Kauffman2-3 at CURVE US Open of Curling

SKIP
Connor
Kauffman

Third
John
Benton

Second
Aaron
Carlson

Lead
Matt
Wahl

Connor Kauffman (Blaine, MN) finished 2-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kauffman defeated Jed Brundidge (Chaska, MN) 8-5, then went on to lose 7-0 against Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN). Kauffman responded with a 5-4 win over Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO). Kauffman went on to lose 6-2 against Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN). Kauffman lost 10-3 to Caden Hebert (Eau Claire , WI) in their final qualifying round match.

Kauffman earned 1.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 203rd place overall with 10.360 total points. Kauffman ranks 139th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	12	13	0	0.480	1-1	1-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	137	88	113	6.42	8.25	-1.82	4.23	4.53	1.52	1.82	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	73	55	42	11	1-1	3-3	10-6	0.75	0.58	0.23	0.36

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	64	33	71	6	0-7	3-3	5-7	0.52	1.11	0.53	0.34

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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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