minseo Kim (Jeonbuk, KOR), droppimg another game, 9-7 to Grace Beaudry (Calgary, AB) where Richards responded with a 7-4 win over Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Richards earned 6.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Saville U25 Challenge. For week 13 of the event schedule, Richards did not improve upon their best events, improving from 76th to 73rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 36.000 total points. Richards ranks 118th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	19	24	0	0.442	3-1	2-7	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	354	258	279	7.29	7.88	-0.59	4.55	4.55	1.60	1.73	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	168	182	72	10	1-2	13-4	40-13	1.08	0.43	0.34	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	186	76	207	22	1-6	4-13	17-42	0.41	1.11	0.47	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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